![]() When she begins working with clients, Robards encourages them to talk about where they are in life, and their goals for accomplishing a purge.īut she often runs into roadblocks when she helps someone clear out the home of a parent who has gone to a nursing home, or recently passed away. The process of getting rid of the artifacts of a life - even if it’s your life - is “such an emotional thing,” she says. This is a critical requirement, says Shari Robards, a personal organizer based in Chelsea, Mich. I’m sharing them here in hopes you can avoid some of the angst I’ve gone though. In my mom’s case, picturing her in places where she wore one of her 60 pairs of shoes, which she stored in their original boxes, each shoe wrapped in tissue paper.īut I’ve also learned some valuable lessons from experts who do this for a living. Memories come flooding back, of the day I bought something, or the person who gave it to me. ![]() ![]() Regret, because every time I make a decision to give something up, it takes an emotional toll. Vigor, because I’m often facing a deadline, like the arrival of the moving van. ![]() Each time, I start the process of cleaning with vigor and regret. ![]()
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