Downsizing Books: To sell or donate?

Chamblins Bookmine aisle

Downsizing Books My clients were downsizing books and had 11 boxes to get rid of. Here’s what happened when we tried to sell them to a used book store. Recently, I helped a brother and sister purge their late mother’s collection of books. They had lived abroad in the 1960s during their father’s foreign service […]

It’s National Checklist Day! (But you need to use checklists EVERY day)

Photo of a checklist on clipboard by Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash

Once upon a time, I was on a small plane that was about to take off from the Ft. Lauderdale airport to the Bahamas for a working vacation. Ahhh…that sounds awesome (note to self: plan another one of those). Okay… so I was a little nervous because a recent small plane crash was still making […]

Packing Hacks for the Road Warrior

The Cathedral on the Prairie in Hoven, South Dakota. A packing hack led me to it!

In May of 2016, I took a road trip in my (‘soul red’) Mazda 3 hatchback that took me through 22 states in two months. Traveling for that long makes efficient packing a necessity. Here are the packing hacks I used that will make your adventure easy and comfortable: Packing Hacks for the Front of […]