Casual Uncluttering LLC

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.

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.

Dr. Kristin Neff pioneered the study of the concepts she discusses in her book Self-Compassion. They are now well-known....
09/08/2026

Dr. Kristin Neff pioneered the study of the concepts she discusses in her book Self-Compassion. They are now well-known. I find her observations compelling. She teaches that self-compassion, the practice of being consciously, consistently kind to ourselves, is a critical element of self-care which extends into our relationships with strangers, coworkers, friends and family and which enhances our understanding of ourselves in community. And nonetheless I struggled to review this book.

And it comes down to style. Dr. Neff's writing style is very intimate: she interweaves evidence-based data with extremely revealing details of her own life and I heard too much of a dissonance between "science" and "self."

Kate Reeves, MA, LMFT, Therapy for Geeks, is one of my go-to therapists when I have a question about a client, a therapeutic concept, or when I just want to see someone with a terrific smile. She thinks Dr. Russ Harris, Act Mindfully and The Happiness Trap will be a better match for my sensibilities. I look forward to learning about him.

08/10/2026

The APDO Association of Professional Declutterers & Organisers is the UK equivalent to my National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO), Its members are as diverse, skillful, dedicated, caring and creative as us Yanks, and I'm pleased to have discovered hoarding resources they offer. I'm excited to see how I can use them.

07/31/2026

Guilty.

I love my son, who moved back in with me after graduating college. With a very few, precious few, months' notice. Who SW...
07/31/2026

I love my son, who moved back in with me after graduating college. With a very few, precious few, months' notice. Who SWORE he wouldn't need help, until he did. A LOT of help. It'll work out, my place is simply crowded until everything gets put away. And my son and I get along quite well, or we will once he's back from the vacation gifted to him by his grandparents as a graduation present.

Sandwich the AMAZING IOCDF, International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation, conference - more to come in another post - in-between the fledgling coming back to the nest and ...

My granddog, the big, dumb, very very sweet, poorly-trained goof who wants to kill me. I've been sitting him since my son started the vacation. The brute isn't good on a leash, and I will not horrify you with his personal habits. He costs me an average of two hours sleep a day, and that sleep deprivation led to me tripping on a parking barrier in a parking lot and wrecking my hands for all of last week.

Oh, and to make my twice-yearly visits to back East family rational for my young person, I abandoned being walked by the dog to wake up at 3AM for a 7AM flight to NYC, today. ISN'T the usual timing for the trip back East. Nope, not at all.

I broke in the last two months: cancelled work sessions, fell behind on everything from filing monthly documents for my bookkeeper to blog-posting. I caught myself finding it hard to form complete sentences every once in a while. The fog was real and frightening.

Why, as Brené Brown would put it, am I "pi***ng and moaning with perspective"? Because I want my clients, my colleagues, my friends and family who often have many more, and much more significant challenges - migraines, brain injury, other chronic medical conditions, differently-abled children, too many miserable life events to name - to GIVE THEMSELVES A BREAK as much as they can, literally and figuratively. I barely broke a comparative fingernail and I think I turned into a snapping turtle, head completely hidden and unfortunately ready to bite.

I have real-live people in mind as I write this: someone who cut off part of a toe who thought we ought to keep an appointment the next day, someone who thought after a fall that could have been fatal that we'd work in a storage unit that same week "as long as I don't bend down."

HOWL. PS - who could be mad at that face?

So I've been deep-cleaning my house because my son is moving home after he graduates college (YAY MY KID!!!!!!!!!!!). Ug...
06/09/2026

So I've been deep-cleaning my house because my son is moving home after he graduates college (YAY MY KID!!!!!!!!!!!). Ugliest, most concentrated effort I've expended in I don't know how long - I took on the SPAGHETTI SAUCE ON MY KITCHEN CEILING!!!!!!!!! And ya know what? Even I'm getting the reminder, yup, "Sometimes, it's the storage, stupid." Nothing like having three of four of your kitchen drawers break off their runners while you're hoisting a rag to bring the message home. NOWHERE to collect spatulas, whisks, ladles, measuring cups and the unnaturally large eyeball thing (No, I don't remember, and no, I will NOT subject you to a photo) for days until the repairs. No spit-and-shine possible. And the disaster prevented me from testing a new insert I'd purchased, pre-earthquake, to replace one which was horribly aged and dysfunctional. Sigh.

Drawers are repaired, new insert in place and functional, decon resumed. But an inconvenient nuisance.

05/22/2026

He has ADHD.

05/22/2026

I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT SOOOOOOOO MUCH. I belong to the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) and the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD). ICD HAS A MASCOT. Charlie Dependable, a Build-A-Bear teddy bear. Read the whole story https://www.challengingdisorganization.org/meet-the-icd-mascot/.

I will always have a fondness for Build-A-Bear. My son's first gift from Santa was a build-day gift certificate. He made a dinosaur.

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Woodinville, WA
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