Get Organized by Deb

If you want a combination organizer/​therapist/​workhorse/​galpal, call Debbie. She’s the best! She smiled her way through three hours with me and my husband in our cluttered mess of a garage, helping us sort into keep/​donate/​toss and sharing ideas for further organizing down the road. She later followed up with a detailed list of links to the shelves and other products she’d suggested. It’s so worth it to have her help in checking off those organizational to-​dos that keep homeowners up at night! I recommend her without hesitation.

Rewind to 4 short weeks ago– It was coming up on 2015 and I had a serious goal of becoming more organized. This has always been on my resolution list, but I’ve not ever felt like it was completed to the point where I have systems that work long-​term, a place for everything, and can readily find things/​put things away. Now, more than ever, I needed to have these systems and this ease of day-​to-​day activity because I live on a houseboat with about 200 sq ft of living space.
Enter Deb…
Right from the start, Deb was warm, helpful, straightforward, and super-​excited to come and see what she could do. I knew I wanted her to help me within a minute of our initial phone conversation. She came over for the consultation and had amazing ideas for rearranging the space, creating more storage, and navigating some unique logistics. Deb has a lot of experience and she is very enthusiastic about her work. I found myself amazed at her how her endless ideas could be honed in to a few choices, as she sent me suggestions for both storage items and space-​saving ideas on the boat. All the while, Deb was well aware of the fact that «stuff» can be very emotional and anxiety provoking. She was very deferential to those feelings as they came up and helped put me at ease whenever she could.
It’s been only a few sessions and we are miles ahead of where we began,. Per Deb’s suggestion, we moved the bed to the smaller room, gutted an existing closed with an attached built in and installed a custom closet configuration from the Container Store. Deb was with us every step of the way. She came to the Container Store to help with the ordering of our closet configuration and came to oversee the installation of this closet as well. We have a couple more projects to accomplish on this boat and I will be hiring Deb to help me again. For now, she has given us so much peace in such a short amount of time with her simple, logical, effective organization of our pantry and bedroom.
If you are embarking on an organization project, I highly recommend Deb. She is worth her weight (and then some) in gold.

Get Organized by Deb is all that~~~She came in and went right to work after my spouse passed away. My place looked like a Tornado hit it. .. Not only did the organization of my space lift my spirits, it has allowed me to sort out so much of my life. I feel like I can finally make sense of my space. She came in and listened to every detail I said. She empathized with my situation-​and paid attention to what was needed. After her initial visit, she went shopping to get the «things’ she needed to make my apartment much more functional. She even used her own discount coupons to keep the cost minimal. While she says she is not the cheapest organizer out there — I think for my money I got quite a bargain. A top recommendation if you want a thorough and thoughtful job done in your space. Our next project is the storage closet in the basement.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when Deb came over, but I was totally impressed with the results! I moved into a small one bedroom apartment and was worried about how to organize my clothes and other items in the space provided. Deb came over and helped me declutter, organize, and feel sane about my new space!
For every appointment, Deb was on time, inquiring about things before making any radical changes. I gave her my budget and she purchased items that suited my space, giving me the option to veto things she had bought.
Having gone from an 8 drawer dresser to 6, Deb ensured everything fit and she also helped me purge items I haven’t worn in years, organized space in my kitchen, closets and apartment built-​ins. On top of all that, Deb is simply a wonderful person with a warm heart, sense of humor, and kindness that make all the difference when you have someone working closely with you in your home.

First and foremost: Deb is seriously a *gem* of a human being! She’s ever so friendly, warm, and caring, which simply adds to the pleasure of working with her on any project!
I first met her through a fundraiser event, and she organized the stunning gift baskets that were raffled off (almost 10 of them all filled to the brim with wonderful treats & goodies and so beautifully presented!)
Deb also helped organize an emergency clothing closet at the MSC-​South homeless shelter where I’m a Volunteer Coordinator, and somehow she made sense of the mini-​mountains that had collected sky-​high during the holidays (a great problem to have but stressful to handle internally as we didn’t have any staff-​time to help make sense of anything) — it was seriously as if she’d waved a magic-​wand and poof! In a few hours the room was intuitively organized and so much more accessible than it ever had been before!
If you’re looking for a talented person who’s also personable, professional, and an overall great human being to make sense of an organizational need that’s been stressing you out — CALL DEB! — Your life and work/​living space will be that much better for it, I promise!

«I hired Debbie as a professional organizer to help de-​clutter, organize and reshape my home to function and look better. And wow did she do that! Her approach was very co-​creative when necessary and autonomous when possible. She worked with me to help me get rid of things that were no longer serving me and she also had a wonderful, personal touch to this process as there is an emotional component to letting go of the „old“. Most importantly, Debbie somehow manages to create space out of nothing. I came home to a closet that was so organized and so much more spacious that I couldn’t believe it. I used to HATE my closet and now I like it. Debbie approaches every inch of your home by seeing new possibilities and making them happen — and it’s all done with genuine care and attention that shows just how much she loves her work. I highly recommend Debbie!»

I have always fancied myself as organized but with a recent influx of work, I knew staying on top of everything was going to be tricky. I called in reinforcements – Deb to the rescue! Deb was so helpful in making constructive suggestions on how to reorganize my home office and more importantly, how to keep a separation between home and office. And now that I have implemented her office layout plan, I need to have her back for phase 2. I can’t wait! Deb’s excellent organizing skills make her an agent for relaxation – an organized office fosters peace of mind! No matter the size of your project, you won’t go wrong with having Deb come in to help you get a handle on your organizational needs. I know I can’t wait for my Spring Reorg session!

Deb is an awesome organizer. She’s kind, sensitive, focused and thorough. Without judgement, she’ll look at the area of your life that needs organizing, get to the task, and not stop until it’s complete. In my case we walked things out to the trash, recycling, and the bag for Goodwill was in my car before she left. She gently would not take «I’ll just do that later» for an answer — which was wonderful! Every bit of the project was off my «To Do» list. I have hired her several times — sometimes for new organizing projects, and sometimes for two — three hours to get me back on track. I highly recommend her for home, business and/​or project organization.”

Deb has been an invaluable help to me over the past few weeks helping me with an office move and garage /​storage space cleanup. I cannot begin to say how painless she made this process — going through 18 years of paperwork and samples, wrangling my garage, negotiating «hot spots» between my husband’s stuff and mine, bolstering me when I needed encouragement, offering creative solutions for finding good homes for unwanted items, the list goes on and on. There were so many times when I turned around from unpacking a box to see that she had completely cleaned up an area that I was dreading. Along with great enthusiasm, she brought so much care and sensitivity, pushing me to deal with items that she knew could be moved along and guiding me around things that I just couldn’t quite tackle yet. Not only did I feel completely comfortable sharing all of my «organizational sins» (we won’t even discuss my office supply hoarding issues) but she made each day feel fun, like hanging out with a great friend and getting SO much done at the same time. If you have any projects that you have been putting off, or want to do a New Year «spring cleaning», please call Debbie — you could not be in better hands!