The earliest professional organizers completed such monumental projects as de-cluttering Pandora’s box and restacking sedimentary deposits. Undertake a historic project with today's Groupon: for $52, you get two hours of personal organizing from Transforming Spaces (a $120 value). Transforming Spaces organizes homes within a 30-mile radius of Moneta. Additional fees apply for travel beyond this area.

Transforming Spaces founder Kathy Meckley helps clients arrange rooms in ways that are both practical and aesthetically pleasing. During a two-hour in-home personal-organizing session, Kathy can design furniture arrangements that allow people to move freely through a space and that highlight a room's focal points. Lighting and color adjustment can boost the vibrancy of bedrooms or living rooms, and adding artwork to a closet can help a vacuum cleaner finally appreciate Klimt's use of symbolism. Establish a filing system for a home office drowning in stray paperwork, or tame a garage overflowing with rusty old tools and lawn-dart sets missing everything except the box. Transforming Spaces encourages environmentally sound practices, such as the reuse and repurposing of old possessions.