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spookietrex · 3 days

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weaselle · 1 day

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@ffoxer howdy! happy to oblige :)

i used to have a dresser and a bunch of hangers in my closet and like, closet organizer thingamabobs, but instead of using any of that stuff my clothes were always in several piles around my room.

And i felt shitty about it all the time but couldn't seem to make myself the kind of person who kept their clothes folded and organized. My room was constantly cluttered with clothes like drifts of snow scattered and piled here and there. Like, i felt really REALLY shitty about that. Deep shame

any ADHDers and spoonies out there relate?

SO one day, i said to myself, what if i'm okay the way i am? What if i just need to refine how i already do things a little bit instead of insisting on reinventing my entire identity?

Did i really care about being the kind of person who's socks were rolled just so, and whose shirts were all folded perfectly and arranged by color or whatever?

no

What i did care about was not living in a cluttered, messy, unorganized, embarrassing space.

And it turns out my piles WERE an organization system. What's more, my piles were a system that had been shaped by the way i actually use my clothes, it was a system that made sense for how i live my life. And i bet it's the same for most of you who relate to what i've been saying so far.

There were the clothes that were dirty, the clothes that had been worn but could be worn again, and the clean clothes (often dumped from the washer to the bed with the intent of folding and putting away, then slept next to when that didn't happen, and finally transferred to the floor next to my bed or piled in my closet once i gave up)

These three piles (dirty, clean, wear again) made up my "i wear this stuff all the time" wardrobe, and then everything else was still in the dresser i never actually used, with a few remaining almost-never-worns hanging in the closet.

This made my dresser, essentially, just a bin of clothes i could label "rarely wear"

And the thing i hated about my piles was that they looked messy, and took up too much space, and cluttered my room, and anyone who came into my room instantly assumed i was a disaster of a human because that's what it looked like. And, honestly, that's what it felt like too.

But i could change all of that and still have piles if i just... put my piles in bins! Then they would clearly be on purpose. And contained. And on purpose contained piles aren't a mess! They're a tidy organizational system.

So i got rid of my dresser and most of my hangers and i bought four of those plastic bins with the lids that you can get anywhere from hardware stores to target. Now, if you want to inhabit a fancier lifestyle, you can get nicer bins, they make all kinds, from canvas to wicker to polished wood or whatever suits your style and budget, I'm currently using the plastic ones, but when i move i'm planning on getting something more like this

the point is, these bins contain my piles without me having to change the piles at all.

now instead of having to sort all that stuff into different drawers i just have 4 simple bins

1: clean clothes

2: dirty clothes

3: stuff i might wear a second (or third) time

4: clothes i almost never wear

remember how those first three piles make up my "wear all the time" stuff? Well, each of the first two bins are big enough to contain all those clothes (which for me is about two loads of laundry).

I have a smaller bin for clothes i've worn but could wear again. And the last one, almost-never-wear, is actually the biggest one. And naturally a couple almost-never-wear things still get hung in the closet.

So when my "wear all the time" bin is empty, that means the dirty bin is about full, and i just add the might-wear-again stuff to it and carry that bin to the washer. When it comes out of the dryer, i still follow my natural instincts to dump them in a pile and forget about them, it's just now i dump that pile into the clean bin, where they belong.

And when i'm digging for something in the bin and can't find it, just like when i would dig in my closet, i can just dump it all out on my bed to find things like i used to, but then it goes back in the bin with a sweep of the arm.

The clothes naturally sort themselves out this way, too. Say every time you go to do your laundry because you "have nothing to wear" there are the same few items left in the bottom of your clean bin. Well those are clearly part of your almost-never-wears and you can dump them in that bin before you wash your laundry. When the weather gets cold, i put most of my shorts and tank-tops in the almost-never-wear bin. I make room for them by taking out my everyday winter wear to go in the clean bin.

I can put the bins where it makes the most sense for how i use my room naturally. For instance, my sweatshirts and jeans i might wear again always used to wind up draped over the back of my desk chair, so now i put my could-wear-again bin right by my desk. If I want my room to be extra tidy, i just stack all the bins in the closet where the dresser used to be, which takes like twenty seconds.

and the BEST part is, because my bins are just the piles i was naturally already creating, my clothes stay in their bins, which is inarguably a system of organization, and my room is actually clean and orderly, no messy clothes piles in sight!

i did a similar thing with my paper piles and now there's very little clutter and i don't feel like a failure of a person about my room the way i used to!

I have accomplished Clean Organized Room without having to change who i am or how i live! 10/10 highly recommend

#my life #spoons #adhd #laundry

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spacedocmom · 10 hours

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Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Safe spaces - including clean air, water, safe food, protection against dangerous pathogens, and protection against weapons - should be a right for everyone. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, shield 5:39 PM · Apr 26, 2024

#star trek #doctor crusher #star trek the next generation #star trek memes #star trek tng #starfleet values #federation values #kindness #support #care #compassion #mask up #spoonies #spoons #protect each other #doctor's orders

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rainbowpopeworld · 5 months

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This is a big thing that I continue to work on unlearning/relearning

#care tasks #self care #cleaning is a process #a never ending cycle #judgement makes it harder #morally neutral #spoons #spoonie #disabled #nd things #neurodivergent #cleaning #oh no it's queue

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thepeacefulgarden · 6 months

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#rest #give yourself permission to rest #self care #self care is not selfish #self compassion #self respect #self love #work culture #grind culture #stop the glorification of busy #spoons #chronic illness #burnout #compassion fatigue #activism fatigue #no guilt #no shame

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mcnostril · 11 months

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There is a cool and popular tweet about Samus Aran microwaving spoons but we could not find it so I had to reconstruct it from memory*

*I have never seen the thing in question so I had to invent a memory first.

#metroid #spoons #metroid fusion #geddit?

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garzagatos · 3 months

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Who needs a bed when you have spoons?

#cats of tumblr #cute cats #garzagatos #pets #funny cats #i love cats #my cat #cats #zelda #Norma #面白い猫の動画 #neko #Gatos #vídeos divertidos de gatos #animals #spoons

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prokopetz · 9 months

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These are opposite poles of an extremely specific spectrum.

#media #movie #television #memes #semiotics #spoons #rejected #don hertzfeldt #santa clarita diet #food mention

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cumshroom · 1 month

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#spoons #spoonie #cats #cats of tumblr #polls #yarnblr #crochet #fibre arts #fibromyalgia #felines #disability #chronic illness #knitting #quilting #sewing #embroidery #lgbt #come to my poll gays

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phireads · 1 year

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Please reblog if you can so I can get a larger sample size

Feel free to put any clarifications in the tags (I’d be very grateful) <3

#mine #polls #not books #disability #disabled #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #physical disability #physically disabled #spoonie #spoon theory #cerebral palsy #mobility issues #physically impaired #christine miserandino #spoons #out of spoons

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luvlylittlelemons · 3 months

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Remember,

You are a practicing pagan. You don't have to do spell work everyday. You don't have to talk to your deities everyday. You don't have to spend every waking second focusing on your practice to be a valid pagan.

Your valid. No matter how often you're able to work with your deities. No matter how often you do spell work. No matter if you dedicate little or big things to your practice.

You make an effort once in awhile and thats more than enough. Save your spoons, it's ok.

#deity worship #norse paganism #hellenic polytheism #witchcraft #paganism #spoons #pagan witch #paganblr #hellenic pagan #pagan #norse gods #norse heathen

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my-autism-adhd-blog · 20 days

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Autistic Love Languages

Deep pressure

Penguin Pebbling

Unmasking

Info Dumping

Stimming

Body doubling

Sharing interests

Spending spoons

Littlepuddins.ie

#autism #actually autistic #autism awareness month #autism acceptence month #autistic love languages #stimming #spoons #unmasking #deep pressure #info dump #penguin pebbling #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #Littlepuddins.ie (facebook)

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polyamzeal · 4 months

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#polyamory #polyam #nonmonogamy #spoons

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spooniestrong · 8 months

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#spooniestrong #spoonie #disability #chronic illness #chronic pain #spoons

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spacedocmom · 26 days

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Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom The only people who think that painful, debilitating health conditions "build character" are the ones who don't have to deal with those conditions on a daily basis. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 3:41 PM · Apr 1, 2024

#star trek #doctor crusher #star trek the next generation #star trek tng #star trek memes #kindness #support #care #compassion #chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #disability #spoons #spoonies

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thepeacefulgarden · 22 days

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#it's okay to not be okay #your feelings are valid #grief #trauma #your pain is valid #your trauma is valid #healing #recovery #spoons #self compassion #coping #difficult times

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