Combining Households – Productivity & Organizing Blog Carnival
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Combining households — whether due to marriage, moving in with a partner, blending families, or caring for aging parents — can be an exciting but overwhelming transition. As a professional organizer, you’ve likely seen firsthand how challenging this process can be, emotionally and logistically.
Clients often face tough decisions about what to keep, what to let go of, and how to merge two sets of belongings into one functional, harmonious space. There’s also the challenge of navigating different organizing styles, sentimental attachments, and sometimes a bit of turf protection.
For this edition of the Productivity & Organizing Blog Carnival, I invited my readers to share their blog posts about helping clients combine households. Their practical tips, success stories, and lessons learned from difficult situations will be valuable as you help your clients – or yourself – through this major life change.
If you offer a product or service that would interest professional organizers, productivity consultants, or their clients, maximize your exposure by sponsoring an upcoming edition of the Productivity & Organizing Blog Carnival.
As you read the posts listed below, please connect with the bloggers on social media, leave comments, and share your favorites with your own network.
| Jane Veldhoven | Merging Two Households Into One |
| Lisa Griffith | Organizing in Difficult Relationships |
| Julie Bestry | Blending Libraries: How To Organize Books with Your Sweetheart |
| Julie Stobbe | Guide to merging two homes into one |
| Sabrina Quairoli | Helpful First Time Off Campus Apartment Tips |
| Linda Samuels | 9 Marvelous Ways Virtual Professional Organizers Can Help With Transitions |
Big thanks to everyone who contributed!
The Productivity & Organizing Blog Carnival is a such great way to grow your network and generate traffic to your blog that many people submit posts on a regular basis, earning the rank of Star, Superstar, Megastar or Ultimate Star Blogger. You don’t even have to be a professional organizer or productivity consultant to participate!
The topic for the next Blog Carnival is Organizing Shared Workspaces. You have until 11:59 PM EDT on Wednesday, July 16 to contribute your post.
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Thank you for including me with all these other experts! I appreciate it, Janet. Combined households can be done in so many ways. It’s nice to read about all the different ways to keep a home organized when combining households. Thanks for this idea. I will be sharing all these posts with my groups.
It was my pleasure, Sabrina, especially because of your unique approach to the topic. Thanks so much for sharing!
This is a great topic. I look forward to reading what the others have submitted to give me some tips for doing this well!
Happy reading!
It’s no easy task to combine households. What a great topic this month and filled with terrific advice. Thank you so much for including me along with these fabulous colleagues.
You are most welcome, Linda!
Having your own space means making your own rules; having to share your space can cause all sorts of kerfuffles. This was a great idea for a carnival topic, and I’m so thankful to be included with my esteemed colleagues.
My sister and I have talked on and off about possibly living together when our spouses are gone (because of course we will outlive them both) but suspect living together would not be as fun as just spending time together. And the older we get, the more we get stuck in our ways!