Helane Blinn

Helane Blinn Quick Facts
Helane Blinn is a Professional Organizer and the founder of Ducks In A Row Professional OrganizingSM. In addition to naturally being an organized thinker, she possesses a broad marketing communications background and has worked in several industries for companies such as The Gillette Company, Sun Microsystems and Fidelity Investments.
Her clients have realized the benefits of getting and remaining organized with results such as gaining more time to use on other activities, saving money, reducing stress and the resulting depression from a cluttered environment, increasing productivity and reigning control over their possessions instead of the other way around.
The scope of recent projects has included but is not limited to: the redesign, decluttering and organization of a photographer's studio, a framing studio, kitchen pantries, family rooms, closets and children's rooms; the decluttering and storage of a basement's contents in preparation for a home renovation; the organization and display of photography, music, baseball cards, rubber stamps, collectibles and recipe collections; the dissolution of an estate and preparation of the house for sale, setting up a home office; PDA training and creating filing systems.
Clients include but are not limited to: artists, children, single parents, families, working parents, coaches, antique dealers, the elderly and the chronically disorganized.
Helane is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), the premier national organization dedicated to defining quality standards and providing education and trends in the field of professional organizing. Helane also served as 2003 co-chair of NAPO - New England's Get Organized (GO) Week annual event of organizing seminars.
She is available for assignments within the US.
Testimonials:
“Helane made it so easy and enjoyable to organize my living space! She was efficient, high-energy, and non-judgmental -- everything you'd want in someone who provides this service. I look forward to hiring her again in the near future, and for any subsequent changes or moves I need to make!”
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Creative
Jessica B. of Massachusetts hired Helane as a Professional Organizer in 2008
“Helane helped me dissolve my parents estate in March 2004. My mother was a hoarder so this was a huge task. Helane's strengths include preparing well, excellent communication skills, outstanding organizational skills, meticulous work habits, great interpersonal skills, high degree of personal integrity, intelligence and pleasant personality. I would heartily recommend her.”
Top qualities: Great Results, Good Value, High Integrity
Jodi P. of Califo ia hired Helane as a Professional Organizer in 2004
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Helane Blinn
- "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright
- "Inch by inch, it's a cinch. Yard by yard, it's hard."
- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao-tzu
- "The greatest amount of wasted time is not getting started." - Dawson Trotman
- "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible." - George Claude Lorimer
- "Nothing is so fatiguing as the ete al hanging on of an uncompleted task." - William James
- "The question is not what you look at but what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
- "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb
- "What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy; else the lawyers will be your heirs." - Sir Thomas Browne
- "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris
- "Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings." - Ralph Blum
- "The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed." - Elbert Hubbard
Contacting Helane Blinn
Helane Blinn
Ducks In A Row Professional Organizing SM
617-661-1989 l yourducksinarow@aol.com l www.getyourducksinarow.com
Member - National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
Member - National Association of Professional Organizers NAPO-New England (NAPO-NE)
Past Co-chair - 2003 NAPO-New England GO Week Organizing U.