But when Montali knocked on my apartment
door, file folders in hand, she put me at ease.
As stressful as organizing seemed to me, it was
all in a day’s work for her, and she was ready to
tackle my desk with me.
Montali said that some of her clients like to do
the whole process with her, while others prefer
to declutter and purge beforehand and then let
her do her thing. In my case, she’d at least need
me by her side for the first hour or two since I
would be the one who knew what I could discard,
and there are inevitably important papers to sort
through. We started with papers, since those
were the hardest items to declutter, she said. It
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