Sort your life out - new series

[francy99]

Just started watching the new series of Sort your life out and it’s doing my head in already. The 20 year old daughter’s bedroom is a tip. My daughter is 20 and she has a tiny box bedroom and it’s tidy. She would give her right arm for a bedroom that size. What is wrong with people that don’t keep their house tidy. There are 4 adults in our 3 bed semi detached house and it’s tidy (most of the time). Turned over. Can’t watch it.

The Dad has dementia and everyone else is a shift worker, so they have a lot in their plate. I hope they do well in this one.

I would love to lay out the contents of our house like they do on SYLO. Really makes me think about the stuff we have and hang on to.

The show wouldn't really work if it only showed tidy, clutter free homes though would it? 😂

People are all different, have different stresses, compulsions, habits, standards, backgrounds, everything. I think it's quite easy to see how mess and clutter can creep up and up to an unmanageable level and the task of dealing with it is at an overwhelming level.

Well just because you and your daughter are so bloody perfect doesn't mean everyone is. Your superior judgemental tone is actually quite unpleasant.

House is lovely! That kitchen will be amazing when cleared

You’ld hate my house op. We have no excuse, just we are both untidy, clutter things easily and dh hoards given a chance (thankfully I do not unless you count umbrellas in my car ). People get to the point where it just gets out of hand

You should have kept watching and learnt a little about them rather than judging on first impressions.

And of course they're not going to go to a tidy minimalist house - thats not the point of the program !

That's the whole point of the program though. I always wonder where's all the questionable belongings? Are they allowed to hide them first? Where do they put them before the whole factory display? 😂

Not everyone has questionable belongings? i don't think there's anything in this house which I wouldn't let people see on the telly.

Plus, if the OP hadn't turned over in disgust, she'd have seen that the father of the family has early onset alzheimers, and the mother works shifts as a carer as well as struggling with sentimentality.

@francy99 are you jealous as they appear to have a bigger house than you and you think because it’s a mess they don’t deserve it but you would?

Delete the thread op, it's ableist. I sincerely hope you never have a family member struck by sudden disability (hint; it can happen to any one of us at any time).

The SYLO ethos is the opposite of whatever your mindset is, thankfully.

Nail. Head.

What’s your DD’s 100m time @francy99?

And how many West End musicals has she starred in?
How many copies of her first novel did she sell?
How many number one hits has she had?

I always wonder if everyone just empties their roof and garage before they come on this programme!
some of the houses they couldn’t move in otherwise.

In my case it's ADHD. But somehow I don't think you're interested in hearing how that affects my ability to keep a house tidy.

I will preface this by saying I don't live in a tip and I don't have a lot of stuff. Which is probably the only reason my house is habitable.
Reasons I don't live in a show home

• I don't like cleaning. Sue me
• I have better and more interesting things to do with my time like cold water swimming or paddle boarding at the weekend or going on a six hour long hike.
• I prefer to spend my evening doing activities such as functional fitness and/or dance classes
• I prefer to spend weekends having coffee with a friend, going on a road trip with the latest bloke I am seeing or sitting in a cafe with a book
• I prefer to spend 12 hours straight painting over almost any other activity in the world.

As my mum used to say: nobody is going to say at your funeral "she kept a clean house". I actually want to live my life, not scrub the skirting boards every weekend. House gets cleaned in 10 min bursts per day and that's good enough for me.

Just watching the one with five kids in a tiny theee bed!!

Indeed. Particularly with this series, I've noticed there's generally a challenging but heartwarming situation behind every family if minds are kept open.

I think that's the problem, though, isn't it? I've only seen a few of these but there's usually a massive, heart-rending issue that somehow they can't address and the result is 17 frying pans.
I realise people are struggling with all sorts of massive problems. I'm too brutal, I'd have that outgrown/whatever stuff on eBay fast as anything. Or simply to the charity clothing bank.

I've just moved from a one bed flat and I had enough stuff to fill a 3 bed and none of it particularly useful but I don't drive and it costs a fortune now to get skips and man with a van. Not everyone knows people who want to go to the tip for them.
I'm dreading when anything happens to my parents, they are hoarders of the highest level. We all have ADHD!

I have a storage unit that is just filled and my DD asked me the other day is this what it looks like inside your brain Mum and it actually made me laugh because its so true. I've had a lot of trauma in my life and people who don't suffer with ADHD or had a traumatic life should be grateful because I hate being inside my own head .

I can tidy up for anyone else but not myself. However seeing all the crap I've kept has made me start to realise it's all a Millstone round my neck. It's time to get rid of stuff that isn't important anymore!

Another thing is the guilt that there's a lot of people less fortunate than I am. So whilst I was moving I was offering so much stuff to groups on FB, a working washing machine, wardrobes, beds and I had so many people messing me about in the end the washer went to the scrap man and the furniture was all broken up.
Sometimes trying to be nice doesn't get you anywhere in the end.
I wish I had a "normal" brain sometimes ...

I wish this show did a revisit twelve months later to see if people have stuck to it