Practical, Compassionate Help for Decluttering, Downsizing & Hauling from Professional Santa Cruz Organizer

Feeling overwhelmed by clutter? Whether you’re moving, downsizing, or simply ready to reclaim your space, Rick Perper offers hands-on organizing and same-day decluttering services across Santa Cruz, Capitola, Soquel, Aptos and surrounding areas.

With over 10 years of experience, Rick helps you make clear decisions about what to keep, donate, or let go — then takes care of the removal right away, so your home feels lighter that very day.

📧 Email: Rick@RickPerper.com

Meet Rick. Your Santa Cruz Organizer and Decluttering Ally

For more than a decade, Rick Perper has been helping people in Santa Cruz simplify their homes and lives. His approach is calm, kind, and effective — blending patience and encouragement with a firm sense of organization and follow-through.

Rick understands that decluttering is both a physical and emotional process. He gives you space to make decisions and helps carry them through — from sorting and organizing to bagging, labeling, and getting everything out the door.

He works with homeowners, renters, and families in transition — offering reliable support that makes a big difference in just one session.

Benefits of Hiring an Organizer

Being organized and clearing away clutter can have these effects:

• Come home every day to a relaxing sanctuary
• Find anything you own in less than five minutes
• Prevent clutter from reappearing
• Create more time and energy in your life
• Eliminate redundant purchases
• Avoid late fees on bills and subscriptions.

Organizing services can be as simple as clearing your counters, and as involved as bringing order to the home of an aging relative, or creating easy work-flow in your office. You dictate the scope of the personal organizing services. I am non-judgmental and sensitive to your personal style and organizing needs.

The Process

Together we decide what you can live without and assign a home to what you keep. I start by helping you sort through your items to decide what truly needs to stay and what can be donated, recycled, or removed.

Once we’ve assessed everything, I determine whether shelves, bins, or other organizing tools are needed to make the space functional and easy to maintain. Then I handle the hands-on organization — and with my pickup truck, I can remove unwanted items immediately, giving you that instant sense of clarity and relief.

The result is a calm, enjoyable and functional home, office or garage. I de-clutter kitchens, closets, garages, home offices, and all your living spaces.

About Rick the Santa Cruz Organizer

My years working in the catering and hospitality industry honed my attention to detail, timing, and organization under pressure — skills I now bring to every home and workspace I organize. Beyond that, I’ve always loved helping friends and family organize kitchens, closets, and garages just for the fun of it. I’ve been naturally neat and organized my whole life, a trait I inherited from my mother, who could hear a crumb fall onto the carpet from across the room.

I’ve spent a lifetime exploring arts and crafts, interior design, and workspace planning, and I bring that creativity to every organizing project. Making thoughtful spatial assessments and design choices ensures each space is not only functional but also visually pleasing. Form and function truly go hand in hand, whether it’s a home, office, or transitional space.

I’ve tackled overflowing closets, towers of paper, jam-packed garages, chaotic task lists, and more and I love transforming those spaces into something calm, clear, and manageable.