Sort your life out BBC1

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Is stacey soloman pregnant ?

I wondered this but didn't want to say incase she wasn't 🙈😂

I thought it was just an ill fitting skirt...

I think she was when she was filming this series, but as far as I know she isn't now. I've not seen anything on Insta where I follow her

No there's a clip of her in episode 1 saying to Rob something like "brand new series and for once I'm not pregnant!"

I'm just watching series 4 of clean it fix it. Really enjoy it.

I've caught up this evening. The past 2 episodes of SYLO have been quite deep really.

Last week we had the woman compulsively bought mountains of clothes / shoes / makeup, admitting her previous partner was abusive and repeatedly said she looked like a man, so she kept buying beautiful things.

This week we have another woman who is affected by the behaviour of a man - the father who left suddenly when she was 17. She admitted to keeping lots of things from the happy times before he left and buying her own children lots of toys / clothes after a childhood of not having her much.
I wondered if her husband also left, as there was no mention of him at all.

I presumed that the older daughters had taken all of their things out of the house after the sort. Hopefully not to continue the learned behaviour of hoarding. It was a lovely house, the living room in particular. I wish the frames had been hung properly though, I was imagining them all swinging around on those chains!

@CurbsideProphet those chain frames weren't even hung straight.

I saw a dried flower chicken wire flower in Next yesterday, so obviously it's a thing. This one was scented at least.

Joe and Zoe

100% agree with this. My OH is very precious about what I do with things he gives me. After 20 years that’s a lot of stuff!

Can you slowly manage things out without telling him? Surely he’s not tracking all your belongings

@Lovemycat2023 put them in a charity shop. That sounds controlling. Does he have other hoarding issues?

Bit extreme! He’s absolutely fine, as am I. He just likes me to wear jewellery he buys for me, and not mislay presents. He’s not bothered about me giving away books and those type of gifts.

My point I was trying to make is that a lot of people do value how others treat the parents they buy for them, and we should be sensitive to that when decluttering.

"...we should be sensitive to that when decluttering."

I agree, up to a point, @Lovemycat2023. We should be sensitive, but in my mind, that means telling the person that you loved the gift and are grateful for it, but that you now don't need it any longer - so decluttering, but with kindness towards the donor. I don't think it should mean you have to keep lots of things you really don't want, and which are causing (stressful) clutter.

If dh had given me something that was really meaningful to him, I would definitely keep it, and the same goes for gifts from other people too. But the flip side is that I do want and need to declutter my life, so I simply can't keep everything. Dh and I are heading towards the stage in life where we will want to downsize, and there is no way a smaller house will hold all the stuff we currently have, so we are going to have to be a bit ruthless.

This was my favourite to watch,they were like Jane Austen characters 😂

Loved the kitchen but hated the dried flower thing.

That green sofa 💜

Granny's chair needed a damn good clean or covering.

You said that's a lot of stuff. So it's a bit of jewellery?

I would never buy a CD as a present for someone if I didn't know their musical taste and I certainly wouldn't pressurise them into keeping it if they'd never listened to it.

I hate all the stupid craft stuff. That rail with pictures hanging on chains would be going straight in the bin along with the dried flower dust collector.

I loved the green sofa too.

Very true about the crafty stuff.
When I saw Stacey making that cupcake lampshade I was beyond words

it was very preschooler

One of the previous series had a bedside table made out of bread bins.

At least that was practical

I've just watched one of those, and also loved it.

Thanks to recommendations here I’ve also started on the Clean It, Fix It watching. Where are series 1 and 2 though?