Decluttering can be a lot of work, especially when you have a lot to go through, or you’re working on a larger area of your home.
When you hire a professional decluttering service, you don’t have to do everything by yourself.
A professional organizer can help with the physical work, help you make decisions, organize what you’re keeping, and even help remove donations and trash when you’re finished.
Here are ten benefits of hiring a professional decluttering service.
1. They Bring the Supplies You Need
When our professional organizers come to help you declutter, we come prepared.
We bring boxes, contractor bags, trash bags, Ziploc bags, paper towels, cleaning wipes, scissors, tape, a step ladder, and other supplies we may need while we’re working.
You don’t have to gather everything before we arrive or keep stopping because you realize you need another box, bag, or something else. We bring basic supplies so we can get started and keep the project moving.
2. They Can Help You Declutter Any Area of Your Home
A professional decluttering service can help you go through just about any area of your home.
Whether you need help with a closet, kitchen, pantry, garage, bedroom, bathroom, or several different spaces, you can focus on whatever areas you’re struggling with the most.
We’ll help you work through the space from one area to the next, go through your belongings, and help you decide what to keep, toss, or donate.
You can also start with just one problem area or work through multiple areas of your home, depending on how much you want to get done.
3. They Help With the Physical Work
Decluttering is a lot more physical than people realize.
You’re getting things down from shelves, going through cabinets and drawers, moving boxes, getting up and down from the floor, reaching for things, carrying bags, and putting things back.
When you hire a professional organizer, we do that work with you. We can get things down for you, bring items over for you to go through, move things around, carry boxes and bags, and handle much of the physical work.
This can be especially helpful if you have a lot to go through, have physical limitations, or just don’t want to do all of that work yourself.
4. They Help You Make Decisions
Sometimes you know you need to declutter, but once you start going through everything, figuring out what to keep can be the hard part.
We’re there to help you work through those decisions.
We might ask when you last used something, whether you have other items like it, why you’re keeping it, or whether you’d rather keep the item or the space it takes up.
We’re not there to tell you what you have to get rid of. You always make the final decision. We’re there to give you guidance, ask questions, and help you keep going when you’re not sure what to do with something.
5. It Gives You Accountability to Get It Done
It’s easy to keep putting off a decluttering project, especially when you know it’ll take a few hours or you don’t know where to start.
When you schedule a decluttering service, you’ve set aside time to do it, and someone shows up to help.
Instead of saying you’ll get to the closet, garage, bedroom, or whatever else eventually, you have a day scheduled, and you get it done.
6. They Organize Everything You’re Keeping
Once you’ve decided what you want to keep, toss, and donate, we don’t leave everything you’re keeping sitting in piles.
We can straighten up and organize the space we’ve helped you declutter. We’ll put things back, group similar items together, and help create systems that make sense for how you use the space.
So you’re not just getting rid of things. You’re also leaving the space more organized than when we started.
7. They Take Your Donations for You
Once you’re finished decluttering, you still have to figure out what to do with everything you’re donating.
We can take care of that for you too.
We’ll bag or box your donations, load them into our vehicles, and take them to a local donation center. You don’t have to load everything into your own car, drive it somewhere, and unload it yourself.
When we’re done, the donations are actually out of your home instead of sitting in bags waiting for you to deal with them later.
8. They Help With the Trash
Depending on what you’re decluttering, you may also end up with quite a bit of trash.
We can bag up the trash and help get it out of the space we’re working in. We can carry it out to your trash bins, help set it out for trash day, or, depending on what it is and how much there is, sometimes take it with us to dispose of it.
It’s one more part of the decluttering process that you don’t have to handle by yourself.
9. They Help You Get More Done
Decluttering with a professional organizer often goes much faster than doing it on your own. It’s never about rushing you through your belongings, but we do help keep the process moving.
We’re there to help with the physical work, help you decide what to keep when you’re not sure, and keep moving through the space with fewer distractions and stops.
As a result, you can often get through much more in a few hours with a professional organizer than you could on your own.
10. They Can Help With Moving, Downsizing, and More
There are so many different reasons you may need help decluttering your home. You may be getting ready to move and want to go through everything before you pack, or maybe you recently moved, and now you’re realizing you brought more than you needed.
You may be downsizing, helping a senior family member downsize, or ready for a fresh start and want to go through areas of your home that have built up over time.
Whatever the reason, a professional decluttering service can give you hands-on help and support as you go through your belongings and decide what to keep, toss, or donate.
Decluttering Service: Before & Afters
Our professional organizers have helped individuals and families throughout the Northshore declutter and organize all areas of their homes.
Check out before-and-after photos from decluttering projects our team has completed.
Want to see more of our work? Check out our Before & After page to see more home organizing and decluttering projects from our team.
Ready to Get Help Decluttering Your Home?
If you’ve been struggling to declutter your home for a while or feel overwhelmed by everything you need to go through, our team at My Professional Organizer would love to help.
We provide decluttering services throughout the Northshore, including Mandeville, Covington, Madisonville, Hammond, Slidell, Ponchatoula, Lacombe, Abita Springs, Folsom, and surrounding areas.
We offer decluttering sessions with one organizer or multiple organizers, depending on the size of your project and what you need help with.
Our sessions typically last about five to five and a half hours, and during that time, we’ll help you get as much done as we can by decluttering and organizing the spaces you want to work on.
If you’re interested in our decluttering services, feel free to reach out. Call us at (504) 238-4100 or fill out our online contact form.
