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Review Date: May 2021​

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We signed for session right before a big move out of state and what a help Cynthia was! She arrived on time with her lovely helper Zucker who immediately put us at ease. What could have been a stressful session was really fruitful, upbeat and productive. Cynthia approached her work with us with positivity and sensitivity and without any judgment and we got a so much done. I highly recommend her!

A.O.T., Astoria

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*****  Google +

Review Date: Apr 2021​

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Cynthia was amazing! She came and tactfully helped me remove clothes that not longer fit. Her sense of style and simplicity made the new spaces still feel cozy. She is very focused on what needs to be done and sends out follow up emails with home work prior to the next session. She also explores places to send specialized objects like dolls, etc. I totally recommend Cynthia's work ethic and if you need to declutter, she's the best!!

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P.M., Upper East Side

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*****  Google +

Review Date: Apr 2021

After putting off cleaning out my closets and drawers this whole year, I am so grateful to find Cynthia. In just 5 hours, I now have more space and feel freer. She is lovely, calm and has expertise in this field.

C.S., Upper East Side

*****  Google +

Review Date: Jan 2021

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Cynthia was so incredibly helpful. I had to pack up a very disorganized office and was feeling very overwhelmed. Cynthia was quick with scheduling and responding to me, was so kind and super efficient with getting done what needed to get done all within one organization session! She was brilliant and I look forward to using her help again in the future. If you're looking for an organization expert, don't go to Clutter or any of those services - call Cynthia - you wont regret it.

S.W., Soho

*****  Google +

Review Date: Sep 2019

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Three days ago, Cynthia from The Clutter Whisperer arrived for a 5 hour service in helping with our basement. I was nervous but I was also finally ready to tackle this project. Cynthia was relaxed and she was also very calming. I must say that I am grateful at the amount of papers we got rid of. I didn't expect so much of that would be dealt with and I'm in awe at how hands on she was. She also created my personal command center using a door that I had removed from daughter's bedroom along with two side tables that we weren't using. All of our donate/sell items had been separated and our next plan is to fill the car with all that we have agreed to finally let go. I must say that I would not have done nearly as much in those 5 hours if Cynthia wasn't here. I hadn't told her but I passed out the second that she left. It was an accomplished day! The next day we also received a detailed follow up email and it was like the best brain dump ever. She even added additional useful tips, saving us even more time in researching. I would most definitely use her again.

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N.A., Queens
 

***** Google +

Review Date:  Sept 2019

Cynthia is great! She is meticulous and methodical, and really helped my partner and me with unpacking, decluttering, and developing a system for organization and layout of our new home after the chaos of a last-minute move. Her follow-up email after the session also includes excellent recommendations, and I wish I could give an extra star for the calming energy her 4-legged “assistant” Zucker brought to the space. Would absolutely recommend to anyone feeling overwhelmed by the process of making their space work for them.
 

R.S., Brooklyn

 

***** Google +
Review Date:  Jul, 2018

Great service! Totally worth every penny!

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J.F., Manhattan

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***** Google +

Review Date:  Apr, 2018

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I was in danger of being evicted from my apartment when I contacted Cynthia. Before her visit she gave me some suggestions to get started which helped me focus and calm down. When she came, she guided me to systematically declutter my various huge caches of clothing, shoes, and books.
I have never worked harder in my life, but this got most of the work done. The rest I was able to accomplish on my own along with Cynthia's encouragement in her post session emails. As long as you are dedicated to removing your clutter and changing your patterns of accumulation, Cynthia's logical organization skills will help you accomplish your goals in an efficient and lasting manner. She's great.

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M.S., Brooklyn

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***** Google +

Review Date:  Mar, 2018

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The Clutter Whisperer was a terrific organizer! She didn’t waste any time attacking my closets. She was cheerful, employed good organizational ideas, and was considerate of my belongings.

My closets are now clutter free (lots was donated!) and very welcoming. I can find things now!! The Clutter Whisperer even sent a follow-up email afterwards reminding me of the next steps/purchases we discussed during the session. Would definitely use her again.

C.J., Queens

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***** Yelp

Review Date:  Feb, 2018

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Cynthia was amazing!  My apartment has a whole new life. Everything feels clean and open and bright. She totally reformed my space and made it a joy to come home to. Thank you, Cynthia!!!

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C.H., Manhattan

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***** Google +

Review Date:  Dec, 2017

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I’ve been using Cynthia’s amazing talents for about four years now. (Yes, I do have a tendency to relapse.) Here is my latest paean to her work:

“Once again you performed the ‘miracle of the floors’ - I can see them again!”

I don’t know what I’d do without Cynthia’s energy and creative ideas and especially her powers of persuasion - when it comes to letting go of the superfluous, redundant acquisitions of a lifetime.
Our last productive session brings me closer to the pared-down minimalist apartment I’m dreaming of for my old age.

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C.Mc, Manhattan

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***** Google +

Review Date:  Dec, 2017

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Cynthia was great and really helped in getting over an organizational hurdle in my apartment. She communicates well and has good ideas on how to optimize space, based on one's individual situation. Her follow-up e-mail the next day was very thorough and had links to storage pieces she found for me online. Would recommend!

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L.O., Brooklyn

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***** Google +

Review Date:  Dec, 2017

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My experience with Cynthia was pleasant and enlightening but, above all, so productive. The whole family, our beloved dog included, enjoys what amounts to a brand new apartment that had been such a burden on our minds. In the days since The Decluttering, the overall organization of our home and open spaces have made the morning routine with our little one so much smoother and the tidying up simpler and reflexive - everything has a place! And, with this clean slate, we see so much more potential in our apartment.

After 6 years of living together, my partner and I had not admitted we were overwhelmed at combining our lives’ worth of stuff, even after three apartment moves. I gave up and sent her and our kindergartner on a flight to see grandma and I called Cynthia. She got back to me within hours and we talked about the scope of the project. Whether on the phone or in person, she is approachable and focused - exactly what my exasperation required.

I didn’t know where to start but Cynthia helped me decide on a scope and I followed her advice to prep for our session. By the time she showed up, I had learned so much executing her simple direction. And by the time my girls got home, the bedrooms, most closets to include linen and the front, and the foyer had been completely decluttered. I made three trips of car-fulls of perfectly good and organized donations. We had achieved so much more than what I hired her for! She is a workhorse and, more importantly, a very inspiring and encouraging home organization partner. You can’t miss with Cynthia, what are you waiting for?

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J.R., Manhattan

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***** Google +

Review Date:  Jan, 2017

We found the Clutter Whisperer to be very efficient, and extremely helpful in sorting through and eliminating excess. Her suggestions for organizing systems were also instructive and useful. And she introduced us to an indispensable aid for shoe-lovers!  Thank you, Cynthia, for all your help!

J.R., Manhattan

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Review Date:  Mar, 2015

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Hire Again:  Yes

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Description Of Work: 

Purged my 3 story house in anticipation of a move out of state to a much smaller space.

Angie's List Member Comments: 

The Clutter Whisperer of NYC has worked with me for the last 2 months, helping me to purge my house of 30 years of "stuff" in anticipation of down-sizing to an apartment out of state.   She also worked with me over a year ago helping me to purge my clothes closet.  We have a few more weeks to go before I can finally put my house up for sale.

I don't know what I would do without Cynthia.  She has taken charge of a very overwhelming situation and made it manageable.  I can actually see light at the end of the tunnel.

She always (9 visits) shows up on time, has a plan of attack, and at the end of each session, we have managed to bag up lots of donations and recyclables.  She even arranges for periodic pick up of the donations by posting "free stuff" on Craigslist.  She has photographed all of my plants for an eventual Craigslist sale, advised me on how to delete data from my old phones, and talked me out of buying a new printer until I get relocated.  

Cynthia is patient, amiable, very responsible, proactive, energetic and brings along her assistant -- a very cute 5# teacup schnauzer who is usually content to sleep in his carrier. I highly recommend Cynthia for any aspect of organizing.

J.M., Staten Is

Review Date: Oct, 2013

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Hire Again: Yes

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Description Of Work: 

Son's room and closet. 

Angie's List Member Comments: 

Cynthia helped me organize my son's room and closet. We had many years of clothes to go through and she helped me go through what was too small, too large, and organize the clothes by season. She also organized his closet and I can finally open the doors without having everything topple over! She was prompt and quick. It is such a relief to have everything in its place now. Thank you so much!

C.F., W. Harlem

Review Date: Aug, 2013

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Hire Again: Yes

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Description Of Work: 

Cynthia has vision which I sorrowly lack.  She saw the potential that I have in my apartment and decided to allocate one bedroom as a craft/guest room since that had a air conditioner.  I had originally designate a smaller room as a craft room but the room was extremely hot and stuffy and I dreaded going in there.  We are now working on the living room. 

Angie's List Member Comments: 

Cynthia was prompt and after a walk through of my apartment decided to designated the larger bedroom as a guest/craft room.  I was afraid she would make me give up my craft supplies.  I bead as a hobby and I also have a large stash of fabrics because I use to sew home decor items i.e. slipcovers, pillows, etc..  I haven't been sewing because of no space to set up my machines or room to cut the fabric.  She saw I had several matching storage units and suggested I use them in the dining room as one unit.  I was using the walk-in-closet to store my suits which I no longer wear.  She suggested I donate my suits and use the closet to store my hobby supplies.  She organized the room, set up the guest beds, suggested how to setup a work area, to start shredding papers that are too old and to go over questionable items. 

She left me a "to do list" and I kept myself on track by making a goal of recycling or tossing out a item a day.  She also researched where I can donate or recycle my items.She was very encouraging, I would e-mail her with ideas because I had items in the basement and in the garage that I wanted to incorporate into the new decor.  I was even able to use fabric that was in my "stash".  She did have qualms about the fabric I wanted to use for a chair but agreed it would be different but I may have problems in the future since it wasn't "neutral" and I could have problems if I want to change my color palette.  She gave me ideas on a sofa, and places to go shopping for it.  I picked out a sofa and a color.  Went looking for paint chips in preparation for the next visit

The next visit was for several weeks later to give me time to get the "to do list" done.  I brought shelving to put in the closet, arranged for the contractor to install the new shelving in the closet, new curtain rods (which I had but never got around to installing).  Discussed the color palette I picked out and to firm up the curtain type.  I did not want triple pleat curtains, did not want my living room to look like my mother's, wanted something younger and not as formal.  Cynthia suggested other types but I did not like any them and kept on investigating other options until I saw "inverted box pleated curtains" and decided that was for me and Cynthia agreed.  I felt it was clean, simple but elegant.  I hit several paint stores to pick up chips and I finally hit the jackpot when I went into a Sherwin Williams paint store.  I had ordered a dark brown sofa but against a aubergine wall (Cynthia's suggestions), it would have been too dark and I can't see myself living with that color and I told Cynthia, I wasn't comfortable with that color.  I saw in Sherwin Williams a wall effect which I really liked and picked out some colors.  We went over the colors and she helped me firm up my choices.  She started on the living room and I went over the last few items in the craft room.  I am still going through the living room before the contractor starts painting.  I am trying to consolidate my dvds into 2 bookcases vs 3 bookcases and then put sliders on them to help move them into the new positions. 

Cynthia will be coming in another week to help me purge the living room and the dining room before the painters come.  I see her vision and it is a lofty goal to have a living room and a exercise area, a dining room with storage for small appliances, dishes, etc to cope with a typical small NYC kitchen.  I will definitely hire her again.  She encourages you without judging you.  I thought I had a hoarding problem but she told me, if I was a hoarder I would have a very hard time getting rid of things.  She has given me the impetus to purge and donate items that I no longer use or need.

I made a commitment, a New Year's promise, to give myself a gift to declutter my apartment. At the time when I said those words, little did I know just how amazing I would feel at the end of the project.

I worked with Cynthia Kienzle, The Clutter Whisperer, for three days, going through my apartment closet by closet, drawer by drawer, and all I can say is now I feel so great, liberated, lighter, free, organized, happier and ready to enter the next phase of my life unencumbered and weighed down.

What's better is that the items I have tossed will find their way to people that will make better use of them and have a need for them and that makes me very happy and I am very grateful. 

S.L., Queens

Thank you so much, The Clutter Whisperer.  You are indeed a master declutterer, spacial expert and a true champion at your craft!

M.L., Central Park West

one very satisfied customer...

Just wanted to say THANKS for all your hard work and the amazing result!!  I love my new closet (and am still amazed by how much you got done in 5 hours!)

I.M., Chelsea

Thanks for this (link) and your awesome help on Saturday.  The place is still in tact, mostly.

V.P., W. Harlem

Wow, Cynthia.  Pictures don't lie.  We tackled such a huge job yesterday and you were a pleasure to work with.  I am a little sore but  I'm recouping and relaxing now so that I can be ready to take care of the unfinished projects (table, cds, etc.)

I love the supported desk!  Where did you see that or can I find it?

As I type this, I am sitting at my current desk with the lap top enjoying my new found space!  I had coffee sitting in the window in the orange chair while looking through my mystery pile earlier this morning.  I haven't felt so comfortable in this room since I moved in.  You are really amazing and have so much energy -- I'm happy to have kept up 90% of the time with you and to CONQUER the room.  It's very liberating :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

J.P., Park Slope

You are a genius!  Thanks a mil, Cynthia.

B.W., Harlem

I would like to thank you for the wonderful job you did yesterday in organizing my living space.  I woke up today and felt so comfortable in my own apartment that I would rather come home than go to Starbucks. The Container Store did not have all the components of the closet.  I ordered it and they will deliver the unit next Tuesday.  Once again thank you so much for a job well done.

C.S., Upper West Side

It is amazing what a difference a few hours makes!!! I have been busy organizing my apartment and enjoying how cozy and neatly arranged everything is! I was just in awe of how re-arranging and re-using various items changes the flow of the apartment. It's been really great and the best part is it has STAYED tidy! The biggest culprits of my clutter (my coats on the kitchen chairs, shoes all over floor, and paper work spread across my table) are continuing to enjoy their new out of the way homes. It's really been huge for me to have the space so well arranged. Thanks a million I really enjoyed working with you!

M.R., Harlem

Cynthia came in, listened to my biggest concerns about my space, and then tackled them head on with me, getting down and dirty, while staying very calm and zen throughout the entire process.  Her ability to be both non-judgmental about my stuff and my quirks, as well as appreciative of my needs as an artist, made all the difference.   Cynthia was delightful to work with, and made an otherwise possibly anxiety filled process, very manageable.  When she left, I had exactly what I wanted, which was a calm, decluttered living space, and a pile of things ready to either go into storage or be released back into the world.

E.K., Union Square

Hey Cynthia,  I am so happy that you came over on Friday. Especially the first 4 hours. Sorry, it was irresistible. Actually, I think you are fabulous. I've started to tackle the papers because you made it possible to do it.  I'll definitely call when I surface. Thanks so much for the meds info !! Again, Cynthia, a thousand thank yous. There seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel and for the first time it doesn't feel like an oncoming train.

M.M., Upper West Side

Good Morning Cynthia!  Thank you so much!!  Yes!!  I love walking into my new & extremely improved office!!!  So much clearing both mentally and emotionally!!  You did an amazing job!!!  We moved a mountain!!!  I will be completing the tasks at hand (responding to the filing and all . . . . )  Thank you again so much for what you have done to help me!!

G.L., Northern New Jersey

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Thanks so much again. I spent the rest of the weekend with a new kick in my step -- I felt relief and that I was on my way to something better. And yes, I did take some small steps . : ) I guess for some reason or another I had forgotten how to take care of myself. I'll always appreciate your thoughtful and extensive suggestions that took my personality into account.

A.A., East Harlem