How I Use Sweepy To Keep My Home Clean (App For Adhd And Autism) #AD

"Authentic footage of my dining table", yes woman. This is so relatable. I applaud you for being real, because this is what my house looks like too. I needed to feel this today, like I'm not alone.

An unexpected thing that I find actually helps me is watching decluttering videos. It’s satisfying to watch and sorta gamifies it, and importantly, seeing how quickly people in the videos do a task makes it look less daunting to me so it gives me a temporary boost of motivation to do tasks.

I find it helps not to do a room at a time, but to do the same task across lots of rooms at once, so instead of cleaning a whole room and having to deal with all the varied tasks, then move onto another room and do the same, you can for instance just do the dusting in every room on one day. Then next day clean all the sinks in the house, do all the washing on one day, and so on. it keeps it really simple, you have all the stuff in your hand already, so you can maintain the flow from room to room. Then you can pick a particular week day to do any 'unusual' tasks (things that are irregular/variable/exceptional), like cleaning the windows, or polishing glass ornaments. For things that have to be done every day, like dishes, picking up toys, or feeding animals, set a particular time of day and just stick to that every day. It takes all the thinking out of it. I also prefer to tidy throughout one day, then start cleaning tasks the next. Grouping it this way is much easier than remembering all the things for each room across multiple rooms. You can then just put away bits throughout the week but not obsess over it as you know you have a defined tidying day. I'm not perfect at it and my energy/ motivation levels vary, but I do think grouping tasks and things appropriately is the best way to manage adhd and remove all the details that we get bogged down in.

This is exactly what I needed to keep my apartment together. It's helped me manage my only cleaning my apartment, but other parts of my life too. For example, I added a "room" called Self Care, and it's just basic stuff to do every day or every other day that I tend to forgot. Showers, brushing teeth, eat breakfast. It's great!!

I have ADD, my husband and 5 year old both have ADHD. Cleaning my house is a nightmare. Keep in mind that I'm 48, have struggled with executive function since childhood, and I just learned that I have ADD about 2 weeks ago. I'm lost, so I'm really appreciating your videos.

Dopamine tied to cleanliness. Mind=blown. Can’t wait to try it.

I’ve never been a person who dosent do everything to the max so when I learned DOING A LITTLE THING IS BETTER THAN DOING NOTHING it was a game changer. Sometimes it’s hard for me to brush my teeth and floss and mouthwash but if I can convince myself to just do mouthwash my brain goes okay I can brush too and then I can floss! And before I know it I’m washing my face! Thank you for this Video I can already tell it’s going to help my mental health so much 💗

This app is almost perfect. I made my own system based on effort being green amber or pink because red made me anxious and avoid difficult tasks so I made them my fave colour. Decluttering was the No 1 thing that enabled me to take control of my house/executive functioning. It is less overwhelming with less items to manage. I think it was pain/hoarding that originally snapped my out of hyper focused cleaning. I physically couldn’t do it. I personally like routine, it stops me hyper focusing on the whole house and I give myself permission not to clean everything because it’s not ‘the day’. But when I have been ill/shutdown/exhausted from pain or meltdowns I do a ‘what is annoying me the most right now’ list and do the next most anxiety provoking mess so I can regain my calm. If someone happens to be coming over then I do a version of the clutter bugs dirty 30 routine but focus only on the rooms they will see. Collect rubbish up, pick up mess, put items that don’t belong in a tote, surface clean/hoover then move to next room and empty tote as I go along.

I'm still trying to organise my home since I moved in 14 years ago. I've read countless organising books, watch endless videos and made numerous lists and plans, but somehow could never manage to translate all that knowledge into action. Discovering I had ADHD and autism answered so many questions for me and I no longer beat myself up for not being able to do it. And it's a great relief not to keep pushing and thinking "I just need to try harder".

Seeing the living room getting cleaned at the end and the tasks being checked off is very satisfying!!

I love your black kitty who was not harmed during the making of this video. I think your videos are very helpful.

That cleaning sesh at the end... Very satisfying to watch 😺 I'll try out the app because I'm really struggling with daily tasks

I so needed this video today!!! Thank you so much!!! Finally got my autism/ADHD diagnosis!!! I was just watching cleaning videos again and getting discouraged 😳 Thank you so much for your help!!!💗💗💗💗💗💗

I liked your satisfied smile when you got dopamine from dusting the TV.

THIS SOUNDS AMAZING!! I’m definitely going to give it a try because my goodness do I struggle. Autistic, ADHD, single mom to 3 neurodivergent kids (2 have both Autism and ADHD and one ADHD). Sprinkle in a dog and 2 cats and my house has me clinging onto my sanity. I’m also trying to run a small business 😵‍💫 It’s so hard to keep track of everything and always feels like a losing battle. This app sounds like something that might be helpful and I look forward to giving it a go. Thank you so much for everything you teach. I’m a late diagnosis (at 29) and your channel has been so helpful

I'D BEEN SLOWLY CREATING JUST THIS ON AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET without even knowing it existed! Mine has, difficulty, importance, how often and a spoon count tracker.

Dear god thank you for gamification...all the big tasks in my life like my uni, eating better and loosing weight and now cleaning my home would not be possible without making everything fun...as soon as I am home from work i feel like all the dopamine just leaves my body at the front door and i thank you so so much for this app because my lazyness allowed the chaos to take over and by now i feel like i gained more controll over it ❤ thanks so so much!!!

Thank you, Sam, for reaching out to Sweepy on our behalf. I'm so excited to download it and check it out. I also love the "authentic" footage of your home, and your cat at the end... I relate to all of it! 😁

I loved this app! Getting my partner to use it is another story...

This is a common ADHD struggle - basically we need to INVENTORY THINGS DAILY. And if we don't we will forget what we have. So instead of CLEANING (weekly, whatever) I inventory a different part of my room. Just my room. The house is too big and overwhelming! Anyways, by doing a thing like Inventory - pulling everything out and catogorizing it by alphabet, color, category, WHATEVER- it fixed that part of my brain that was very disorganized. Now people think I'm OCD for having to do it, but it became a NEED. Try it!!! You will see how good it makes you feel!