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Same situation. Everyone has ADHD. Tiny house, lots of clutter, husband has hoarding tendencies and has no ability to sort through his stuff.

Thankfully my two teen children are lovely and kind. It's a struggle for us three, but occasionally we get our act together and declutter all our stuff and deep-clean the house. Usually we do that at the end of the school year, to get rid of that year's accumulation of paperwork, and every time we have guests over - which isn't frequent, because we don't have the wherewithal to clean that often!

So despite my children's struggles with ADHD, they are slowly learning how to clean and how important it is, socially, to tidy up. I have good hope that as adults, they will have the ability to clean and sort, even my son, who has ADHD/ASD and exhibits the same inability to sort as his father. What saves him is that I've taken him in hand earlier than my husband, who apparently wasn't taught to clean anything by his parents.

In practice, despite our best intentions, we let stuff accumulate until all the surfaces have mounds of stuff on them, and we can't take it anymore, and I say, let's have a tidy up. Or when we're having a dinner party, and we need to clean before the guests arrive (we do that over several days, given the amount of work). We still can't tidy daily, because apparently no one except me is able to put things back in their place right after they use them! I'm trying to teach them all this skill! What I'm struggling with is that right now, no one notices the mess until I point it out.

I have a double shoe rack in the entryway and police the amount of shoes everyone puts on it (I'm the worse offender!). Off-season shoes go in the basement in a separate container.

I have a box for dog stuff, and have gotten rid of stuff that didn't fit inside it. Our dog destroys most toys, so he doesn't actually have a lot lying around.

There is a designated area for backpacks, but I need to constantly remind kids not to just leave them for everyone to trip over in the hall.

The kitchen counter tends to clutter, but I do actually have a spice rack and cupboard space to put things in...

The dining table can get very cluttered if I don't remind everyone to get their stuff off. We just had a dinner party and now it's pristine, but I'm sure mail and paperwork is going to creep back in...

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