21 ADHD Home Hacks That Will Change Your Life

00:00 Start
00:10 ADHD and the Low Dopamine Connection
01:17 Productivity Hack - Visual Planning Station
02:50 Brain Dumping
03:47 Use Electronics as your Memory
05:14 Use a Tiny Timer and Throw it Across the Room
06:03 Body Doubling
06:31 Healthy Eating Hacks - Organize your Healthy Food
07:25 Batch Cooking for Quick Lunches and Dinners
08:00 Sugar-Free Snacks for Mindless Eating
08:12 Fun Low-Calorie Desserts and Snacks
09:41 HelloFresh Ad
10:58 Cleaning Hacks - Go to Zombieland with wireless headphones
11:42 Soaker Sink
12:22 Dress for Success - Aprons, gloves and running shoes!
12:55 Clutter Catcher Baskets for the win!
13:51 21 Item Toss
14:38 5-Minute Tidy-Up Times
15:24 Laundry Hacks
15:36 Hooks for In-Between Clothing
16:12 Don't Fold, Shove in a Bin!
16:41 Hanger Hack
17:21 Stop Sorting! Wash Clothing by Room, Not by Color.
18:18 Set alarms weekly to remind you to wash your bedding
18:54 Use the Delay Wash on Washing Machine
19:30 End Story

[AD-lqct]

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

[peggyoreilly]

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 😂.

[deborahdexter]

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 🙏 ✨️

[melligolightly]

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

[carriecarrie]

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.

[orngjce]

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.

[karenrich]

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.

[lauriepowell]

OMG! It’s 6:00 a.m. but I am not getting up for the day. I never got down for the night. My birthday was yesterday (70! I’m so proud! ) so I have been up tonight surfing YouTube and eating the box of truffles my neighbor brought me. Self medicating? 😊 While watching your vids and Chinese Wuxia dramas. Thank god for subtitles.
#1 inspiration from tonight: Clutter Catchers 😊What a great idea. Since I want them to be pretty, I will hit Goodwill, etc, later today because they always have great prices on miscellaneous baskets. Riffing off of that idea, I will also make a book basket for carrying books, iPad, phone, lists, eyeglasses, pens, etc, from room to room because those items spread and spawn if not controlled. And DISAPPEAR!
Once again, thanks for the hacks. 👍❤️👩🏻‍🎨

[nicoleryanweldon]

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!

[barbiec]

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. ❤

[iamjamilyn]

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…

[maddielc]

What I do for getting up and doing things is I give myself a count down. I literally say out loud "You're have to get up and do stuff in 3...2...1!!" It helps so much!

[thehuntressdanni]

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!!

[lyndarussell]

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 ❤️

[jenniferbrender]

I decided one day to stop worrying about folding laundry and just worry about putting it away, and honestly best decision I've ever made.

[heatherromero]

This is like Fly Lady + A Slob Comes Clean + How to ADHD and I am *here for it*! 🎉

[pandoravex]

My dad set our Alexa to call him my dad “Fatso”. All of us forget from time to time and then it calls us that. 😂 We always crack up.

[karenbaker]

The clutter catcher is a game changer. I rearranged all my baking spices and extracts in 1 basket. And all the spices we use daily in 1 basket. Now, when we bake or cook, we pull the basket then return it to cabinet when done. Game changer in that grandson who loves to cook, had problems putting things back when he's done. Now, no excuses. 😉

[aprilk]

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".

[JM-vjsx]

One thing I started recently is leaving a post-It note on my basement door for things I need to do or items I need to bring up the next time I go down.