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Post by lcdc1 on Oct 21, 2008 16:06:50 GMT -5
John's post about visual amnesia prompted me to post this new thread!
Ok, so I picked this up in the organization book I mentioned already and am trying some things with. OOSOOM stands for the very scientific term in managing ADHD, it stands for Out Of Site Out Of Mind!
That is me to a T! If I pile something or put it in a closet or in a drawer, it is like it goes out of my mind completely. The book suggests for this type of issue to try minimizing your "stuff" and use the open shelf concept like open bookshelves or open shelves in a bathroom so you can see everything. I am also getting clear plastic bins so I can see inside them when I am scanning for something and I am organizing how my brain works, by sorting things together. Say like electric items, cords, face plates, computer plug ins, speaker cable, misc cords that I don't know what they are for will be in one bin and so on!
It is like today, I am home sick and laid on the easy chair recliner and my phone fell outta my pocket in the chair right there in front of me and it took me 30 minutes to find it because it is on silent! I did not put it in the house place when I came in! If you suffer from OOSOOM, try the visual reminder technique from the book! ;D
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Post by jj on Oct 21, 2008 17:44:42 GMT -5
Oh boy, that is me to a tee too. My Mom's birds are in the guest room and it is everything I can do to remember to go feed those poor birds and give them fresh water. I tend to dump tons of seed in there "just in case". If it is out of sight I WILL for get about it. My prime example is I will remember to take the laundry down and throw it in the washer because I "see" that my laundry hamper is getting full but do you think I can remember to go transfer the clothes into the dryer? Nooooo.  I do have tons of clear plastic bins like you mentioned, LC. I love them! I still need to buy more. |
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Post by lcdc1 on Oct 21, 2008 19:00:10 GMT -5
jj, although you do not have the official version of confirmation of your ADD, you are so ADD!!!!  |
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Post by jj on Oct 21, 2008 21:37:34 GMT -5
jj, although you do not have the official version of confirmation of your ADD, you are so ADD!!!! Yep, I'll probably never bother to get that official confirmation either. I'm just grateful my washer spins my clothes dry so well that I don't have to face moldy-musty smelling clothes and have to rewash them all over again just to forget again. |
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Post by lcdc1 on Oct 21, 2008 23:26:29 GMT -5
Well you know that exact topic is also covered in this book! You have to set a timer in the room you are in, a loud one to stay on track with laundry. Or you can use a watch or cellphone, but make sure you remember why it is going off!  |
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Post by jfla on Oct 22, 2008 0:41:11 GMT -5
Fun thread!
OOSOOM describes J to a T.
Clear bins are great for me if I can put them in a closet so I don't have to see them all the time. I've discovered that open shelves have too much distracting visual clutter. Since we've moved, I've really gotten into simplifying and organizing things. After a life time of leaving things out, I'm now finding a more relaxing space.
re: your electric items
I dubbed one drawer "The Black Plastic Electronic Things Drawer"
If it was black, plastic and electronic, it went in that drawer. Hey this is like the game "Set" !
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Post by lcdc1 on Oct 22, 2008 1:04:16 GMT -5
I have never heard of that game? I will have to google it! Yes, I think simple is good, that is what I am trying to do with my life, but it does not work as fast or as automatically as I would like it to!  |
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Post by jj on Oct 22, 2008 2:41:52 GMT -5
At first I chuckled at the name you gave that drawer Jfla, but really that's a great way to organize. I bet there are a ton of items you could describe like that and then you'd know exactly where they go. I know I have done that to a certain extent. In my laundry room I have boxes labeled on a shelf and anything related to illumination(light bulbs, flashlights, night lights) goes in one box. Everything that has to do with my car in another, etc.. I'm a neat freak which probably causes me a lot of problems because all my stuff is OOSOOM.
I too would not be able to stand open shelves. I totally hate clutter however if they were in neat little baskets or nifty attractive containers on a open shelf I could deal with that I think, maybe.
LC, I have a little alarm clock on my computer which works great if I remember to use it. (I really need to get in the habit of it) Otherwise, in this big house a timer wouldn't work. It could ring for hours and I'd not hear it unless I carried it with me all the time as I'm flying all over the place when I'm not at my computer. As it is, I carry a beeper with me at home so my Mom can call me if she needs me and that alone is hard to remember to take along.
My bills were a problem for me a long time ago and things got better when I started paying everything online but I still managed to forget because.....guess what, they were OOSOOM! I finally solved that by putting a cute little container that all incoming mail went into. It holds the bills/mail upright so I see it everyday. That alone has helped tons! So some things just have to be "In Sight".
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Post by John on Oct 22, 2008 15:42:06 GMT -5
. So some things just have to be "In Sight" I thinks that's refereed to as: ISIM or In Sight In Mind |
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Post by jj on Oct 22, 2008 17:53:45 GMT -5
. So some things just have to be "In Sight" I thinks that's refereed to as: ISIM or In Sight In Mind Well, of course it is! I should have known that. |
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