My Divine Concierge has had plenty of opportunities to help families trying to resolve hoarding situations. We know firsthand how difficult the disorder can be. We also know that there are people who exhibit some of the same difficulties with clutter without suffering from hoarding disorder. That led us to...
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Category Archives: Home Organizing
3 Approaches to Decluttering Your Home
You sit at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee, a blank piece of paper and a pen. You are determined that you will not leave the table until you come up with a strategic plan for decluttering your home. And so you sit. That first cup of coffee...
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Planning a Spring Garage Sale?
Most of the snow disappeared weeks ago. Easter has come and gone, and now many of us are looking forward to Memorial Day. Do you know what that means? It means garage sale season is on the doorstep. Within the next 6 to 8 weeks, the garage sale ads will...
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4 More Secrets of Successful Home Stagers
So, you have come back to read the second post in this series of ‘secrets of successful home stagers’. Good for you. If you read the first post, you know we talked about creating the right spatial balance, arranging furniture, using odd numbers, and generating flow with color. This post...
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4 Secrets of Successful Home Stagers
A few months ago, My Divine Concierge published a blog post asking the question, “is there psychology behind organization?” If you read that post, you know the answer. This post is similar inasmuch as there is a certain amount of psychology involved in staging a home for sale. The professional...
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Why Your Reasons for Holding on to Clutter Might Be Wrong
People hold on to different things for various reasons. Maybe an item belonged to a loved one who passed, or perhaps an item represents a childhood memory. Whatever the reason, some items can be hard to let go – scary even. Americans live in a society where one’s worth is...
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Spring Cleaning for Your Garage
Garages today tend to be the catchall storage area for the overflow of items from your home. In many cases, homeowners no longer store their vehicles in the garage, instead choosing to use it as a workshop, storage unit, or game room. But when garages become cluttered and too full...
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Organizing Your Home for the New Baby’s Arrival
Many new parents lament that there are no instruction manuals for parenting, and they are not wrong. Most of how parents do their parenting is a matter of trial and error and on-the-job training. There may be no flowchart on what to do in every instance when a new baby...
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Snowbird Tips: Getting Ready to Come Home
Last fall, we published a blog post offering tips to snowbirds getting ready to head south for the winter. Well, fair is fair. With spring just around the corner, we decided it was time to write a second blog post that included tips for snowbirds preparing to return home. Your...
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Organization Is about the Big Picture AND the Little Details
Some time ago, My Divine Concierge worked with a client who spent a lot of time picking our brains. One of the questions asked was whether organization had more to do with the big picture or the little details. Perhaps you’ve wondered the same thing. Well, it turns out organization...
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