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Have you ever had to dig through a ton of boxes to find a file, just because you didn’t know what box it was it? Have you ever unplugged two or three things before finding the right cord? How many hours have you spend sniffing the spices, just because you couldn’t tell by looking which one was nutmeg? Wouldn’t it be nice if everything just had a label on it? Well, why can’t it? There are a number of labelers available today – from desk top to handheld. In other circumstances, blank labels and a...
•The Law of Subtraction
We live in a world where bigger is better and more is all the rage. When we are trying to get the life we want, it often involves adding something new: a new routine to lose weight, exercising more, taking a class or starting a new activity. Also, we are always looking for more time–most of us want to spend more time with our friends and family. Lately, we have heard many promises that if you just put out the intent, then it will all happen for you. In our business we have found that this...
•How to Get Your House Ready for Last Minute Showings
When waiting for your home to sell, you have to be ready at a moment’s notice to show your house to eager buyers. This is very difficult while you are still living in the house. You may not always have much notice before a showing.
Here are some tips on how to get your house ready based on how much time you have to prepare for those last minute showings.
24 Hours Before:
- When your house goes on the market, it is no longer the time to start big projects or cook elaborate meals. You...
•Holiday Shopping for Those Who Have it All or Are Difficult to Buy For
Are you struggling this time of the year, trying to figure out what gifts you will get for everyone on your list? There always seems to be that one person who appears to already have it all. Instead of cluttering up your family’s and friends’ homes with more objects, why not give them something they will really appreciate? Here are some ideas on what to give that “hard-to-buy person” this holiday season. They will be pleased with their gift, and you will be pleased that you followed these tips....
•Picture-Perfect Advice for Sorting and Storing your Photos
Photographs are a great way to remember special occasions, but it’s not always easy to keep them sorted. Here are a few tips you can follow when printing or picking up your snapshots that will help you organize and protect your precious moments:
Go through your photos and discard the blurry or unappealing shots and duplicates. Or consider giving duplicates as gifts to friends or family.
Using a photo-safe pen, label and date the back of each photo. This will help you to recall the events and...
•Small Changes, Big Rewards - After the New Year's Resolutions to Lose Weight
Did you make a resolution to lose weight this year? This is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions, and the one that is most often unfulfilled. After all, it’s not easy changing long-time eating and exercise habits. So how can you follow through and stick to this resolution? The best way is to take small steps toward changing these habits. Consider:
- Making changes now instead of waiting until you have a full-blown plan in place. This way, you won’t procrastinate or feel overwhelmed,...
•The Roadmap for a Healthy Business Trip
A good business trip takes careful planning. So does maintaining a healthy lifestyle and a healthy weight. If you travel frequently in your line of work, or for your business, you know how difficult it can be to keep up good habits and how easy it is to slip into bad ones. The good news is that, with a little added preparation and smart choices, you can considerably reduce that risk. Here’s how:
- Set realistic goals – Goals will help you stay focused while you are away, but be realistic. For...
•Back-to-the-Basics with Back-to-School Organization
Although most of us are enjoying a relaxing summer break, the new school year is just around the corner. August is the time to get ready for back to school by preparing ourselves with the proper supplies and organizational techniques. Follow these suggestions to create a less stressful year and to avoid that last minute scurry before the first day of school. Even if you don’t have children or aren’t attending school yourself, we can all benefit by using this time to readjust our schedules and...
•Surviving Holiday Stress
Be realistic. We often start off the holiday season with lots of great ideas for family fun, decorating, parties, gifts and crafts. Now is the time to take a step back and look realistically at the time frame you have remaining to get all these things done on top of your regular activities. Remember that these fun ideas can become "one more thing" on your “To–Do” list. Pick a few things you would like to be involved in and enjoy them. Save the other ideas for another year or as a way to ward...
•Quick tips for a Holly Jolly Holiday Season
It’s the holiday season. Time for buying gifts, throwing parties and decorating your home. All that work can leave little time for enjoying what should be the most wonderful time of the year. So here are some quick tips to help make your holiday season merry and bright.
Buying gifts- Make a list of all the people you plan to shop for with gift ideas that match their tastes. Consider gift certificates, which are easy to wrap and create less clutter. Be sure to set a gift budget for...
•Creating a Residential Commercial – Part of Your Marketing Strategy
Simple steps to increase the appeal of your home to potential buyers
Preparing to sell your home this year? The most common mistake many sellers make when staging their homes that you can avoid is preparing your home based on your personal tastes. When selling, you are creating a ‘residential advertisement’ for your home, so it must appeal to the audience you want to reach. Because the market is very broad, the look or décor of your house must appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers....
•Why Home Staging Works
Home staging can help you achieve maximum dollar for your home and sell it faster. Here's why it works:
1. Unstylish means unsold. More often than not, people can not look past empty rooms or even unattractive decor. Successful builders usually use model homes for this reason. Home staging will give the home a more unified, up-to-date, simplified look that people are looking for.
2. A Buyer Can't Fight the Feeling. House hunters usually start off with a list of things that they want in a...
•AIM HIGH—AND LOW
Look up, look way up! Organizing solutions can be as simple as looking up and looking under. When you think there’s no where left to go—it’s time to get creative with your storage.
Look Up
-Shelves are a great way to display collectables as well as store items for everyday use. Consider using floating shelves instead of bookcases and small tables for books, candles, toiletries, spices, and jewelry. Clearing floor space will make the room look bigger.
-Try tall narrow bookcases instead...
•Be Organized – Be Safe
Knick-knacks, magazines, electronics, pictures, keepsakes, rugs, and tables. These common household items seem harmless enough, but the more we have in our homes, the more difficult it can be to move! Sometimes we have so much stuff it can block doorways or paths to exit the house—dangerous in the case of a fire! Think about all the dust that collects on the surfaces of figurines, picture frames, and other ornamental pieces. It can make dusting a real chore but more importantly it can make...
•How to Buy a Sofa
Before you set out to buy your new sofa, decide on the style. Go online and do some research by visiting furniture store websites. This will help you get an idea of what you’d like and what is in style. Availability isn’t an issue at this point; it will just help point you in the right direction.
Take a look at the space where the sofa will go and determine the size that is right for the space. Measure you existing sofa—including length, spread of arms, height at the highest back, and...
•How to Organize Video Game Systems and Accessories
Depending on the console you own and the entertainment unit or TV stand you have, there are different ways you could store the console. You could use an under-shelf wire basket which attaches by just slipping on to the shelf above it to create more space in a cabinet. If you currently have more than one system set up, they can be stacked using wire racks to separate the consoles, so they do not get over heated. These are sold to be used in cupboards.
Games in cases can be stored in DVD...
•Wallpaper Woes
Wallpaper is making a big come back, but often our homes are left with wallpaper that is too personalized to be a benefit when selling. Removing wallpaper and adding a fresh coat of paint will be a real advantage to getting your house sold faster.
Do you dread to even start stripping off the wallpaper in a room in your house? Not to fear, most new wallpaper is strippable, meaning it will easily peel off leaving only the glue behind. Test a small area before you start to see how difficult...
•The Beauty of a Minimalist Holiday
Are financial worries leaving your holiday plans out in the cold? This year families around the globe are finding ways to cut back, hold off and hunker down for the impending economic storm. While we may enjoy the rituals of preparing for the holidays, it can add up to a lot of emotional, physical and financial stress. Consider the joy of eliminating those post holiday credit card payments by adding new traditions for a low-stress, minimalist Christmas that will save you big...
•Kitchens and Bathrooms Sell
People spend a large part of their day in their kitchen and bathroom. Research has shown these two rooms to be at the top of the list of selling features when it comes to real estate sales.
A big open kitchen can be good for watching the kids while making dinner, but not only growing families are looking for a larger kitchen. Open kitchens are also great for those who enjoy cooking and entertaining. Take care to make sure your kitchen is showing its true counter and cupboard space by...
•Bringing Your Basement to Life
People don’t always spend a generous amount of time in their basement and therefore, it often doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This often carries through when the home is for sale. Research shows us that kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms are main areas of interest to buyers, so when we are selling we focus on making these rooms look great. But, let’s not forget that a simple basement makeover can also help you earn top dollar for your home. It adds that extra living space that home...
•Tempted to Leave a House Empty?
People aren’t buying houses, they are buying homes. Most potential home buyers want to see where they can fit in that home. Without being able to see furniture in the rooms, it just looks like a big empty space and potential buyers will find it hard to visualize themselves in the space.
Here are some reasons why you should never try to sell your home empty:
It is hard to tell the size of a room when there is no reference point. Furniture will allow the buyer to see the scale of the room...
•Home Staging – Say Au Revoir to Odour
We spend a lot of time thinking about what our homes look like when we are trying to sell them. Don’t forget that the sense of smell is one of our strongest senses. Because we spend so much time in our home we can no longer tell what it really smells like to others. This is no time to be shy- get an honest opinion from someone you trust. Chances are if you have a dog, love scented candles or enjoy cooking different foods your home could use some neutralizing of scent. This doesn’t mean...
•When Selling Your Home, Prepare like You are Having Guests
Most of us do at least a few things to make our home more presentable when guests come to visit. Showing your home for sale is very similar. Think of preparing your home as if you were having not one but hopefully several special guests that will be seeing every aspect of your home. The following are some tips to help you properly prepare for your house buying guests.
Clean. Nothing smells better than clean, unadulterated clean. Open a window to let fresh air in before potential house...
•Simple Problems That Can Be Fixed For Free to Sell Your Home Faster
It can seem like there is an infinite list of things you can do to fix up your home for sale. The trick is to focus on those problems that if remedied, will result in either a quicker sale or a higher sale price (or both!). If you take the time to fix these few simple mistakes you can do just that. The best part is it will cost you nothing!
Furniture clinging to walls:
It’s a good idea to move chairs away from the wall while being conscientious of traffic patterns. Try creating a group...
•Preparedness
With everything going on in the world today it makes us wonder how prepared we really are. Even if an emergency isn’t constantly at our doorstep, our lives will run a lot smoother and we will feel a little more in control with some proper planning.
Office
Here are some things to keep in mind:
• Make sure you have a back up system that is in place and check it sporadically
• Be aware of evacuation procedures
• Keep a first aid kit in your office
• Be able to quickly find...
•Where’s your launch pad?
Do you have a launch pad? You may not be Cape Canaveral but your home and office should not be without one.
Office
How many items are lying around your office that belong elsewhere and often take weeks and months to get back where they belong? There is a coffee cup that needs to go to the staff kitchen. A stack of photos from your vacation you brought in to show your colleagues. A gift you were given that you plan to take home. All these items create clutter in your office.
Find...
•Staging for the Senses
People buy from emotion. Our senses are how we define the world around us and have a strong link to memory and emotion. What better way to create an emotional appeal for our home than through our senses.
When you decide to put your home on the market it makes good sense to consider your home not only with fresh eyes but also consider the other senses as well.
Smell
We often hear about the tactic of using the aroma of freshly baked bread or cookies to fill a house that is being shown to...
•Think Green When Selling Your Home
With today’s growing awareness of environmental issues green is the new black. Today everyone is thinking green. Consumers can’t get enough of green: whether it’s a sage green throw, leafy green salads, or a beautiful green tree or shrub in the back yard.
Today’s green movement also carries over when you are preparing to sell your home. Potential buyers are savvy. They expect the home’s attributes to be current and the physical space to be in move in condition. They need to be able to...
•VIP: Very Inventive Procrastinator
Many of us think we have conquered procrastination and have become efficient workers. This may be true for some of us, but when it comes to procrastination we may have just become a little more creative. You may just be a V.I.P. – Very Inventive Procrastinator. Read the statements below to see how many you can identify with.
• I like to get a lot of little jobs out of the way before starting a major project.
• I have a messy desk, overflowing in-basket and paper that needs to be...
•Use what you have – the cure for your post-Christmas financial blues
It’s a new year - time for new resolutions and goals. Here’s one that will help you get organized while warding off the post-Christmas financial blues – use what you have. You’d be surprised at how many items you have lying around that you’ve never used. Items that, by using them, will create more space in your home and save you money. For example:
1. Use those gift cards and certificates you received over the past year. It’s a great way to get what you want or need without spending...
•Sticky Do’s and Sticky Don’ts
We sure have a love affair with adhesive notes. Expanding from the original yellow square note pad, they now come in many colors, sizes, shapes, and specialty varieties (super sticky, page tags, divider tags.) Sticky notes can be a great tool to trigger your brain or to keep frequently used but hard to remember info at hand. However, even the biggest fans of sticky notes are aware of some of the drawbacks of the handy message pads. Follow these Do’s and Don’ts to keep you out of a...
•Seniors Moves Mean Planning Ahead
Your senior years should focus on carefree living. For many older adults this means downsizing to an apartment or assisted living accommodations. A larger home may no longer suit your needs; requiring more maintenance and house cleaning than a smaller home. Staying in your current home may also pose health and safety risks if you live by yourself. This is especially true if you have mobility or health issues or if your neighborhood has changed so that you no longer feel safe.
It can...
•Routines Rock!
Having a routine doesn’t mean your life will be boring or predictable. Routines are an awesome way to get more out of each day and to allow us to do more of the things we really want to do. Complete everyday activities in the most efficient way so that you have more free time to be spontaneous. Creating routines for different parts of your day such as morning, when you arrive at work, before you leave work, when you get home, dinner time, and before bed, reap the greatest rewards.
Here’s...
•Never Worry About Losing Your Keys Again
It seems like the items we spend most of our time searching for are the ones we need and use daily. The best example is our keys. How many of us spend 20 extra minutes every morning before leaving the house searching for our keys, or five minutes waiting outside the front door before we can dig them out of our purse or pockets to let ourselves in? We just toss our keys somewhere different everyday, and then forget where we put them. To always ensure a speedy dash out the front door,...
•Never Lose Your Cell Phone Again!
Always running around looking for your phone? Do you have to search madly for you cell phone when it rings? Here are some tips to help you never lose your cell phone again.
When you are out, always store your cell phone in the same pocket of your coat, purse or briefcase so that way it will be in the same place each time. It sounds simple but deciding on this designated place and sticking to it will save you time, frustration, panic and maybe even money. No one wants to bother with the...
•Mudroom Madness
Is your mudroom, hallway, foyer or entry way making you mad?
Do you constantly trip over everything on the floor?
Is there no space to put anything?
Or has your clutter been like this so long that you just pass by and not really see what your guests see?
You may just spend minutes coming or going but this brief time can definitely set the tone for the start or end of your working day.
Nothing says welcome like entering into a space where you feel comfortable and can easily...
•Memories or Maybe - What's Your Clutter?
It seems that a lot of our excess clutter can fall in to two categories: things from the past or things that we might do in the future. The most important things in our lives are those that are with us in the present: those items we use frequently and enjoy regularly. These are items we use for daily tasks as well as items we actually use for self-improvement (not hope to or plan to use). Being stuck in the past or dreaming of the future creates mental and physical clutter.
Do you...
•Electronics Strike the Wrong Cord
You have a beautiful flat screen TV mounted on your wall like a piece of art. There is a perfect lighting scheme. You've got a cordless phone so you can easily roam the room. What could be wrong with this picture? Cords! Black, grey, and white lines drawing the attention away from your home to the loopy tangle stuffed behind your media center, lines running along the walls and across the floors. Ugh! Unsightly and dangerous--how to deal with all of these cords? Here are some methods of...
•Get Ready for the Spring Thaw – Regain your Refrigerator
Here’s a different sort of spring thaw and one you can do yourself. Get prepared to clean out your fridge and freezer. This process is a hot idea with refrigerator rules that will save you money and time.
1.Start now by making a commitment to buy fewer grocery items and eat as much as possible of what is already in your fridge and freezer. Schedule a date as the day you will clean your refrigerator and try not to purchase too much before then. Look at your calendar and find a day...
•Identity Crisis: How to Avoid Identity Theft
Identity theft is increasingly common with the less face-to-face financial transactions and our increased general ease with online and telephone purchases. Most people don’t think twice when tossing out a bank statement, credit card offer, or hand written notes. All it takes is one account number for a thief to begin stealing your identity, ruining your credit and spending your money. Be careful when throwing away information such as a birth date, phone number or address. Remember these...
•Party Tip #1 – How to Please all your Dinner Guests
No matter what the occasion is that you and your guests are celebrating, hosting a dinner party takes preparation and organization.
With everyone’s busy schedules, families and friends don’t often get the chance to sit down and enjoy a special meal together. Here are some suggestions to help make your next gathering easy and memorable.
Start by making pre and post checklists of the supplies you will need. Write down everything you have to do before you run out and begin buying...
•It’s About Time -Changing Behavior to Improve Student Study Habits
Students live in a world of endless opportunities to learn, socialize, volunteer, work, and travel among a long list of things. Good study skills and time management are key to learning how to balance priorities and opportunities in your life as a student. With all these options and new found freedom, a student might become dissatisfied with how they are managing their time. Perhaps they have developed a bad habit of procrastinating or maybe they have too many activities on the go....
•A Home for those with Environmental Sensitivities
Breathe better. Ninety percent of the average Canadian’s time is spent indoors, and air pollution is often two to five times greater indoors. Dust, dust mites, molds and contaminants from many of our household products trigger adverse reactions in varying degrees for most of us. A cluttered environment makes it difficult to rid our homes of certain irritants and a simplified and back to basics approach will often help to create a healthier home. Start with your bedroom because this is where...
•Seven Things Not To Do When Creating a New Years Resolution
One in four people will not make it a week with their New Year’s resolution. Here are seven things not to do when creating a New Year’s resolution that will help you go the distance:
1. Don’t keep it to yourself.
“I don’t want my friends to know I am trying to quit my bad habit.” Let others know! This gives you leverage and allows others to encourage you along your journey.
2. Don’t leave it in your head.
“I don’t need to write it down, I know what I want to do.” Research has...
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