That next knock you hear at your front door could be some guests coming over to spend the holidays with you. Hopefully, you’ve invited them and they’re not just popping in for a weekend unannounced. In either case you should have your home ready for the holidays even if it’s just for the family and friends who might stop over for a little visit. In order for you not to be overwhelmed, you should plan ahead. This doesn’t mean you’ve got to sanitize your home from top to bottom but a good room-to-room cleaning might be in order.
The first thing your guests will see will be your entryway. How cluttered is this area in your home? It’s rainy season in Sacramento which means you’ll want to make room for umbrellas, shoes and coats. Since this is the holidays, you can also spruce up that entryway with a fresh evergreen wreath for the door and other holiday themed decorations. To clear out this clutter, you’ll need to get your family engaged in the efforts as well. A little Christmas cookie bribing goes a long way towards enlisting this kind of help.
For your clean-up plan you really only need to see your home through your guests’ eyes. What would they notice? An overflowing laundry basket? Stacks of magazines and newspapers destined for the recycling bin? Blankets and pillows on the sofa? All of that is general clutter that can easily be picked up and tossed out but what about the bigger items like a ratty couch you’ve been meaning to get rid of or some other pieces of furniture that have seen better days? If you’re planning to have overnight guests you might need to make room for them in your guest room or den. That means tossing out even more junk like unused exercise equipment or boxes of useless stuff. You can get easily get rid of all of those kinds of items with a call to the Junk King Sacramento.
Junk King is the Sacramento business that helps folks clear out the clutter all through the year but especially during the holidays when we got into visitor overdrive. Working with Junk King Sacramento means you’ll actually be working with a two-man crew who will do all the heavy lifting. You don’t have to drag anything out of your home or closet; the Junk King team will handle that. The final destination for your junk will be on the back of their truck. Once it is there you don’t have to worry about it again. It will be properly disposed of.
After cleaning out your home, you can focus on decorating to your heart’s content. Make it as warm and cozy as you want. The holidays are for special memories and those can start in a junk free home thanks to Junk King.
Unsustainable. That is the fear of many folks as they at the current economy. We just can’t continue to spend money we don’t take in. But could that same idea of un-sustainability be applied to your own situation? Are you living in an unsustainable environment? If so, it might be time to downsize.
According to a recent article in the Sacramento Bee, when Kyle Truitt was helping his friend, Josh Cox, move into a new home they became frustrated with all those cardboard boxes they needed to do the packing and moving. Because these friends were dedicated recyclers they wondered if there could be an alternative.
As this past Christmas is quickly becoming a memory it’s interesting to look back on the top holiday shopping trends for the year. While it is true that the traditional brick and mortar stores had a really good season with strong sales beginning over the Black Friday weekend, it’s the online retailers who really got a boost this holiday. How much of a boost? Try 15% more shoppers then last year. This meant that a record $1.25 billion was spent on Cyber Monday alone.
At the end of every year there are all kinds of lists put together to add up the facts and figures of the previous 365 days. Among the popular lists are the top 10 picks from critics for favorite movies, television shows and recordings. There are also some dubious lists that are put out each year such as the list of which are the most popular cars that thieves have stolen. That particular list is provided by the National Insurance Crime Bureau who is a nonprofit insurance organization monitoring crime statistics from around the country. While you might think that car thieves are just on the lookout for the fast and furious cars like BMW or Jaguar the truth is that the most popular cars to steal are also the most common cars on the road. This is because the car thieves are stealing these automobiles to strip them down for their parts and not necessarily resell them.
Now that the kids are back to school, you’ve got a chance to take an assessment of your surroundings and consider some valuable home improvement projects. Whether you take these on as a DIY scenario or hire professional contractors, this could be a golden opportunity to improve your surroundings and actually increase the overall value of your home. Take a causal stroll through your home while you think about all the possibilities. You could:
There are two major kitchen appliances everybody has in their Sacramento home: a stove and a refrigerator. Some folks have the added advantage of dishwasher and a washer/dryer combination. That’s just the major kitchen appliances category. All the juicers, blenders, microwaves and food processors go into the small kitchen appliance category. Why the two lists? We’re actually going to be discussing getting rid of the old appliances and for the purposes of this discussion anything you can throw away in your garbage can doesn’t count. It’s when you need to hire an appliance disposal company like Junk King that you’re dealing with the major kitchen appliances.
Everybody strives to remove the stress from their lives. We go on vacations. We take yoga classes. We try to find our “happy place.” Whatever the method is, getting rid of stress can be a huge benefit not only for our overall health but for all the people around us. No stress in our lives means good times. One major contributor to stress is clutter. Not just the kind of clutter you might find in your kid’s closet (although that’s an entire whole other level of stress!) but the big piles of junk that just have to go.