“The reason why things get lost is because we fall out of our everyday habits,” says Cris Sgrott-Wheedleton, a productivity consultant and Certified Professional Organizer at Organizing Maniacs.

How many of us are determined to get our clutter in order in 2017? Cris Sgrott-Wheedleton is the owner and founder of Organizing Maniacs in Tysons Corner, Va. and she has solutions for almost any household organizing issue.

Organizing Maniacs genuinely understand how to bring order to the chaos and carnage that clutter can bring, and the best way to ‘create visual results and transform spaces, which help change lives.

Cris joins staff writer Jura Koncius’s weekly online chat to help readers get organized for the new year. Here is the professional organizer’s best advice to start 2016 on the right foot.

Cris suggests unpacking one room at a time to keep stress at a minimum.

Cris had the opportunity to have a great conversation with the funny and talented Kevin Roose of Matter and the New York Magazine.

Cris was quoted in a December 7, 2015 Washington Post article about boomers trying to downsize and declutter after a lifetime of acquisitions, while millennials still want to come home to their parents’ fully decorated house.

Cris guests on the Keeping You Organized Podcast to discuss green organizing and how to cut the clutter and save the planet.