Sane Jane

The new year is taking on several new adventures for me.

Sane Jane Professional organizers is the best decision I’ve made in a long time….for myself and for my children’s future.

After trying to rid my attic of old, dusty, dated stuff many times, I became depressed every time I went up to those two unfinished rooms on the third floor of my home. Yes, not just an attic, but a walk-up to two unfinished rooms! Lots of storage. Just what everyone wants, right? I thought I wanted lots of storage, but it is true that the more room for storage, the more junk one can accumulate. And it’s so easy to take it to the storage area to “think about it” or say “I’ll decide what I want to do with that later, and decide if I’ll get rid of it, or donate it or give it to someone that has a need for one of my treasures.” Right?

Well, I got to thinking one day as I was in my storage rooms, “Wonder if there are people that do this for a living?” Wow, I couldn’t image anyone wanting to go through my stuff and help me make decisions as to what to keep, what to donate, what to trash, what to shread, and then haul it outside (down two flights of stairs). Then what would I do with it after it was outside??? Instead of getting depressed that day I trotted downstairs to my handy iPad and started Googling “professional organizers.” It didn’t take but a few minutes to get a list of companies that do exactly what I needed. I clicked on Sane Jane Professional Organizers. Not putting it off like I usually do, I called the number, left a message and waited a short time. I asked this sane sounding lady a few questions and then invited her to come and take a look at my treasures. I was sure I would scare her off at the sight of my “depressing collection of goodies.” She didn’t blink an eye after taking the tour. Acted like she sees such collections every day. Huh!

We sat down and she explained to me how she handled such jobs. I must admit, I thought it terribly expensive, but who would think I would ever find anyone to do what I wanted???? And I surely would not do it for any less money myself. And if I could get my 2 storage rooms cleared out in 8 hours, that would definitely be a miracle right here on Tanglewood Drive. Thank you Jesus.

Today was the first day of this monstrous job that lasted 3 hours. Three sweet young ladies arrived at my house promptly at 8am, which was the appointed time. Introductions were made and I gave the second tour for the two workers that had not seen my wonders. That took 2 minutes. Then we set out to work. I already had set aside boxes of stuff I knew I wanted to get rid of. Those boxes went out of the cluttered storage area and house immediately. That gave us some wiggle room. The best part was instructions for me to sit in a chair that they had brought up for me. All I had to do was say “yes or no,” “trash,” or “don’t want it.” They made the decision as to what pile it was put in and then hauled it out. Then they divided it all into their respective vehicles-one for trash, one for donations and one for recycle.

Next visit the following Monday…3 hours…

Basically the same thing happed as I describe above. And by this time I was becoming very fond of my three new friends. I just can’t say enough about how very kind and non-judgmental they were as we worked along side one another. They listened to stories as I reminisced about some of my treasures and gave me a hug as I shed a few tears. Then I-got it-together and tossed many of those sentimental treasures so my son would not have to get rid of it one day. And I kept some of those treasures, put them into clear plastic containers and they labeled each container. On this day each of their vehicles hauled away as much as they had the first visit. Embarrassing.

On the third visit I only had 2 hours left of this wonderful service. By this time I had gone through much of what was left-mostly trash-so we could get on to the important tasks as hand. We continued to organize and label containers. By the time it was time for them to leave, we had not completely finished what I wanted to do, however it wasn’t that much. I’m proud to say that I have been motivated enough to finish the rest of what needed to be done. Well, not completely. It’s like housecleaning-it never goes away. Hopefully I will not let it get to that awful state again.

Sane Jane has helped my sanity. Amen