How Does Your Home Make You Feel?
With the chaos in our world presently, I feel frustrated that, alone, I can’t make much of a positive difference. I’ll pray…
Helping Women Move From Fear into Faith
With the chaos in our world presently, I feel frustrated that, alone, I can’t make much of a positive difference. I’ll pray…
First prize for the Most Unwelcoming House (my conscience prevents me from calling it a home!) goes to one I saw last week. Of modest size, and plopped down in a pleasant little community, this place had no less than four large NO TRESPASSING signs.
“For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned”. Benjamin Franklin
Please people, if you are consumed with clutter, whether it’s last week’s newspaper or thousand dollar art; please remove some of it. Give your life room to think, breathe and live. Don’t let your life be taken hostage by things that don’t have breath in them.
What if you suddenly walked out of your home, never to return? What would your loved ones find? I’m regularly speaking to baby boomer clients about all their stuff, and what in the world to do with it? We were endowed with rare treasures from our parents and grandparents. Chosen to be caretakers of priceless antiques. “Keep these pieces in our family,” they said. I’m constantly saying to my clients and to myself, “Stuff is only (monetarily) worth what someone is willing to pay for it.”
The minute you decide to sell your home it becomes a house–a product to market to the public. Your goal is to make your house irresistible to buyers; to cause them to fall in love when they first lay eyes on it.
Being “organized” isn’t an end in itself. It’s a foundation to the life we want to live in our homes and lives.
If you think getting organized is expensive, please consider the costs of being disorganized.