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We Can Help You Downsize or Declutter Your Storage

As we get older or move through various life stages, we often come to a point where we need to sort through our homes or storage. For many people, this can be a stressful endeavour that seems impossible.

Our Professional Organisers can help with all types of downsizing. Whether you are looking to downsize out of a home into a unit or empty a home in preparation for sale, we can help with the process.

Downsizing is not just about moving into a smaller space, it is about moving forward into a new chapter and getting help to decided which of our belongings are coming with us!

Our Team Of Professional Organisers, Led by Natalie

Meet Natalie. Although we have a team of Professional Organisers who operates across Sydney and Brisbane, Natalie is our principal organiser.

Natalie has been decluttering, sorting, tidying, and organising clients homes since 2009. Her speciality is ‘whole home’ organisational projects but you can often find her organising individual rooms like wardrobes, kitchens, living rooms, and bedrooms.

See client Testimonials or Before & After success

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How Does A Professional Organiser Help with Downsizing?

A Professional Organiser can help you to downsize out of a home or storage facility/container in much the same way as our normal Organising processes.

We will help you with:

  • Supporting you to full develop & understand your goals
  • Developing an easy plan to meet your goals
  • Helping to guide you through the decision making process
  • Moving items around the house, as needed
  • Selling items on your behalf
  • Donating or giving away items on your behalf
  • Organising rubbish removal
  • Liaising with third parties on your behalf
  • Assisting with unpack or relocation (depending on your needs)

You can see examples of our work in our Before & After Gallery or check out our Facebook page.

What Are Some Tips for Thinking About Downsizing?

There are plenty of tips when it comes to downsizing, but the most important one is to try not to rush the process!

People often put off the ‘downsizing process’ (making decisions) as long as possible, which can lead to undue stress and a rushed timeline.

Top Tips for Downsizing:

First, Set firm goals and realistic timelines

It takes time to sort through a lifetime. Make sure you give yourself plenty of time to get through all the items that you need to make a decision about. Keeping in mind that we can only bring so many items with us into a smaller space and that putting items into storage ‘for later’ is costly and often easy to avoid (in our experience – very common!).

Your professional organiser can help you to set your goals and also to fix a realistic timeframe for the process.

2. Selling items takes time & you need to be realistic

Keep in mind that selling items can be tricky and time consuming. Often, people overestimate the value of their items or do not allow enough time for the item to find the right buyer. If you don’t give yourself enough time, you may be faced with having to give away items cheaper than you wanted. The longer they are up for sale, the better chance you may get a sale amount that you are happy with.

Your professional organiser can help you to manage your expectations about the realistic value of selling most household items.

3. Consider the wider conversation with family about the process

There is an old adage about ‘too many cooks’ and this can be true of the downsizing process. It is important to set boundaries with family when it comes to making decisions about household items and the downsizing process. In lots of cases, there can be a lot of pressure (from all directions), so having clear channels of communication about any expectations from family can certainly help.

Your professional organiser can help you to keep to your goals and can help to communicate with family about the process. In many cases, having a neutral third party involved can help alleviate stress by being able to offer to advocate for those who need it.

Organising Testimonials

We are very happy with the results from working with Natalie. We got through exactly what we wanted to and are finally happy with our study. Best of all, she helped us to sell some items that I didn’t have the time to list on my own. Very happy client.

Andrew W

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