21 ADHD Home Hacks That Will Change Your Life

After showing this video to my family last week, today our 7-year-old daughter told her dad, “I really don’t feel like cleaning, but the girl in that video said putting on an apron can help so can I try that?” Thank you for always keeping it real and making us feel like we are not alone! We appreciate you

This 73 year old lady needed this video! When I was younger I was a organizer cleaning machine. Now everything hurts and it’s a struggle to just move. Thank you for your help and support. ❤ You are loved and needed so much. Plus you lift my spirits to the moon 🌚, you make me laugh 😂.

I want to thank you again for helping my daughter motivate. She struggles with depression and anxiety and recently diagnosed ADHD at age 33. We are moving and she found you a month or so ago. She bought and read your books, and she super organized fridg etc. And so proud of her for getting rid a 1/3 of her and her spouses things. She says she couldn't have done it without you ! Words can't express gratitude 🙏 ✨️

Your tips are also very helpful if you're low energy, e. g. due to depression or if you're paralyzed with perfectionism. 🙏🏼

I have ADHD and I use many of these hacks I learned from you! Thank you! I did learn another hack about hanging shirts. After getting clothes out of drying, lay a shirt flat on the bed, then lay each shirt over the top of the last, so they are in a pile. Grab your hangers and slip one in on the top shirt and fold it down, proceed to do one after the other. After you are done, grab the hangers and and put the shirts in the closet all at once. It saves me so much time and now I don’t mind putting clothes away as much.

Sheets are so much easier with a spare set for each bed. If you can change them all at once and then wash and put away when convenient, it eliminates the "well shoot it's time for bed and all the sheets are wet in the washing machine" problem. And makes it feel like less of a project!

I have multiple sets of sheets so that putting clean sheets on the bed and washing the sheets are separate tasks, it makes it much easier. I don't have to have remembered to wash the sheets earlier the same day in order to put clean sheets on the bed, I just get clean sheets from the closet and throw the dirty ones into the laundry, and then my laundry process takes care of the dirty ones!

I love how I already did like half of these before I even started looking into ADHD. I've gone 33 years without knowing I have ADHD and am now so happy to find videos like this to help me even more. Something I found out: ADHD + an anxiety disorder does not mesh well with to-do lists/"brain dumping".

As someone with serious (non-ADHD) brain shenanigans, my life motto is "make doing the right thing as easy as possible" - and this is some good stuff. One that may not work for everyone is that I leave my elliptical out in the middle of my bedroom (rather than in an exercise room in the basement) and have been training myself to respond to feeling bored by hopping on the elliptical for a minute or two. Not a "workout", just fifty steps. Sometimes it turns into a workout. Sometimes it doesn't. That's fine. It's still fifty more steps than I had before, and my fitness tracker records it so it counts. Edit: Also while I'm here - fellow Butterflies (and Bees), it is possible to buy minifridges with giant windows on the front. One of these in the home office filled with berries and baby carrots works great for helping increase one's fruit and vegetable intake.

Great tips. My tip is to remove those tomatoes from your fridge. Apples in the fridge, tomatoes on the counter. A cold apple is a crisp apple and a cold tomato has a ruined flavor and texture. ❤

I cook for one, so when I make a casserole I divide it into 4 servings and put it in small containers. This causes portion control and makes it easy to pick dinner every night. Also cutting up veggies and putting them in sandwich bags makes a convenient healthy snack. And last, of all, I hit the snooze button each morning and this makes me get up and make my bed before the alarm goes off again. That way I start the day already finishing something.

That taking hangers and sticking the empty ones in one spot is a life changer! I am not sure exactly how I started doing that years ago, but it truly does make a difference! Love that one simple thing…

As an ADHD'er myself... I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how much you publicly embrace it and talk about it. And how you're helping to educate people on it! Thank you so much!!! We love you!!

One of your amazing tips from a previous video on Motivation has really stuck in my head. I’ll be sitting here with zero motivation, unable to even think about tackling my house. Then I remember what you said. “A body at rest tends to stay at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion”. So I tell myself to just get up and pick up one or two items and see where that leads. It is amazing! You have given me a great tool and I sincerely appreciate you for it! Thank you so much and keep the tips coming. You are brilliant. Take care and have a Blessed day ❤️

A bigger hack for laundry for me has been not doing my kids' laundry. I accidentally came across the opportunity to delegate laundry to my kids when they were 4 and 6 years old. I haven't washed, sorted, folded, or put away anyone's clothing but my own for the last 9 years! It's been glorious and laundry has become a non-event. Today, we are a family with 6kids (blended family), and I literally only wash my own clothing and the household towels. That's it.

I have narcolepsy, so I am tired ALL the time, and it definitely makes it hard to get things done. Like you, I also put every little thing in my calendar: taking meds, pulling meat out to thaw, calling to make an appoint, ordering refills, etc. That's what keeps me on task.

going off the apron tip - I keep my shoes on until I'm absolutely done doing stuff for the day. If I'm wearing cozy socks or slippers my brain thinks I'm done - so the shoes go on first thing, and don't come off until I've accomplished the things (even computer work)

"Color Catchers" are helpful when washing everything together, especially when including reds.

I have been struggling for the last 2 1/2 years literally spending hours a day trying to figure out what works for me and it’s nice to know that you came up with the same idea as I did I’m severely ADHD add that to menopause and three years ago I was a disaster… I’m on track now. Glad I found you. You’re simply delightful.

Your videos work for body doubling! I spent most of the day emptying doom boxes, bags and baskets while the plylist of your videos played. Its motivating. Filled another trash bag with trash and a bag plus 2 totes of donations. I combine your methods with Dana's container method. I feel so much better saying my container says i cant kerp more and just throwing away things i usually would feel bad about wasting. It works.