Is your Vehicle a Disaster Zone?

 

Our vehicles tend to collect items as we go from work to home, running errands and taking the children where they need to be.   

Garbage collects, clothing, recycles, things that need to be taken somewhere and more. Although with the pandemic and the lock down your use of your vehicle may have changed depending on what you do.  However, we are still using them and sometimes they are the last thing we think about as far as cleaning and organizing. 

We have a collection of things we need in our vehicle; snacks, cushions for the dog, blankets for use with children, pets or just to protect the seat, hand sanitizer, masks, sunglasses, first aid kit and more. 

A few minutes each day or week will save you time. 

Here are a few tips to help you simplify:

1. Clear trash regularly, just take out at the end of day and have everyone else take theirs.  I have a soft side trash receptacle in my car that just hangs on the shifter.  This is great for small items such as tissue, candy wrappers, snack wrappers and more. 
2. Over the seat organizers are great for small children.  They hang on the back of the front seats and hold activity books, crayons, snacks etc.  Also just a small plastic bin with a lid on the seat is great. 
3. Small items like extra hand sanitizer, masks, sunglasses, serviettes, tissue – make easily accessible but in a small zip bag so it does not fly all over.  Coins in a small container in the console for when you need them. 
4. Make your trunk area a storage place for reusable shopping totes, blankets, first aid kit, bottled water, sports equipment – put in bins to make compartments, makes it easy for cleaning and things will not move around so much
5. Plan to clean regularly so that the air is clear of dust, smells and odours. 

Taking care of your car not only makes it enjoyable for you to be in, but it sets a good example for your children and other people that ride in your vehicle that you take care of your valuable possession. 

Happy Organizing! 

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Helping after a Loss.

Whether you are the executor or a family member, or both, Just In Time Solutions can help you. We want you to be able to grieve and focus on family, not the daunting task of “what to do with all the stuff?”

We can help, sort through items, walk you through the best way to re-home unwanted items, pack and prepare items for family and friends, remove garbage and recycles and only leave you with your keepsakes and memories. Sounds too easy? Good, we want it too be. 

The hardest decisions we want you to have to make is who gets what. Once that is decided, our job begins.  We have over a decade of built up resources and contacts and on the job training to help you navigate, what is traditionally, an emotionally stressful time.  It could be a family home of 50 years, a retirement home apartment, or a storage locker of buried treasures; we can help. We have often hear from clients “that would have taken months”, or “how could we have done that without you?”, or “my Mom would be so happy to know her items went to people who could use them and not the garbage”. We may not have personally known your loved one, but our goal is to treat their items and their space with respect.

We can help seniors, vulnerable people and essential moves during this lock down. We are here for you!

If you, or someone you know, has lost a loved one or is responsible for an estate, please contact Just In Time Solutions and let us help you, so you can focus on what truly matters; remembering and grieving. 

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It is Not about Perfection!

When I meet new people I often get the question, “Is your home really organized and clean?”. I tell people yes it is organized for me, for what makes me happy. Clean it is not always spotless, but it is liveable, but cleaning is not organizing. They do go hand in hand but they are not the same. If you were to come to my place to borrow something, chances are I could put my figure on it in a few seconds, 99% of the time.

Organizing for me is not having things folded in drawers so they look pretty when I open them, it is having things folded and put away in the same drawer all the time. It is not about having my spices in alphabetical order, it is about having them all lined up in a drawer, like with like. For example, dip mixes together, broth mixes together, hot spices together, basic herbs and spices together, etc. My kitchen counter sometimes has a few things on it that do not belong, but that only lasts a few days, not weeks. Now all that being said this does not mean that the other ways are wrong, they are just not my style. We all function differently.

Surprisingly enough when I tell people organizing has a lot to do whether you are right brain or left brain dominate they so, “Really?”. Meaning are you more creative or more linear thinking. I am more linear/logical thinking. I do not like to see my organization. Meaning I do not like clear bins, open shelving etc, I like mine labelled and behind close doors.

Home Organizing is like trying a new lifestyle diet. It takes time, it takes dedication and it takes maintenance. You can not go from a house full of clutter to a perfectly organized home overnight. It takes time, dedication and training of new habits. Just like running a marathon, you do not run 40km the first time, you start one km at a time.

Keep things simple. Do not look at the complete home. Look at one room, one cupboard, one drawer at a time. Take 30 minutes a day and start.

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