Organising, labelling & cleaning business

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Hi mums netters,

I am aware this doesn't belong in AIBU, but I feel I will get many more responses...

I am looking to start a new venture. I love & enjoy organising my home.

Cupboards, kitchen drawers/units, children's toys, fridges and every day deep cleaning.

I have three children under the age of 5 & it gives me some sort of control staying organised.

I am looking to start a new business solely organising and helping de clutter people's homes.

So my question to you all, is this something you think will be successful, something people would be interested in - would you?

I will provide all containers/turn tables/hooks & labelling etc at an extra cost.

I will attach example pictures ( not my own work ) I don't want to be outing.

Thank you for any advice

There's at least one woman on tiktok that sells all these labels and planners and storage boxes etc so there must be a market for it.

The Home Edit have made a living out of it, a huge following, celebrity clients, Netflix shows etc etc. There's definitely a market for it!

Definitely a huge market. I will be looking to stay local. I'm in Kent. I'm looking for a business I enjoy & to make some rainy day money! Quite exciting.

Depends - how much would you be looking at charging?

My Facebook and Instagram feed is full of people selling these labels, I feel like everyone has a cricut machine these days. The variety of storage containers and jars are readily available for a couple of pounds in Home Bargains, B&M, Poundland, etc.

Instagram is awash with wannabe ‘organising influencers’ with plenty of free posts and videos and advice on how to declutter and organise your home. I enjoy watching them but it’s not a service I’d pay you for.

I will be looking to charge £15 an hour for deep cleaning/general cleaning.

Price depends on what needs organising ( how big the job is etc ) & if they need me to provide the containers & labels etc

I know my friend paid to have a professional talk them through decluttering. They didn't offer boxes etc, and as long as it's ok for people to opt out of that, sounds good.

Is it regular cleaning, with an add-on organising service? (Might pay for this)

Or is it organising and clutter-clearing? (Wouldn’t pay for this.)

I think there’s a market for sure! I’d pay you. Abs I can imagine it being a great voucher etc - eg new parent organising at baby shower etc.

I don't think it's a good time to start a business such as this, people will be cutting back to pay for essentials.

I think being willing to have someone go through your disorganised crap and 'declutter' it for you is a service not many would want or pay for sorry op.

A girl I used to work for tried it and it bombed - very few people are going to pay £15 an hour to have their saucepans organised or their pasta put in pretty jars. Anything more in depth than that - like crammed cupboards that need sorting - will need so much input by the owner to what they want done with stuff, it makes employing someone to do it a bit pointless.

The market for all this stuff - the labels you can buy, the influencers and tutorials you can follow - indicates there's huge interest in people doing it for themselves, not a market for paying someone to do it for you.

Sorry, I think there will be very little real world business in organising and decluttering.

I met someone a few years ago doing just this. He helped my friend sort through all the stuff she’s put in storage after a divorce. I think she paid him £300. She said it was money very well spent. Obviously your target market will be people with a bit of money - but there are lots of professional women who work just as long hours as men but still do the lions share of hoke organisation who I can see biting your hand off…

I will be offering general cleaning a decluttering organising into container/jars etc as a package.

& cleaning separately & organising a specific cupboard or space separately.

Well I'm going to say the opposite to many other posters.
I have paid professional organisers to go through my clutter with me and help me get some order in my life - £100 a day.
I'm a person who always ends up with their cupboards so full they won't close properly.
It is lovely to work with someone who has an eye for order and can make a home look nice.
My most successful decluttering sessions were with a professional organiser who talked me through my "stuff" and helped me let go of it by actually taking it all away with her at the end of the day. She took the baby stuff to a centre for young mums and other things to charity.
Maybe she took it all to the tip! but it was out of my house, which looked a lot nicer!

I’d hire you for a deep clean and organisation. And give it as a present to friend who’s about to have a baby.

I would definitely pay for this, but £15 plus labels /boxes etc is a little steep - for this area anyway

Like any business, it will come down to you and the market where you live.

There are lots of similar services already out there, it will depend on how good you are at marketing yourself and finding clients. Getting started and building a reputation is the hardest part. Do you know much about digital/social media marketing? I would start by learning about that and building an online presence.

Have you done your market research? How many people are offering a similar service where you live? What is the demand like where you live? How many people are there who can afford to pay several hundred pounds for you to spend a day organising their toy cupboard or fridge and several hundred pounds on storage items and labels on top of that? Your first photo has £70 worth of Ikea jars and boxes on the back shelves alone. There might be lots of people who would love your service but aren't willing to pay a price that makes it worth your time.

Good luck!

There are definitely business possibilities. I know a couple of people who do this.

This is the link to the APDO Association of Professional Declutterers & Organisers.

www.apdo.co.uk/

I think there’s definitely a market, your challenge will be finding your customers. If you’re a cleaner and you get 10 regular clients then you’re done with marketing until you lose a customer and can just get on with the work, with this you’ll have to work harder to get work as it’s a one off. Could you team up with an existing cleaning company? Or market to parents through schools? Estate agents could maybe refer people too?

A friend of mine does life laundry. There's definitely a market.

She's also an art historian, interior designer, librarian - so she redesigns people's houses as well as decluttering and cataloguing book & art collections.

I'm not sure how much of a market there is in just organising cupboards.

@TatianaBis - what’s life laundry? I’m intrigued

As a business owner who started a business in 2009 ( yes in a recession) you should go for it. There are no rules on when is a good time to start a business and I would think now people are spending more time at home, now would be a great time. My number one tip ...respond immediately to any enquiries...don't leave it for a few hours or days . Even if you can't offer the full answer or quote....a holding email will let them know they are important.
I would also invest some research into Google Adwords, this has completely taken our business from small to something amazing.
A sleek easy to navigate website, that's not too busy or wordy, people don't have the time or patience to read all that gumff.
Good luck OP, its very exciting and I think you may have a really good product.

Oh just professional declutterers & organisers.

Oh yes, there's definitely a market for what you are offering.

So many people are turning to storage companies to store excess stuff and these storage companies are booming.
My local storage company has moved to a site almost triple in size.

Just a thought... will you be offering a 'sympathetic de-clutter' for those folk who are hoarders or who have hoarding tendencies?
This seems to be a growth area , particularly as so many folk are experiencing mental health issues which is often a precursor to hoarding tendencies.

All good wishes to you.

My home is in dire need of decluttering. But how could you (or anyone other than me) do it?
Clothes–how would you know which ones I like/fit, which ones I wear regularly and which ones I wear once a year?
Papers–how would you know which items from this particular mountain to discard and which to keep?
Kitchen–which tin opener works best? Which are my favourite plates and glasses etc?
You can apply the same thinking to just about any category of item that needs organising. The difficult part of the job is deciding what to keep and what to discard, and only I can do that.
Cute labels and boxes aren't required.