Reply To: How I concluded I should try professional organizing help

[blackdog]

“Eek” is right. And not just the garage, though that is probably at the top of my places-I-would-rather-forget-exist list. 😯

I agree it’s better not to have a friend, or your mother, do it. I have a super organized uber-cleaner Type A +++ friend who wanted to come and help me after my dad died. I nearly died of panic when I read his email and started furiously typing a response filled with every excuse I could imagine to stop him. Mom tried when I was a kid but always ended up giving up and doing it herself. Which I’m sure she would still do now if she could.

I think hiring someone is a great idea and I am sure the trainee will do just fine. Organizing is a skill that you either have or you don’t. Just one word of advice: make sure what she does works for you. Remember, your brain is not like hers. I have the hardest time finding things in a place that was organized by someone else, and yet I can find what I need in a snap in my own junk heap. People shake their heads in amazement and stare at me in awe and say “how can you find anything in there?” And I reply “because I know where everything is”.

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