Spring-cleaning: for some a chore for others a joy. I learned about this ritual at an early age. Now, the thought of spring-cleaning evokes precious memories. When I was a young child, back in the land of four seasons and none of them rain (Manitoba), the cold inhibiting days of winter were ushered out with…
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Your house is a mess and you need to do something about it, because frankly you’re tired of having to make your way around the little pile of clutter in the living room, jump over the newer pile of clutter in the hallway, and wade through the clutter on the staircase. What you need ideally…
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What is a home staging? Home staging prepares a home for sale, and for the dozens of enquiring eyes that will be scouring the property looking for flaws. It creates an image of the perfectly decorated home, in move-in condition. This should be the next step after decluttering, cleaning and repairing your home. The changes…
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Your real estate agent has come to your house to assess what needs to be done to sell it the quickest. The word, “declutter,” continues to come up. You assure your agent that you are a very neat person and that everything will be clean when the potential buyers come to view it. Many sellers…
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There’s nothing more gratifying to a person who has spent hours on cleaning their house than to get praise for the great job they’ve done in keeping it clean-looking and beautiful. For these people, keeping their house in great shape is one of their burning desires. Finding handy household hints and putting them into action…
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De-cluttering before packing is an important aspect of preparing to move – because it allows you to decide what you’ll need for the new house, what you’ll have room for, and what you won’t. The most important thing to remember when de-cluttering is that you’ll be making room and getting rid of emotional baggage, whilst…
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There are many things that you can do these days to help you with the problem of cleaning your house, but many of these need drastic measures such as actually doing a thorough cleaning and decluttering of your house. To many people in today’s busy life, this is not an acceptable solution. For these people,…
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Anyone can give you cleaning hints, but it’s what you do with these cleaning hints that really matter. If for instance you smile politely and nod your head yes to everything that’s said to you and then go home and do the complete opposite, then you have taken no advantage whatsoever from those hints which…
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De-cluttering your physical space can have an amazingly uplifting effect on your mood. Feng Shui experts claim that buildings and furniture store the memories of events in the form of energy, and that by de-cluttering you can clear the energy of historic traumatic events. Whether or not you put any store in that kind of…
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Whether you are selling your house, moving into a smaller space or just trying to make better use of the space you have, you could probably stand to de-clutter your life. It’s one of the main points of staging a home, and while many people choose to hide their stuff for the sale and then…
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