Settle In Solutions

Solution of the Day: Dress For Success Dallas is a fabulous place to donate women’s business clothing.

After all of the hand wringing, the punch line is that the spinning wheel had only been purchased as decor!

My mom was downsizing. But convincing her to get rid of her stuff felt impossible If you want to throw your mother into a state of depression, I suggest offering to look up how much her antiques are worth.

Solution of the Day: Your personal belongings! We put together this bedroom at a residential care home with the client’s personal items that had been in storage for 8 months. Her reaction: “I love it! There are all of my favorite things.”

Solution of the Day: we use standard sized moving boxes to help the movers more easily stack boxes on the truck. .

Solution of the Day: —Junk King the last man standing on the close out of a house.

Here's the link to Staples.com and what can now be recycled.

Staples® Official Online Store Staples offers free next-day shipping with no minimum order on office supplies & furniture, ink, printing services, computers, & promotional products for business.

Solution of the Day: Excited to learn that Staples will be recycling more than ink cartridges. This is great news.

Staples' new plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it Staples has offered recycling services for over 15 years, and now it is expanding the program and rewarding customers for bringing in their old tech.

Solution of the Day: We chose the right scale of furniture to fit the client’s favorite furniture in a smaller apartment.

We help our clients to "market" their homes by decluttering and prepacking prior to putting the house on the market. We tell the clients people want to feel like "Wow! There's a lot of room here." ---rather than "Wow! This home owner has a lot of stuff!"

7 Essential Tips to Get Your Home Ready to Sell Experts offer advice on the basic maintenance, touch-ups and organizing needed before you put your house on the market

Believe it or not, this pretty bookcase didn’t sell at the estate sale nor was the charity able to take it. Luckily our junk hauler will get it donated as they work hard to keep things out of the landfill.

Quick turnaround move for our client complete with artwork hung—not bad for arriving at the new apartment at 12:30p and we finished at 5p.

If the thought of clearing out your house or your parents' house...outsource the process to Settle In Solutions. We're here to help!

Outsource the Clearance of Your Parents' Stuff Bereavement cleanout services and specialty movers can do the heavy lifting — removing, recycling or reselling possessions — when parents downsize or die

Celebrating our 105 year old client!! 🎉🎂🫅

We can help mitigate the problems people have when they suddenly need to more to a senior living situation.

Transfer Trauma: The Emotional Toll of Moving to a Care Facility When moving is unsettling to your loved one, you can take steps to transform it into a positive new chapter

Used these handy and ecologically friendly bins from our new vendor Elephant Trunk Moving Supplies for an internal move. Saved on time and supplies for the client.

We work hard to help our clients get their belongings to a new home or person instead of the landfill. Check out to downsize without using the landfill!

My Quest to Downsize Without Throwing Anything Away A big old house full of belongings — could I find them all a new life? By David Pogue, New York Magazine, October 19, 2023 Photo: David Pogue On our way to becoming empty-nesters this fal…

We help people find the right solution, and sometimes we have to get very creative.

A Guide to Getting Rid of Almost Everything The New Yorker

Blitz move for a client into a memory care community. The family was not allowed to be involved today, so the daughter was thrilled when I sent her these pictures.

Client brought me to Pittsburgh to help with the Settle In process. Here’s the view out the front door!

Downsizing Solution of the day: Start with rooms you use least. You'll be surprised what's in there that you no longer need.

Solution of the Day: deal with your mail in a daily basis. Point #3 was for a client who might have overdone things with monetary donations.

Sentimental items can get you stuck in the downsizing process. Here are some tips on how to make choices.

How to Sort Through Sentimental Clutter, According to a Pro Organizer — Apartment Therapy It's one of the most difficult things to declutter.

It took two vehicles to deliver this platform bunk bed set to charity.

TAKEN! Happy to report we were able to donate the bed to a good cause. We have a hospital bed for donation ASAP. Location is in Plano.

Our friends from Jesse’s Moving Service are doing the heavy lifting today.

Here’s what we deal with most days.

Redditor shares the major lesson they learned after cleaning out their grandparents’ home: ‘Sad and frustrating at the same time’ — The Cool Down “I’ve still got a long way to go.” by Rachael Davies / June 11, 2023 A Reddit user shared their experience of cleaning out their grandparents’ apartment and how it affected their relationship with their own possessions. The user took to the subreddit r/minimalism to share some thoughts after...