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.

Did anyone catch what country the Mum is from?

Germany

Wish we could skip the Blue Peter aspect!

Haha! Yes!

Do we get to see the house in a few months' time?

OMG binning the front and back of the CDs 😱 just devalued his collection!!

Sacrilege

Yes shocking!

I've come across the program half way through.. the before and after 😳 how on earth did they live in that house before!!!

The Dad knows he's the problem

What a lovely family. I am not sure how they functioned with that much mess either. Do the producers throw things around for the before shots? Hopefully, this is a positive, new life for them all

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit definitely, he said his childhood home had been similar. I have a family member who grew up in a hoarded house, the same reluctance to let anything go and to acquire excessive quantities of things.

I really hope they manage to keep the house like that. It was a shame for the kids having to live amongst all that hoarded stuff.

Dilly didn't get rid of the front of the CDs. Just the cases! She was slotting them in alongside the actual discs.

Hmmm it looked like just the discs and one of the inserts.

Was proper shocked at the before tonight but makes a lot more sense when hearing the back story-new baby, job loss and his mum’s accident. The girls were fabulous though I was surprised they wouldn’t give them their own room especially as the older one is in high school and a 5 year age gap. Can’t imagine her at 14/15 being that keen to share with a 9 year old. Loved the green kitchen and it’s one of the families that seem like they’ll keep up the changes!

I felt very sorry for the delightful children in tonight’s episode. DP and I have debated if the “before” was actually a safeguarding issue for the dc. I think yes, he thinks no.

I think yes, they were cooking on a portable hob surrounded by any crap that could have caught fire.

I thought the girls were aged 11 and 7? Or was it 11 and something else?

He seems like a professional victim. I hated the conflation between not enough money to finish the house with hoarding / living in an absolute pit. They took no responsibility. Those poor kids.

Yes, I thought that would have been more appropriate

In my house, dd2 has the smaller bedroom. They have never shared, nor would want to. So in this case, they could have given the youngest girl the box room. But they said they liked sharing, so 🤷

Couldn't help noticing that their greasy hair

One of the things I liked about the last episode was a glimpse of the army of helpers who I don't remember seeing before. It must have taken about thirty of them this time.

I always wish we could see the houses without then being made to look more awful at the beginning - this was one I thought possibly might have actually looked like that.

His hair especially when they went back a month later was still awfully greasy.

It was awful how they were living there was no where to even sit. I don’t think the production team made it look messier.
I really hope they’ve managed to keep it nice.

I've been listening to lots of podcasts about this. It seems that hoarding is not a personality failing. It is a brain reaction to having experienced trauma.
Which makes sense. The 'stuff' is overwhelming and it just builds up and up.

I hope behind the scenes the family has also been given counselling to help heal the trauma. Else the house will revert back.