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Like this. Basic stuff, "I wish I had been taught how to do my taxes in high school" kind of stuff. Long-form video content is preferred but not required.

Edit: I should clarify for everyone in the thread that I could probably work my way up to reading stuff, especially further on when I've built up some better habits. Should also mention my executive dysfunction/ADHD issues in this post body

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[โ€“] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Since you mentioned having ADHD in another comment which I also have, some things that have helped me and may also help those without ADHD as well:

  • Remove friction from everyday tasks whenever possible. If you make it easier to get stuff done around the house, you'll have more bandwidth for other things.

  • Setting alarms for things that you have to do is awesome. really helps with staying organized and just being on top of things. same goes for calendar reminders. keeping a calendar took me a while to get into the habit of but its super helpful.

  • Anything you can have on autopay that you intend to keep like cell service, internet, utilities* etc. you should. It just makes sense rather than going through it each month for so many different things. *Utilities might not be good to have on autopay just in case you have weird discrepancies. one month I had to pay $1000 for electric. I called before I paid that lol.

  • Use a credit card for small things each month to help build credit. i have a card that all its for is my cell service. Its on autopay as well as the payments for that card.

  • Keep things in a cart for a while before buying them, it can help you to determine if you actually want that thing or really need it.

Also just cause others were talking about it, I find using videos as well a tutorials and documentation to all be helpful when troubleshooting/figuring things out, everyone learns differently and ADHD makes things like that harder. Having multiple ways to ingest that info can be helpful IMO. Not that anyone here is necessarily wrong in what they said, just coming from someone that also has ADHD, I get the struggles.

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

*Utilities might not be good to have on autopay just in case you have weird discrepancies. one month I had to pay $1000 for electric. I called before I paid that lol.

Set it up to send e-bills to your bank and automatically push payments, as opposed to giving each creditor your account info and letting them pull payment. With your bank e-bills portal, you should be able to set it up so that it pays whatever the variable bill is up to some limit, and warns you if the bill is unexpectedly large.