Welcome to my blog!
Welcome to the Simply Spruced blog and my very first blog post! To kick off this blogging adventure, I wanted to take a minute to tell you a little bit about me and how I found myself starting a professional organizing business.
In the organizing world, it seems that people become a professional organizer because they have either been super organized since birth, or they lived a very messy life until they were inspired to make some changes and now they want to share the possibility of transformation with other people. For me…I think it has been a little bit of both.
I have had a desire to be organized since I was little, but if you were to have seen my childhood bedroom (that I shared with my sister), organized is not likely a word you would have used to describe it. In fact, and this is not a joke, I have a recurring nightmare where I am back in my childhood bedroom and frantically trying to declutter and organize the closet. I am sure there are many layers and meanings behind my subconscious bringing this up constantly…but I digress.
Fast forward to my adult life where my husband and I have lived in a 650 square foot condo for the past 17 years and learned to have our organization systems dialed in order to make this space work for us. The only time it didn’t work well was during COVID when it was challenging to find more than one spot in our house to have zoom meetings, but that’s what bathrooms are for, right?
Also, as a special education teacher for the past 15 years I started to notice my favorite thing to do to help students was to help them get organized and find systems for their school work. I loved when a colleague of mine would ask me to help them organize their classroom because they were feeling overwhelmed, or when a shared space in the school needed some TLC (here’s looking at you teacher’s lounge and ASB closet). I also started to realize my family and friends were often asking me for organizing advice and help and I would get so excited in anticipation of being able to spend my three day weekends helping them clean out a garage! Which I have come to realize is not a “normal” reaction from most people.
Couple these realizations with the fact that teaching has become much more draining, emotionally, over the last few years and I realized I needed to make a change. I had been researching “how to become a professional organizer” for a few years now…so I woke up one morning and I said…”today is the day, no more planning…just do it”!
So, here I am today, celebrating my business's one year anniversary! Looking back at this past year on all the people I have helped to clear the clutter from their lives and to find more calmness and contentment. Though I wish I would have started this business a decade ago, I am proud of myself for taking this leap to use all of my skills and talents to help others in a different way. Here’s to many more business anniversaries to come!
Happy Sprucing!
