Starting Fresh
By Lisa Cipriano
Renee Sitto-Lige and Marilyn Boji
It’s past time for that annual ritual known as spring cleaning and organizing after those long and hectic fall and winter months. But, some people just never get around to it and the mess and disorganization builds until it becomes downright stressful.
Renee Sitto-Lige and Marilyn Boji have made it their business to help. Three years ago, the two women started Organized Solutions as the solution that some people need to get their homes organized and working for them instead of against them.
It all started with Sitto-Lige asking for Boji’s help with her job “staging” homes for realtors to make them look less cluttered, neutral and attractive to potential buyers at showings.
“We took on staging job after staging job and then, people wanted us to pack and unpack for them. They really liked how we put way and organized their things so much that we started getting organizing jobs by word-of-mouth,” explained Sitto-Lige.
As client after client came calling, the budding entrepreneurs decided to take to social media to advertise their work and eventually registered Organized Solutions as a limited liability company or LLC. The women not only are in the business of organization and helping, they also sell peace of mind.
“Clutter and disorganization causes stress, anxiety and negative energy. People can’t function well when they’re in a mess,” said Sitto-Lige. After we’re done, people tell us that we’ve, literally, changed their lives,” she added.
Not only does having organized homes help people feel better and a bit more in control of their lives, it also saves them time and money in the long run.
“Every house has a specific order and everything should have its place. Then, you don’t have to waste your time shuffling through things when you’re in a rush and waste money by rebuying things that you can’t find,” Sitto-Lige explained. “For an additional fee, we’ll even bring organizing products like bins, baskets and drawer dividers,” she added.
We all would like to become more organized, but so many of us simply don’t know how, have the time or are paralyzed by thinking of trying to start doing it. That’s when she and Boji step in to get clients going in the right direction.
“Once you create a good system for people, it’s much easier to maintain. For the most part people maintain what we’ve done, but sometime we do go back in for touch-ups,” Sitto-Lige explained.
Sitto-Lige and Boji set themselves apart from any competition in that they are small, personalized and local which makes clients feel like they’re friends coming in to help.
“We end up becoming very close with our clients. They trust us with their things and we take that very seriously,” said Sitto-Lige.
The ladies of Organized Solutions call their unique brand of organizing “boutique style” in that it takes clients from stress and mess to “shopping their own closet” as if they were in a high-end boutique.
Unfortunately, our busy lifestyles tend to make it difficult to do a lot of things like organizing and even holiday decorating. So, naturally, they’ve added holiday decorating from your “to do list” to their “will do list.”
“We put up and decorate Christmas trees, string lights, put out decorations and basically whatever the client needs us to do. A lot of people simply struggle to find the time, especially around the hectic Christmas holiday season,” Sitto-Lige said.
Anyone who is good at what they do, love what they do and the ladies of Organized Solutions are no different. While many find the task of organizing their home daunting and rather tedious, they find joy in it.
We taking something that sometimes disastrous and make it functional and even pretty” explained Sitto-Lige. “I get great satisfaction from doing that. I absolute love what I do and so does my partner,” she concluded.
Organized Solutions charges by-the-hour with different hourly rates for each of the services that they offer. The amount of time they spend in each client’s home varies with its size and the amount of work that needs to be done. That, along with the high demand for their services, has Sitto-Lige and Boji booked every day of the week for three weeks in advance.
If you need help organizing your home, staging your home for sale, packing or unpacking or holiday decorating, check them out on Instagram at: instagram.com/organizedsolutions.