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The best time to organise your new home is when you move in although it can be a frantic time try to relax & take an organised approach and start off with an orderly existence. Lay the foundations of an organised home life from the first day. Set up dedicated storage areas for every item and make sure everything is accessible and has a permanent place. You can have help from an unpacking service.  A few suggestions for the first few days are Prepare a survival kit. Water, snack food, pyjamas, toothbrush, hairbrush, glasses, medication & change of clothes for each family member. Essentials to take yourself. Tissues, tools, torch, toilet roll, towels, soap, first aid box, cleaning supplies, pet food & something for dinner. On arrival Check all services have been connected, be there to check inventory as removalist arrive, check major appliances, list anything missing or damaged, unpack essential kitchen items, set up bedrooms for sleeping or organise ...

Happy Sunday, all. We made it through our first week of 2017! One of the links I’m sharing this Sunday is  Stella Blackmon ‘s reflection on  making friends as an adult . It’s refreshing, an honest look at how hard it can be to explore new situations, to put oneself out there, to accept that intimacy takes time. A few weeks ago, I had dinner with a friend. It had been too long–at least six months, if not more. As he and I got to talking, it became clear that we’d both had challenging years. I told him about my depression and other experiences that have changed the way I look at things. He told me about his own struggles, which sprung from a different source than mine and yet manifested in strikingly similar ways. A day or two later, I emailed him to thank him for the conversation. As we wrote, it became clear that we both felt some remorse that it had taken us so long to open up to each other; after all, we live in the same city. Here we were, m...

Every year, thousands of people—smart and stupid, rich and poor—fall victim to moving fraud, according to the “ Protect Your Move ” campaign by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. As if it wasn’t  already  stressful enough to pack up all your worldly goods and hire some (impressively strong) total strangers to cart them from one place to the next! But you don’t have to be scared—just be aware. Check out the most common moving scams and advice for avoiding them. Scam 1: The hostage “A mover will load your items into their truck, drive to your unload location, and demand more money on the spot before unlocking the truck or unloading your items,” says  Mike Glanz , CEO of  HireAHelper . This particular scam “is extremely common and occurs from coast to coast.” Stats from the Protect Your Move campaign show that out of the 36 million people who move every year, one in 10 reports that the moving company held furniture hostage until the customers f...

Use the right size boxes. Put heavy items, like books, in small boxes; light items, like linens and pillows, in bigger ones. (Large boxes packed with heavy items are a common complaint of professional movers. They not only make the job harder but also have a better chance of breaking.)   Put heavier items on the bottoms of boxes, lighter items on top. And if you’re loading the truck yourself, pack heavier boxes first, toward the front of the truck, for balance. ADVERTISING inRead  invented by Teads Don’t leave empty spaces in the boxes. Fill in gaps with clothing, towels, or packing paper. Movers often won’t move boxes that feel loosely packed or unbalanced.   Avoid mixing items from different rooms in the same box. It will make your packing quicker and your unpacking a lot easier, too.   Label each box with the room it’s destined for and a description of its contents. This will help you and your movers know where every box belongs in your new pl...

Photo: Courtesy of Cambria   Previous 1   46 Next   Easy-Care Kitchen Surface Made from one of the hardest minerals on earth, quartz countertops are arguably the most durable option for kitchens. They're also some of the most eye-catching. They come in a wide variety of colors, including fire-engine red and apple green, as well as earthy browns, blacks, and creams, with sparkles and veining for the look of granite or marble. But unlike natural-stone slabs, which are mined, these slabs are engineered in a factory. Their primary ingredient is ground quartz (about 94 percent), combined with polyester resins to bind it and pigments to give it color. For some designs, small amounts of recycled glass or metallic flecks are added to the mix. The resins also help make these counters stain and scratch resistant—and nonporous, so they never need to be sealed. Compare that with granite, the reigning king of high-end countertops, which typically requires a n...

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