The Time Butler Professional Organizers

The Time Butler (s) make my life much easier. My story is similar to other reviewers, and that is because the experience has been absolutely top notch. I have had the pleasure of working with 3 members of the Time Butler team and regularly with Miranda.
We have tackled everything from office clutter to our garage and closets. Like David S., I stalled in making the call and tried to avoid taking action in every way possible. But, at some point, I pointed to my desk and we started making piles. I think the first day we filled more than a few boxes with shredding, garbage and recycle. It felt great to make progress and I have had the team back on several occasions.
Clutter has a way of creeping up on us and I am glad to have the Time Butler team on my side.

The Time Butler is one of our partners here in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’ve loved Lisa’s energy, smarts, and follow through. We whole heartedly recommend her as an organizer for anyone’s toughest clutter projects!

Lisa is the best organizer I’ve ever worked with. She genuinely loves what she does, and makes the experience of getting organized so easy — while she has great processes to share, she also takes each client’s preferences and abilities into account, never pushing to do things her way.
She’s delightful to work with, truly collaborating on projects from organizing papers to reworking the design of a room for better functionality.
In addition, she has a great design eye, and was able to help me create a work space that felt much better than what I had, using furnishings I already owned.
Everyone I have recommended her to has been equally thrilled with her work!
I coach at a non-​profit called Breast Cancer Connections, and recommended her as a speaker; she was such a hit with the initial support group that she was asked to return and give a longer presentation at the organization’s Alternative Therapies Fair, as she has a unique understanding of the challenges facing people dealing with major illnesses and is able to empower them to move forward with their projects at a pace that doesn’t overwhelm.
She’s also a lovely human being who is a delight to work with — I can’t recommend her highly enough!

We won four hours of organizing services from Lisa at The Time Butler at a charity auction.
We put off calling Lisa for a few months, but we eventually got around to making the appointment for a two-​hour visit. I stalled by giving her a tour of the house, which took up most of the time, but she did «encourage» us to clear off the kitchen table — we filled up a couple of bags of paper during that exercise.
She returned a couple of weeks later, and we used up the other donated hours. On that visit, we cleared out the media shelves in the family room, uncovered the coffee table, and rediscovered the desk. We also filled up several bags of stuff (books, VHS tapes, magazines, toys, and who knows what else) which were suitable for charitable donations — and Lisa took it all away.
She’s been back twice since then, helping us deal with the shelves and desk in the kitchen, all of which are organized, clear, and usable for the first time in a long time. And again, we donated a bunch of stuff to charity (as well as filling a recycle bin!).
In between visits, I got rid of some excess hardware by putting it on craigslist (most of it sold within an hour); I’ve also started transferring old VHS tapes to DVD (though why I needed a DVD version of King Dinosaur is a matter of some debate with the rest of the members of the household).
There’s no magic to it – we’re doing all the work (well, she wields the labelmaker…) and making all the decisions. But she acts as a forcing function — when she hands us a pile to go through, it seems silly to just put it back where it was (though «later» is always a valid decision — and I’ve deferred some things by moving them to a room we haven’t reached yet).
I’m happy we won her services, and happier that I finally got around to calling and making the appointment!