Today's New Accommodation

Not new, but my biggest one is physically placing things I need to remember in the path of my daily routine. Like if I need to remember to bring my laptop to work, I might put my computer mouse in my shoe.

Another one is moving things in stages. If I'm cleaning my living room and something needs to go upstairs, I'll just leave it on the stairs for the next time I go up. Otherwise I'm likely to get distracted when I get up there and forget to continue cleaning downstairs.

I also try to have multiples of things that I use in multiple rooms or places. Like a small trashcan in all my rooms so I don't have to go somewhere else to throw it away. It minimizes distractions and helps me stay focused on the current task.

not new but whenever I have to do chores, I put bracelets on with little tags with the chore written on it. They jingle against each other and so I get a tactile and auditory reminder when I move around, a visual one when I look at my hands, and an annoying one whenever I have to use the bathroom or eat food.

Things like laundry I have to break into steps, like 1 load would be 3 bracelets, load washer, load dryer, fold.

Then when I do chores I can take them off, and the relief of removing them and being able to forget is actually a great reward.

I got some AirTags for our car keys because while I treat my adhd with medication, my wife doesn’t and it’s a real struggle to find things sometimes.