Professional Organizing – This is a real profession?

I have always organized myself without any help although I never really saw it or labeled it as being organized. When I heard that someone was a “Professional Organizer”, I thought “You’re kidding! That’s really a job you can have?”

Well, my eyes have been opened to the fact that a girl can grow up but not know the first thing about cooking a meal and a boy can grow up not knowing how to mow the lawn so you can definitely have people who don’t have a clue how to organize themselves. It’s not necessarily a reflection on them. It may be the way they lived their life while growing up. If the care giving parent never does the things many of us consider normal activities, these things will be foreign to the child when it grows up unless it pursues them after exposure somewhere other than at home.

So the answer to the question is YES! Professional Organizing is a real profession and many people really need help with this just like they need help learning to cook, clean house, drive a car, write a check, mow the lawn, etc.

Unfortunately, “Mission Organization” has people thinking that organizing is nothing more than throwing most of your stuff away and buying clear containers. Both of these actions can be very expensive and definitely NOT what organizing is about.

Actually, organizing is about function and accessibility in the space you want to organize. Most organizing can be accomplished without spending any money at all. You just have to spend time and think about how you do things.

Here are the top 10 tips for getting organized.

1. store like items together
2. keep it where you use it
3. we use 20% of 80% we own (maybe some things can go?)
4. seasonal storage
5. GO Up in tight spaces
6. KISS - keep it simple sister
7. Make it accessible
8. Contain it
9. Use technology (when possible)
10. Unnecessary duplicates can go