I confess, I am recovering from a major surgery and have spent the recent days watching TV. As a professional organizer (who stall hasn’t joined any associations), I am hooked on one show - Clean House! We, at This Mess is a House are just your basic common sense, hard working and thinking organizers. We don’t bring in teams and we don’t clean. Anyhoo, today I felt compelled to write to them. Let’s see if they respond. ALso a huge Reno 911 fan Niecey!
I do not need a house clean. However, I moved to the New Orleans area a year ago after being a military wife for 10 years. I started a little organizing business called “This Mess is a House.com” I don’t charge much - $25 but do it to help people still recovering.
I am writing to invite you to New Orleans. BTW - I would fit right in with your cast while you are down here - I am a bit of a character:)
* Go to you attic or garage where you store all your previous year’s beads and throws
* Go click over here and support the troops today
* Whatever you don’t donate to the troops, go donate to a local school or organization asking for beads etc…
* Start Mardi Gras season without your old beads!
We love them, we hate them, our jaws drop at them, but we can all relate to a portion of them. No matter your reaction while watching any of those organizing shows, we can all come away feeling that someone’s life has been changed for the better. When This Mess is a House enters your castle and tackle your “troublesome area”- we fix it quickly and efficiently. We work with what you have and we don’t create more work for you. We don’t come in with teams of hundreds and film crews. We can’t provide you with carpenters, new furniture or big screen TV’s, like you seen on those shows. We don’t come with a cleaning team, we come to get your “problemed area” in order. We leave you with a house that is much easier to manage than when we entered. And best of all, we leave you with something we know you can maintain on your own.
We are the most reasonably priced organizers in town. We enjoy what we do and find our team approach is extremely successful. For an investment as little as $200, you could make a huge difference in your life.
Is your Christmas stuff completely put away yet?
Have you washed all the Christmas linens and serving items? If you haven’t finished that - do it NOW!
Let’s talk Christmas notebooks. Yours truly keeps a 3 ring binder for Christmas. It is divided into several sections: Incoming cards 2007, outgoing cards 2007, incoming gifts 2007, outgoing gifts 2007. I also keep a special section of Christmas card pictures I receive. Also, 3 ring page protectors work wonderfuly for craft items you may want to make for next year.
Deadline for 100% of Christmas stuff being stored properly - SUNDAY!!!
I had the “good luck” fairy with me during all my returns yesterday. I didn’t wait more than 2 minutes to return anything.
* Get the Christmas stuff down and if something is yucky or broken - toss it before you even think of putting it away. Make sure all your Christmas stuff is put in ONE desginated area.
Sidenote: I organized a client this past year and her Christmas stuff was scattered from the attic to the kitchen. Put EVERYTHING in one designated area: trees, Christmas serving items, Christmas linens, ornaments (you get the idea).
Now go to it!