Services
What we can help you with
Whether working in homes or offices, we offer a range of hands-on organizing and consulting services:
- Decluttering — Getting your spaces shipshape again!
- Sorting & clearing — Clearing out paper backlogs and other types of clutter... in storage areas, living areas, offices, or wherever you could use a hand.
- Goal-setting, prioritizing, & deciding — Helping you clarify your goals and priorities, helping you decide what to keep, toss, or donate, and providing guidelines and support to make the process easier.
- Organizing — Suggesting storage options, and organizing your things so that they’re easy to find... and easy to put away again.
- Setting up systems — Analyzing what works and what
doesn’t—both with your stuff and in your habits—and then creating systems
that suit you.
- Paper management — Suggesting routines for paying bills and handling mail, so you can keep up with the seemingly endless flow of paper in your busy life.
- Filing — Setting up manageable filing systems, so you can find the papers you need, when you need them.
- Time management — Suggesting ways you can better manage your time and tasks—whether personal or business—so you have less stress and more time to do what's important to you.
- Transition planning — Helping you with organizing tasks or paperwork related to changing life circumstances so that stressful events or transitions are more manageable. For example, we can help you plan a move and reduce some clutter before packing.
Where we can help you
- Homes
- Household papers and filing
- Closets, cabinets, shelves
- Kids' rooms and toy rooms
- Craft or hobby areas, collection displays
- Kitchens
- Living areas
- Bedrooms
- Attics, basements, garages
- Any cluttered area where you need more breathing room
- Offices and home offices
- Filing systems
- Paper flow
- Space planning and desk setup
- Time and task management
- Anything that needs to be done more efficiently
What kinds of help we can provide
Some people want lots of help, and some people just need a boost now and then. Shipshape Organizing provides whatever level of help you need:
- Complete — From start to finish, we work with you and support you throughout your project.
- Ongoing — We get you started and work with you throughout the project, while you do homework between appointments.
- Jump-starts — We get you started on a project, giving you ideas and direction, and you finish the project on your own.
- Follow-up & maintenance — We help you maintain your systems or help you get caught up after falling behind. This is also a good opportunity for us to evaluate and tweak any new systems after you've tried them for a while.
Our services are flexible*—however and wherever you need organizing help:
- big projects or small ones;
- for businesses or homes; from attics to basements;
- with long appointments or short ones;
- offering ideas or digging through your stuff with you;
- one time, once in a while, or ongoing—whatever works for you.
* Just how flexible are we? Many organizers require 4-hour minimum sessions; we don’t. Sometimes when you’re sorting through a backlog of papers, concentration falls off after a couple of hours, or “decision fatigue” sets in. There’s no sense in working past the point of being productive. If you need to schedule shorter, more frequent appointments, that’s fine with us.
For more information, see How we work with you.