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Think Responsibly Before You Donate Things

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2024-01-12T13:21:08-06:00January 12th, 2024|Categories: Donation|Tags: charity, disposal, mindfulness, recycle, repurpose|

We all have a basic understanding of what items that we can donate to charities; donate things that can be resold. If an item is damaged, stained or has pet hair on it, it cannot be resold or reused, therefore it shouldn’t be donated. When you donate things that can’t be resold or reused, you create more work for the charity. Those items need to be disposed of at the effort and expense of the charity which has limited resources for disposal. When you donate things such as books, they need to be considered more carefully. The main principle of [...]

How to Keep Things Out of The Landfill

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-02-14T13:48:22-06:00February 15th, 2023|Categories: Recycle|Tags: donation, recycle, reduce, repurpose, reuse|

The best way to keep things out of the landfill is to reduce, reuse, recycle, so let’s look at what these three R's mean individually to determine a viable approach. You can mix and match these options, or maybe you have an option I’m not aware of, it doesn’t have to start with an R. Using all three R's provides a variety of actions that will lead to the ultimate goal. Reduce One way to reduce means to get away from buying products with packaging that isn’t environmentally friendly such as plastics. Yes, I know you CAN recycle many [...]

Empty Nest Syndrome

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:22-06:00March 6th, 2019|Categories: Downsizing, Home Organization|Tags: downsizing, repurpose, transition|

You may have empty nest syndrome if…the kids went off to college, the kids got married, the kids moved into their first apartment, etc. The commonality here is that your children no longer occupy space in your home on a regular basis. This can be an emotional time for everyone - you, your husband and of course, the kids. You may be feeling like the momma bird after her babies left the nest. Maybe not as much for the kids though. They are getting out on their own and probably feeling liberated from the rules they had while living under [...]