apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

2 adults 1 kid (all in 1 bedroom) 2 cats = many, many problem areas. I could definitely use some help.

Pick me, pick me, pick me!! -Grabby hands-

yes, we need help.

I would love some help with my closets

Teeny, tiny apt, zero closet space........everyone in NYC knows the drill:) I would love to meet the clutter cowgirl!!! (cute name)

love the name...

2 adults, 1 kid on the way, and 3 cats! Help!

Hello, amazing giveaway. I need you. I want you.

I would love to have some help, please.

ooh, this would help me immensely!

Definitely in need of this!

My new hubby and I would love the help. We have a ton of room and closet space and we are not taking full advantage!

yes, please! 3 roommates in 1 smallll apartment.

Small studio, new puppy!

Ooh, I could put this to GREAT use!

would love to get the clutter out of our bedroom...i've been trying since i moved in - more than five years ago!

Recovering from debilitating depression, creating vision for a new and improved life, REALLY need help with the clutter. Household g-ds, smile upon me!

Hold up cowgirl! We need some help h-e-l-p! Our second bedroom has become my husband's toss everything and anything work-, hobby-, scavenge- or plain ol' junk-related into our second bedroom.

Please, please, please help us wrangle up the mess!

1 forever single marries 1 sexy widower. Please combine our stuff and rid our past!

I've got a closet with your name on it.

After dealing with the breakup of a relationship and my mother's death (not to mention the stuff I'm inheriting!), I'm ready to get my life back together ... but am overwhelmed by what's in my apartment! Need some serious, professional wrangling here!

oh my closets are begging for help!

This would really make me happy!

Pick me! I love your work and my place has some great potential. Pretty please!

I just downsized to a 380 sqft studio. I'm still trying to unpack and organize!

I would LOVE some help. Have you seen my closets?

yes, please!

Yes yes yes - my closets need you!

OOOH, I need help bad...

I walk pass the office every day and try not to look in. thats how bad it's getting. please!

2 college professors in 1 small office has made for a riot of books and papers. Help!

I just moved with my boyfriend to a brand new railroad apartment in Williamsburg. Every one of his boxes were marked 'Misc'. Lots of wires, tools, books, paints, duct tape, cds, papers, are all stacked up on long tables in our 'studio'. This weekend we're building desks and then—we'll need to get organized quick! It's already been a month, at least the stuff is out of the boxes now, but it's everywhere. Ayck!

Help! My mother's adorable little frame house is in danger of becoming a Collyer's mansion if she keeps accumulating stuff! Okay, maybe it's not quite that dire, but seriously, her house is cluttered. (It's not helped by the fact that she only has two small closets!) My mom has a really cute house and great style but you can't always see it through all the stuff that has been accumulated over the years. Please help my mom, Clutter Cowgirl!!!

This is the greatest ever...

I don't even have a closet. I like to do everything myself but it would be great to have some professional insight.

I so need this!!!

What a pity I dont' live in NY but in the Black Forest in South Western Germany. We need decluttering as well especially my husband who has double as much stuff in his own room as the rest of the family in the whole of our condo.

The story goes like this: sentimentalist/collector meets cute fireman who only keeps what he absolutely needs. Said couple moves into cute, historic but tiny 1BR. He doesn't understand why I need so many quilts and how perfect those pagoda lamps will be someday; I rue his lack of vision. Conflict ensues. Enter one small baby and one big dog and the apartment begins to strain at the seams....

i have never in my 30 years lived an uncluttered life. my parents are book hoarders, and i've inherited that gene. i also save a lot of stuff 'just in case'. i feel like the walls are closing in on me as the clutter gets closer and closer to the center of the room.

it's probably pretty easy to get rid of other people's clutter, because you don't have the sentiment for items that they do. i hope the clutter cowgirl does more organizing than throwing away, because throwing away is easy when it isn't your stuff.

One of my best friends has a terrible clutter issue and can't ever seem to get a handle on it. She's got a fantastic apartment but you'd never know from all the STUFF! Please please pick me so I can have you help her out!

Oh, Lord, could I use this.

i would love to win this for my parents apartment. they really need the help.

Yes please; need help wtih 3 closets and organizing kids' school stuff

Please choose me. I am a semi-pack rat use to my own space but now sharing it with my boyfriend. It would be nice to give him a formal neat and clutter-free space of his own.

My older sister might say I am "challenged" in the area of organization. I took 1 of the 2 closets in my studio apartment and turned it into an office but it really just looks like another "dump" zone. I really do throw things away but but some how - some way - a little bit more seems to appear. Having you share your expertise with me would truly be a prize! Thank you.

Kate

please help me... i am not kidding...

I know you can't come to where I am, but it would be wonderful if AT could give you a column.

1x a week during the cure, 1xmonth, otherwise?

As everyone (probably) knows, I'm clearing out the basement. I've gone from impassable to decent in three weeks, but I'm getting into the difficult stuff, now.

I need to know: how do you convince someone (like a husband) to get rid of "nice" things he nevertheless never wears?

How much of the children's artwork/school stuff/sentimental clothing/toys/books etc., should one keep?

How long can one collect things and hold onto them for a project before it becomes clear one isn't ever going to do it? How does one let go?

Decluttering is mostly an emotional issue--not an organizational one.

Please help us!

Volatile combination:

Husband works from home, doesn't clean or seem to be able to find the wastebin, and has a MASSIVE record collection

I tend toward neat freakiness & feel claustrophobic and unable to relax when surrounded by visual clutter.
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constant battle of wills over the state of our apartment.

Excellent giveaway! Desperately needed!

I'd love some help bringing less clutter and more life to my newly moved in apt...

I'll take all of the help I can get.

We have no interior walls and no closets. Nothing but clutter everywhere. Help.

PLEASE HELP! drowning in a sea of sweaters and shoes and and and...

Oh wow, I have one closet and one kitchen cabinet, I'm in desperate need of help! I have always wanted to try using a professional organizer, I'm so curious.

Help make my tiny one bedroom full of art supplies into a place where I can both live and work!

i need this desperately!

Moving into small one bedroom with a LAWYER aka paper hoarder. Ever organize a lawyer's office? Their idea of organizing begins on the floor and involves endless piles of terribly colored, poorly structured legal folders. My lawyers home is no different. Fear I will drown in a sea of papers before long, but don't want to become the nagging ninnie whose no fun and only wants to clean.
Is it wrong to say, "its me or the papers, buddy boy"?
Help, pretty please!

You should see my parent's house in San Jose, CA. Stuff from the 70's is piling up.. ahh

Although if it was stuff from the 50's you'd probably be grateful they kept it!

Tossing my hat, along with all the rest of the things I need to purge and/or organize, into the ring ;)

Sixteen years in a one bedroom!

I think it's safe to say I probably need this more than anyone!

Yes... definitely need the help!!!

Best.Giveaway.Ever.

I bought my place because of a long narrow walk-in closet. Now I have no idea how to utilize/ maximize the space's offerings. I'm constantly frustrated by the width of the closet instead of excited about the height and length of the space. Help!

I'm a full-time working new and single mom. I have lots of stuff and little to no time to address it all. would love some help.

My place is so cluttered that my friends from DC are willing to travel to NYC to help me de-clutter! Please help!

i'd love help from the clutter cowgirl!

Getting help with organizing? Who could refuse that?

I'm downsizing from 800 sq ft to 350 sq ft. Organization will be key...

too much stuff in the house!

That would be awesome! I'm scared of the dorm mess...

I am a very organized person. But this book can give me new ideas. What fun!

Please come and apply some enthalpy to my entropy. I just moved into an apartment and my friends are still giving me the look of evil about the number of boxes they carried to and from the truck.

i have a wonderful musician boyfriend who has more instruments and pieces of equipment than one nyc girl can handle. we're talking MANY bass guitars, regular guitars, amps, speaker cabinets....the list goes on in our less than 400 square foot apartment. clutter cowgirl help my gear-aholic guy & me get it together!

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I really need this in my second bedroom...

I was just looking around my apartment trying to figure out where to start. Help!

I need this

Me, please! I just moved into a one bedroom apartment, and I'm horrified to think I was considering a studio...I don't have room for all my stuff as it is! The worst is the kitchen...attractive storage space in NYC kitchens is very difficult to achieve.

Oh, please, please. I am in desperate need of this.

Alana- re: husband- depending on the kind of person he is, being able to give the clothes to others who will love and wear them might do the trick.

My apartment need some serious help!!!!!