If you have kids, you know what a letdown Christmas can be. You spend month after long month shopping for the perfect gifts that are sure to put smiles on the faces of your little ones. Yet you know that by the time dinner guests begin to arrive, your kids...
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Category Archives: Holiday Organizing
Maintaining Small Business Sanity During the Holidays
At My Divine Concierge, we help quite a few small business owners keep things running smoothly through organization. We are especially adept at assisting those running their businesses from home. Through the years, we have observed how difficult it can be to maintain sanity within a small business during the...
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Christmas Decorations and the Zip Lock Plastic Bag
Christmas decorations. They can lead to wonderful holiday moments and lifetime memories of joy – or they can be the stuff of nightmares. Anyone who has spent hour after hour trying to unravel a tangled web of light strings knows exactly what we are talking about. The joy on the...
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Tips for Avoiding the Holiday Cooking Mess
A lot of the residential work we do involves the kitchen. And believe it or not, we frequently hear clients talking about how much messy kitchens bother them. We can only imagine how much more serious the problem becomes for some homeowners during the annual holiday season, given the American...
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Tips for Storing Christmas Decorations Safely
The end of January marks the end of even the most extended Christmas holidays. This past Christmas was one for the ages, but now all of the celebrations are over and the decorations are packed away. The only question is, how have you stored your decorations? Will they be safe...
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Christmas Decoration Tips: Choose Your Style
This is the time of year we begin thinking about decorating for the Christmas holidays. For young people just starting out, there are few decisions to be made. After all, it is not difficult to string one set of lights and put out that special ornament or two that came...
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Five Reasons to Let a Concierge Do Your Shopping This Winter
At My Divine Concierge, one of the things we love most about what we do is the opportunity to help seniors. Whether we are assisting with moving and downsizing or helping to resolve a hoarding situation, being able to give back to those who have already given so much is...
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Decluttering for the Holidays: A Fall Ritual
Autumn. It is the season for colorful leaves, pumpkin spice latte, sweaters and, dare we say it, decluttering. Indeed, October brings with it the start of planning for the holiday season. That planning may include decluttering your house so that you have enough room to comfortably host all of your...
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Autumn Is a Good Time to Go through Christmas Decorations
Strolling through the store the other day, I noticed the first hint of the 2014 Christmas season in a few decorations that had been neatly stacked on a shelf in the back corner of the store. I realized it would only be a couple of weeks before the Christmas section...
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