OCD Archives | Professional Organizer Pasadena, CA https://www.getorganizedalready.com/tag/ocd/ Get Organized Already! We help nice people get organized. Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:29:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/favicon.png OCD Archives | Professional Organizer Pasadena, CA https://www.getorganizedalready.com/tag/ocd/ 32 32 75050459 Maybe You Should Consider Becoming a Control Freak https://www.getorganizedalready.com/becoming-a-control-freak/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/becoming-a-control-freak/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:03:28 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/?p=9691 It’s not news that people often compliment me about being organized. They thank me, they marvel at me, and they lament how they are missing that skill in many respects. Somehow society has placed a greater worth on being tidy than on being disorganized.  To them I respond, “PHOOEY!” Being organized is often (definitely in […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/becoming-a-control-freak/feed/ 0 9691 Advice for living with a disorganized person https://www.getorganizedalready.com/living-disorganized-person/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/living-disorganized-person/#respond Sat, 21 May 2016 09:52:35 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/living-disorganized-person/ Whenever I give a seminar on home organizing someone inevitably asks the question, How do you live with someone who seems to be incapable of staying organized? If your standards of cleanliness and organization are higher than those of the people you live with, I feel your pain. Having obsessive organizing tendencies can be helpful. […]

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]]> https://www.getorganizedalready.com/living-disorganized-person/feed/ 0 1311 Trash, Recycling, and Compulsive Behaviors https://www.getorganizedalready.com/trash-recycling-and-compulsive-behaviors/ https://www.getorganizedalready.com/trash-recycling-and-compulsive-behaviors/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:57:51 +0000 https://www.getorganizedalready.com/wordpress/trash-recycling-and-compulsive-behaviors/ My husband has given up on recycling. He loves the idea as much as anyone. Alas living with me has forced him to quit trying. It’s hard to be married to an organizer. The problem is my compulsive need to have the trash in the proper container. OK, so maybe when I find things in the […]

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