Let us start this post with a question: if circumstances dictated you had to do it, could you downsize enough to live full time in an RV or travel trailer? Lots of people do it voluntarily just because they like the RV lifestyle. Others, albeit a small number of full-timers,...
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Tag Archives: Hoarding Resolution
Is There Really a Place for Everything?
There is an old proverb that says, “a place for everything and everything in its place.” Most of us have heard our parents and grandparents say it from time to time. The question is this: is it really true? Is there really a place for every single possession a person...
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Why Don’t Family Members Appreciate My Collections?
Imagine spending decades collecting things that you truly appreciate. When it comes time to downsize, you cannot take your collections with you. So instead of donating or selling them to people who may not appreciate them, you offer your collections to family members. To your dismay, no one in the...
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Top 4 Reasons to Be Concerned About Clutter
This is the time of year when a lot of us begin looking around our homes and seeing clutter. For some, accumulating clutter is an annual ritual directly attributable to being stuck indoors during the winter. For others though, clutter is a chronic problem that really needs to be addressed....
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Hoarding Concerns: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself
You have a house full of stuff that is very near and dear to you. You find your house comfortable and pleasant to live in, but some of your family members do not agree. Now you are beginning to wonder if you might be a hoarder. How could you know?...
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Why It’s Difficult for Some People to Throw Things Away
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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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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Top 5 Reasons for Hiring a Personal Concierge
The staff at My Divine Concierge has had the privilege of helping all sorts of clients through the years. One of our specialties is downsizing and moving for seniors, so we have had opportunities to meet and assist lots of different and wonderful people in their efforts to downsize. And...
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How to Know When Clutter Is a Safety Issue
There are cluttered houses, and then there are dangerously cluttered houses. We have seen them all in our years as a concierge service helping people solve their clutter issues. The thing about clutter is that it can accumulate to the point of creating a dangerous situation without a homeowner ever...
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5 Things You Might Not Know About Hoarding
My Divine Concierge is fortunate to be able to use our organization expertise to help resolve hoarding issues. While we are neither psychologists nor psychiatrists, we do work with other professionals to help individuals and their families to get a handle on hoarding. It is never easy, but always worth...
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