In our Q & A section of our website you can find our answers to this important question, but I also found this article in a recent issue of Creative Living and thought it had lots of good advice for those who are considering the value add of hiring an organizer.
People often think they “should” be able to organize on their own. I recently had a client ask, “how much of this could we do on our own?” My answer was brutally honest, “all of it.” They have since hired us to assist with the process and keep them on the right track. I recently read in one of Judith Kolberg’s books that professional organizers provide “a secure environment for change, objectivity, professionalism, and skill which support a disorganized person more than dogged, solitary self-help.” Most of our clients have tried to organize by themselves at one point or another only to find that they don’t have the correct systems or habits in place to sustain it. More