You’ve probably heard time and time again that one of the most important things to do when selling your home is to organize your closets.  In addition to giving you, as the seller, a feeling of organization – and probably clarity of thought too – it gives buyers a feeling of space and “room,” and this is crucial when selling your home.  To buyers, the feeling of space translates into a sense that there are vast and ample areas in the closets, the rooms and even the house itself.  When the closets in your home are void of clutter and mess, it allows buyers the freedom to envision their furniture, artwork, computers, clothes, etc. in your home – all good.

On a related topic, when I have to switch over my closet – not to mention the kids’ closets – from summer to winter and vice versa, it is something I dread.  The task seems daunting and overwhelming.  How can I find all of the time that I really need to do a quality job of organizing the closets?  And yet once I finally do, the feeling is exhilarating.  I feel productive and organized, and now I have so much extra space in my closets – Yahoo.

That being said, I often wonder if hiring someone to help with this process would be a better way to go.  Is it difficult for you – as it is for me – to part with things?  Have you ever looked at a winter sweater that you haven’t worn in more than five years and that takes up precious space in your closet, which seems smaller and smaller by the minute, and said to yourself that this is the year that you are going to wear it, and so you simply can’t let it go?  I know I have.  And you know the closet organizer you’ve hired would tell you with certainty and resolve that it’s time to get rid of that sweater.  I’m sure there is some mathematical equation that goes something like this – if you haven’t worn the sweater in five years, there is a less than 1% chance that you will ever wear it again.  And then the answer is simple – it’s goodwill time for the sweater or time to pass it along to a friend or family member.  (As an aside, I give a lot of my clothes that I haven’t worn in years to my Mom, and she loves them.  Similarly, my sister just gave me a light blue fleece that she no longer wears, and I happily wear it everyday.)

So by hiring someone to organize your closets, would you ultimately end up with a better finished product, in other words, fabulous, uncluttered, to-die-for closets?  I am strongly guessing that the answer is yes.  I believe that the mathematical equation/professional approach that the closet organizer would bring to the process would win over the emotion and attachment you feel for items, and the result would be a much less cluttered, incredible closet.  And yet for me, I love the catharsis and productive feeling of cleaning these closets myself, and so I always end up opting to do it myself.  But what about you?  When it comes to organizing your closets, is it a do-it-yourself project or a hire-someone-to-do-it project?  I can’t wait to hear….