professional organizer
As an Bay Area professional organizer, I’ve worked really hard to “practice what I preach” and keep my household possessions to a minimum. I live in a small condo with limited storage space. Every year I go through it, top to bottom, to root out the stuff that has crept in. I made up my [...]
One of my favorite things to do…unpacking and organizing a new kitchen on move-in day. Our clients are busy people, moving into a new loft condo. They hired All Things Home Organizing™ to supervise the movers on moving day, assist with furniture placement, and unpack/organize the kitchen. The question I get asked all the time: [...]
Being a professional organizer, this is embarrassing, but I am going with it anyway…I just figured out how to load my dishwasher. For years, I’ve been driven crazy by having to rearrange the dishes in the dishwasher every time I added something to a load. I know I can organize anything if I just [...]
I just checked in with one of my Marin clients whose real estate office I organized earlier this month. His exact quote: “You rock. I only hope I can stay organized.” I told him not to worry. “Yes, from time to time, your office will get cluttered. But with the systems you now have in [...]
I received a call for help from the director of Piedmont Gardens, a senior/elder residence, in Oakland. One of their residents needed to move from an independent apartment to an assisted living apartment. When they entered her unit, they discovered that she is a hoarder. Her unit was packed with all the usual hoarder’s stuff – [...]
Moving is generally stressful for everyone, but seniors can be especially nervous facing a move. Such was the case last week, with a senior client in San Francisco, who was voluntarily moving, from the 3rd floor of her building, to the 1st floor – into an identical one bedroom apartment…how difficult could that really be? [...]
Today is the last Oprah Winfrey show, and I’ll be waving goodbye along with everyone else. Oprah did a lot for professional organizing. She featured professional organizers on her show, in her magazines, and has even given them shows of their own. I believe that she is single handedly responsible for bringing professional organizers into [...]
As a professional organizer, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about TLC’s Extreme Couponing show. What’s the story on this? Are these people hoarders? How many bottles of shampoo and boxes of pasta does one need? I finally watched an episode, and while I am not Dr. Phil, I can see some obsessive/compulsive tendencies [...]
Watch an episode of House Hunters on HGTV, and you’ll see how much we Americans love closets. We simply can not get enough closet space. It’s not just how many closets you have, it’s how efficiently organized they are that makes them highly usable and functional. The first thing to look at is how well [...]
Recently one of my ATHO facebook followers posed this question: ”Can everyone be organized? My husband seems like a lost cause to me…” I’ve been pondering that question, because I use to think that everyone could be organized. After 20 years as a professional organizer, I now understand that while every space can be organized [...]
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