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Real Estate|A Professional Organizer’s Guide to Spring Cleaning Your Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/realestate/spring-cleaning-tips-professional-organizer.html
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Spring Cleaning
Tackle clutter, let go of sentimental objects and create a home that reflects who you are now.
March 23, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET
The New Year has come and gone and with it your resolutions for doing a deep, cleansing purge. What has stayed, however, is the clutter. Piles of clothing, boxes of books, bags of crafts and cords.
The start of spring offers a new opportunity to clean, well, everything, including your emotional and physical connection to your stuff.
“Not everyone knows how to edit and organize. Or to make room in their lives and in their homes for a fresh start,” said Christina Fallon, 46, owner of Dream It Done Organizing, a Manhattan-based professional organizing company. She specializes in closet and space design, estate clearing and Swedish death cleaning, or decluttering before one’s own death.
“People get lost in the different chapters of their lives,” she said. “Spring puts people in a mood to take charge and action.” We asked Ms. Fallon how she approaches decluttering and how nonprofessionals can tackle their own homes.
This conversation has been edited and condensed.
What makes people hire you? Usually, they’re in the middle of a transition. They’ve lost a loved one and don’t know what to do with that person’s belongings. They’re having a baby or getting divorced and starting over. They’re working from home now and need to create an office. Or they’re overwhelmed by the chaos and amount of stuff they’ve accumulated. Many are stuck mentally, emotionally and physically.
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