The Best Tools for your Professional Organizer's Workbag 🛠⚙👜
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2019
- In this video, I’ll review the contents of my professional organizer’s tool bag. These are my favorite tools to bring to organizing jobs.
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This was incredibly helpful! Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Scrigit scrapers are great
She had the n95 masks before it was mandatory. Talk about prepared!
Thank you going to help a friend tomorrow and I packed up a bag while you talked. Very helpful!
Wonderful!
I stumbled on your account as a new professional organizer. I love all your videos with helpful tips and tools. Even though they're a few years old, they're still very relevant and useful today. THANK YOU for all your info! : )
Awesome! Thank you! Glad they are helpful! I'm putting together a new training program that will be available this spring!
Thank U very much Katherine! that was amazingly helpful.
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Katherine, your content here, website and online courses have changed my life and really have helped me start my business with more confidence! Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
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So glad I found you
Full adhesive sticky notes, yes!!!
Lots of great tools in your bag! A box cutter or utility knife is my favorite. A good sharp blade helps out in a lot of tasks!
Personally, I like to use a tool belt instead of the fanny pack because it gives me more room and it's easier to retrieve things as it has more room and more compartments. But I like the idea of the fanny pack. Katherine, I can't tell you how helpful it is to have these friendly reminders and tips. That was a super serious box cutter by the way. Please be careful. Oh, And I'm definitely going to be purchasing that "Stuff-n-Go" bag. Yes Mam. One thing I'd like to recommend to your viewers is rubber bands. I feel they are an inexpensive solution when you have posters , frame-less paintings, cables, wires and even to keep certain papers together. Thank you for the 30 day professional organizer launch eBook. I haven't read it but I'll let you know what I think once I do. I love your channel now let me go revise my tool-bag. It definitely needs some revamping after watching this video.
Yes, rubber bands, cable ties, and the occasional bungee cords sure come in handy!
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This is so, so helpful. I'm just about to start up my own organizing buisness here in Sweden, and I love all of your content. I'm definitely considering to take some course or the like that you're offering. Already have the free 30-day starting document. You're doing a great job! 😍
What is the free 30 day starting doc? I’m working towards starting my own business in California!
Thank you for being you! :)
Pushpins and frame hanging kit have been my most used item besides tape, colored sticky dots and scissors.
Thanks for sharing this.
This is wonderful ❤️
I love it! ❤️
Thank you SO MUCH. Such a great video!
Goo gone is my favorite. A must get for my organizer bag.
Thank you so much! This is amazing!!
You're so welcome!
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You are phenomenal! I love, love, love this video! I subscribed to you me channel because of this video.
I also have wd40 for squeeky doors :)
nice bag indeed :-D
How about a dust cloth? I’d imagine that would be needed a lot when you clear out shelves and closets and drawers, to wipe them before putting things back. Or maybe not? Do you ever do any cleaning? I’d imagine that wouldn’t be an efficient use of an organizer’s time though.
I will wipe down cabinets and drawers before I move items back it, but there is not a lot of time for deep cleaning so I often recommend using a cleaning company if my client does not have one already. It is handy to have a micro fiber cloth, but I would typically use the client's cleaning products...
@@KatherineLawrenceCPO What about extremely greasy kitchen shelves, oven drawers, etc? Would you put shelf liners on them, degrease, or would that stop an organizing session?
Question: before using your own bags that you bought and brought, do you ever ask the client if they just have a trash bag (or whatever) they could grab real quick? Or do you always use your own?
I've considered adding bags to my workbag, and I definitely need to add ziplocs because clients often don't have the right size, but they pretty much always have trash bags.
The main bags I use are the clear lawn and leaf bags and the paper bags for donations (I never put donations in trash bags cus it gets real confusing when you have 20+ bags going to different places). Client's usually have trash bags. When I'm on a job I'm also setting aside shopping bags and shipping boxes that are already at the client's house. All that packaging can be used to help in the clear out 😊 I do like having special sizes of ziploc - I find the snack size very useful for corralling beads, buttons, marbles an other small things...
What are your favorite tools to bring on organizing jobs?
Katherine Lawrence tape measure!
Katherine Lawrence and my water bottle
Painter's Tape and a Super Thick Sharpie
Question do you normally haul the items to Goodwill for the client or do you have them do that themselves?
Great question! Yes, I spend a lot of time dropping off at Goodwill. I will take items that fit into grocery bags or lawn and leaf bags like clothing and books. For bulking items I try to find a charity to pick up ... but they are hard to schedule and very picky so I often rely on a hauling company to make drop-offs.
Where do you get the individual black zipped bags for your tool bag?
I found them on amazon - amzn.to/2XtMavf .😁 I got this set too - amzn.to/2KdJSst
Do you charge extra for the bags, supplies you use?
Rarely. If I'm doing a very large job, I'll recommend the client buy bags or label tape. But typically these supplies will last me for several jobs.
I’d be honest I’d rather just do the basics nothing hard because I have reasons after someone told me that it’s labor-intensive I don’t wanna do too much of that I’d rather just do the closing part like bedrooms closets and bathrooms no fixtures or anything unless it’s taller I’m nearly 6 feet tall
Have you ever felt endangered on a job? Do you have anything like pepper spray?
I do feel safe but I do A LOT of pre work. I'm often working for referrals from friends and previous clients and I always do a detailed phone interview before meeting anyone. I know the type of client I work well with and turn away people if they are not a good fit. No pepper spray, but I always have my cell phone attached to me and I research the client and the location ahead of time. I have a lecture on safety and an example of my intake form in my Intro Course - katherine-lawrence.teachable.com/p/introduction-to-professional-organizing/?product_id=1335576&coupon_code=ORG99!