Hi Everyone,
I was watching Clean Sweep on HGTV the other day and they had a great tip for getting your household cleaning/chores done.

Time yourself to see how long it takes to do a task, i.e. vaccuming the living room. When you know it only takes 3.5 minutes to vaccum the living room, you're less likely ot put it off since it will only take 3.5 minutes!

I thought this was a GREAT tip for all us ADDers that can never seem to get around to the routine household cleaning. Now I just have to not procrastinate buying a stopwatch..... (Ha-ha!)

How many minutes would that take? :D

wow that is a really good idea. i have a really hard time with time. i totally underestimate. i will think it will take me 10 minutes and it totally takes me 30. esp. trying to get ready in the morning. is that normal. maybe someone can poll it....

Hey Clam! How are you? Well, I posted that on 9/4/04 at 12:08pm. It's now 9/12/04 2:37pm and I still have no stopwatch. So, so far it has taken me 11,020 minutes to get a stopwatch. (HA-HA!!!!)

No, I did not do that calculation in my head. "Ten Minutes to Wapner. Definitely Gotta Watch Wapner."

ANYWAY. yes I also have a hard time getting ready in the morning. Usually because I get distracted by things I don't necessarily need to do before work. But I definitely underestimate the time it takes me to do things too. And on the days that I am moving along smoothly an unexpected wardrobe crisis always pops up that makes me late. I have learned to accept it. Even on meds I am usually 5 or 10 minutes behind the rest of the world. Although when I first started Strattera I was a lot more efficient in the morning - in the beginning I was even early for work for awhile. But I fell back into the old routine I guess. Maybe my meds aren't working as well as they used to?