What does a professional organizer do?
What I do as a professional organizer is I come in when someone calls me, and I have a consultation with them. I sit down with them and I talk to them and see what it is that they want to have happen. Generally, I'm being called in because there is a situation. Something's out of control, out of hand, somebody wants to get a grip on something. I sit and I talk with the client. I look at the space. I talk to them about what it is that they want to have happen, what they want the space to be, and what they see the issues as being. We then formulate a plan together as to what we are going to do. What are we going to tackle first? What are the priorities? Is the kitchen the priority? The bedroom? The closets? The kids room? We determine what that's going to be, and then we figure out a schedule for how we're going to work together. I then go out and I buy or purchase all the things that I think I need for that particular job. Then I go in, and we start tackling it piece by piece. A lot of times I need the client's assistance in certain points, whether that's the point where we're going through things and determining what needs to be kept and what needs to be got rid of. That's something only a client can do. It's their things. I then start the process of putting everything back together. I rip it all apart, and then I put it all back together, which is why I like to do one space at a time, even if it's in the same home, because I am actually creating chaos before I can create order. That's basically what a professional organizer does. Everybody works a little differently. Some people don't have as much of an assessment process as I might have, and they go in and they just start the cleansing and the purging, and the restructuring process, but it really depends on the individual and on the client.
