NANNIES ON SPEED DIAL

摘要

For Dorian Mintzer, mother of a 3-year-old, having a housekeeper, a babysitter, and a grocery delivery service was no longer enough. Never able to find time to organize her office, let alone wade through old magazines and photos, the 54-year-old psychologist hired Chaos Consulting, a two-year-old Boston firm, to sort through her mess. For $40 an hour, Abby Gold-enfarb, the company's self-described obsessive-compulsive owner, creates files and scrapbooks and figures out which papers to toss. Since January, Mintzer has paid her personal organizer more than $5,000, and she says she's worth every cent. "There's only so much you can juggle," Mintzer says. "This helps me feel less overwhelmed."