To want to collect up the contents of DD`s bedroom into black bags?

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DD is 11. She is an angel in pretty much every way.
She does her homework with no fuss.
She loves to read.
She is able to amuse herself.
She loves helping around the house.

BUT

She is a hoarder - her bedroom is a nightmare - tons of bags - handbags, satchels, little bags, big bags, all filled with stuff - clutter , bits of paper just crap really!
Shoes everywhere
books everywhere
stuff EVERY where.

Ive bought her boxes to keep stuff Weve put shelves up
her room has a cupboard built in for her to keep crap.

But still the room is my nemesis!

Help! Please! - there has to be a way to get her (not me) to keep it tidy

Could things like the bags that she doesn't use be put onto ebay and she can have the money.

Books can be sold or go to charity shops, Amazon now has a trade in see if they can take them.

Maybe offer to decorate the room if she can smarten it up? She could use some of the ebay money to buy nice things to go in it?

How about you tell her that from a certain day/date anything left on the floor or under the bed etc will be thrown out. Point out that you have provided her with storage space and she is now quite old enough to have a little bit of responsibility, maybe make pocketmoney dependant on the room being kept at least reasonably tidy. You could shock her once if she fails to keep it tidy by putting it all into black bags and hiding them in garage/shed/loft for a day or two so she thinks you meant what you said, then bring them back out and say you are giving her a final chance and next time it will go to the local hospital/charity shop for children who don't have any toys.

I agree with Ebaying. The money may be an incentive for her to keep things nice and have a good sort.

If not, do what redwiner said. Give her a date, anything left un-put away binbag it, hide it, until she learns the lesson.
My mum did it, I learnt!

its only gong to get worse......I daren't go in my teenagers room; there is green mist coming up from the carpet

Yes - maybe ebay is a way to go - Think we would have to reach an arrangement on what she sepnds the money on otherwise she will be straight down Claires to buy more crap.

Am liking the idea of giving her a date and sticking to it.

Thank you for listening to me rant!!

Sticks fingers in her ears and sings "lalalalalalalalala" so she cant hear Cricketballs

i will tell you a secret - when I was a bit older than your DD - about 13 I think - my Mum went into my bedroom and took all the clothes off the floor, put them in a bin liner and bunged them in the garage. It took me two weeks to notice

OMG - I could have written this post last week, OP.
My DD loves helping in the house, spends her time at her GPs or Aunties or friends houses tidying up and loves to write, draw and make stuff. She gave up playing with toys a few years ago (sob) and just amuses herself in other ways.

But she hoards paper, is always writing scripts and doesn't throw any of them away and keeps toilet rolls and empty boxes 'just in case' she will use it in some craft project in the future.

Then she lost her DSi and said she couldn't find it. She said she'd looked everywhere and DH and I had turned the rest of the house upside down helping her look for it (and giving it a bit of a tidy along the way.)

At the weekend I gave in. Instead of going in there and throwing stuff away and having her stress and cry at me, we sat down together. We dragged stuff off every shelf in turn and out of every drawer and every box from under her bed. Together we binned 3 bags of rubbish and found new homes for everything else. I'm sure it will need doing in the (not too distant) future again, but it has made a big difference.

When I was about 8 or 9 my mum did the bin bag thing except she DID actually throw it all away. I always kept my room spotless after that through fear, but after I left home (quite some time ago now) I reverted to my old ways by way of rebellion. The bin bag thing does work but may have long term consequences!

shovel.Bin bags. worked for me

When I was about 14 my Mum did this to me. I went away to my Dad's for a few weeks one summer, came back and my room was pristine.

She'd spent two weeks cleaning things out, and to this day I can't think of a single thing I missed...

Darn her for being right!