Make Money from Home as a Professional Organizer
A relatively new way to make money from home has begun to emerge over the course of the last several years. That is the opportunity to make money from home as a professional organizer. It is absolutely amazing how many people live in such a mess that they will gladly pay someone to come in to teach them how to effectively organize things in their house.
This relative new way to make money from home has been seen on shows such as “Oprah” and others. Of course before you go out and try to organize others you need to be organized yourself. If you are not up to date on the most current storage and filing methods you are not likely to be that much help to others.
Many of these people out to make money from home by helping people organize themselves will go into the clients home and start organization with either the kitchen and pantry areas or the garage. Both areas are frequently glutted with things either not used, or used so infrequently to be nearly forgotten about.
Work with the person who has hired you to make a list of the things most often used. This will vary from house to house. Where one person may use casual dishes on a daily basis someone else might tend to use china or other fine dinnerware on a regular basis. Once you determine what items are the most used, make sure they are the most accessible. Often times you’ll need to tell the person that things need to go. Why would someone need 20-30 glasses of one basic size when all they use is 5 or 6? When you are finished the most commonly used things should be easily at reach, lesser used things slightly more out of the way, and those things not used at all given to the Salvation Army or other charitable organization.
If you want to make money from home this way you cannot be afraid to tell the person they need to let go of unused items. If you are afraid to do so your services will be severely hampered. Many times the person will know these things should go or should have gone long ago. They just need someone else telling them so as not to feel guilty about disposing of the items. So if you are going to go into this type of business, remember your clients are not paying you to be timid. On the other hand they are not paying you to be nasty either. So learn moderation in how you approach the subject. You might even find on occasion that the person who has enlisted your services is so reluctant to make the necessary changes that you need to back away from the job and leave them to their own devices.