Services

I’m an impartial party to help you through the process of making decisions, planning for aging well, and keeping only what matters most. I work with the firm belief that we can all manage the “stuff of our lives” and our legacy and estate planning well in advance.

It can feel good to get ahead of end-of-life planning and know your affairs are in order; for your life now, and for later, when your loved ones need it to be.

Organzing and Decluttering

  • Tailor the approach with each client based on your desired outcome and goals

  • Mindfully sort, label, and manage possessions with you

  • Collections assessment: Assist with documenting, gifting, storage, and transport of items or work

  • Clear space for living, creating, and your next thing

  • Help optimize your space and make it safe and usable to you

  • Light donation and dump runs

Estate Plan Coordination

  • Help you think about and define your legacy wishes, and coordinate estate matters to achieve this

  • Connect you with legal, accounting, counseling, senior service providers, and other services as needed

  • Work in partnership with family members, personal representatives, attorneys, executors, real estate agents, etc.

For Artists and Collectors

  • Declutter and organize studios

  • Guide your collections cataloguing, inventory record-keeping, image digitization

  • Liaise with institutions, organizations or auction houses for archival donations or sale of artwork, collections, or papers

  • Record stories about your artistic work or life

FAQs

  • A will is a great start—and I encourage everyone to see an ethical estate attorney about creating one. You can find attorneys locally who can draft a basic will for a fixed rate.

    However, a will is just the first step in end-of-life planning. Legacy planning addresses and clearly communicates your values and personal wishes so that you leave your affairs the way you envision.

    Additional legacy planning considerations:

    • Do you have an Advanced Directive?

    • Have you designated a financial and health care Power of Attorney should you become unable to make decisions for yourself?

    • What are your philanthropic goals?

    • Is maintaining family harmony important for you?

    • Are there special items or collections you want to gift to friends or organizations, now or later?

    • Are your beneficiaries aware of your wishes?

    • And many more considerations to think through

  • It all depends on your goals. Projects can take a half a day to many months, depending on the specific need or goal of the project.

  • Expect to spend as little as $125 for personalized action plan, or as much as $10,000 for a longer term project or more if weekly work is required to complete it. I bill hourly after the initial planning meeting, and we work together to fit your time goals and budget.

My Approach to Legacy Organizing

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    Personal and Compassionate

    This work is personal—you’re inviting me to come into your home to help you tend to your matters/affairs/most important things. I take care to listen to my client and find out your hopes for your legacy—or make room for a change now.

    We work towards that together and I aim to leave you with a feeling of agency, possibility, and well-being for having put your affairs in order whether that is organizing your creative space, getting your papers in order to take to an estate attorney or donating a collection.

    Transgenerational empathy guides my work. In the spirit of being a “good ancestor” I want to help you pass on meaningful items and stories that sustain links in history, perhaps identify individuals or organizations to pass things on to.

    Together, we can find safe homes and give new life to the things that you are ready to let go of.

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    Experience & Process

    As a former user-experience professional (I designed shopping pages on Amazon and hotelier tools at Expedia), I bring timely, user-focused approach to work. We meet in your space, identify your goals, then design a plan to get that work done given your budget and timeline.

    Depending on your preferences and working style, we use a variety of tools (virtual or analog) to keep momentum going. I manage project milestones to keep things on budget and timeline by setting goals for each session.

    I work with clients to use items in their own homes to help them organize their spaces before shopping for anything new.

    During and after our time together, I’ll gently suggest systems or resources that may help you organize your space and estate plan, and coach you how to maintain that organization.

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    Connected & Community-minded

    Born and raised in the Northwest, I’m familiar and connected to many local resources and service providers, from contractors to gallerists, archivists to antique dealers, and auctioneers to estate attorneys.

    For significant collections, I work with art, historical or educational organizations to establish a relationship and conversation about stewardship. For instance, I’ve catalogued and managed the donation of an artist’s papers to the NW Archives at the University of Washington.

    Not all of our possessions are museum quality, and decluttering less valuable items also requires a destination. I value low consumerism and keeping things out of landfill, and utilize businesses and resources in the circular economy. I can also identify organizations that need specific things, such as social services, schools, or tool libraries.

Contact me about your project