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Can I live up to that title? I’m going to try. If I fall short, please know that my intention was to fulfill your expectations. As a compassionate professional organizer, I’m tuned in to client expectations. And I always strive to exceed them. I really want you to read this tiny essay because I think it is filled with big ideas. If I had used the title that originally occurred to me, I don’t think anyone would have looked. “Wash the Dishes, Change the World” was the working title. See why I changed it? The Meaning of Life It is important to realize that the meaning of life is that which gives meaning to life. People who have meaning

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Organizers know that bad clutter sometimes happens to good people.  Sometimes our possessions become a boa constrictor wrapped around our psyche. When our memories are inextricably woven into our possessions, parting with an item means abandoning a piece of your self. You could no more slice off the proverbial pound of flesh than toss that hamper into the Salvation Army’s maw. As professional organizers we have all noticed how much easier it is to part with clothes or durable goods when they’re going to a charity rather than a trash bin. People don’t want their purchases to be invalidated by disposal. It’s very personal. They are much more relaxed if those books destined for the church’s

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Buckle up. It’s going to be wild ride. Whereas the garage is our organizing Everest the kitchen is our Mecca. And we must complete the Haj at least once in our lives. Probably several times, if we’re devoted to harmonious living. The kitchen is a reverent space. We enter the kitchen with respect, aware of the dangers lurking inside every drawer and the monstrosities hiding behind some cabinet doors. We’re going to be spending a hard day or two organizing the kitchen so we must love its bones and caress its untamed exuberance into quivering obedience. Whew! I need a cigarette. Kitchen Magicians Invest Many Hours The kitchen is one of the most used rooms in a home. A

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The basement is often a neglected space during any organizing campaign. True, the basement is normally uncomplicated and easy, but still deserving of some intelligent assessment and functional storage solutions. Assess the quality of the basement environment before you decide what to store in that space. A lot can be done to improve adverse environments. Humidity Levels Debase the Basement Checking the humidity level is the most important starting point. Above 60% humidity, mold can grow. Below 50% it lies dormant. In my central Jersey basement, the humidity level starts climbing as Spring approaches and can easily exceed 80% during the heat of summer. Those levels will quickly debase the basement. Just as surely the humidity drops as

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An extremely cost-effective way to kick start your organizing journey is to hire an organizing coach. You’re pretty sure you can physically do the work. You’re just a little unsure if you have the mental stamina to stay on your path. You may be entirely willing and able to do the work, but you’re spending all of your time worrying about where to start and exactly what needs to be done. A coach can help you with all those issues. It’s exactly like hiring a piano teacher. You could teach yourself. It is just going to take more time and you might develop some bad habits that have to be unlearned. Swim Coach or Lifeguard? There is also

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The Zen state of enlightened detachment from your stuff makes organization possible. Detachment can save you money and clear the way for the most effective use of a professional organizer’s particular set of skills. One of the biggest impediments to a client diving into the organizing pool by themselves is that they can get caught in a riptide of worry and run out of energy before they swim free. If you pull everything out of a closet in a burst of late-night enthusiasm, the coming dawn will often find you worn out and too discouraged to continue. It’s not that you don’t have the physical strength for the task. It is the enormous drain on your

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Fall in love again–with your organized home. We all know it happens. It’s no one’s fault and everyone’s fault. You just know each other so well the mystery has evaporated. Even those oh so familiar contours fail to excite. It gets to the point where all you want to do is escape. You start spending more and more nights working late at the office. You find more and more excuses to go in on weekends to “catch up on some paperwork.” The occasional dinner with clients runs later and later just so you can avoid stepping back over that threshold. You finally have the big talk. “I just need a change. I can’t stand another minute of this.” Your

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The next two minutes taking our organizing quiz are going to be the most important minutes in your organizing journey. In two minutes, the time it takes you to read the next few paragraphs, you’ll find out how to achieve organizing serenity or be swallowed by despair. Are you striving for an aesthetic ideal or would you just like to kick the junk out of the way? It is one thing to treat organization as a work of art, it is quite another thing to simply tidy up the place. Weirdly enough, one is not really harder than another. It is more a matter of setting a goal and working incrementally toward that objective. See a

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