{"id":66089,"date":"2025-12-20T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66089\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:17:10","slug":"skip-gift-wrapping-cleaning-and-other-chores-with-this-lehigh-valley-concierge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66089\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip gift wrapping, cleaning and other chores with this Lehigh Valley concierge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The holidays take a lot of work to pull off \u2014 gift wrapping, travel, decorating, cleaning and so many other things on your to-do list. Thankfully, a local concierge service is happy to take some chores off your \u2018 backs and let you focus on the eggnog.<\/p>\n

Here For You Concierge provides services for Lehigh Valley clients such as gift shopping and wrapping, pantry preparation, hostess support for events, cleaning, laundry, organizing and preserving photos, according to owner Melissa Draving. She works alongside assistants on a project basis and operates out of shared office space at 6081 Hamilton Blvd., Suite 600, in Lower Macungie Township.<\/p>\n

Before Draving founded the concierge business in 2017, her mother Carolyn was a small business owner herself, operating the music store Trac Records for 30 years in Doylestown, Bucks County, until it closed in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really wanted to follow in her footsteps and start a business in my 20s as well,\u201d Draving said. \u201cSo I kind of looked around, I was doing a lot of projects for my own family, like I was helping my parents with their household management. So all their laundry, grocery shopping, meal prep [and] cleaning because my mother was sick with terminal cancer. And so when she passed away, she made me the executor of the estate and I had to sell the 13-acre home and do organizing and arrange buyers to come purchase items that we owned that needed to be downsized and manage the logistics of clearing out the home of items before it was sold. And after everything settled, I kind of was like, \u2018Well, what is somebody else that does this for other people?\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

She said her services are especially useful for clients such as a doctor with small children and a bachelor wanting to spruce up his home with new furniture and art (which is great for having the girl he likes to potentially visit).<\/p>\n

\u201cI really just always love to help people,\u201d Draving said.<\/p>\n

Draving also wants to grow her business\u2019s revenue and team size, in part so that she can spend more time with her daughter Maggie while giving her team the same opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is to continue to grow a larger team and provide more flexible work to other women who \u2026 for example, some of my new assistants are from a mom\u2019s club that I\u2019m a part of, and so I\u2019m providing them with flexible, project-based work that they can do while they\u2019re still staying at home with their younger children,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just to keep the company growing so that I can provide more opportunities for people to have meaningful work that\u2019s interesting [and] that\u2019s flexible around their child care schedules. And to set an example \u2026 my daughter\u2019s 3, so I want to set an example for her, but also have more flexibility on my own time because as a mother, we want to have time with our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

To contact Here For You Concierge for its services, call 267-272-5241, email melissa@hereforyoupa.com or fill out the contact form on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Melissa Draving, owner and founder of Here for You Concierge, wraps packages Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, at her shared office space in Lower Macungie Township. She performs services such as doing household chores, organizing spaces, managing photographs, wrapping gifts, shopping for gifts and providing hostesses for events like at-home bridal showers. (Sharon Merkel\/Special to The Morning Call)\n<\/p>\n

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Melissa Draving, owner and founder of Here for You Concierge, wraps packages Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, at her shared office space in Lower Macungie Township. She performs services such as doing household chores, organizing spaces, managing photographs, wrapping gifts, shopping for gifts and providing hostesses for events like at-home bridal showers. (Sharon Merkel\/Special to The Morning Call)\n<\/p>\n

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Melissa Draving, owner and founder of Here for You Concierge, sits in her shared office space Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Lower Macungie Township. She performs services such as doing household chores, organizing spaces, managing photographs, wrapping gifts, shopping for gifts and providing hostesses for events like at-home bridal showers. (Sharon Merkel\/Special to The Morning Call)\n<\/p>\n

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Melissa Draving, owner and founder of Here for You Concierge, stands in her shared office space Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Lower Macungie Township. She performs services such as doing household chores, organizing spaces, managing photographs, wrapping gifts, shopping for gifts and providing hostesses for events like at-home bridal showers. (Sharon Merkel\/Special to The Morning Call)\n<\/p>\n

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Melissa Draving, owner and founder of Here for You Concierge, wraps packages Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, at her shared office space in Lower Macungie Township. She performs services such as doing household chores, organizing spaces, managing photographs, wrapping gifts, shopping for gifts and providing hostesses for events like at-home bridal showers. (Sharon Merkel\/Special to The Morning Call)\n<\/p>\n

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Melissa Draving, owner and founder of Here for You Concierge, wraps packages Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, at her shared office space in Lower Macungie Township. She performs services such as doing household chores, organizing spaces, managing photographs, wrapping gifts, shopping for gifts and providing hostesses for events like at-home bridal showers. (Sharon Merkel\/Special to The Morning Call)\n<\/p>\n

\"Melissa<\/p>\n

Melissa Draving, owner and founder of Here for You Concierge, wraps packages Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, at her shared office space in Lower Macungie Township. She performs services such as doing household chores, organizing spaces, managing photographs, wrapping gifts, shopping for gifts and providing hostesses for events like at-home bridal showers. (Sharon Merkel\/Special to The Morning Call)\n<\/p>\n

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Melissa Draving, owner and founder of Here for You Concierge, wraps packages Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, at her shared office space in Lower Macungie Township. She performs services such as doing household chores, organizing spaces, managing photographs, wrapping gifts, shopping for gifts and providing hostesses for events like at-home bridal showers. (Sharon Merkel\/Special to The Morning Call)\n<\/p>\n

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\nLehigh Valley retail and restaurant news in brief<\/p>\n

Robert\u2019s Jewelers is offering 75% off<\/a> for all of its jewelry before it permanently closes on Wednesday at 7751 Glenlivet West Drive in Upper Macungie Township.<\/p>\n

Owner Peter Fenstermaker, who thanked customers for their patronage, said issues like the increasing costs of doing business and the difficulty of keeping employees motivated the closure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just seemed like a good time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fenstermaker\u2019s father Robert<\/a> started the business in 1989. The store\u2019s pieces included rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets.<\/p>\n

Taichi Bubble Tea held a grand opening Dec. 12<\/a> at 21 E. Third St. in Bethlehem, where it offers teas<\/a>, poke bowls, spring rolls and ramen.<\/p>\n

The Cozy Crumbs Caf\u00e9 opened at the ArtsWalk<\/a> at 21 N. Seventh St. in Allentown.\u00a0Owner Tala Madanat said it serves coffee, teas, pies, sandwiches, brownies, croissants and salads.<\/p>\n

In other news<\/p>\n

The Lehigh Valley-based Hocus Pocus Cleaning was named \u201cSmall Business of the Year\u201d <\/a>by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, which praised the business for expanding its services into pet care and bringing on 13 new employees. The Lexis Group LLC in Harrisburg also was honored.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a nearly 25 percent year-over-year revenue increase, Hocus Pocus is setting the standard for operational excellence and proving that success is built on empowerment, resilience, and heart,\u201d the chamber said on its website.<\/p>\n

Founder Rosie Selvaggio<\/a> started the business in 2016.<\/p>\n

Retail Watch is a weekly column covering retail and restaurant news in the Lehigh Valley. Have a question, tip, or want to see something in the area? Contact retail reporter Graysen Golter at retailwatch@mcall.com.<\/p>\n

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