Barbara Wolters

We did not always agree on how I should organize my office area and personal papers which meant she was unable to help me with this aspect of organizing my home.

Barbara is very helpful and has great ideas for how to arrange a room. She is totally non-judgmental, toward those of us who have too much stuff. She is cheerful, helpful; works hard and is encouraging about the process of getting organized. it is very satisfying to see the finished results of working with Barbara.

I scheduled an appointment with Barbara at my apartment in Uptown. She was 20 minutes late. I called her cell phone at 10 minutes after the scheduled time, and she was very upset at me about the difficulty parking (there are several public ramps nearby). She also had difficulty using the door comm to get into the building. When I went down to let her in, she was unprofessional and again blamed me for the parking. I felt very uncomfortable with the idea of her being in my apartment, and apologized for having her come out, but didn't go through with the appointment. I'm not so upset about the lateness, but failing to call me when the parking issue first became apparent and being unprofessional on the phone and in person were serious problems. I was not willing to have someone so judgmental and unpleasant help me with organizing.

Barbara was very kind from our first phone call. She was confident and reassuring that there would be no judgment because she has seen everything. She arrived on time, and was ready to get to work. We waded through the back corner of my basement, and when my brain started to get overwhelmed she helped me focus. She had ideas for hanging things and keeping things free from moisture. She gave me a great jumpstart that inspired me to keep going on my own.

Spent four hours a day, two days in a row. Was well worth it. Now I can find the books I am looking for without having to search through hundreds of books.

She does a great job! The apartment has been well maintained! She is very reliable and a spotless cleaner! I highly recommend her!

She was very helpful. She was easy to work with and was very successful. She was able to take the mess and take the very organized area and live a home. She sorted and organized so that it is all accessible and useful.

She came over on time. was very helpful without being judgmental. I had a very cluttered sun room in my house and she gave me some advice when I asked for it. I had felt so overwhelmed that I did not know where to even start. she started out by starting to clean the room and clear it out as she went. She bagged the trash and asked me when ever there was something that might be useful. I donated some things that I no longer needed ( or wanted) but were still useful. and she organized the things I wanted to keep. .She worked for 4 hours - Took out the trash and took the items to be donated to Savers for me (so I did not have too!) (she would have worked longer that day but I had other things I had to do so we scheduled her to come back over the next week (she was booked with other clients too.) She did such a good job that I had her come back the next week and help to clean and organize a back bed room as well.The room had become an unintentional storage room for all kinds of stuff. she took many bags of clothes too Savers from that room. She did a very good job and we worked on that room for another 4 hours. I feel it was money and time well spent she is a hard worker and gets a lot done !! - She is also willing to work on your time schedule.

I called Barbara, arranged to have her review the project, hired her to perform services assisting me in cleaning up and arranging things in my home, including closets, living areas and basement. She advised me in how to arrange things more efficiently and neatly and assisted me in doing so. The areas whe reorganized have remained neat and are efficient to manage.

She did a fabulous job and was very professional. Very nice lady. I would recommend her to others.

Excellent service, excellent price, she likes helping people organize - a process that I find completely overwhelming. I'll definitely call her back for more help in the future.

We are not done yet but we will continue to use Barbara's services

She lived close by and things seemed to work, so I chose her. She is nice and does everything I ask her to do. The quality of house cleaning is good and I will continue to use her in future.

Barbara did a great job of cleaning our house. My husband is now walking around saying "I love our house, I love our house!" The only challenge is that if my son or I spill something, it is much more noticeable now - so my husband is right there saying, "You see that mess, right? You are going to clean that up now, right?!" ;-) Barbara did a great job and we will use her again in the future!

Went well. 2-3 hours is about all one can do at a time w/o becoming overwelmed. She had good ideas for me to keep this room under better control.

Barbara is flexible. If I make an appointment, and I find that the time doesn't work for me, she doesn't make me feel bad, and she reschedules the work. If I get tired, she will suggest a plan for her work while I just veg out while she goes to it, and when she is done, that area of the house, which formerly looked cluttered and chaotic, looks great. She suggests not throwing out things if in doubt. You never regret doing that. I sell stuff on ebay, so I tend to have a lot of stuff around without a home. Also, whenever I take a trip, I drag out everything, and when I get home, I have a mess on my hands. Also, I tend to have way too many clothes, and I have weeded my closet many times, but still need to do more on that score. She helps me keep it all from becoming overwhelming, and will even take stuff to the Goodwill for me. She isn't afraid to roll up her sleeves and work. She isn't a stair person, but once she is on the floor we are working on, she works harder than anyone I have ever known. She is understanding of the psychology of this business, and figures out plans based on each client's own personality. She always makes you feel that she has certainly seen worse, and she always makes you feel good about yourself. She doesn't gossips about other clients, so you always feel she keeps your situation confidential. She is a true professional.

I just knew that I wanted things to be better. Barbara has been a lifesend! I have ADHD. One of the issues with ADHD is that a person does not know HOW to organize. Barbara is actually teaching me how to organize and problem-solve in my home. She has helped me create systems and "stations"...She is very non-judgemental and encouraging. I am getting my home and my life back!

We spent four days, and worked three to four hours per day. We had to decide where to place furniture, and she had an ingenious way of storing my boxes containing the parts of my doll collection which I don't display behind the bookcases. These boxes had been an eyesore clogging up my bedroom hallway for years. I also had fabric rolls, and we put them in the corner at the end of the bookcases and covered them with a lace tablecloth--so it looks really nice. She has helped me with sorting my garage stuff to keep, donate, or sell. And helped me with boxing the stuff to sell and labeling them so I can store them in the garage, but still find them when I have my garage sale. I am going to hire her to work my garage sale with me also. She has organized my first floor also and it is very attractive. She has little tricks that make any place in my house look better, and I didn't have to throw away things unless I really wanted to. She believes in this. I like the fact that she is flexible. She will reschedule the work when I need to do so, and unlike a lot of house cleaners and organizers, she will work with me on the number of hours--three to four usually. she is also very understanding of my limitations in regards to home organizing--she never made me feel embarrassed with how disorganized things had gotten in my home. I had suffered from PTSD, and had pretty much neglected this area of my life. My house wasn't dirty-just a problem of too much stuff out where it didn't belong.

It went smoothly as is always the case. Barbara knows what needs to be done next. Lots of times I think I know better, but then I find out she was right all along, and I could have accomplished the job easier and quicker her way. When I am tired of making decisions, I just go do something else, she keeps working, and when I come back I find a transformation. Sometimes she works with my husband doing lifting on Saturday or Sunday, and I can just do what I want to do. I find it is so much easier letting her take over. Barbara works her own schedule, and will work weekends as well as during the week. I find that 4 hours is a good time frame to accomplish a lot.

Barbara took me through this with a minimum amount of stress. She was very compassionate with me as these areas where very messy and need a lot of work. I would recommend her to anyone.

Barbara woiuld come over and spend several hours at a time - just enough time to get you started and leave time for you to accomplish more, plus give you time to rest after she left. She would tell me what needs to be done and give a reasonable estimate of how long it will take. She is good at keeping a person focused. She showed me how to use what I have more efficiently and attractively. She is good at confidence building. She is a kind and fun person to be around.

Barbara has done organizing for me many times. When my grandsons were coming for their annual visit this summer, I had to dig out my mess in all the upstairs rooms, about 1500 sq ft. We donated a lot of stuff, and organized the rest in an attractive manner. I have PTSD, and it is hard for me to do this work. Barbara makes it effortless because she does a lot of the deciding for you, unless you object. She also can soldier on when I get too tired. She will just tell me to sit there while she completes the task. She is tireless. I have always found her very easy to be around, from her first visit, and she is also a great conversationalist. She is up on current affairs, and has an understanding nature. Nothing really surprises or concerns her with my messy house. She always tells me she appreciates the organizing style I have, and says she enjoys working with me. She has an affirming ability. It makes a chore much, much less of a chore. Typically we work four to five hours a day.

This was the first time I had used her services. She is a very nice lady and she had great suggestions on home organization and I found her service to be very useful.

I hired Barbara on a day to day basis, working a few hours each day. She did some cleaning as well. She taught me ways to make things look good and after I finished the front room, a friend came over and hadn't planned to stay, but she just sat back and said, ''This is the most beautiful and peaceful room!'' Barbara can be counted on to ask the why's and wherefor's and just know what to do in every room. I felt very comfortable working with Barbara, and this is amazing because it isn't usually the case when I have hired other people to help me. I think it is because she doesn't judge you and is such a good communicator. When I was tired, I just rested, and she worked alone with fine results.

Barbara was great to work with. I had worked with her before and found her very efficient and knowledgeable. Together we went through everything in the basement, put the garbage in bags and began organizing everything else. She has very good ideas and is very supportive no matter the daunting task ahead! I would hire her again in a heartbeat!