Our Senior Transition Moving Management & Organization Services
Let Us Help You Plan and Organize
At Organizing Everything, we pride ourselves on removing much of the stress associated with downsizing and moving. How? With careful planning and preparation by a team of compassionate experts working with you and your family. We provide a range of services such as space planning, downsizing, cleanouts, donation delivery and junk removal, local moves, long-distance moves, legacy services, and more for all stages of a senior move. Our experienced Senior Move Specialists (SMS) oversee the entire process.
How Does Organizing Everything Plan & Organize for Senior Relocations?
Organizing Everything offers free in-home or virtual consultations. After we’ve spoken with you and reviewed your belongings, we make recommendations and provide price estimates so you can select options that work best for you. Our most popular (and needed) services include a combination of the following:
Planning
We work with seniors and/or their families to define goals, set a timeline, and get things done. We create a space plan for the new home that makes downsizing decisions easier. Being guided by an expert early on makes the process easier.
Organizing and Downsizing
This is often the first step. Our Professional Organizers are experts at senior downsizing and moving and partner with clients to sort belongings and make decisions. They assist with donation delivery, junk removal, and shipping.
Packing
Our team makes sure your things are prepared and packed for safe transport. We can often pack and label with unpacking in mind – which makes move-in efficient and easy – whether it’s based on room, function, or importance.
Move Day Management
We can arrange for an on-site expert (often your Professional Organizer) to act as the control center on move day. They interact with the movers on your behalf, ensuring the efficiency and protection of your belongings.
Moving
Whether you are a senior moving locally or across the country, Organizing Everything will get you scheduled with a professional team of movers who will load, transport, and unload your items. All of our movers are vetted and insured.
Unpacking/Resettling
Once everything has been delivered to your new home, we help set it up. We unpack boxes, dispose of the trash, set up the kitchen and bathroom, and organize closets. It will feel like home in no time, and you can focus on enjoying the new home.
We understand the Benefits of Downsizing for Seniors and will make it seamless so that you can Enjoy Time with Family or your Favorite Hobby
People from all walks of life are recognizing the benefits of a simpler lifestyle. Millennials have popularized the concept of minimalism, businesses are forgoing office space in the name of simplicity and many seniors consider downsizing as their daily needs and desires change. Although it’s natural to grow accustomed to a certain way of life, downsizing holds many advantages.
The True Cost of Personal Items
We often end up accumulating more than we really need or even care about. This accumulation can create more stress than it’s worth, which is why many people are considering the time, energy and financial benefits of downsizing.
Time
Time is a highly valuable commodity – the National Academy of Sciences found that people who pay for services that save them time report a higher satisfaction with life. When you accumulate things or property, such as a home, you need to devote time to maintaining those items.
Paying for maintenance or cleaning services can help you save some of that time and increase satisfaction, but downsizing provides even more direct time returns. If you reduce the number of things or property you own, you reduce the time and money you need to maintain those items.
Energy
Taking care of items and properties also costs mental and physical energy. Even if there is no pressing deadline for you to complete those house projects you know you should do, having them lurking in the corners of your mind can lead to feelings of guilt or frustration. Sometimes the act of clearing the way for new projects or passions is just as valuable as getting those old projects done.
Money
A professional organizer estimates that for an average household, storing any type of item costs $15/square foot/year. The cost of your personal property is related to lost living space, storage fees (if necessary) and clean-out costs. Costs can also increase if you purchase services, as mentioned above, to save you maintenance time. Are the unused items in your home worth the time and money you need to store or maintain them?
Downsizing Benefits for Seniors
In addition to reducing the costs above, downsizing has several distinct advantages for older adults.
1. Invest Time in People
When you have fewer responsibilities for taking care of a home, vehicle or yard, you have more time to spend as you desire. A new pace of life can make room for new friends or for more time with your family. Many retired adults use that time to travel, visiting children or grandchildren who live out of town.
2. Put More Energy into Doing What You Love
Most of us have hobbies and interests that get pushed to the side because of all the responsibilities in our lives. Downsizing can help reduce those responsibilities, freeing you up to put more energy into activities you’re passionate about. Maybe there’s a hobby you’ve always wanted to try. Or perhaps you’ve relegated one of your lifelong passions to a “once in a while” hobby. Making a change in your responsibilities could help you find more time and energy for those pursuits.
3. Spend Your Money on What’s Most Important to You
Maintaining a home costs approximately one percent of its value every year. That adds up — especially if your home or vehicle was primarily used for people other than yourself, such as children and grandchildren. Now that everyone is out of the house, you could be spending an outsized amount of money to maintain those things.
While they may have sentimental value to you, consider that it was the people who made them special. Your history with those people and the memories you made together won’t change. In many cases, downsizing will allow you to free up money to spend or save elsewhere, enabling you to spend more money on travel, new experiences or other passions you’ve always wanted to pursue.
4. Relieve Stress
Downsizing can be a huge stress reliever in the long run, although it often feels stressful to think of changing in the short term. If you are currently managing a home, a yard or a vehicle, you have countless details to remember and keep track of. Removing these responsibilities can improve your satisfaction in life and reduce the stress associated with managing so many variables.
5. Reduce Physical Strain
Housework, repairs, yard work and hauling groceries are time-consuming and tiring. Many older adults don’t want to put the strain on their body doing these types of chores and would rather pursue more engaging physical activities, such as golf or hiking. When you downsize and have fewer things to take care of then you can also reduce the physical strain on your body. Let your energy and strength be put into more rewarding activities than these physical demands by simplifying your responsibilities.
6. Keep Learning and Growing
Sometimes the greatest obstacle to downsizing is that we are unhappy about the idea of change. There is comfort in the familiar. But consider that change is an opportunity to learn and grow.
Downsizing can help you change your life in a positive way that frees up your time and energy for more enjoyable pursuits, including further education if that’s what you’re interested in. Take that class at the local college that you’ve been interested in,or sign up for a workshop from one of your favorite associations. Downsizing is an opportunity to learn and grow both formally and informally.
Assess What Matters Most
When considering whether and how to downsize, you’re also considering what’s most important to you and what you want your life to look like in the years ahead. For older adults that are at or nearing retirement, that’s often a welcome opportunity to refocus on the most meaningful aspects of life. Do you want to spend your time maintaining a large, full house? Or do you want to focus more on your family, friends and interests?
The Expert Planners and Organizers Who Make it Happen
Your Senior Move Specialist will be your primary contact at Organizing Everything. They will handle service-related questions, price quotes, scheduling, and project management.
Depending on the services selected, you may also work with a Professional Organizer who is certified in the field of organization and will be your primary on-site contact. They may be responsible for helping you sort, downsize, remove donations and junk, and even get settled into your new home.
Downsizing Made Easy: Expert Senior Moving Services for a Seamless Transition
When it comes to downsizing for seniors, older adults often face the daunting task of organizing a lifetime’s worth of belongings. Organizing Everything understands the challenges of this process and offers professional downsizing services that provide a guided and organized approach. Our team can help you navigate the downsizing project seamlessly, ensuring items are appropriately donated or discarded. With our insured, local organizing professionals, you can trust that your belongings will be handled with care..
List of Independent Living Communities that we work with currently
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This group of capable, professional, and dedicated women were essential on both ends of our move. They turned a formidable endeavor into a well organized and detailed adventure, greatly reducing the anxiety associated with moving.
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