Waiting, waiting, waiting for something to change. Waiting and hoping that the pile of stuff will somehow disappear and instead it continues to grow and expand. Each day unmade decisions continue to mount and the clutter does too. What started as frustration builds to embarrassment, shame and overwhelm. The longer we wait, the more the […]

Drawers act as compartments to store our smaller-sized items, including undergarments, tools, utensils, bath and beauty products, loose change, pens, pencils and more. Yet too often, the out-of-sight rule applies and we end up tossing things haphazardly into  these space until things are ajumble and we can’t find what we need as they pile with […]

Furniture layout in a room is crucial to how the room functions in regards to its usability and aesthetic presence. Many people struggle with furniture placement and aren’t sure how best to utilize their furnishings. Create zones/specific areas. Larger rooms are often misused because people don’t realize that the space can be divided and used […]

When organizing, the process of sorting and eliminating items are crucial first steps. We need to see what’s in the clutter and what can be kept and what needs tossing. Filtering through the “rubble” we discern the necessities then decide how to store them and where. Often clients need to save more the first time […]

Clutter, clutter everywhere and no where to sit. I recently had a client who had lived in his apartment for 12 years and had to move since his landlord was reclaiming his home. My client had saved 25 years of paper in bankers boxes piled from floor to ceiling. He also suffered from chronic fatigue […]

In our highly technological age, an era claimed to be paper free, many of us are inundated with more paper than we need or know how to handle. It is a continual source of frustration for many of my clients since the barrage of paper continues to pour into their homes and offices. What to […]

Confusion, loss of time, decreased productivity, and embarrassment and shame are signs of disorganized living and work environments. Functioning with greater ease and flow are paramount to having the lives we desire as well as the environments in which we function. When clutter and disorder rule these spaces, we lose inspiration, effectiveness, focus and joy. […]

As human beings, we are masters of hiding things, deceiving ourselves that we can make things “disappear”–out of sight, out of mind–so we don’t have to look at it. Well, this strategy only lasts for so long until the places where we’ve been hiding things is overflowing and we can’t stuff anything else in there. […]

American society is a culture with Too Much Stuff. With the advent of the Big Box store such as Costco, Walmart, Kmart, Target and others, we find foreign made items for cheap and because it’s cheap and we can easily throw it away when it’s done, we feel okay about buying it. It may make […]

In my line of work the most common emotion I encounter in new clients is overwhelm–the feeling they are overrun and overtaken by their things and they don’t know how to deal with or address. My job is to assuage their fears by reducing the scary image of a mountain of stuff to bite-sized piles […]