I need help and advice getting organized and packing!


I'm 28 and recently moved in with my parents after I quit my job to help care for my ailing grandmother. This was obviously a temporary thing. But over the past several months, I've become UTTERLY DISORGANIZED. Y'all know what I'm talking about… where the amount of time you spend thinking of how to get organized is so exhausting that you can't follow through on it physically afterward. (My parents also moved into a new house, so my total environment is pretty much disorganization, ugh!)

I know I will be moving out soon - I just don't know when. (I'm telling myself January, after all the holidays. I need to see some sort of end to all of this, even if that's a lie I'm telling myself.) I'm trying to get things in gear though. I want to get it down to a MINIMALIST level. That's my goal!

So far I've been able to go through and get rid of a lot of papers and documents and file what I need going forth. So that's at least something. I'm also really feeling the financial sting of my situation, so I've begun selling a lot of my things on eBay.

The emotional ups and downs of the past months, along with my anxiety to turn things back around. My comorbid OCD and ADHD really throw in a wrench. It's just a battle because I usually don't know where to begin. EVERYTHING seems like the most important place to start. I need an obvious 3rd party, unbiased opinion and advice.

-- In my mind I know there's stuff I need to leave here at my parents' for when/if I come back to visit (i.e. a variety of clothes; maybe some books?). So somehow I need to sort that out of the pile of crap everything has amassed to. Having changed climates kind of makes that more difficult since there's obviously more stuff now and makes sorting and making the decisions of what stays and goes harder.
-- Minimalistically speaking, I need to get rid of all but THE most important books that need to come with me. Along with any novel I know won't actually get read in the next few months (as much as that hurts me since I'm an avid reader).
-- I also need to sort through my things that got moved from my parents' old house to here that's in boxes. Like childhood mementos they want to save. Figure out a way to store that here, while getting it out of the way of the current stuff.
-- I've thought about other ways to do it. Ex: packing up a box of towels that will go with me when I move, but that I don't need right here right now and get that out of the way. Maybe that's getting ahead of myself?

So on and so forth. You get the idea I hope.

My problem is obviously getting a solid game plan. It's a tricky one because the situation is obviously exacerbated by everyone's clutter taking up room from the move, into a house smaller than the original. Trying not to get my two worlds' things mixed up. Furthermore, trying to find a place to put things. It's a weird mix of unpacking and packing at the same time.