The Process of Organizing your Storage Space with Michelle Paradice
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Meet Michelle. She's the voice behind the mailbag introductions on the podcast and the Customer Service Team lead here at Organize 365®. Michelle is SO loved by the Organize 365® team and customers!
She got quite the surprise when I asked if I could come and organize her storage area and video it for The Productive Home Solution™! You guys…my home is already SO organized, including my storage area. I've already shown everyone in The Productive Home Solution™ my storage area too many times. It was time for me to tackle someone else's storage room.
The progress we made in ONE DAY may seem unbelievable; but it is all very doable when you know the order of the tasks you need to complete to get organized!
Michelle picked me up at the airport and we got to work. Thank goodness we had a dumpster. We started by focusing on what could go in that dumpster. We were able to tackle a tucked away storage area with old shelving and her garage.
Michelle, who described the experience as "humbling", almost had us pass on that tucked away storage area. But looking back, that was the most rewarding space to get organized. We really forced Michelle to focus on what we could get rid of first by repeatedly saying "You have the dumpster, we are here, what can go?". Then we focused on cleaning and reloading the storage area by zones.
Michelle said it felt like a 40 year old weight had been lifted off her shoulders at the end of the day. Her mom (who also lives in the home) was so pleased at what we accomplished in one day.
When you listen to this episode, I want you to be inspired and know that you too can learn how to get an organized storage area and then go do it. Once you have it organized properly, it should stay organized for a very long time…if not forever.
EPISODE RESOURCES:
- Limited Time - watch the video of Lisa Organizing Michelle's Storage Room (only available through 12/31/22).
- Shelving Units
- Bins
- The Productive Home Solution™
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the organized 365 podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity |
| 0:11.9 | expert, and motivational speaker, Lisa Woodruff. This podcast will help you embrace progress |
| 0:18.8 | over perfection and create lasting, functional organizing in your home. I have so much to share |
| 0:25.3 | with you. So let's get started. Michelle, welcome back to the organized 365 podcast. Thank |
| 0:35.7 | you. Thank you for having me. Do you know you're the third most seasoned team member we have? |
| 0:42.3 | I didn't realize that, but I guess I am. Just Pat and Sue, have you beat? That's it. |
| 0:48.8 | I do. Yeah. Yeah. You've been here on the team since before there was Sunday basket. Yep. Yep. |
| 0:57.6 | I remember when it was launched. And all the questions that gave me the customer service when I |
| 1:03.7 | launched, you created our customer service department. I pretty much did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you |
| 1:11.4 | are a pretty integral around here. And last summer when I was working on creating my fake reality |
| 1:20.3 | TV episode for the kids thing, people were saying, Oh, come organize me. Come organize me. |
| 1:26.4 | And you must have said, come organize my storage room because I didn't come up with it. You |
| 1:30.8 | said it. Yes, we were in a meeting in Cincinnati in June. And we were talking, you were talking about |
| 1:37.1 | how you were going to do this. And you feel like, I don't know how I'm going to do my storage space |
| 1:41.5 | because it's already organized. And that's when I said, come to mine. And how serious were you when |
| 1:49.2 | you said that? Well, maybe 50% because I really didn't think that this would ever get done. |
| 1:58.0 | And then I was like, I'm coming. What did you think? When I said, I'm coming. What did you think? |
| 2:03.4 | Oh, I got a wave of panic that came over me. Because first of all, I was like, Oh, no, people |
| 2:07.6 | cannot see that this is what my space looks like. And then over time, I was like, okay, I'm ready for this. |
| 2:14.6 | But yes, initial wave of panic. Yeah. And I think, you know, I haven't been an in-home professional |
| 2:21.6 | organizer for a long time, like six, maybe seven years. Because even when we were still doing |
| 2:28.8 | in-home organizing in Cincinnati, I wasn't doing it. Like my team was, but I was moving onto the |
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