Anyone else got a child who is a complete hoarder? Preparing for house move - help needed!!!

[dippingmytoeinagain]

Now I'm usually pretty good at sorting, tidying and decluttering, but my 10yo DD and her bedroom full of tat has got me beat! Heading towards a house move so all systems go on the sorting out front, but oh boy, the pink room has me in a complete sweat! I go in, full of good intentions, but the army of cuddlies and what seems like thousands of minute bits and pieces of all sorts of stuff has me beating a retreat within seconds. Added to which, she has no intention - oh no, none at all, of getting rid of anything!

Please share with me your words of wisdom of how to sort out this mess as I can't bear the thought of packing it up and then unpacking it at the other end...arghhhhh!!!!!!

Pack together - one box each.

She can do the unpacking! :o

Wait till she's at school and have a cull ..... I also have a hoarder !

We had a chat about it last night - it turns out that she worries that the toys will be sad if they are given away thanks for that Toy Story

So today, we've made a gentle start on some less emotive stuff, with a keep box, a maybe box and a charity shop box. So far, there is a lot more stuff in the maybe box than I would have ever hoped and quite a bit in the charity box too... not sure it will be as easy once we get to the cuddlies, but to be honest, if I can reduce the other stuff, then the cuddlies can stay...and the maybe box will get hidden in the garage and then...well who knows what might happen to it

Aw bless her.

I've just done Dd(7)'s room with her. I think she was as confused and overwhelmed by it as I was TBH but once we got into it, I was surprised how much she was prepared to part with. I dipped out regularly, she seemed to make good progress by herself.

She has a tall trofast unit and we designated the top box as toys to put away for now, then rotate in later. I think it helped knowing she wasn't losing them forever, and I can live with one extra box. And she needed so many different places for things - I think half the problem was not having designated places for all the zillion different types of gubbins a small girl needs. Desk drawers and an old set of these www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40216357/ helped with that.

how about suggesting she sorts some bits out for the poorly children at the hospital who need something to cheer them up? And maybe she can get some sort of reward for doing so if she has a good clear out. something non clutter obviously - trip to the cinema or something.