u/Confident-Database-7

I've been trying to do a "Sunday reset" for years.

Look at my finances, plan the week, feel in control.

It lasts about 15 minutes before the shame spiral

kicks in and I close every tab.

Late ADHD diagnosis helped me understand why —

monthly budgets are too abstract, too many

categories cause overwhelm, and shame is the

least effective motivator for my brain. Every

system I tried was built for people who don't

have ADHD.

So I made my own budget planner from scratch.

A few things I built in that actually help me:

→ Weekly format instead of monthly — short enough

that the time horizon feels real

→ Only 6 spending categories — no decision fatigue

→ A full page just for impulse purchases — log it,

wait 24 hours, buy it with zero shame if you still want it. Works better than willpower.

→ Subscription tracker — found £60/month I'd forgotten about completely

→ Shame-free debt tracker and a win wall, because my brain needs positive reinforcement to keep

Going

It's designed to look like a receipt. Felt appropriate.

If anyone else struggles with the Sunday money

dread, link in comments. Also happy to just chat

about what's worked for managing finances with a

neurodivergent brain — genuinely curious what

others do.

I've been diagnosed with ADHD for a few years now and my finances absolutely showed it before that — impulse buying, forgotten subscriptions, qnd a stack of debt I was too ashamed to look at properly.

Every budgeting tool I tried assumed I'd remember to

check it, that a monthly overview would feel real to me, that I had the executive function to sort 20 spending categories. I don't. None of them stuck.

So I made my own.

Things I built in that I've never seen in other planners:

→ Weekly spending log, not monthly. Monthly is too

abstract for ADHD time blindness — a week is real.

→ An Impulse Purchase Pause page. You log what you want to buy, why you want it, wait 24 hours, then come back. Buy it with zero shame if you still want it. More often than not the urge is gone.

→ Subscription tracker — I was paying for four things

I'd completely forgotten about.

→ Debt snowball tracker with a win wall, because shame has never once helped me pay anything off faster.

The design is receipt-style — monospace font, dashed tear lines, aged paper background. Felt right for a budget planner. The cover says:

SUBTOTAL OF SHAME: £0.00

TOTAL CONTROL GAINED: PRICELESS / £4.99

Comes with a print version and a fully fillable digital

version you can type into on a tablet or laptop.

Link in comments if anyone wants it. Happy to share

screenshots of any specific page too — just ask.

`Long post warning — but I think some of you will relate to every word of this.

I got my ADHD diagnosis later in life. And like a lot of women who get diagnosed late, the first thing I felt wasn't relief. It was grief.

Grief for every planner I'd abandoned by day three. Every morning I'd started with good intentions and ended in shame. Every system I'd tried and failed.

And then I realised — the planners weren't built for me. They were built for neurotypical brains and handed to the rest of us as if we just needed to try harder.

So I built one that actually gets it.

It has a Morning Brain Dump (because you can't plan from a cluttered brain), a Time Map with buffer zones built around time blindness, a Dopamine Task Menu where you sort tasks by brain energy instead of willpower, a Focus Sprints page with flexible timers, and — the page I'm most proud of — an RSD Check-In.

An actual dedicated page for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. Because nobody else has built that and we deserve it.

I've just listed it on Etsy if anyone wants to take a look. Not trying to be salesy — genuinely just sharing something I made because I needed it and couldn't find it anywhere.

https://glitchinggracefully.etsy.com

And if you don't want to buy anything, that's completely fine too.

I'd just love to know — what's the one thing every planner you've tried has got wrong for your ADHD brain?

Hi everyone, I've just launched GlitchingGracefully and I'm hoping to get some honest feedback from people who know Etsy better than I do.

I'm selling ADHD-specific digital planners — the kind that actually account for time blindness, RSD, dopamine dysregulation and hyperfocus rather than just being a renamed to-do list.

I was diagnosed late and built what I always wished existed.

I have three listings live:

The ADHD Daily Brain Planner (£5.00)

The ADHD Weekly Brain Planner (£7.00)

The Bundle — both planners together (£10.00)

Would really appreciate eyes on the listings — especially around:

Do the photos stop the scroll?

Does the description convert?

Is the pricing right?

Shop: glitchinggracefully.etsy.com

Any feedback genuinely welcome. Thank you in advance.`