Why Professional Organizers are Needed
- More than 90 percent of Americans are planning on organizing some area of their life in 2009
- Americans waste 9 million hours per day searching for misplaced items. - American Demographics Society
- The National Soap and Detergent Association believes getting rid of clutter would eliminate 40 percent of the housework in the average home
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- The National Soap and Detergent Association says 80 percent of household clutter is the result of disorganization, not lack of space
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- According to a study conducted by a Boston marketing firm, the average American burns 55 minutes a day looking for things they know they own but cannot find. (Newsweek, 6/6/04)
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- The Self Storage Association estimates that there are almost 40,000 self-storage facilities in the United States, and the demand for them doubled from 1994 to 2004
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- The average person gets only 1.5 personal letters each week, compared to 10.8 pieces of junk mail. Collectively, that adds up to 4.5 million tons of junk mail produced each year! 44% of all junk mail goes unread and directly into the trash. - Native Forest Network
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- The Wall Street Journal reports that the average U.S. executive wastes six weeks annually searching for important documents lost in clutter
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- The Small Business Administration (SBA) estimates that 80 percent of filed papers are never looked at again
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- Harris Interactive reports that 23% of adults say they pay bills late (and incur fees) because they lose them
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- The U.S. Department of Energy reports that 25 percent of people with two-car garages don’t park any cars in their garages, and 32 percent only have room for one
- Each year, about 100 million households receive 16.6 billion catalogs. – Direct Mail Association
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- 65 percent of people describe themselves as “very” or “insanely” busy according to a Day Runner Survey
- A four-drawer file cabinet holds 18,000 pages when full. - Office Systems Magazine, March 1995
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Compiled by the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
