Buy little bins to organize all your stuff and categorize them. I too forget they exist, but at least if you know where they are at then you can go look through your bins if there is something specific your looking for. I have a bunch of bins on my bookshelf so it works as a giant drawer.

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I too lose track of things if they're hidden or covered up. If I'm off work and cook something for lunch at home, my wife will say "You know we had those (leftovers) in the refrigerator, and now they have to be thrown out." Well, SHE WRAPS THEM IN ALUMINUM FOIL - and they might as well be invisible. I PREFER PLASTIC WRAP, but she gets it all wadded up so foil works for her. I need CLEAR CONTAINERS or labelled containers to know what container something is in. (My wife doesn't want my things to be seen by guests, and HATES labels on things.) But if it ain't either clear or labelled, it might as well be in a random car trunk. I'm going to buy something I already have because I didn't know I had it, or search everywhere for my stuff - as I did when my wife put my Color Nook tablet in an end table drawer and I spent 10 days backtracking everywhere I'd been when I last recalled having it. WE CONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE EVERY DAY, between her need for order and spotlessness and my need to see my stuff. What I'm trying to work on, though, is SOME SORT OF ROUTINE to my day and HAVING A PLACE (THE SAME PLACE) FOR MY THINGS. Life will work better for us BOTH when that happens. In the past, people would joke about my MAGIC CIRCLE: stacks and stacks of papers, magazines, lists, notecards, pocketbooks, newspaper articles, etc. that I would spread out in a circle around me while I would sit on the floor. In the end, everything ended up in the right stack - and NOTHING got thrown away - then I would put all the stacks on top of each other and go put them somewhere else - not filed, not read or even looked at in any detail. When I was single in my own townhouse, those stacks were on my desk, bookshelves,kitchen countertops, eating table, sofa, and den end tables. And the ones I was "going to read" were on my bedside table. I eventually found unpaid bills, overdue library materials, birthday cars I meant to send, and notices of events long past, especially when I got married and sold the townhouse. My wife is a GREAT ORGANIZER - it's so easy for her and so hard for me - so she is a TREMENDOUS resource, BUT some things NEED TO BE DONE MY WAY for it to work. Good luck! There are books and articles on ADD-friendly ways to organize - look for them.

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