Session Five

This day was spent on the master bedroom. As with the rest of the house, there were piles of items everywhere on the floor, on the bed and on the dressers. I noticed that the king-sized bed did not have sheets on it and deduced that my client slept on the bare mattress in the small uncluttered space.

Before we could reach the bed, we had to bring some kind of organization to the clutter on the floor to give us some working space. With a designated spot for sorting, we cleared a pathway around the bed, stacking like items together. Then we removed everything from the top of the bed -- everything. We put fresh sheets on the bed, fresh blankets and pillowcases, and I saw my client's eyes light up with pride at how nice her bed looked.

For religious reasons, we removed all of the books and the bookcase from her bedroom, just leaving one or two books she was reading on her nightstand. We moved them all around the corner to her upstairs office. Then we folded clothing and put them away in her closets, organizing as we went. We continued sorting the items on the floor and bringing them to their proper places.

For this project, the basement has been designated as the catch-all place to hold stuff as we sort. This will be the last room we really deal with.