Household Organizing by Plow & Hearth
June is graduation season, and we were recently invited to the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountain area of Virginia to celebrate a friend’s completion of high school! While there, we visited Plow & Hearth in Madison, Virginia. Checking out the website a few days later, they have an excellent article on household organizing which anyone who is contemplating getting ready for an estate sale should read. http://www.plowhearth.com/magazine/storage.asp#advice
Although Plow & Hearth is primarily invested in selling outdoor living, and yard and garden materials, their advice to review, reduce, reorganize, and replace household items is definitely sound. Remember, a competent and recognized full service estate firm such as Lange Estate Sales will do most of these functions for you when planning a large scale commercial or residential estate liquidation sale. However, it’s also true that many homeowners have sentimental attachments to items and they prefer to do the initial purging alone.
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Shauna Lee Lange creates life effectiveness strategies for global women and girls through relentless work in achieving equality for women in the digital divide. Digital literacy, women and the Internet, and how the lack of women’s technological advances creates economic and political disparity are all pillars of how information and communication technologies MUST act as catalysts for global feminism and equal rights.
I believe the single most growing threat to the physical, emotional and financial health of women worldwide is information systems illiteracy and when left unaddressed, will eventually lead to women’s complete exclusion and invisibility to the extent that it will ultimately trump and surpass existing or historic strongholds!
I have many experienced years in management consulting, leadership training, and serving the public in advisory information brokering. What that means is that I am qualified to work towards empowering women and communities to envision, enlarge, and exemplify their best based on sound practice, research & analytics, and contemporary techniques.
I also teach, write, lecture, exhibit, jury, curate, build teams, assess performances, motivate, research, promote, counsel, conceptualize, market, facilitate and measure. Recent subjects include access to technology issues, social hierarchies, cultural elite, art as economic leverage, technology literacy as anti-poverty, information societies, net neutrality, and the absence of women in technology developing professions.
Previously, I was the very first woman-veteran founder of a full-service arts advisory, design studio, and organized creativity expertise providers in the Commonwealth of Virgina (founded in 2006) with a motto: “progressive art, global women, and creative empowerment” or “more art is more love”. I also served 6 years with the U.S. Navy on Italy’s island of Sicily and over 15 years nationally with the U.S. Federal Civil Service as a management, program, and transportation analyst.
Fully believing in the therapeutic impact and applicability of the arts, education, technology and creativity in one’s life, I work to encourage people to embrace full expression aided by education, free speech and free expression. My own inspired, self-taught, late-emergent, exhibiting artist art work concentrates on these themes in vintage and contemporary thematic collage, art journals, visual diaries, sketchbooks, and paper & book arts in the exploration of personal geographies.
Social equity requires a commitment to women’s equality. Women’s participation in the information economy carries enormous value to all girls and women. Technology literacy for women is a strategy I intend to tirelessly illuminate, use and promote for true liberation, global connectedness, and leveraging tools in societal struggles.
Conquering the digital divide means a focus on: 1) infrastructure; 2) limited telecommunications networks; 3) bandwidth capacity issues; 4) non-availability of hardware & software; 5) poor transportation networks; 6) uninterrupted power supplies; 7) non-availability of financial resources; 
non-availability of trained technicians; 9) lack of technical maintenance staff; and most powerfully, 10) prevalence of negative attitudes.
If those challenges weren’t enough, women in China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico, Brazil AND fully developed countries like the United States most often face difficulties in technology access with: a) male attitudes; b) lack of family support; c) institutional barriers; d) facilities issues (such as transportation or child care availability); and e) insensitive aid workers or instructors. These obstacles create an often unexplored gender dynamic in the world of technology where there is now limited effort to fully address issues of access, content and the positive impact of technology where women’s lives are concerned – not a women’s agenda, but one of ultimate human and civil rights. Civil rights in a technological age – a multidisciplinary, fascinating journey that I fully invite you to accompany.
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All rights to this site and its contents are retained and all original artwork is copyrighted. Click here to learn more about our licensing and permissions for text and artwork through Creative Commons. The firm of Shauna Lee Lange is comprised of professional service providers and administrators. Proud 2010 members of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) and the National Association of Investigative Specialists (NAIS). Life Coaching Certification was achieved in 2010 through the Advanced Life Coaching Institute (ALCI). Shauna Lee Lange is also member in good standing with the International Coach Federation (ICF) through March 2011. It’s important that coaches stay in the know about field developments and that they network with other coaches. We participate through Coach U and the ICF in the Career Coaches Special Interest Group which helps us give to the profession on an ongoing basis. We also hold Certifications in Civilian Leadership Development as a Trainer for Mentor/Assessment Training; Management Development Certifications for Leading People; High Performance Development Model; Ethics Training; Mastery in Alternative Dispute Resolution; Team Skills; and multiple other skills proficiencies in quantitative and qualitative analysis. Shauna Lee Lange is an advocate of 1st Amendment Free Speech, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, and Social Media.
