increasing disorganization as we aspies age

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how many of you struggle more with organization as you age?
YES ME! :bounce: 51%  51%  [ 20 ]
NO! i'm still with it! :bounce: 15%  15%  [ 6 ]
i'm not so sure anymore. :shrug: 18%  18%  [ 7 ]
where's my soft serve? :chef: 15%  15%  [ 6 ]
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02 Jan 2023, 1:19 pm

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Someone once told me about the three back method.

Take three big bags (like extra strength leaf bags) and make three piles of "stuff".

One pile is called "throw it away" the next is called "give it away" the next is called "keep it".

The rule is that the piles have to be (nearly) the same size.

Each pile goes in one of the bags.


I've been doing A LOT of that recently as we're going to move house next year. We've given loads to charity, I found a charity that actually comes to your house and takes the stuff away! So that was brilliant. Also we have little nieces and nephews who want my teenage daughter's old toys, so that's good.

The amount of rubbish we've accumulated in 20 years though! What on earth were we doing!


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02 Jan 2023, 1:32 pm

Housework I can handle. I don't own a lot of stuff, I'm kinda the anti-hoarder and often throw away things I end up wishing I'd kept later. I just can't stand a lot of clutter. It drives me nuts to have a messy house; I can't relax in that kind of environment. So long as my head is in an okay place, housework is a part of my morning routine, and it's gets done easy. It's not hard to catch up with even when I fall behind since I do own so little.

The things I struggle with are keeping up with appointments I might have, new bills I need to pay, or dates I'm supposed to babysit for my daughter... it's stuff like that I can't keep straight. I can't organize my time, my days and such. I write it down in a notebook, but I still manage to mess that stuff up a lot.



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02 Jan 2023, 3:01 pm

I have decided clutter must make me feel better in some way, or I wouldn't have it around. Maybe it's so I can hide in it, like animals hide in bushes and jungles. :lol:

But endless housework is soooooo boring. Cook and clean and iron and wash and vacuum. Cook and clean and iron and wash and vacuum. Cook and clean and iron and wash and vacuum. Cook and clean and iron and wash and vacuum. Cook and clean and iron and wash and vacuum.

If I get reincarnated I'll study for a highly paid, interesting career as early as possible and use my brain instead :lol: At least I can help my daughter do that so she doesn't end up as a housewife like me.


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02 Jan 2023, 10:46 pm

^^^i agree with you on the need to reincarnate in a college-edumacated kinda lifetime.



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02 Jan 2023, 10:50 pm

Me too!



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02 Jan 2023, 10:51 pm

I discovered cleaning while wearing bluetooth headphones so I wasn't tied to my computer.

Life-changing: for one day anyway. We'll see how much energy I have tomorrow.


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02 Jan 2023, 11:09 pm

i collect stuff
it's never enough
my place is a mess
this i will confess
i could be on the tube
like those other poor boobs
on TV shows about we hoarders
all disorganized old molderers
and all of us are so alone
with nobody which to atone
i'm only slightly blue
but don't know what to do.
my niece will inherit my mess
she will exclaim, oh god bless
or maybe a few different words
synonymous with fornicating turds
lord please help me
i pray to thee
i can't fix it all myself
i need providential help
otherwise one day they'll find my skeleton
under piles like a heap of rotten gelatin
and stinking to heavenly hell
with my spirit in heaven to dwell
but for ever and a day
in my real divine home to stay.
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02 Jan 2023, 11:11 pm

Where’s my ice cream?



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02 Jan 2023, 11:20 pm

^^^it's right up there on the frozen section shelf next to the birdseye frozen carrots :chef:



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02 Jan 2023, 11:30 pm

You’re tall….please get the ice cream for me! Then you would have done your daily Good Turn.



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02 Jan 2023, 11:40 pm

^^^but of course :chef:



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02 Jan 2023, 11:42 pm

auntblabby wrote:
i collect stuff
it's never enough
my place is a mess
this i will confess
i could be on the tube
like those other poor boobs
on TV shows about we hoarders
all disorganized old molderers
and all of us are so alone
with nobody which to atone
i'm only slightly blue
but don't know what to do.
my niece will inherit my mess
she will exclaim, oh god bless
or maybe a few different words
synonymous with fornicating turds
lord please help me
i pray to thee
i can't fix it all myself
i need providential help
otherwise one day they'll find my skeleton
under piles like a heap of rotten gelatin
and stinking to heavenly hell
with my spirit in heaven to dwell
but for ever and a day
in my real divine home to stay.
:star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:



Did you write this blabbs?


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02 Jan 2023, 11:44 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i collect stuff
it's never enough
my place is a mess
this i will confess
i could be on the tube
like those other poor boobs
on TV shows about we hoarders
all disorganized old molderers
and all of us are so alone
with nobody which to atone
i'm only slightly blue
but don't know what to do.
my niece will inherit my mess
she will exclaim, oh god bless
or maybe a few different words
synonymous with fornicating turds
lord please help me
i pray to thee
i can't fix it all myself
i need providential help
otherwise one day they'll find my skeleton
under piles like a heap of rotten gelatin
and stinking to heavenly hell
with my spirit in heaven to dwell
but for ever and a day
in my real divine home to stay.
:star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:



Did you write this blabbs?

yesm, in a moment of inspired depression. :| you like?



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02 Jan 2023, 11:45 pm

i was inspired by victor buono.



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02 Jan 2023, 11:48 pm

I love!
It's beautiful! Made my day!


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02 Jan 2023, 11:50 pm

Isabella is a lady of discerning tastes…..