Your Home May Be Disorganized

Professional organizers are like therapists in a lot of ways. Our relationship to our things, to our stuff is complicated. Think about items you are keeping that you never use, need or want, and then consider the feelings (guilt, shame, overwhelm, maybe even anger) that come up when faced with the task of dealing with them and you will get the picture. When big feelings are involved, getting organized takes more than just putting your things in bins or drawers.

Because they take caring for their clients as seriously as they take their label-making, professional organizers are careful with their words. They strive to be gentle but firm guides and tools for people looking for solutions. But of course they would love to say some things more directly. We asked eight professional organizers to share their tough love advice for clutter problems.

Here’s what they want you to know.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.