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Casual Uncluttering LLC Casual Uncluttering LLC I'm current with all COVID shots and boosters. I specialize in homes, homes offices and small offices.

I’m Lauren Williams, Certified Professional Organizer(R), Certified Virtual Organizing Professional(TM) and Casual Uncluttering is my company. I teach my clients to relax and enjoy the process and habits of organizing. I collaborate with you to create fun, creative, pleasant, and functional rooms and work areas in your homes, home offices and small businesses, for your hobbies, games, art collections, pots and pans, staff rooms, supply closets or inventory. I want my customers to laugh during this adventure. My clients gain the education they need, and will be pointed to the resources, to keep themselves organized even as their circumstances evolve over their lifetimes. The results will never be perfect, but they will be effective and satisfying. I provide on-site, virtual and phone check-in accountability options. I also offer an introduction to hoarding disorder for laypeople, not medical or support professionals. It is excellent meal-and-learn or Hot Topic material by Zoom, or in-person if I'm in driving distance. I'm delighted to develop this into a CE-eligible unit with guidance. The materials are customized by profession, and by location as possible. In addition, I provide Train the Trainer sessions, demonstrating basic organizing principles and teaching techniques to on-site helping professionals such as social workers, housing managers and case workers who can then transfer those skills to clients. These are also materials I am willing to develop into CE-eligible items with guidance. And then there's my Organizer on the Road Show, a basic how-to for people who want to declutter. It's a portable demonstration of an organizing session, to let anyone get familiar and comfortable with the process. It's a bag of items my clients and I often encounter in our sessions. Practical, educational and great fun, I have an excellent sense of humor, and I get my audience to laugh AND teach them some tips to help them deal with their stuff. Attendees learn organizing techniques, gain access to various reliable and qualified contractors, and are offered specialized instructional material I have compiled from numerous sources on an assortment of topics from "where do I donate___?" to "how do I decide how much is too much?" Please call me at 425-947-3976 or email me at [email protected] to discuss options.

11/06/2026

I resisted the temptation to go to Krispy Kreme as I ran errands in Issaquah. I did. Drove right past. And then my GPS took me past again. Not my fault.

The National Pest Management Association. I amass an odd assortment of resources in this work. Janene Pastor, Aria Envir...
11/04/2026

The National Pest Management Association. I amass an odd assortment of resources in this work. Janene Pastor, Aria Environmental, who is the best pest management professional I know, taught me about this trade association when she smiled and told my colleagues and I at a Northwest Hoarding Coalition gathering that she was at PestWorld in Grapevine, TX. Yes, we all did a double-take: none of us could imagine the theme park. Thankfully, it wasn't a theme park, it was the Association's annual conference.

I've added the Association to my hoarding resources page. And I refer out to Janene on a regular basis. She cares enough to have attended the same IOCDF, International OCD Foundation, conference I was at this summer.

10/26/2026

I got to meet my Ridwell collection driver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY Tony, he's my regular.

Bella's Voice is a great non-profit. I'm sorry this happened. If anyone can help, that would be wonderful.
10/24/2026

Bella's Voice is a great non-profit. I'm sorry this happened. If anyone can help, that would be wonderful.

Nuanced language is vital to our ability to communicate. I've been pondering an example: a common word for being primed ...
10/24/2026

Nuanced language is vital to our ability to communicate. I've been pondering an example: a common word for being primed to be (extremely) reactive to a particular experience, and experiences which can cause someone to react are highly personal to each of us, is "triggered." I've NEVER liked "triggered." It took a fantastic - NAPO, National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals class, Grief-Informed Organizing - Supporting Clients Through Loss - for me to understand my reluctance. "Triggered" can unintentionally evoke someone's memories of gun violence. My instructors choose to use "activated" rather than "triggered." I like "set off" although I couldn't tell you why. I suspect anyone can find words that they prefer, such as "collector" vs. "hoarder." That comes to mind because I'll be at a conference about hoarding in San Francisco next month. Just something to consider.

I dearly love my sweet, dumb, energetic, big, poorly-trained goof granddog who likes to try to kill me - no joke, he rec...
10/11/2026

I dearly love my sweet, dumb, energetic, big, poorly-trained goof granddog who likes to try to kill me - no joke, he recently pulled me into a tree while trying to make a new friend - who moved back in with me (as did my son). When my granddog and son are with me, I share dogcare with my son. When I'm sitting the floof, I have all his care.

When I talk about my granddog, I often, automatically, unthinkingly, inadvertently, refer to him as my dog. My granddog and me. My dog and me. Not-so-subtle difference, and a very wise client very gently pointed that out. It's important for all of us to take on only as much responsibility as we can, as appropriate, whatever the obligation. My son and I both walk the dog, but my son is taking on many more of the after-dark, in-the-rain expeditions. Balance, equity, teamwork.

I dislike cars intensely: 30 years of driving after leaving my beloved Nu Yawk, and I still wish I could drive a horse. So when my 2010 RAV4 finally decided to go on permanent strike, my son, who loves cars, found my replacement, every stage of a process that would have been a mind-numbing and bewildering burden for me. But I'm often doing my son's laundry, because I can and because it makes sense for me to coordinate that task with my own laundry. Balance, equity, teamwork.

It's a good week when you help a new last-minute client adopt a shelter puppy, another new client is so excited by the w...
10/07/2026

It's a good week when you help a new last-minute client adopt a shelter puppy, another new client is so excited by the work she says "she's more hopeful than she's been in months" and a third client gives you flowers from her garden.

09/17/2026

Yes!!! Sometimes, YES!! But just a little moderation???

My car is kaput. Cold as a mackerel. Frozen as an icicle. My stubborn, creative, car-savvy son has battled like Hercules...
09/12/2026

My car is kaput. Cold as a mackerel. Frozen as an icicle. My stubborn, creative, car-savvy son has battled like Hercules to tame my Cerberus and bring it back from the Underworld. Nope. I'm scrambling for a replacement.

My conscience dictates that I give as much fair warning to my clients as I can when I need to cancel an appointment. Sometimes that's impossible: I once, an awful time ago, had to cancel an appointment because I was in an ER, maybe an hour before I was supposed to knock on a door. OK, stuff happens. This time, it's the uncertainty that's impossible: I keep hoping against hope that "tomorrow" will be the day good fortune smiles and I'll have the loan, the car, the insurance and all the rest lined up and I'm back on the road.

And of course, there are the calculations. Every appointment missed is lost income in one way or another, a disappointed client and stalled momentum. So I'm cancelling with two or more days notice. I'm cancelling with every alert available to me: phone call, text, email in all combinations I have per client. It doesn't feel like enough and it doesn't feel like the best I can do.

And it struck me like a car battery dropping on my toe (yup, that nearly happened in this quest): I'm doing what my clients do when they cancel late. Balancing the "But I feel good enough." "But I want to get the work done." "But I don't know when I'll be able to reschedule." with the "Well, I cut off a tip of a toe.". I understand a bit better now. But I'm STILL annoyed at the client who thought she ought to risk her remaining remnant of toe. That WAS going too far. https://casualuncluttering.com/my-son-a-conference-and-a-granddog-oh-and-unexpected-travel/

09/09/2026

I retrained, July 2026, as a virtual organizing specialist: I was proud to originally train with Sheila Delson, The Virtual Organizer, a master trainer and a founder of the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD), and glad to get a unique new perspective with ICD.

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PO Box 2448
Woodinville, WA
98072

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 9pm
Tuesday 8am - 9pm
Wednesday 8am - 9pm
Thursday 8am - 9pm
Friday 8am - 9pm
Saturday 8am - 9pm
Sunday 8am - 9pm

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+14259473976

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