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Smart Living Skills

Customized and Personal Professional Organization Services

09/24/2026

Smart Living Skills is officially back home in Michigan. ❤️

After five years of serving clients in Alabama, I’ve relocated back to the Grand Blanc/Flint area and am now accepting local clients.

Smart Living Skills helps individuals and families create homes that are easier to manage, maintain, and enjoy through services including:

• Professional organizing and decluttering
• Packing and unpacking
• Downsizing and home transitions
• Move preparation and setup
• Garage and storage organization
• Photo and keepsake organization
• Whole-home systems and functional organization

Whether you’re overwhelmed by clutter, preparing for a move, settling into a new home, helping a loved one downsize, or simply ready for your home to work better for you, I’d love to help.

Now serving Grand Blanc, Flint, Fenton, Swartz Creek, Flushing, Davison, Burton, Goodrich, Lapeer, Clio, Clarkston, and surrounding communities, with service also available throughout select northern and western Detroit suburbs, including Rochester/Rochester Hills, Troy, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Royal Oak, Farmington/Farmington Hills, Novi, Northville, Plymouth, Canton, and Ann Arbor.

📞 Call Smart Living Skills at my new local business number: 810-412-8587
📱 You can also text me directly at 205-504-6670
🌐 smartlivingskills.com

I’m incredibly grateful for the five years of support, referrals, and wonderful clients I had in Alabama, and I’m excited to begin this next chapter back home in Michigan.

If you know someone who could use a little more organization and a lot less overwhelm, please share this post or send them my way. ❤️

09/02/2026

💎 Fine Jewelry Deserves More Than a Quick Phone Snapshot

When you’re selling fine jewelry online, the photos matter.

I offer photography specifically for online listings, with an emphasis on capturing the details buyers want to see — stones, settings, condition, craftsmanship, clasps, markings, and multiple angles.

These are a few examples from a recent jewelry project.

Whether you’re selling one special piece or working through an entire collection, I can help create clean, detailed photographs that make your listings look more polished and professional.

I also photograph other items for online resale, including collectibles, décor, vintage pieces, and higher-value household items.

📍 Birmingham area
📩 Message Smart Living Skills for information about listing photography.

08/31/2026

⭐️ WANT TO HELP SUPPORT MY SMALL BUSINESS FOR FREE? ⭐️

One of the biggest ways you can help Smart Living Skills right now doesn’t cost a single penny — leave me a FIVE STAR Google review! 💛

Google reviews make a HUGE difference for a small local business. They help new clients find me, build trust with people who are considering hiring me, and help keep my business visible in local searches.

If I’ve worked with you, helped you with a project, packed or organized your home, helped with a move, downsizing, decluttering, or another project — I would be incredibly grateful if you would take a couple of minutes to leave a review.

And if you’ve worked alongside me professionally, referred clients to me, or have firsthand experience with the way I work and serve my clients, sharing that experience is incredibly helpful too.

⭐️ Leave a FIVE STAR review here:
https://g.page/r/CQ0cxNI8jrA2EBM/review

Even just a few sentences about your experience can make a bigger difference than you probably realize.

Thank you to everyone who continues to support me, my business, and this next chapter. Every review, referral, share, recommendation, and kind word helps. 💛

— Sarah
Smart Living Skills

08/30/2026

I’ve been working on something I’m really excited to finally share — the Life Management File is now ready. 💙

Most of us have important information scattered everywhere — filing cabinets, drawers, email accounts, apps, safes, computers, boxes…and sometimes just in our heads.

The Life Management File gives you one simple system for organizing the information you and your family may need someday — whether it’s during an emergency, a major life transition, or simply because you’re tired of wondering where everything is.

It covers 12 important areas of your life, including:

📌 Contacts
📌 Personal & identification documents
📌 Medical information
📌 Insurance
📌 Finances
📌 Home & auto
📌 Digital information
📌 Legal documents
📌 Final wishes
📌 Storage & valuables
📌 Pets
📌 Business information

And you can choose the level of help that works best for you:

📁 Life Management File — $59
The complete printable guide to help you build your own system.

📝 Complete Life Management File — $79
The full guide plus fillable worksheets for every section.

💻 Guided Life Management File — $149
The complete system plus a private 90-minute session with me to help you get started, work through the areas where you’re stuck, and create a plan for completing your file.

You don’t have to finish everything in one weekend. You don’t even have to have all the documents yet.

The goal is simply to create one organized place where the important pieces of your life can be found when they’re needed.

No digging. No guessing. No wondering where to start.

👉 Learn more and get yours here:
https://smartlivingskills.com/?page_id=1532

Smart Living Skills
Helping you organize your home, your information, and your life.

08/30/2026

Think poaching eggs is too fussy? Think again! 🍳 This simple, foolproof technique gives you perfectly tender whites and warm, runny yolks every time. It's the ultimate upgrade for your morning sourdough toast.Get the step-by-step guide below.

08/29/2026

💰 Got Clutter That Might Be Worth Money?

One of the hardest parts of decluttering is looking at something and thinking…

"I know this is worth something. I don't want to just give it away.”

But then come all the questions:

• What is it actually worth?
• Where should I sell it?
• Facebook Marketplace? eBay? Poshmark? Mercari? Somewhere else?
• How do I take photos that actually help it sell?
• What should I write in the listing?
• How much should I ask?
• Should I ship it or sell locally?
• How do I avoid scams?
• And when is it finally time to lower the price—or just donate it and move on?

After years of helping clients declutter, downsize, organize, pack and sort through their belongings, I created Turn Your Clutter Into Cash: The 2026 Guide to Selling Your Stuff Online.

This practical digital guide walks you through the entire process, including:

✓ Deciding what's actually worth selling
✓ Researching value and pricing realistically
✓ Choosing the right selling platform for different items
✓ Taking better photos and writing better listings
✓ Negotiating with buyers
✓ Shipping and local pickup
✓ Avoiding common scams
✓ Selling clothing, furniture, antiques, collectibles, electronics, books, china, crystal, craft supplies & more
✓ Knowing when selling is no longer worth your time—and it's okay to let it go

This isn't about turning your home into a resale warehouse.

It's about being smart about what you sell, getting a fair return for the things that are worth your time, and reclaiming your space.

📘 Instant Digital PDF Download — $21.99

Learn more and get your copy here:

[Turn Your Clutter Into Cash — Smart Living Skills](https://smartlivingskills.com/?page_id=1025&utm_source=chatgpt.com)

Smart Living Skills
Helping you simplify your home and your life.

08/29/2026

Smart Living Skills is Moving to Michigan ❤️

Due to a major change in our family circumstances, Dennis and I are preparing to relocate to Michigan within the next 4–6 weeks.

Smart Living Skills is not closing — we are relocating.

I’ll continue taking on Birmingham-area organizing, packing, downsizing, photo organizing, and transition projects while my schedule allows before we leave.

I’ll also continue offering remote services before and after the move, including virtual organizing, photo and video editing, websites, marketing materials, digital organizing, photo organizing, online selling assistance, and other creative projects.

I’m also working on transitioning the Alabama portion of Smart Living Skills to another trusted professional organizer so my clients and referral partners will still have someone reliable to call after we leave.

If you know someone who could use my help — locally or remotely — referrals would mean so much right now.

You can also follow our family’s move and support us here:

[https://www.supportnow.org/sarah-and-dennis-moving-home-for-mom](https://www.supportnow.org/sarah-and-dennis-moving-home-for-mom)

And if Smart Living Skills has helped you in the past, leaving a Google review, sharing this page, or inviting others to follow would be incredibly helpful as I prepare to rebuild the business in Michigan.

Thank you for supporting Smart Living Skills through this next chapter. ❤️

click here to leave a FIVE STAR google review: https://g.page/r/CQ0cxNI8jrA2EBM/review

if you would like to give directly: venmo

08/07/2026

✨ Every organized space has a story—and this one started with a gift.

This project came from one of my beloved clients of three years, who gifted four hours of professional organizing to her friend as a thank-you gift. That kind of referral means the world to me and is one of the greatest compliments I can receive.

We started with an in-home assessment so I could understand the family's needs and how the playroom was being used. On organizing day, my client trusted me to take the lead while she worked in her office, allowing me to focus on creating systems that would serve her family well.

Children are very visual. They thrive when they can easily see their choices, reach what they want, and know exactly where it belongs when they're finished. That's why I love using containers, clear categories, and labels. When everything has a designated home, cleanup becomes simpler, independence grows, and putting things away can actually be fun.

After 6½ hours, every book, game, dress-up outfit, craft supply, STEM activity, and toy had a logical place. The room is now easier to use, easier to maintain, and ready for everyday life.

With the kids heading back to school next week, this couldn't have been a better time for a fresh start. A well-organized playroom makes after-school routines smoother, encourages independent play, and helps the whole family begin the school year with a little more peace and a lot less chaos.

Thank you to my wonderful longtime client for trusting me with another referral, and thank you to this family for welcoming me into your home.

Here's to a successful school year and a fresh start! 🍎📚

08/01/2026

Another space transformed...and we're not quite finished yet! ✨

This office closet was designed with function in mind. My client regularly teaches classes and participates in promotional events, so we created organized zones that make it quick and easy to gather the materials she needs and get out the door.

One of my favorite features is the top three shelves, which are now dedicated entirely to gifts. Having them all in one place makes it easy to see what she has on hand instead of buying duplicates or searching through multiple areas of the house.

There are still a few finishing touches to complete, but the difference already is incredible. Organizing isn't just about making a space look nice—it's about creating systems that save time, reduce stress, and make everyday life easier.

I can't wait to share the finished project!

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Birmingham, AL
35242

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+12055046670

Website

http://smartlivingskills.com/

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