Page 3 - Allisons Newsletter, Lakewood Edge - Dec 2018 Issue

ARE YOU READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND 2019?

by Jane Whitten you need. From planning through
execution, here’s what you need to
t is that time of year again when do to turn your garage back into …
many will start to dig through well, a garage.
I the garage and storage areas
to find those treasured Christmas TIP #1: PLAN
ornaments and lights. Your decluttering plan depends
Here is when having access to on why you’re tackling this project
an experienced Realtor® comes in. in the first place. Are you selling your
Why you might ask? Allison Van house, making more room for your
Wig who has over thirty years of car, or turning it into a workspace?
experience selling in Long Beach and Or are you just after those treasured
Lakewood has accumulated a long Christmas decorations? When you
list of contacts for “Handy Helpers” have a clear purpose, everything else
who can assist you with a variety of (well, almost everything else) will fall out once a year or anything else in the driveway. That way, you can things you’re not keeping, it’s time
tasks to help you get ready to take into place. you don’t use very frequently will get your eyes on everything (and to sort everything into groups.
on December and get organized for keep items up off the floor but it’ll be easier to organize using your Check what you actually have
the coming new year. Whether it is TIP #2: CHOOSE YOUR stay easily accessible, allowing more new storage solutions when you on-hand against your plan, and
hauling away a huge pile of discarded SOLUTIONS floor space for other things … like put it back in). don’t be afraid to readjust if you
items, to getting your yard ship- If you’re organizing and maybe a car. After the new year, Bonus Tip: A good rule of don’t have the right space.
shape for the new season, more than decluttering your garage, you’re many home improvement and thumb for purging your garage is
likely Allison can give you the phone going to need storage solutions to big box stores often have these to exclude tools, seasonal items, TIP #5: LABEL AND PUT AWAY
number of a “Helper.” stash your extra gear. It’s time to racks on sale and you could call and emergency equipment; then, Now you know where
If you need to get your garage get creative, because this is about one of those “Helpers” to put an determine what you haven’t used everything is, so it’s time to start
reorganized and have been putting maximizing your space. If your overhead rack up. Just give Allison in more than a year. Anything you putting it away. The items you use
it off but are now faced with having garage has high ceilings, think a call at 562.882.1581 or email her haven’t used over the past 12 months most should be the easiest to access.
to dig through everything to find about adding support beams that Allison@SuperBroker.com. (and that isn’t a tool, seasonal item,
those holiday treasures the following will double as storage space; if or piece of emergency equipment) If everything has a place, you won’t
information might help you out. not, consider investing in built-in TIP #3: SAY GOODBYE can most likely be donated, sold, have a problem keeping the garage
shelving units, pegboards, and utility You know what you want your or thrown in the trash. If you have organized over time.
TIPS ON HOW TO shelves that will fit into a corner (you garage to look like; you figured that a lot of items, call Allison for the
COMPLETELY DECLUTTER YOUR can pick any of these up at a home out during the planning stages. name of someone who will haul it If you found this article to
GARAGE IN A WEEKEND improvement store). Now it’s time to get rid of anything away. be helpful, you might find other
With just five simple steps, you Many people have found that that doesn’t match your vision. interesting articles on Allison
can transform your garage’s entire choosing overhead racks for holiday The best way to do that? Pull out TIP #4: SORT IT OUT Van Wig’s blog by visiting
look and give yourself all the space decorations that are only pulled everything that’s inside and put it Once you’ve gotten rid of the www.superbroker.com/blog/. n
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