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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need three staging areas: keep, sell, donate. Then work clockwise or room by room. Throw out as much as you can.

This don't pay anyone for help.

NP. I'm good at going through stuff (e.g., my kids clothes and toys, the kitchen and pantry, etc.), but I cannot handle paperwork. I have a trunk (!) filled with kids schoolwork, coupons, catalogs, etc., and even when I set aside time to go through it all and purge it, it fills up again. I already handle all the low-hanging fruit (junk mail and school fliers immediately in trash or recycling, handle all mail once, etc.). I have files for important papers (insurance, taxes, etc.). I don't know why I have so much paper in between important and junk. Is there an organizer who could help with that? It makes our otherwise neat home look horribly cluttered.

Anonymous wrote:Plastic holders aren’t always bad even if they seem unnecessary. I really struggle with organizing and maintaining and a labeled clear bin is actually really good for me. It means I can see stuff, and it “holds” the space when the items are out so I don’t put something else there. But obviously you can do that a lot of different, free ways. E.g. Child’s pegboard.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need three staging areas: keep, sell, donate. Then work clockwise or room by room. Throw out as much as you can.

This don't pay anyone for help.

Anonymous wrote:You need three staging areas: keep, sell, donate. Then work clockwise or room by room. Throw out as much as you can.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used one very recently. It was $1500 for her to come with two additional helpers for 7 hours to organize my kitchen. Here's the rub -- she's shilling for The Container Store on top of it and although she did a great job of organizing my kitchen, it is now full of almost countless container store "storage solutions" that are slightly helpful at best, an illogical problem taking up space at worst. Oh, and it's all kinds of plastic, which I really didn't want. She had told me she would bring things that would help me with organization, things to buy. But she didn't tell me she would shove literally everything she could into plasitc containers and charge me for all of them. Which I'm still confused about because when she was about to leave I asked her about how to pay her and she said "Well, you have already paid for the session" and then mumbled something about "doing an inventory and I'll give you $100 off if you write a Google review." So I did, just because I was freaked out about hundreds of dollars in Container Store costs on top of the $1500 I'd already paid. She has never given me "an inventory," or a bill or anything -- I bet she just charged my card. We'll see. I don't have the heart to go look. It's annoying, because it's all such nonsense -- for example, my two cutting boards are in a plastic container marked "cutting boards." All my baking supplies are in a lower cabinet in a big plastic bucket that I have to pull out of the cabinet and go through anytime I want to find flour or sugar or whatever. She labeled all of the plastic things -- probably so she can claim you can't return it. I don't know. She did a really great job organizing my stuff. But I'm irritated by the unnecessary plastic bins that are likely costing me hundreds.

How is that doing a “great job” organizing? It doesn’t sound like baking supplies are easily reached.

Anonymous wrote:I used one very recently. It was $1500 for her to come with two additional helpers for 7 hours to organize my kitchen. Here's the rub -- she's shilling for The Container Store on top of it and although she did a great job of organizing my kitchen, it is now full of almost countless container store "storage solutions" that are slightly helpful at best, an illogical problem taking up space at worst. Oh, and it's all kinds of plastic, which I really didn't want. She had told me she would bring things that would help me with organization, things to buy. But she didn't tell me she would shove literally everything she could into plasitc containers and charge me for all of them. Which I'm still confused about because when she was about to leave I asked her about how to pay her and she said "Well, you have already paid for the session" and then mumbled something about "doing an inventory and I'll give you $100 off if you write a Google review." So I did, just because I was freaked out about hundreds of dollars in Container Store costs on top of the $1500 I'd already paid. She has never given me "an inventory," or a bill or anything -- I bet she just charged my card. We'll see. I don't have the heart to go look. It's annoying, because it's all such nonsense -- for example, my two cutting boards are in a plastic container marked "cutting boards." All my baking supplies are in a lower cabinet in a big plastic bucket that I have to pull out of the cabinet and go through anytime I want to find flour or sugar or whatever. She labeled all of the plastic things -- probably so she can claim you can't return it. I don't know. She did a really great job organizing my stuff. But I'm irritated by the unnecessary plastic bins that are likely costing me hundreds.

Anonymous wrote:I used one very recently. It was $1500 for her to come with two additional helpers for 7 hours to organize my kitchen. Here's the rub -- she's shilling for The Container Store on top of it and although she did a great job of organizing my kitchen, it is now full of almost countless container store "storage solutions" that are slightly helpful at best, an illogical problem taking up space at worst. Oh, and it's all kinds of plastic, which I really didn't want. She had told me she would bring things that would help me with organization, things to buy. But she didn't tell me she would shove literally everything she could into plasitc containers and charge me for all of them. Which I'm still confused about because when she was about to leave I asked her about how to pay her and she said "Well, you have already paid for the session" and then mumbled something about "doing an inventory and I'll give you $100 off if you write a Google review." So I did, just because I was freaked out about hundreds of dollars in Container Store costs on top of the $1500 I'd already paid. She has never given me "an inventory," or a bill or anything -- I bet she just charged my card. We'll see. I don't have the heart to go look. It's annoying, because it's all such nonsense -- for example, my two cutting boards are in a plastic container marked "cutting boards." All my baking supplies are in a lower cabinet in a big plastic bucket that I have to pull out of the cabinet and go through anytime I want to find flour or sugar or whatever. She labeled all of the plastic things -- probably so she can claim you can't return it. I don't know. She did a really great job organizing my stuff. But I'm irritated by the unnecessary plastic bins that are likely costing me hundreds.