My Divine Concierge offers a number of home-based services to our clients throughout the New York area. One of those services is professional home staging prior to showing a home for sale. Staging prepares a house to offer potential buyers the best possible presentation – it is like your house...
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Category Archives: Home Organizing
Closet Space: Don’t Look Behind That Door!
In the Pixar movie Monsters Inc., the professional scarers at the Monsters Inc. factory would open doors that gave them access to the human world, allowing them to enter the bedrooms of children through their closets for the purposes of scaring them. Children would lie awake at night scared to...
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What You Need to Know about Packing Materials
One of the things we specialize in at My Divine Concierge is helping people pack up their homes and move. As a result, we have become very familiar with different types of packing materials over the years. We go through our fair share of bubble wrap, packing peanuts, tissue paper...
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Organization of the Workbench Area
Are you among the army of homeowners who feels as if nearly every room in your house is disorganized? Do you dread spring cleaning projects for fear that you will quickly get in over your head? If you answered ‘yes’ to either of these questions, you are a prime candidate...
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Tips for Repurposing Used Charcoal Briquettes and Ash
Tips for Repurposing Used Charcoal Briquettes and Ash There are plenty of Americans that have not succumbed to the convenience of outdoor cooking using a gas grill. Those who swear by lump charcoal and charcoal briquettes enjoy their own way of cooking that tasty piece of meat along with grilled...
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3 Reasons a Budget Is Part of Household Organization
At My Divine Concierge, we are not financial experts. However, we do know from experience that budgeting is an important part of home organization. We have helped a number of clients do everything from organizing a home-based business to downsizing and moving. Moreover, we have found that a lack of...
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Are Smartphones Hindering Individual Production?
You are part of a shrinking minority these days if you do not own a smartphone. With an estimated two-thirds of the American population now possessing and regularly using smartphones, it is no longer abnormal to go out in public and see people with their faces buried in their screens....
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Never Put off until Tomorrow…
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” There is some debate as to who said this first, but whether it was Ben Franklin, Philip Stanhope or someone none of us has ever heard of matters not. The important thing is taking this sage advice to heart. The...
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The Art of Combining Homes
My Divine Concierge works with many clients going through the downsizing process. However, every once in a while we are called in to help a family get organized after combining multiple households. For example, we might work with a newly married couple who both have entire households of possessions due...
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Spring Cleaning: Like Eating an Elephant
Former general and Army Chief of Staff Creighton Abrams once said, “When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” His words have become an idiom of sorts, explaining the principle behind tackling seemingly insurmountable projects. Abrams’ simple advice instructs us to keep plodding along, one step at a...
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