Paper & Mail Avoidance at Home Paper and mail are necessary evils in our world and one with which many of my clients struggle. Common strategies of avoiding mail include not opening it, allowing it to pile up, hiding it in boxes and bags and in corners, drawers and closets. Out of that mail is a mixture of bills, […]

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 […]

Beautifying a  room doesn’t have to be a major ordeal nor does it require great expense. Most people have the basics while others need additional items to aid the process. These five steps can help in beautifying your space. 1. What state is the room in? Is it filled with clutter? Is there stuff all […]

Saving things is a natural behavior for humans. We save paper, magazines, clothes, photos, love letters, sports memorabilia, records/CDs, our children’s artwork, documents, and so much more. What do we need to save? What is truly important to save? Why do we feel compelled to save things in the first place? Living in a physical […]

Beginning anything new–a return to school, a new job or starting a new business, a relationship, building a home–can feel exciting and scary, overwhelming and enticing. It requires planning, research, awareness, focus, direction, commitment, tenacity, support and the willingness to get from where you are to where you want to go. It’s the same with […]

With all of the things we own, we need a place to put them. Many clients that I work with don’t have a good sense of how to use their closet, garage and other storage spaces effectively. There often is a lot of wasted space, things piled atop each other, things randomly sorted together, excess […]

Organizing your closet can seem like a daunting task especially if you have struggled with it and it’s vexed you for some time. You can’t see what you have. Items live on the floor. There is no rhyme or reason to what you have and you don’t know all that you DO have. You spend […]

Many clients I work with struggle with their garages–overstuffed with too many things they don’t even know they have: boxes, packing materials, garbage, broken and outworn items and more. My job is to pull all that stuff out into the bright sunlight and look at it with new eyes. My job is also to get […]

Children’s rooms are often magnets for clutter from assorted clothes, toys, books, papers, stuffed animals, games, equipment and way, way too many pieces of things–tiny pieces from Barbie dolls, games, Legos and more. It can drive a parent crazy trying to keep track of it all. Thankfully, with the patience and persistence of an organizer, […]

Thomas Troward the 19th C. British judge and metaphysician declared that order is the first law of the universe. Without order there is chaos, there is disruption, there is no sense to life and its many things and how they fit together. With order, we have a rhyme and reason for how the planets revolve […]