Summer Days Fading Away

Yes, Summer is going to come to and end. Don’t shoot the messenger!

We love our summer days, but there’s something about fall that makes us feel like we’re in for a new start. It’s like the “New Year” for us.
We push ourselves all summer, entertaining, travelling and living the good life. Back to school hits and all of a sudden we get that tight feeling in our chests. Moms and Dads get overwhlemed at the thought of pulling their schedules together and making everyone happy.

Then you glance back over your shoulder at your home and realize that the summer blew through it like a tornado. Putting systems in place during September does help in many areas. Your kids start school back knowing where everything is, what is expected of them when they go to “Drop” their stuff in the hallway.

Remember to try small areas of change first. It might actually help if you get a few “guidelines” in place now before all the rush in September. Give the backpacks, lunchpails and notes from school a HOME. You know the first week back you’ll be flooded with slips and requests from school so make sure nothing gets lost in the chaos by having a home for all those incoming papers before school starts.

A few well prepared meals ahead of time will help with the first week back as well.
There’s nothing like getting back into the “runnning” and knowing that the family will have a healthy meal waiting for them atleast once or twice that first week back.

We can help with organizing your September and we also know a thing or two about meal preparation!

#indiansummer #keepitcoming #parentsarentready

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Insurance Covered Our Services!

That’s right. You read it right!
One of our clients had the unfortunate event of a failed sump pump and found herself knee deep in water.
The property restoration team was fantastic and very efficient. But the event itself was very overwhelming and difficult for our client to stay on top of.

Her basement needed to be put back, but it needed to be organized and purged so that items that had been taken out ( during the clean up) did not come back in if they were never being used in the first place.

Picture it. Disaster strikes and someone is there to help get everything boxed up and cleaned up. Maintenance follows and everything is repaired. Now your clean basement is being filled back up with boxes of items you hadn’t looked at for years.
The insurance company agreed, along with the property restoration specialist that our client needed to get her basement back to a functioning space. So they called us!

There’s nothing better then knowing you have an army on your side when things go wrong.

#insurancegoesalongway #gotourmoneysworth

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Fighting Change

Sixteen years of Professionally Organizing families has lead me to a few bits of knowledge I’d like to pass along to you.
Some great advice from minimalist, Leo Babauta.
You really can’t push your family to change unless they want to. So what I do is change myself, and be a living example that there’s a different way, and that it might be interesting and maybe better. I talk to them about the change so they know why I’m doing it, what made me consider it, what steps I’m taking, whether it’s hard or not, whether I like the change. In seeing my change, they might consider trying the change, or they might just think dad’s crazy, but either way they see a different possibility. So for example I might start decluttering my closet and drawers, or scanning all my paperwork so I can go digital, or clear out a storage shed. This is a great thing for them to see, but at the same time I’m letting them be themselves with no expectations that they’ll join me.

As a Certified Professional Organizer I am not a minimalist. I believe we all have minimalism at heart, and accepting this at varying degrees helps others.
You can live with less and if you start now, your children will strive to enjoy experiences rather then fill any voids with stuff.

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