Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer here in the U.S. We all know what that means, right? The summer travel season is now upon us. From now through Labor Day, families of all sizes will be crisscrossing America to visit family and friends, see the sights, and...
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Category Archives: Home Organizing
Proper Etiquette for Vacation Home Rentals
What are your vacation plans for this summer? Are you among the millions who will rent vacation homes for a week or two? If so, you should know there is proper etiquette for vacation home rentals. You and your family should follow those rules of etiquette closely – for both...
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A Full Schedule Is Not a Badge of Honor
Somewhere during the last three or four decades, we came up with this silly notion that having a full schedule is a good thing. In fact, a lot of us consider our busy schedules a badge of honor. They are not. For a lot of people, a busy schedule is...
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5 Ways to Get a Jump on Spring Cleaning
Now that Easter has gone and most of us are looking toward Memorial Day weekend, it is apparent that the time for spring cleaning is near. This is the time of year when we all start thinking about getting out of the house once again. It is also the time...
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More Valuable Tiny House Lessons
Our previous blog post discussing valuable lessons we can learn from tiny house owners went over so well that we decided that a follow-up post was in order. This post offers a few more valuable lessons from the tiny house movement. Even if you don’t live in a tiny house,...
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Lessons We Can All Learn from the Tiny House Mindset
Have you ever wondered what it must be like for someone who owns a tiny house to downsize? It’s something to think about. Anyway, the tiny house mindset has taken over the home-buying mentality of the younger generation. More and more people are avoiding the need to downsize in the...
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Are Quick Decisions the Best Strategy for Decluttering?
There is a temptation among home organization specialists to encourage clients to make quick decisions during the decluttering process. We have utilized the strategy ourselves from time to time. But is this strategy the best way to go for every situation? Probably not. There are some very valid reasons for...
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An Annual Reminder About Spring Garage Sales
Well, it has finally happened, and the calendar has turned from winter to spring. We know what that means: families are going to start holding garage sales in an effort to facilitate spring cleaning. Between now and the end of summer, there are going to be garage sales of all...
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Downsizing and Estate Planning: 4 Things to Know
My Divine Concierge team members have encountered more than one situation in which we were helping seniors downsize only to find ourselves having a discussion over estate planning. There is something about downsizing that causes people with no estate plan in place to start thinking about what will happen to...
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Great House Cleaning Products You Might Not Recognize
Do you have multiple cupboards filled with partially used containers of household cleaning products? If so, you are not alone. Madison Avenue has trained us to believe we need to buy specialized cleaning solutions for every single job in the house when that is simply not true. General-purpose cleaners are...
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