Did you grow up with a particular skill set you assumed everyone else had? Professional organizer Sandy Linville thought everybody was organized. The youngest of seven children in Covington, Ky., her mother ran an orderly household. Today, her husband is an (organized) engineer and their three teenagers do their own laundry. "It's a life skill, and I want their spouses to know I have given them a gift," she said.
In May 2003, Linville organized two friends' garages and both of them told her she should go into business. "It never dawned on me that I could make a living with it," she said, as entrepreneurship didn't run in her family. "Why would someone hire an organizer? Don't they know how to do it themselves and like to do it? She soon found out that no