Optimal Organizing

Description of Work: Worked organizing my garage.

Description of Work: Helped clean out/organize

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Description of Work: I purchased a 3 hour organizing service through a Big Deal. I had been overwhelmed by the amount of stuff in my one bedroom condo for years and had almost moved because of this. I decided last minute that it wasn't worth it to pay a substantial amount of money just so I could put more things in closets and would just have to learn to live in the space I already have. Carol from Optimal Organizing was a great help and taught me how to find space in my home that I had previously overlooked. I run a business from my home so we first worked on making a large cabinet for business only items since they had been scattered in 3-4 places. Then Carol helped me with my bedroom closet. I had hated going in there because clothes items were constantly falling off some of the lower shelves. The key to solving this was containers to separate and organize groups of my clothes. Now my closet floors are clear, something I had thought was out of reach for me. With Carol's guidance, I was able to finish the closet on my own! I am so glad Carol came over and rescued me from the horrible piles in my home. It is very helpful to have a more experienced set of eyes to help you make the most of your space.

Description of Work: Date above, May 19, 2014, is not accurate. I don't remember the date. Might have been two years ago. For answers to your questions, please see the review I submitted previously. Thank you.

Description of Work: She quickly helped me prioritize and begin the process of organizing and filing papers, receipts and photos.

Description of Work: I bought a big deal for $99 for 3 Hours of Professional Organizing Services - Home, Office or Workplace!

Description of Work: This was an Angie's List Big Deal for 3 hours of organizing assistance. Carol was very helpful in jumpstarting the clean-out and reorganization of my home office. She encouraged me to prepare in advance to get the most out of my time with her and was very supportive and persistent in making progress even when I got discouraged and overwhelmed by the paper. She followed up with an email describing her suggestions for moving the project forward.

Description of Work: Very effective approach to organizing space and materias; disciplined and systematic. Key is to start from what was on site, and not try to impose some organizing theory, but to use practical assessment of items, workflow, space, furniture. I dramatically improved the physical organization of my office space. The challenge was big due to the enormous amount of complex paperwork. Main benefit is the reduction in mental tension caused by the time drain/distraction of loose organization of space and materials -- that enables more and better work, and sets up a positive cycle. Subsequently I have revamped one of 2 large closets into a fully-functional "supply depot", and archived hanging folders in my file cabinet in order to make ample space for 2012 material.

Description of Work: During the first visit, Carol organized a closet for me. During the second and third visits, she helped me redesign my workspace at home. This included helping me select a new, bigger desk and organizing bills and important papers.

Description of Work: Carol is a very pleasant lady who does an excellent job of organizing and suggesting ways to continue staying organized. I had a particular project involving mountains of papers and items stacked high, and Carol and I worked together to toss out long irrelevant materials, and intelligently organize the rest.

Description of Work: Organizing finished attic space.

Description of Work: Room organizing

Description of Work: Cleaned and organized a horrible area in our basement --- Carol wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty, and helped to bring out a lot of yucky stuff

Description of Work: organized my office area and knitting storage

Description of Work: Cleaned out and organized garage, she measured for and shopped with me for cabinets, helped bring throw aways out to garbage, took itemss that could be contributed to appropriate places. She worked very fast and did more work in the time spent than I could have imagined . She was very good at helping decide what to get rid of. She also has vsery good about suggesting ways to organize and what items should be grouped.

Description of Work: Organized home office

Description of Work: Organization of a household storage unit, assistance in making donations to local charities, arranging movers for certain items.

Description of Work: Optimal Organizing helped me in organizing and packing 3 floor house, in a very tight time frame.

Description of Work: closet organization

Description of Work: Carol helped me go through my house room by room, drawer by drawer, cabinet by cabinet, and closet by closet. My mother passed away a couple of years ago and much of her household was shipped up here to my house. I had 3 dining room tables and 3 sets of chairs. Extra furniture all over my house and boxes and boxes of family "stuff", and once things got so cluttered, the clutter took on a life of it's on---slippery slope as they say. We worked together several days a week, for several hours at each stint, and kept this up for about a month. She hauled bags of stuff out of here --- taking it to the Goodwill, the resale shop, the dumpster and also to other appropriate charities and brought me the receipts when she returned for out next meeting. What I have discovered now is the real treasures I do have in my home-now that they are freed from the clutter.

Description of Work: We were constantly fighting back clutter in our bedroom and kitchen. Carol came in and really took the stress out of the whole process. She really also helped mediate potential arguments about whether to get rid of items that my wife and I might have had. I will absolutely use Carol again. It feels great not to be living in so much clutter.