Decluttering someone else's stuff

[scrappydappydoo]

So trying desperately to declutter and organise my house. Ideally I would get rid of loads but it's not all my stuff - it's mostly dh's or the DC's. It seems I keep creating boxes for dh to sort through and that's what they remain - boxes of dh stuff cluttering up the place. Any advice?

How old are the DC? I recently threw a massive wobbly at the disgusting state of my two DD's room and binned almost everything. (3 trips to the tip!) It was liberating. The girls pitched a fit about it but as they were quite happy to leave all the supposedly loved items on the floor to be crunched and broken underfoot as no one see the floor any more, a foot deep in some places, and their solution was to push everything under the bed and under furniture, they couldn't possibly like their stuff that much.

Incidentally their room is kept a lot tidier now. I wonder why.

If their clutter is making it into the shared spaces of the house, box it all up and give them a set time to have it sorted and put away. If they don't, bin it.

As for DH's clutter, get him in on the job and decide between you what's going and what's being put away tidily. Work together.

I box them as well...

However if a month passes and it hasn't been touched I bin them! But I'm not nice.
I hate clutter.

children are easy: anything too small, broken, or for younger children get binned - or boxed if in excellent condition and can be used by younger sibling eventually.

Magazines are not books, and can be binned monthly (weekly in this house)

DH: pretty much the same principle. If there's no space for something, it can go