Tuesday, February 16, 2021

A Professional Organizer Will Be Your New Best Friend: Her Words, Not Mine

 "When I got married, bought my first house, had a child, and started my own business, I never in a million years thought I would hire a professional organizer."


"Victoria" (name changed to protect her privacy) was 27 when she started her own business and 29 when she closed on her house.  She went into both projects with tons of energy, and started binders and vision boards about "Success on a Shoestring" and "Organizing on a Budget".  


This successful woman wanted people to walk into her home, where her business office and studio were also located, and think to themselves, "Wow, how orderly."  And she had collected magazine articles, books, blog entries, you name it, on DIY interior design projects, crafty wall organization tools, and arranging systems.  It was all cute, but there was nothing cohesive.  Victoria couldn't decide on one sorting method, so she collected information about all the possibilities out there.


Then more than 10 years later, the time came to open a separate brick-and-mortar store for her business.  Movers were arriving with boxes to pack up the necessary parts of her studio to move to the store, and as she went in there to prepare for the move, she realized what she had in there: a hodgepodge of hand-me-down and thrift-store shelving units, some sad filing boxes that were in some cases taped together and bulging with all kinds of unfiled paperwork, and several very expensive designer items lying in heaps on the floor mixed in with business tools and supplies.  None of it looked anything like her vision boards or any of the articles she had so carefully collected.  Victoria looked around tried to think about how to begin to prepare to move necessary items to her new store, and all she could think was, "Well, hot damn."




"I remember walking into my friend Beatrice's [another pseudonym] business and feeling downright angry and embarrassed!  Butter my butt and call me a biscuit!  How did she do it?!?  My first reaction was wow, how sorted and professional.  That's when she told me about Make Space for Grace's organizing services."  


It wasn't long before I received a call from Victoria.  She said she was urgently in need of help.  What she was feeling was overwhelmed and also a tremendous amount of shame.  Within hours, we had completed an initial FaceTime interview, assessed Victoria's needs and the results she was trying to produce, and given her a quote that was in line with her "Organizing on a Budget" vision (that we converted from a vision to a plan).


"Talking with Amanda, the lead organizer on Make Space for Grace's team, was such a relief.  Before the call, I was mortified about my lack of systemization and utter confusion about where to even start.  I KNEW I needed help.  Amanda made me feel so supported during our conversation - I called my husband right after our conversation and said, 'I think Amanda's my new best friend.  She is going to sort out the studio and the house!  And I can't get over how easy it was.' "


We have said it before, and we will keep saying it!  Professional organizing is easy, affordable, and available to EVERYONE!


Not everyone has a knack for marshalling items into order.  And not everyone can seamlessly work with your budget and what you have and solve the disorganization problems in your life while making the result both practical and visually appealing.  That's okay!  We make it easy, and we work with a variety of budgets so that everyone, no matter their age, stage or life, or personal skills can have the organized spaces of their dreams (even if they don't have a clear vision of what that dream looks like).


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