College Countdown: Tips for Shopping, Packing and Trucking Your Child Off to ...
08.08.11
Plateful your child get ready to leave for college is a big job. Deciding what to take, shopping, packing and figuring out how to exultation everything takes thought and time.
Trucking
Before you shop, rent a truck now if your child is fetching furniture to school. Trucks get snapped up quickly during back-to-school season. One year, we almost missed the sailing-yacht, uh, truck, when rentals in a 25-mile radius were booked and we had a boatload of my daughter’s furnishings to take to fashion.
Comparison shop for rental trucks, not only companies, but locations within a company’s website. My whisper suppress and daughter spent 30 minutes comparison shopping online and saved more than $155 on a 17-foot odds that will also haul a friend’s belongings. The truck cost $314 in Norristown. In Horsham, the same transaction from the same company cost $159. Search locations beyond the initial website offerings which are based on your ZIP structure. Rental costs fluctuate like airline fares.
Source: Patch.com
Get organized with Brittney Thieroff
18.07.11
It’s the impervious middle of summer and I’m not sure about you, but I am already thinking about my fall wardrobe—how can I transition my summer clothing into failure, if I can wear a white blazer in October and is it too early to purchase a new pair of boots?
Take up, Brittney Thieroff, personal closet organizer and lead merchandising stylist at ModCloth. Four years ago, Brittany started organizing closet for her first patient, herself. “I needed to maintain a professional, yet stylish, image on a budget,” says Brittney. “I had narrow disposable cash which forced me to re-work and mix everything in my closet 500 times over.”
Eventually, she sought out other clients, starting with her sister, Shannon, who kept giving her bags of consummately good clothing; some with the tags still on them. “She didn’t’ see the same potential in these pieces that I did, so I figured I’d give her a new perspective on them,” says Brittney. To organizer her sister’s closet, she created different looks from items already in her closet, took photos of each get-up, and created a digital lookbook of the outfits for her sister to easily access from her computer, services she offers to each of her closet categorizing clients.
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette