Everybody spring-cleans after spending several months stuck indoors. However, here’s an idea: try fall cleaning in preparation for your annual hibernation. Spending just one weekend during the early fall cleaning and organizing will make your winter more comfortable and prepare your house for seasonal entertaining. From the recently vacated bedrooms...
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Tips for Long-Distance Moves
It is probably safe to say that most of us dread the prospect of moving. We may look forward to that new home, especially if starting over in a new community, but the actual process of packing everything up and transporting it is the stuff of nightmares. Those nightmares are...
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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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Fall Decorating Without the Clutter
You have worked hard all spring and summer to get your house de-cluttered and organized. With fall just around the corner, you are ready to embrace Halloween, Thanksgiving, and eventually Christmas without fear your guests will find your home uncomfortable. Now though, your house looks rather bare. What do you...
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Tips for Getting Back into the Autumn Routine
The end of August and the approach of Labor Day can only mean one thing for school students in New York: classes will be resuming shortly. Whether you are the type of parent that looks forward to the start of the school year or one that wishes the kids could...
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5 Reasons to Stage a Home Before Selling
My Divine Concierge offers a number of home-based services to our clients throughout the New York area. One of those services is professional home staging prior to showing a home for sale. Staging prepares a house to offer potential buyers the best possible presentation – it is like your house...
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Co-Housing for Seniors Catching on in the U.S.
As a concierge service offering relocation services for downsizing seniors, we like to keep our eye on current trends that seem to be driving the future of senior housing. A recent trend we have been noticing is something known as co-housing. This housing model combines the best of communal living...
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Closet Space: Don’t Look Behind That Door!
In the Pixar movie Monsters Inc., the professional scarers at the Monsters Inc. factory would open doors that gave them access to the human world, allowing them to enter the bedrooms of children through their closets for the purposes of scaring them. Children would lie awake at night scared to...
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What You Need to Know about Packing Materials
One of the things we specialize in at My Divine Concierge is helping people pack up their homes and move. As a result, we have become very familiar with different types of packing materials over the years. We go through our fair share of bubble wrap, packing peanuts, tissue paper...
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Never Underestimate the Power of Positivity
My Divine Concierge frequently has the opportunity to help people through very trying times. One week we may work with an older couple leaving behind a home they have known for 30 years in order to downsize. The next week we may assist a family trying to work through a...
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