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Hazardous Waste Disposal

Now is the time to get those old paints and pesticides out of your house.

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Food for Thought

If you hold on to the beautiful dish sets your mother collected after she dies, but they are wrapped up in boxes in the basement, are they really there as a memory of her? Wouldn’t it make more sense to save one of the dishes and display it? Or take a picture of the set and then pass them on to someone in need, or sell them?

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Got junk?

As Membership Director and Newsletter Editor for NAPO St Louis, I have the opportunity to meet many fantastic people and companies in this industry that can help my clients.

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I remember when...

I can still remember a time so vividly, almost like it happened yesterday. When in fact, it’s been closer to 20 years ago (yikes!). I was a recently divorced, single mother of two young girls, 6 months old and 3 years old. I held a very good full time job, but since we were not receiving any type of financial support from their father or my family, and I had to pay ENORMOUS daycare bills, were struggling to put it mildly.

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Battle of the basement

• Do you dump whatever you don’t want in the basement?
• Do you remember what’s in your basement?
• Are you overwhelmed at the thought of tackling the basement?
• Do you wish you could use your basement as a family room or extra bedroom rather than a storage area?

Most anyone I talk to has a basement full of stuff they haven’t really looked at in years. They share with me the amount of stress they feel about the basement at all times. Though they never express those feelings verbally to anyone, they are feeling the weight of the clutter at all times. I can tell you that whenever a client hires us to help them, normally they are more than ready to let go of at least 50% of their stuff. They just didn’t realize it was there. You can tackle you basement by:

• Sorting like items with like items
• Purging those items you no longer need
• Determining the best place for each category to live based on it’s use.
• Determine the best container choices for each category
• Label, label, label!
• Enjoy your newly cleared and organized space!

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Getting Organized Takes Time

While working on a client’s basement last week we spent 5 hours going through Christmas stuff. That seems almost unbelievable since she didn’t have an excess of Christmas stuff, doesn’t it? You may be asking yourself why in the world it would take two people 5-hours to sort through and organize just Christmas stuff. The truth is that getting organized takes time. But the time, energy and money that is spent getting organized is just a portion of the time, energy and money that you spend by not being organized.

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