I need a strategy for cleaning and tidying dd's room

[BariatricObama]

i go in and see the piles of little bits of precious plastic tat and turn round and walk out. it really needs a good sort out but it is beyond me. dd is 6 btw adn a hoarder

You have to stop the hoarding cycle NOW bo
My DD is 10 and if I didn't regularly cull teh shite, it would be anightmare

it's not fair on her, she cant' keep her room tidy with a load of crap in her room and sometimes, tehre is so much STUFF that they just don't know what to play with

Get decent storage, compartmentalised if poss (dolls / art / cars / etc) and then have a ruthless CHUCK OUt when she's at school

if she comes home and finds everytghing away, chances are she'll only realise 10% of it has gone

BE STRONG - get in the decluttering zone

Black plastic sack. Everything that looks broken in sack. Sack in wheely-bin.

i know i know. sadly i am a hoarder too.

are you a name changers tempesta?

Yep decluttering regularly is the answer, the bottoms of toy boxes often hav a layer of small pieces of plastic tat, I just bag it all up and bin the rubbish, and take the other stuff to charity shop rather than landfill.

Toy boxes and drawers that can have different stuff in categories is all easy for just chucking stuff together tidily.

yes i am bo

I am in the zone with you

(the "its not fair on her" sentence was re MY dd, but i guess it would apply to yours too maybe - it sounds harsh soz)

We have a one toy at a time rule too. Not for single toys per se more for toys that come with loads of peices ie trains and track, puzzles, board games, lego, wall-e collection, doctor who collection, etc - these things he is only allowed one out of at a time and all the pieces must be put away together before another load of tat tiny pieces are brought out.

BariatricObama I feel your pain

I was also a hoarder but I use the excuse I am trying to stop the sins of the mother, just get her to help you and ask has she really played with it recently etc..
I do it with my dd and she herself gets rid of loads, but sadly I need to do it again

I do find it easier to keep ds's room tidy he has a box for transformer, Marvel heroes etc,
With dd its all little bits that are soooooo important

right cover me lads i am going in!

Oh dear me too Plum..

I moan at the dc about all the little piles of rubbish treasures but I find it very hard to chuck stuff out especially if it's theirs.

But I've been a bit ruthless lately (well for me) with dc's rooms and my things too and it def helps. It seems to clear your head too not living with it all and I haven't missed anything I've chucked out yet.

My main stumbling block are the bags and bags - ridiculous amount really - of cuddly toys. Dd's are quite philosophical about getting rid, but I can see it upsets ds who loves them all dearly and one look at that quavery lip and brimming eyes of his and I just can't...so I let them stay. Then of course they'Re everywhere again in minutes and they drive me nuts

I am a closet hoarder also.

I have just bought a second hand bedroom suite for DD and have found that with all the clothes in drawers and all the books elsewhere in a shelf then her toys fit nicely in the new cupboard and all I have to do is make the bed and vacuum the carpet.

Clean and delightful.

Granted it has only been two weeks...

one and half bin bags and an enormous useless kite that doesn't fly later.... and her room looks the same!

brilliant start bo

I did a big sort out of my DS's room a few months ago. It took two entire days to do it properly. What I did was:

Cull books that he'd grown out of / DVDs that hadn't been watched. Culled board games that had lost parts / weren't popular anymore. Stacked the remainder neatly on shelves.

Bought one of those Ikea units with baskets and assigned one basket per type of toy (e.g. lego in one, small animal figures in another, vehicles in another).

Bought one large toy chest for bigger toys.

Bought two hobby boxes (plastic crates with small compartments) for tiny toys.

Bought a cheap plastic crate as an arts /craft box (stored out of reach, only to be brought down with my permission).

Chucked out anything ancient, broken or clearly not played with for months.

Kept one lidded wicker basket for the unsorted crap that will inevitably build up to accumulate in (especially when I am trying to clear the floor in a hurry to hoover or whatever). It's not huge, so when this starts to look full, I sort it out/chuck bits out etc. It's taken about 6 months to build up this time.

Oh, and on the day I finished sorting the room out I took DS (and DH) on a magical guided tour of his shiny new room, pointing out what went where

p.s. I am no Domestic Goddess. I hate housework. But this has definitely helped to keep the chaos at bay

there is a my little pony tea pot that flashes adn plays music that really should go too.

yes i have done all the ikea storage buying which does make it easier. she never bloody plays with toys anyway so i don't understand why her room is full of them!