Should I Hire a Certified Professional Organizer?
A certified professional organizer can play a pivotal role in helping you get more organized and declutter your space. They can also help you develop habits, find storage solutions, and create routines that help you stay organized. We try to offer lots of tips and suggestions on our blog and through our social media posts to help you do as much as you can on your own, but it’s important to know when you might need a certified professional organizer to help you.
You Might Need a Professional Organizer If…
Hiring a professional organizer can be life changing. But in some circumstances, it can be essential for your mental health.
You Struggle with Executive Function
If you have ADHD or other conditions that interfere with your executive function skills, a certified professional organizer can be extremely helpful in finding ways for you to eliminate the overwhelm and stress of clutter and disorganization while being sensitive to your specific challenges. We tell people all the time that there is no one right way to organize and what’s important is finding strategies and solutions that work for you. Cris is a Certified Professional Organizer, Certified Professional Organizer in Chronic Disorganization, and a Certified Senior Move Manager. Most of the Organizing Maniacs professional organizers have specialty certifications to be able to help you more effectively with everything from organizing to executive function coaching.
Listen to David Greenwood’s Overcoming Distractions podcast, where h chats with Cris Sgrott about getting and staying organized when you have ADHD.
You Are Selling Your Home and Need to Quickly Stage
If there is some urgency to getting organized, such as listing your home for sale, downsizing and moving to a smaller space, or converting your home to a vacation rental a certified professional organizer can be instrumental in getting you from point A to point B with the expediency you need. Moving can be enormously stressful. Our professional organizers are skilled at helping you prioritize what to pack first, how to present your home in an organized, decluttered way (even if you’re still living in it) and coming up with creative solutions to store everything you can’t yet pack or move.
“When you work with older adults, there is a lot of storytelling that has to happen, and that’s a healthy part of the downsizing process. For example, one client had a brain tumor, and she was trying to make sure all of the backstories behind her possessions were captured. So I helped her find a video company, and we made a video of her telling stories about the belongings she was going to pass down to her heirs.” – Cris Sgrott, Washingtonian
Your Mental Health Is at Risk
Being disorganized can take its toll. If you are feeling mentally overwhelmed by the disorganization and clutter in your home and it is beginning to impact your quality of life and your ability to function at home and at work, it is absolutely worth the investment to bring in a professional organizer. Our professional organizers are gentle, kind, and understanding. We don’t judge and completely understand how easy it is to get out of control with the chaos of clutter. We can do as much or as little as you need to get you on the right track. We can show you how to make organizing and decluttering more fun and help you find a less stressful way forward.
You Just Don’t Want to Deal with It
Hiring a professional organizer can simply be one of life’s luxuries that you afford yourself, like going to the salon or getting a massage. If you’re a busy professional, a mom who would rather spend time with the kids, would rather travel, or just don’t like doing the decluttering and organizing yourself, we would love to jump in and help you get your home organized and decluttered and set up systems that will help you maintain it more easily.
You Want to Give the Gift of Organizing
Giving the gift of organizing can be one of the best gifts you can give someone. We have gift certificates available perfect for Mother’s Day, Christmas, or a special birthday.
You Want Responsible, Eco-Friendly Organizing and Decluttering
We practice eco-social organizing and eco-social recycling. Organizing Maniacs believes in redistributing, recycling, and disposing of the things you don’t need in an environmentally and emotionally safe way. Regardless of your project’s size and scope, our professional organizers provide a comprehensive approach to address underlying organizational anxieties and set you up for future success with a sustainable, customized plan to stay organized.
Getting more organized is a common goal for so many people. But the process can be overwhelming and time consuming depending on your situation. Hiring a certified professional organizer can make it much more likely that you’ll accomplish your goals and be able to more easily maintain your newly organized space. We’d love to hear from you to learn more about how we can help you meet your organizational goals.