One of the things My Divine Concierge specializes in is assisting seniors with their downsizing projects. We help clients sort through their possessions to decide what goes and what stays. We can help them pack their homes, move their belongings, and unpack on the other end. Long before any of...
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Tag Archives: Downsizing
How to Pack Belongings for Long-Term Storage
There may come a point in time when you are faced with having to pack up some of your belongings for long-term storage. You might be headed overseas on a temporary work assignment; you might be temporarily downsizing while you work to overcome financial difficulties; you may be in between...
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Life Is Short – So Is the New York Summer
We New Yorkers get to the middle of March and we start wondering if it’s ever going to stop snowing. And as you know, the winter of 2017/2018 has been especially relentless. We’re sure most of you are looking forward to the summer months with great anticipation. My Divine Concierge...
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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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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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Time to Kill: Help Your Descendants by Doing This One Thing
You’ve gone through the gut-wrenching process of downsizing and moving to a new home. Now that everything is settled, you seem to have a ton of time on your hands. We have a suggestion for what you could do with that time. You do this one thing for your descendants...
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Downsizing and Collectibles: The Art of Prioritization
Most of us are familiar with the concept of prioritization. For our entire adult lives we have to prioritize tasks at work, responsibilities at home, and so forth. There is simply not enough time in the day to get everything done. Likewise, those same principles of prioritization can come in...
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Options for Clearing Out a Vacated Home
Your parents have finally reached the point at which they can no longer live alone. Or perhaps they have passed on. In either case, you are left with a vacant home that needs to be cleared out before it can be sold. You have a big job ahead of you....
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Lessons from Disney’s ‘Three O’Clock Parade’ Question
Anyone who has worked at Walt Disney World resort in central Florida is familiar with the now-famous question, “What time is the three o’clock parade?” According to the Disney Institute, the question is one heard daily in the Magic Kingdom. However, it is not a stupid question at all. In...
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