It's definitely true that more often than not, having any lack of organization in ones life is usually attributable to nothing more than apathy. But that's the part that boggles my mind about this whole industry. It's apparently a huge business in big cities - especially east coast ones. One of my friends suggested the idea to me years ago and I laughed because I just couldn't imagine someone paying someone to organize my life. (Partially because I would just never feel that someone else did it the right way.) But apparently the fad here is that people just don't have the time to do it and don't want to do it; they would just rather hire someone to come in and put their office and closet in some sort of order.

The reason I thought of it recently is that I had another friend semi-jokingly bring up the idea this past year, so I got curious and decided to read into it a little. I have always seen those shows on TV about professional organizers coming into someones disastrous house and magically bringing order to it, but I thought that was the extreme, rather than the norm. Apparently it's more of a norm than I was aware of!

Though, I do agree with you... The part of having to deal with the psychological aspect of it all would probably be the most annoying. I could definitely imagine myself just saying, ok, leave, let me do my work, then come back and pay me so I can leave. hahaha.

#429, posted at 2010-09-06 23:10:00 in Mercy General