Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

Let's talk about moving.

Okay, so maybe you're moving, maybe you're not, most likely you're probably not.

However, when people decide they're going to move, like my hairdresser the other day she says to me you know I think maybe we should move and I was like really are you sure you want to pack up the whole house and everything and the next thing you know she was moving. So it's kind of like when you decide

that you're going to move or the opportunity presents itself to move all of a sudden

you're moving and you may not have been looking up organizational ideas on what to do if you're moving.

And even if you had, you may not remember where you put those. So I thought today I would record a podcast that goes along with a series that I

wrote about 10 weeks to an organized move. If I was going to move, which I've lived

in the same house for 20 years.

All right, 10 weeks to an organized move.

Now, you guys know that I always

think a little differently about everything.

So some of the things I'm going to mention

you will have already heard before, but some of the things I'm going to mention you will have already heard before, but some of the things I'm going to

mention will be totally out of the box just Lisa type thoughts. And week number one is totally

an out of the box Lisa type thought. So number one, if you're going to be moving or you're thinking about moving, the first

step in my opinion is to define what your dream home is.

Like if a magic wand was to be waved and your your perfect house were to appear

right before your eyes what is that perfect house so for me when we bought this

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