Whether you are moving because of a new job, to be near family, because your kids are grown and you want to downsize to a smaller home, or if you are moving into a retirement community, setting up a few guidelines at the start will help you to have an organized move.
Read MorePacking your home and all its 300,000 items (that’s the average number of items in a home!) doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Follow these helpful tips from Living. Simplified. tips on how to plan an organized move and declutter items before you pack, and you’ll be unpacked and organized in no time! Better yet, you won’t pay to move items that you don’t actually need. If you need help deciding what to take with you when you move (and especially when you downsize!), get in touch. We’re here to help!
Read MoreIn the final installment in the series, Benefits to an Organized Home, we give you a quick list of additional benefits to having an organized home.
Read MoreThere are so many reasons to spend time on organizing and decluttering your home. In Part 2 of our blog, Benefits to an Organized Home, we want to focus on the benefits to your health. Yes, it’s true! Living in a decluttered and organized space, surrounded by the things that you love and that are useful to you and your family, can have a positive benefit on your health! Here are just a few of the benefits that you will see after organizing your home.
Read MoreWe all lead busy lives and organizing and decluttering our homes doesn’t often rise to the top of our “to do” lists. But we’re here to tell you that spending the time organizing your home now has so many benefits, from spending time with your family and friends to saving you time.
Here are just some of the ways that you and your family will benefit from having an organized home:
Read MoreMaking the decision to get your household paper organized is a great idea, and one that takes some time and effort, especially at the beginning. There are a few tools that you should have handy while organizing your paper: sticky notes to label the categories as you sort; a pen to label the sticky notes; large empty boxes (label one for recycling and one for shredding); a table or other space that you can work on during the organizing process. Once you have completed the steps outlined below, you can then decide if you need to purchase folders, bins or a cabinet to hold what you decide to keep.
Read MoreIt’s so easy for paper clutter to accumulate in our homes, whether it’s in the kitchen, the home office, the nightstand or our kid’s rooms. So often, paper accumulates because we don’t know what paper we should keep, what should be shredded or recycled, and how long we should keep certain papers. This handy guide is a great start to your paper organizing journey. The hardest part will be getting started and then going through ALL the paper. But once you have a system in place, it will be easy to maintain going forward.
Read MoreWhen the dust settles after the holidays, and you look around your home, you might be asking yourself “Where can I put all of this new stuff?” Well, the short answer is, you probably need to get rid of items in order to add all the new holiday gifts into your home. Let’s break down the steps together.
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