We start with a relaxed conversation—on-site or online—to understand your goals, lifestyle, budget, ideal timeline, budget, and hopes & dreams.

We’ll define how you envision working with a professional organizer - as a consultant (for those DIY’ers), personal shopper (for the super busy people), guide-on-the-side (for those needing an accountability partner, or motivation to jumpstart a project you’ve been procrastinating on), and/or project manager (aka the ‘easy button’). (Your level of engagement with each phase of this process will impact the overall cost.)

The initial 30-minute consultation is complimentary. Agenda

Based on the information shared during the initial conversation, I’ll begin drafting a few solutions with a list of deliverables and a fee proposal.

Clients have the opportunity to review and refine the Project Proposal before e-signing.

A deposit of at least 50% and a signed agreement are required to move forward with your project(s). An invoice will be emailed with details on a variety of payment options.

Clients can begin signing up for sessions on my calendar.

You’ll receive an email reminder one hour before our session begins.

This is for someone who has never done a thorough edit of the items they’ve accumulated over the years, and/or is experiencing a pretty significant life transition requiring a thorough edit, or someone who likes to keep our economy going and hasn’t quite found their ‘organizing style’ yet.

We pull ALL items out of the space to get a better sense of the inventory (ie materials you have in the space). We will need to identify a space to temporarily place items during the ‘sorting’ phase.

We will be thoughtful and intentional in what we decide to put back in those spaces.

If this is your FIRST FULL EDIT - keep in mind that the less items you have, the less on-going maintenance (aka time and money) the space will require of you.

At this point, you know the drill - you’ve done this before. This is for someone who is already pretty organized and just needs a tune-up, or a seasonal refresh.

We pull ALL items out of the space to get a better sense of the inventory (ie materials you have in the space). We will need to identify a space to temporarily place items during the ‘sorting’ phase.

We will be thoughtful and intentional in what we decide to put back in those spaces.

Remember, the less items you have, the less on-going maintenance (aka time and money) the space will require of you.

Sort all of the items in one of the following action steps;

• Toss

• Recycle

• Donate

• Sell

• Hold

• Keep

Together, we’ll strategize how you’d like to proceed with these action steps. You may need to do multiple edits of the items you placed in the ‘hold’ and ‘keep’ groups. (This is another area that impacts the overall cost of the organizing services.)

Now we take the items in the ‘Keep’ section and group them into identified categories (ie all the light bulbs grouped together, all the scissors, books, etc.).

This stage helps us have a clear understanding of what we will be returning to bins, baskets, shelves, drawers, etc. and where the most appropriate ‘home’ will be for each category based on how you use the items.

This is where we begin designing organizing systems that work for you.

Now that we know what items we want on display, what items we want in backstock, and where the items will go, we can determine what the most appropriate containers and labeling system will be. (There is a range of pricing involved in the containing phase, which we will discuss as we move along in the process - we won’t be able to estimate this in the initial proposal.)

Here’s another phase that can impact the overall cost of organizing services - the more items you keep, the more containers, shelving, labels, etc. we’ll need - which increases the overall cost - for both products and service time. You can pay me to measure, source, purchase, and style the products, or you can just pay me to measure and source the products for you to purchase and style. Or, you can do this step on your own.

Congratulations! At this stage, we’ve established a personalized organizational system for you.

This system will require consistent tidying and shopping habits as well as on-going mini-edits to maintain an organized space.

I’d love to continue this work with you through weekly, monthly, seasonal, or annual maintenance sessions - just let me know what works best for you!