Listener Question - Doom Boxes

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode we’re going to be diving into a listener question about cleaning and specifically about doom boxes - and if you don’t know what those are don’t worry you’ll find out soon enough... and I’m sure you probably already have some around that house.

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Find the show note at HackingYourADHD.com/doomboxes

This Episode’s Top Tips

Dooms boxes are the collects of odds and ends that all end up in a single location - usually a box or a drawer. Having a doom box isn’t a moral failing.
When tackling your doom boxes set a schedule for when you’re going to go through them and enlist some accountability to make sure that you actually do it.
The biggest key to going through your doom box is to sort everything into where those things need to go and to not get up while going through your box. We will get distracted. We will forget what we were supposed to be doing or at least find something else that we’d rather be doing instead.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:08.0	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:12.0	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:18.0	In this week's episode, we're going to be diving into a listener question about
0:21.6	cleaning and specifically about Doomboxes. Now, if you don't know what those are, don't worry,
0:27.4	we'll be looking into that soon enough. And I'm sure you probably already have some that are
0:31.9	around the house. Now, if you'd like to leave a question for me of your own, you can head over to
0:36.6	hacking your ADHD.com slash contact and click the orange button to record me a quick message.
0:43.4	If you'd like show notes for this episode, you can find those at hacking your ADHD.com
0:48.6	slash doom boxes.
0:51.1	All right, keep on listening to find out why this episode is doomed, doomed, I say.
1:03.2	Hi, William. I want to say thank you very much for the Hacking AirDHD podcast. It's really helped me
1:08.7	with a lot of things. It's given me a lot of thoughts that i wouldn't
1:12.7	have had on my own and that's given me some ways forward that have really helped me i wondered if you had
1:18.2	any advice for tackling doom boxes those wonderful things where you end up with containers full of
1:24.0	things you don't want to get rid of but they don don't have a place. They're all mixed up.
1:28.2	There's no order. I always find them very difficult to even begin to tackle. And very rarely do I get
1:37.0	to the end of a doom box and actually have nothing left or less belongings quite often.
1:43.9	I also had a thought that a topic that might be
1:48.1	interesting might be the difference between sorting stuff, tidying stuff, like putting
1:54.4	organization systems in place, and then also cleaning. I realized recently that a lot of what I've been doing
2:02.4	had just been the surface level tidying up after my previous activity. And it very rarely got
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