• A gift certificate for a session with a professional organizer is a great way to begin the New Year! Just send me your request by clicking on the e-mail address below.
   

• Convert your loved one’s collection of video tapes (&reel-to-reel tapes) to DVD.  Preserve those special memories & save space. Visit www.scandigital.com. 
   
• Consider giving organizing tools such as jewelry organizers, baskets, specialty clothes hangers, or decorative filing boxes.
   
• For those needing to downsize, the holidays is a perfect time to give some of those special treasures to loved ones.
   
• Give a gift of caring, a helping hand can be worth more than something bought even if it is just doing dishes, a car wash or a dog walk.
   
  

• Shop “Green”: purchase products that are durable, refillable, reusable, or at least recyclable.
   
• Instead of exchanging gifts, get a group of friends to agree to a night out together after the holidays.

Having difficulty remembering what you wanted to give someone? Can’t remember what you have already purchased?

• If you haven’t done so, start now to make a list of the people you plan to give a gift to. Keep it with you. Write down what you purchase as you go. This way you know what you have left to do and you won’t duplicate effort.
   
• Keep your receipts together in a file or Ziploc bag so that returns will be simple and warranties can be registered.
   
• Don’t miss out on rebates-keep all if your receipts together and note the expiration date on your calendar.