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Professional Organisers The field of self-proclaimed experts has recently grown with the position of ‘professional organizer’. A professional organizer is a person who has above average skills for organizing material goods in a living space. It may include creating or cleaning storage space, providing systems of organization for paper files, introducing separate areas for children’s toys or hobbies, and designating spaces in the home for particular goods. It may also involve teaching skills to others, including labelling and sorting practices. People hire professional organizers to assist them in organizing their house because they experience disorganization that impinges on their lifestyle, including losing items frequently or constantly being late because of misplaced items. They may however also hire a professional organizer because they were led to believe their living space was unorganized to the point that they needed help organizing it lest they be labelled ‘disorganized’. Professional organizers often proclaim themselves experts, but there are larger groups at all levels dedicated to popularizing the skill. Some groups offer training programs to new hires, others provide resources both to professionals and to clients that they are trying to help, and many have annual conferences to discuss different organizing practices. Many organizers are not just suited to material good placement but also to encour- A professional organizer is a person who has above average skills for organizing material goods in a living space. aging different skill sets to curb client disorganization. The interesting aspect of all self-proclaimed experts is that their titles are not official; they 94
come from the bottom up, not the top down. There is no regulated position title that is agreed upon by some type of expert. The individuals who call themselves professional organizers do so by themselves; there are no agreed upon tests to take and no A professional organizer is a person who has above average skills for organizing material goods in a living space. superior above you to grant you the authority of the qualification. In the case of professional organizers, in the past people were responsible for their own goods and standards of organization were not necessary. This points primarily to the presence of a new standard of organization that society has created as a Anyone can label him or herself an expert in this area, and there is little skill standardization. Also in common with all self-proclaimed experts is the previous lack of necessityfor an expert of thiskind. norm. If you are below this standard, you require assistance from an ‘expert’. Thiscould mean that people are in possession of more goods than they can keep organized by themselves, and need to part with some goods to stay organized. It can also mean however that people think they are not up to the norms issued by society, and they fear the possibility of future embarrassments. Professional organizers by nature impose moral regulation on their clients. The existence of the position of professional organizer implies that there is a socially determined way of organizing items in the house, and that there are understood norms about what 95
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This book is dedicated to The Garba
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A little about this PUBLICATION Thr
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CONTENTS 09 Introduction 15 What is
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THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HOARDING
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professionals have approached the b
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eader that he/ she is going through
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WHAT IS HOARDING? Many people today
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larger accumulation of goods that m
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these approaches, however, frame th
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CONSUMER THEORY While investigating
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Karl Marx opens Capital Volume One
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While a commodity is often describe
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The Dependence Effect The problemat
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Although advertising is more often
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view of the current world. The mani
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tend to be consumed bjects, which b
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The shift from modernity to postmod
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phasizes the inconsistency of time
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controlled by objects instead of pe
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