I had the pleasure of working with The Arranged Abode again for another organizing project. I hired them to help me clean out and organize my beauty closet at the old house, and then a different time to help me pack up a few spaces when we moved into this house.

I love a fresh start, so Justin and I have been working in a handful of places around the house to get it organized and edited down to what we actually need.

I did a big closet clean-out and organization project a few years ago, you can read about that here, and it’s still in a pretty good spot to this day!

There were a few closets that needed some attention, so I decided to hire The Arranged Abode again to help me tackle them. For me, getting started is the hardest part so the accountability of knowing someone who is skilled in organizing was going to help me work through the spaces in my home that I’ve really neglected was essential.
The first thing Sara did when she arrived is pull every single thing out of the closets and put them into piles. The floor was filled with piles of linens, cleaning supplies, and boxes of contact solution that I didn’t even know that I had so much of.

Once she sorted everything, I was able to go through and point to which piles needed to be donated, which could be trashed, and which needed to go back into the closet. There were also things that didn’t need to be in there, like bath bombs that my kids use in the linen closet by the primary...