I’m so grateful to the show for exposing you all to professional organizing! Organizing is a really great job. It’s also important and deserves screen time. However, there are some serious holes in the portrayal you are seeing on Netflix.
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I’ve been a professional organizer for many years. Often people who are naturally organized ask me incredulously, “What do you do for people? Why can’t they throw away their own trash?”
When you are born with the desire and ability to keep things in order, it’s easy to see other people’s disorder as a character flaw. (more…)
Did you make any resolutions this year?
I did not. I hate making resolutions because the process of choosing them stresses me out.
How about you? Do you think of something you don’t like about your life and change it? To me THAT is a lot of pressure. (more…)
If you get more excited to cook than to clean and organize your kitchen, you are not alone! Are you itching to make some pumpkin spiced goodness ASAP? Do you get so happy thinking about decorating Christmas cookies that your sleigh bells start jingling? (more…)
Like any other topic, there are two sides to the story of decluttering. Some people can’t get enough while some people can’t be bothered. (more…)
Why is it so so much easier for me to throw things away when you are here?
I hear that a lot! And so do the other organizers on our team.
There are a few reasons people may be more likely to let go of clutter when a professional organizer is around. Which do you think it is? Which would be true for you? (more…)