Shelby has a garage full of inherited belongings, camping gear, unfinished projects, and things she’s been meaning to deal with for years.

She also has ADHD—and when she looks at the garage, she doesn’t just see clutter. She sees every decision, every project, and every future action hiding inside of it.

So instead of trying to organize the whole garage, we start much smaller.

In this episode, we talk about how to get started when a project feels impossibly big, why “just in case” clutter can be tied to safety and financial security, and how inherited belongings can carry a sense of responsibility long after we actually want them.

We also get very practical: creating an organizing station, working in manageable chunks, separating selling and repair projects from the actual organizing, using body doubling, and starting with the easy stuff until the mountain begins to feel a whole lot smaller.

And along the way, Shelby discovers that some of the things she thought would be incredibly hard to deal with…really aren’t.

Because making the impossible possible doesn’t mean tackling everything at once.

Sometimes it just means figuring out the next step.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

• Why ADHD can make a cluttered space feel like thousands of separate tasks
• Why research, planning, and figuring out where things go all count as organizing
• How a dedicated organizing station can make it easier to get started
• The hidden “Am I safe if I let this go?” underneath some clutter
• Why selling things can become its own ADHD rabbit hole
• How to handle projects without letting them derail your organizing session
• Why starting with the easy stuff works
• How body doubling can make an overwhelming project feel lighter
• Letting go of inherited belongings without letting go of the person they belonged to

Resources mentioned:

Star’s Book, Why the F#@ Am I Still Not Organized? (free download): https://starhansen.com/podcast/