Downsizing can be a traumatic experience for anyone. Rarely is it easy to leave behind a house you have spent decades living in. Making matters worse is all the work that goes into packing and moving. Thankfully, concierge services like ours make the processes easier. My Divine Concierge can even...
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Great Ideas for Packing Christmas Decorations
It will not be long before we start thinking about packing up the Christmas decorations and putting them back in storage for another year. Doing so is always an adventure, knowing that things could break between now and the day we pull the decorations back out next December. But you...
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Does Newspaper Really Protect Glassware?
Have you ever helped a friend move only to be assigned the task of wrapping glassware in newspaper prior to boxing it? If so, have you ever wondered if newspaper really protects glassware well enough to bother? Well, rest assured that it does. We will explain why in this post....
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Letting Go of Collectibles Can Be Heart-Wrenching
There is an interesting program that airs on the FOX Business channel called Strange Inheritance. It is a program that deals with people who leave significant inheritances to their children or grandchildren with the expectation that those who receive the inheritances will honor the requests of the deceased. Often the...
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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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Moving and the Truck-Packing Challenge
This summer, people all over the greater New York area will be packing up their houses and heading to new digs. Some will be upgrading from a starter house to something more family-friendly, others will be downsizing from a larger house they no longer need to a smaller house or...
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Downsizing: 3 Reasons to Consider New Furniture
As an older person, you may eventually reach that point in your life when you realize it is better to downsize than continue trying to maintain a big home you no longer need. Once that decision is made, it is on to finding a smaller home and deciding what stays...
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Start Planning Your Spring Move Today
So, you are an older American seriously thinking that it is time to downsize. You realize that your big house is now too big for just the two of you; now would be a good time to move into something smaller and in a location more conducive to your active...
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