So, you’ve come to the place where it is time to help your parents downsize. They have already chosen their new home; now it is a matter of sorting through their possessions, packing up what they are taking with them, and getting them moved. As with any job, the right...
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Five Tips for Senior Downsizing
In the back of your mind, you have always hoped this day would never come. Yet here it is – you have to begin the process of downsizing. Maybe you have purchased a smaller retirement home in a warmer climate; maybe you are moving across town to an assisted living...
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What to Do with Your Student’s Empty Room
Every year American parents undergo a strange ritual near the end of August: shuffling their children off to an out-of-town school while reminiscing about the days when the kids were young. And once move-in weekend has concluded, those same parents return home to an empty room once occupied by a...
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What to Do with Your House during the Family Vacation
You are probably familiar with all of the common safety tips for protecting your home while you’re away on vacation. For example, the experts tell you to stop your mail and newspaper delivery, control lighting with different timers, have neighbors come over to move your cars, etc. All of those...
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School’s out for Summer
Are you old enough to remember the 1972 Alice Cooper hit, “School’s Out”? If not, trust us when we say that high school seniors all over the country have made it their summer anthem every year for the last 42 years. As for you, you might still have school-aged children...
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Living with Pets AND Your Pet Allergies
As a personal concierge service offering home moving services, we often work with people who have decided not to take their cats or dogs to a new home because of allergy problems. They figure the move is as good a time as any to make the break. Yet it is...
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Tips for Planning an Inexpensive Wedding
The average cost of a wedding these days is more than $28,800. That is a pretty frightening number, especially when you consider it does not even account for the honeymoon. Perhaps you are planning a wedding for later this year. How would you like to spend significantly less money? It...
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Concierge Service for Personal Assistant: Which Is Right for You?
My Divine Concierge is often asked by potential new clients to describe all of the services we offer. We can do that in a generic sense, using the list of services found here on our website, yet there are times when clients need us to do more specific things, unique...
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Mom and Dad, It’s Time to Start Thinking Summer
Mom and dad, we hate to alarm you unnecessarily, but summer is just around the corner. Now that spring has officially arrived in the northern hemisphere, it will only be a matter of months before your children are out of school for their summer vacations. And you know what that...
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Five Personal Service Qualities of the Successful Concierge
The personal concierge business is a people-oriented one to the highest degree. In fact, it is all about serving people and their unique needs. That means being a successful concierge requires certain people skills or, as we like to say, “personal service qualities.” The concierge who possesses these qualities is...
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