Really need some tips and advice on this. DH and I have objectively a pretty big house for our family size, we have 1 DS who is nearly 1 and a cat.
But it feels like we are drowning in stuff. I’m finding it so hard to keep the house clean because when I get time, I spend it tidying and seem to just be moving piles of stuff around.
For example I’m trying to tidy DS’s bedroom. I get sidetracked whilst putting washing away by outfits that are too small for him. I take them out of the wardrobe but can’t decide whether to sell them or give them away or put them in the loft so they just sit on his drawers alongside other bits and pieces like formula he doesn’t use, old breast pads, etc that we don’t need but which I can’t decide to give away/sell/chuck.
It’s the same in every room and I’m getting sick of it. It doesn’t help that my DH is a bit of a hoarder. He has a double sized bedroom as a study that can’t be used properly because of the crap in it; I work on my dressing table and he goes to the office.
What are strategies to dealing with this? How do you cope with the guilt of throwing things away? I’m dreaming of booking a day annual leave and sorting the house from top to bottom but not sure if it’s realistic.