Your money... your closet!
In economic times such as these, people are looking for ways to cut their budgets and spend wisely. According to Bernadette, an important place to look is the closet!
It's sort of like a common food pantry issue -- four jars of salsa and 3 bottles of ranch dressing taking up space just because you keep forgetting you already bought 'em.
When someone realizes sh'es just purchased her third chocolate brown top, another problem kicks in. She becomes the impulse organizer. Here are a cute trio of baskets from the mega craft store; here is a hanging canvas clothes organizer from Ikea. Suddenly, she now has a hodge podge of storage bins, adding to, not subtracting from, the original clutter!
Organizing is not an impulse sport. Diagnosis comes first. "We've got to assess your stuff and your life first." says Bernadette. Then you create a system that truly works. That will include crisp spaces sized to provide the perfect capacity for those tops and everything else you need. It'll end up costing you not much more than a few jaunts to the craft store, far less hassle and far more ease every single day. Call Bernadette and ask her for a complimentary visit to learn the best plan for your closet space, your stuff and your life.
At the very least, says Bernadette, "Try to look through your closet before you shop!"
Forget diamonds - closets are a girl's best friend.
If you really love her, help bring order to her clutter.
The buzz for Sex and the City: The Movie has been all about the fashions, the romance and Carrie's closet. When asked if Big should buy her a really big diamond, Carries says what she really wants is "a really big closet."
The gift of a closet acknowledges the pace and importance of a woman's day. The gift of a closet isn't a toaster - it's a life change. That's why a closet re-do is today's big romantic gift. And more gift-givers are getting the message. Bernadette Galloway, director of Ardent Custom Closets says there's been a surge in closets as gifts in our area, particularly celebrating key life events such as a big birthday, moving into a new home, having a baby, getting a promotion.
"Clutter is a distraction from what's important in life. The gift of an organized closet is not just shelves and hanging bars, it's what it represents," notes Galloway, "A functional closet is a gift that gives more energy and clarity to every single morning."
Is an organized closet the perfect gift for you? Here are some reasons it might be:
- You travel for business. Being able to see and grab coordinating outfits you can throw into your travel bag is a joy worth experiencing. Unpacking is made easier too. No more full suitcases sitting untouched for days because it's just too much of an effort to unpack and store clothes after a wearying business trip.
- You're losing weight. The thrill of weight loss is often accompanied by an economic hardship: you can't fit into any of your clothes. However, if you've been thinner before, an organized closet can be arranged to mark different sizes (with or without number markings, depending on the cringe factor). You can easily remove the sizes you can't now wear and be motivated by the even smaller sizes you yearn to wear again. (After removing shoulder pads from the 70's.) And if you're like the rest of us and celebrate by buying new things, Lord knows you deserve them, the time is now to keep new things nice by hanging them properly.
- You always seem to be running late. Tired of hearing frustrated emissions from downstairs, while the clock ticks well past the appointed hour of your friends' dinner party? No doubt, you're looking for the shoes - you know you have them - which match the dress, and now where's the purse and I know I had a strapless bra somewhere. This is one of the reasons why after redoing a closet, Bernadette's team can provide the final touch: professionally organizing and restoring all of your closet contents.
- You always seems to be wearing the same outfit. Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn't. Bernadette reports two reasons you may seem to be wearing one thing all the time. First, you may like that color or style and forgot you already have nearly the same outfit somewhere in the bowels of your closet. Bernadette recalls several clients with four or five dresses or pants or blouses so similar you couldn't tell them apart. She has often discovered items with the tags still on, never worn, that her clients forgot. The other possibility is that whatever was worn recently gets worn again, last in, first out. If it's been laundered recently, it's in the front. Then it's worn and laundered again and is back out front. "They wear what they see," says Bernadette.
- And the most obvious clue: the big pile. Need we say more? You constantly have a heap on the chair in the bedroom or atop a dresser or amassed on a single hook in the closet or bathroom. That big pile is not an indictment that you're not organized, it's saying you're busy and need a closet to keep up with real life.
So, how do you let your husband know a closet is what you really want? How do you let him know that a practical gift is the dreamiest gift he can give? Give him Bernadette's number. She'll let him know that "Compared to a piece of jewelry, most women with full agendas and a greater purpose in life will say: bring on the closet!"