Sort Your Life Out on BBC1

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Absolutely loved it!

My list of big house jobs includes 'declutter' in every room so I was hoping to put off doing it be inspired. Loved Stacey Solomon though would have liked more from Ivan on the cleaning.

I started another thread on this as I didn't realise this one was here. In it I was saying that what drives me nuts is this they take everything out to the warehouse and put it all in tidy piles. Then the discarded things are just thrown into a pile for charity. This always makes me think that things are just going to get thrown into a skip rather than donated. Why not keep the books and piles, and all the clothes in plastic bags? In this weeks, episode, they seemed to throw a load of plastic toys, tiny things, all over the pile of things for charity. It would take ages to sort that out as they would know very well, because they had collected it from the bedrooms and sorted it out!

Stacey, if you are on here, first of all hello, and second of all get this sorted!

I agree!! I'm a charity shop volunteer and say this every week - what's wrong with a neat pile of books rather than just chucking a crate everywhere. I also remember in the earlier series they would show the family selling stuff at a car boot or taking it to charity and that appears to have stopped.

We wondered why they didn't show the parents' room - it was the one room that was ok when they first looked so perhaps just focused on where it had changed the most.

Agree with the odd disconnect between the helpful (and weirdly gorgeous) piles of things organised by type - and then just chucking them in a pile. It doesn't make you feel very optimistic about where it all ends up.

I felt for the mum in that episode (sorry, I can't remember her name) - the impact on your own well-being of living like that is very hard to contemplate. Hard too to imagine how it gets to that stage without others trying to help - but I guess that is easy to say from the outside. Lovely to see them a month on and enjoying their new home.

DP and I did roll our eyes at Stacey's embellishment of the lampshade but it was actually quite sweet.

Oh I actually loved the hot air balloon lampshade! And the flower boxes on the amazing house shaped bunk beds. Rob really is a wizz with the carpentry. Also adored the pink paint they had chosen and even the pencil shaped shelf 😍

Agree about Rob - I'd love to let him loose in our house!

I'm very fond of the programme - it's a bit cheesy at times but it really does have a good heart in the middle of it all - and the four of them are a fantastic team.

I like Stacey a lot : she is the most positive woman on the planet

The team is what makes the show stand out from all the other home improvement type shows, they clearly all love each other and work brilliantly together, there's no big "look at me" egos, Stacey gets stuck in with the work as well as presenting and Joe often turns up to lend support too. They centre the family and the empathy oozes from the screen. Love it.

Yes it’s very warm tv.

Did they know each other before?

My view is that Ewan is the secret ingredient because he's so gentle, I think he's the relationship oil between the bigger personalities. Also realistically most of the actual work is done by a big background team of anonymous helpers. But I don't care, I just want to suspend my disbelief. Great episode, though I did think the dart board needed to be on the other wall, there was no room to throw any darts!

I think he's great

Yes I thought that about the dart board too.

I wondered about the amount of unopened mail . If they had that much stuff in the house and were living there courtesy of Mum and Dad I think one of them must have a spending problem.

Did it say courtesy of Mum and Dad?

It said they rented it off Mum and Dad.

I didn't hear that bit, but I did hear that her mum and dad lived next door!

I really enjoyed it, a great first show. The design of that house was awful though, that kitchen! Just why? Where the front door is could have come right out forward to give more room.

Yes I agree. Then they could have had an entrance hallway, as I think I remember the front door opened straight into the living room?

They did have an entrance hallway shown at the beginning as they commented about the amount of shoes?

Did anyone else notice the washing machine was sideways during the reveal with the door opening under the new worktop?

It was already in that position at the start.

I’m worried all the episodes are going to become extreme hoarder situations rather than a slightly mess than average family home.

Yeah!

This is a mystery

Yes I did. I wonder why they didn't turn it to open outwards?!?

I think the kitchen was so narrow it didn't really allow for it to face forward.

It was clearly an extension built onto her parents house maybe trying to get the most space out of an awkward shaped
side of their plot. I couldn't quite work out if the commercial kitchen was the thing that was compromising the downstairs layout, and actually, didn't they say something about a utility room or did I imagine that?

I'm watching this on iPlayer now.

It's really good!

I watched it today. I thought it was a bit off how they met, she seemed to be very young and said she'd gone from school to having babies and still looked very young.

He seemed older and I think she said he was the HR manager or something like that when she applied for a job, he saw her and immediately stalked her on Facebook.

It all sounded a bit odd but they seemed ok. I just felt sorry for her as she seemed to have emotional attachments to pretty much everything and he was very disorganised with paperwork.

It did make me wonder what he was avoiding dealing with!