Community Seeds eMagazine Summer 2010 : Page 29
It’s Easy Being Greener charities and non-profit organizations so I could give the unwanted items to people who really needed them. That felt good. I also taught my clients about what they could recycle and ways that they could cut back on what they were consuming. Now, the organizing high that I had felt as a kid was combined with the new satisfaction I got from helping to save the environment, and I was ecstatic! n February, 2008, I formed my very own green home organizing business, No Wire Hangers. Many people laugh when they hear my business name because they know it refers to the classic line from the 1980’s film, Mommie Dearest, in which Faye Dunaway played Joan Crawford. It seems that Ms. Crawford was something of a neat freak and liked things organized. She also had a thing against wire hangers. In the film, she gets a little angry when she finds a wire hanger in her daughter’s closet. She might have not been the best mom, but she was an environmentalist without even realizing it! I N industry. I was immediately hired as an assistant to a very high-profile producer. Suddenly, I was organizing again, and working for high-level executives honed my skill for organizing even more. was living my dream, but I felt like something was missing; I wanted to do more. In between movies, I began to organize people’s homes. At first, it began as a side job, but then, I realized what an impact I was having on the way people lived. I was hooked. Not only that, but I was helping the environment, too. When I de-cluttered my clients’homes, I made sure everything they decided to part with did not end up in a landfill. I researched I early 3.5 billion wire hangers end up in landfills every year and a central message of my business is encouraging my clients to return them to the dry cleaner. It’s a simple thing we all can do to help save the planet. When I first started organizing homes, you could hear me saying the line, “No Wire Hangers!”as I ripped wire hangers out of my client’s closets. Two years later, it’s still my rallying cry for both organizing and environmental activism. Winner of “The Green Award for most Eco-Friendly Organizing Service” -The Los Angeles Organizing Awards 2009 www.communityseeds.com 29 For more information, visit: www.nowirehangersbiz.com OR Contact: No Wire Hangers, Inc. Los Angeles CA Phone: 323.388.9131 Email: julie@nowirehangersbiz.com
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