While other kids were busy collecting seashells, comics or plushies, organizing consultant Marie Quéru would spend hours sorting through her drawers, gauging the interest of a toy, a book or even mementos.
Over the years, her nearest and dearest saw her knack for getting rid of things no longer necessary to her life as a quirk that brought gentle ribbing — and even a mention during speeches at her wedding.“When talking about tidy people, there’s often negative connotations about being obsessive-compulsive or psycho-rigid and for a long time, I saw it [in myself] as a form of neurosis,” she rues, unable in earlier years to articulate her detached relationship to objects.
Hence the word “ecology,” since her approach hinges on a three-way relationship between people, their stuff and the environment. With requests starting to come in, she created L’Arrangeuse in 2019, to offer services to private clients looking for a helping hand. Even for those who aren’t yet ready to reflect too deeply on how and why they consume, Quéru’s protocol comes with an immediate no-brainer benefit: a feeling of space, even for smaller surfaces.Case in point: the airy-looking and light-filled Parisian apartment that is the star of her Instagram feed and home to her family of four and a cat — with a 650-square-foot surface.
First comes idealization, which amounts to taking stock of the situation and setting a goal. Then, visualizing the overflow and where the pain points are. Next comes streamlining, at which point Quéru offers a simple tip: when in doubt, there’s no doubt and out the item goes — donated or recycled preferably. Once that’s done, reorganizing kicks in, to put things away.that reconciles sufficiency and pleasure.” Once there, you’re home free — of future clutter.
Above all, Quéru sees all this as a form of a self-care that starts with accepting that everything we surround ourselves with is “the sum of all our choices,” be they purchases or gifts.
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