CJAD 800 at 8:40am – Clean Out your House
Q 1: We’re stuck in a lot in January so it’s a good time to spend time cleaning out and organizing our closets, garages, basements. A lot of people avoid these activities but it does have to get done eventually and you say you have some help for us.
People (usually women) who have a knack for this kind of work are available and they do have special niches. You may be moving, or just need to get the kids’ rooms organized to make them easier to take care of. Garages and basements can have special storage to avoid piling your junk.
Q 2: If you are thinking of moving this year (maybe divorce or downsizing) or you might have to help clean out your parent’s home, tell us about how these women can help.
Here’s a two for one deal Susan Hertzberg. Is a real estate agent who will sell your house for you At no extra charge, she will help you co-ordinate the downsizing of your belongings that you no longer need or want. Her service is especially good for absentee relatives or children have to liquidate their parents’ estates, do not live here or are too busy.
Phone: 514- 481-8986
Q 3 : Okay, some of us aren’t going anywhere, but we are overcome with clutter or we can’t part with cherished items, how can we get help?
Organized Success is one professional organizing company who can set up your home or office to save you time (or money). For mounds of papers, new color-coded files are created and your old stuff is seamlessly weeded into the new ones. For other rooms, they can weed out what to keep, throw away or sell (and help get it sold and moved).
For those of you with piles of photos, they can get them organized by year, occasion or albums. Your computers or finances can even get sorted out. Financially they can promise you to save you money (phones, banking, mortgage, food, car) or they don’t charge for the visit.
It takes about 30 days to form new habits and they do follow-ups to keep you on track.
Phone: 514-733-1533
e-mail: susan@organizedsuccess.com
www.organizedsuccess.com
Q4: So who else is out there to whisk away our messes?
Janice Greenberg – As much as you hate putting things away, loves teaching you how to do it easily. She can help the elderly discard a lifetime of things efficiently but with sensitivity to their needs. She loves organizing wardrobe, closets, kids’ rooms are specialties and offers help for unearthing paper mounds in home office or personal shopping for clothing.
She goes through belongings determine what are cherished or not and helps you make decisions about what should be given to charity, what should be sold and what possibly donate in return for a tax receipt.
One especially nice touche are the “memory boxes” she creates. Greenberg can put them together by gathering special photos of kids or trips. When downsizing to a condo or retirement home, she can help choose what take with them or what might sent storage ( many not ready to give away their things – to the children or anyone else). If a spouse has died, she can also help with the painful chore of what to sell or give away.
Phone: (514) 935-2394.
Q 5: Sometimes people have clutter is beyond the average, and are hoarders, is there anyone out there to help them?
Kathleen Murphy trained prof organizer National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, specializes in hoarding situations and the hiring of a cleaning crew. For elderly making a move, she can start with getting your paperwork in order (notary, will, finances), staging your home sale, making arrangements for shipping of their furnishings to far flung relatives and even finding painters and carpet layers for the new place. A 3-step plan is laid out for the sorting and distribution of your clothing, appliances, cars and the move.
Phone: (514) 402-0709
www.organizingoptions.com