Services
I’m passionate (really) about being prepared for the end. I encourage everyone I know to give this gift of a clearly planned estate to their family or beneficiary community. My services help you take charge of this so you can have peace of mind knowing you’ve made arrangements for your legacy, by downsizing it now, or clearly planning for when you are gone.
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Tailor approach with each client based on their desired outcome and goals
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Help define legacy wishes, and coordinate estate matters to achieve this
Connect you with legal, accounting, and other services as needed
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Mindfully sort, label, and manage possessions with you
Collections assessment: Assist with documenting, gifting, storage, and transport of items or work
Sales, dispersal, or disposal as needed: Arrange item sales, junk removal, and subcontract necessary services
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Studio decluttering and organization
Work or collections cataloging: inventory, digitize, and record stories about artistic work or life
Liaise with institutions for archival donations of artwork, collections, or papers
Update CVs, maintain websites
My Approach
Low waste
I use a “use what you have” approach to organizing and decluttering. What materials or habits do you already have that we could use to help you stay on track with your estate organizing or space clearing?
My services can include disposal, donation, or sale of certain items you choose to release to the world. I try to keep things out of landfills and utilize an array of methods for finding new homes for items including Buy Nothing, Facebook Marketplace, Ebay, and other networks.
I will also encourage you to mine your own networks for new homes, since you know your possessions best and who would treasure them next.
Progress
As a former user-experience professional, I bring an organized, timely, user-focused approach to work. I ask you first what you need, then we design an approach to getting that work done. Timely check-ins or on-site work together helps keep you on track to achieve your estate organizing goals.
Depending on your preferences, we use a variety of tools (virtual or analog to keep momentum going, and I help manage project milestones by reporting progress (but you’ll be able to SEE a lot of progress too).
Personal
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.
Connected
While my services include many to get you started on your estate-readying or space-clearing journey, I cannot give legal or financial advice. However, as a lifelong resident of Seattle, I’m happy to connect my clients with my network of ethical attorneys, accountants, realtors, archivists, appraisors, contractors, and specialized professionals needed for a project or issue.