Drowning in toys

[cadburyegg]

I know a lot of people are atm but my house is something else. My kids are 8 and 5 and my whole house resembles a playmobil catalogue. They also have loads of other stuff. I've literally allowed them to take over the house.

I need to go through and declutter and sort more storage. I cannot access my loft easily so can't rotate toys easily.

I didn't go overboard at Christmas but they got presents from me, my mum, my ex, ex in laws so it adds up. My ex looked after them today and I returned home to see that he'd taken them out to spend their Christmas money on yet MORE plastic tat. I want to cry. Neither my ex nor my in laws will agree to keeping toys at their houses.

Also it's both of their birthdays very soon.

Everywhere I look I can see mess and clutter. I don't know what to do or where to start 😭 I also think my dc are going to become extremely materialistic.

HELP!

I would decide what storage space you want to allocate and anything that doesn’t fit, goes.

The first cull will be the worst, after that do it every 6 months when you swap out seasonal clothes.

Make the kids part of it, most respond fairly well to the idea of kids who have no toys getting some

If you still have the boxes donate to somewhere like the Sally Army that do presents for kids

If not then a local home start type charity - there are loads

going forward ask people to club together to buy one better thing, if you can