Stacey Solomon’s decluttering expert reveals the rule she lives by which means her kid’s room is NEVER messy
STACEY SOLOMON’S decluttering expert has revealed her number one tip for making sure her young daughter’s room stays clean and clutter free.
Dilly Carter works alongside Stacey in her BBC show Sort Your Life Out, which helps families who have too many belongings to reorganise their homes.
The families’ belongings are taken to a warehouse and laid out on the floor, where they have to decide what to throw away, and what to keep in their new reorganised homes.
Dilly, first became interested in decluttering when her mother suffered from a mental breakdown, and became unable to look after her home.
She took it upon herself to sort out her mum’s home and then decided to pursue decluttering as a career, posting flyers through rich people’s homes to ask if they would like their belongings sorting out.
Dilly, who got picked up by the Sort Your Life Out team in 2020 runs a tight ship at home, and has taught her nine-year old daughter how to be an expert declutterer herself.
Speaking to pop-star Sophie Ellis-Bextor on her podcast Spinning Plates, which champions working mothers, Dilly told the Murder On The Dancefloor singer that her daughter is not allowed to get anything new until she has gotten rid of something.
“I’ve taught her that from a really young age”, she said.
Dilly added that her daughter also isn’t allowed to get anything new unless she folds up her clothes or sorts her drawers out.
“In order for me to buy her something”, she has to do something, Dilly explained.
She said that the one time this rule does not apply is at Christmas, when she can get things without having to ask.
Dilly explained that in this day and age, kids want things all the time, and parents generally have the means to buy them toys when they want to, so they aren’t a treat anymore.
“That’s why I make her work for it, because I don’t want her to grow up thinking you can have everything you want”, she said.
“I think it’s important for her to realise that things don’t just get handed to you easily
Dilly said that if her daughter really wants something, she has no problem, cleaning up her whole room and reorganising everything.
She said that she is also happy to get rid of things, following her mum’s one in one out rule.
Dilly's three tips for delcuttering your bedroom
- Vacuum your mattress
Dilly recommended that you should vacuum your mattress at least once a must as “dust builds up.”
She said: “This gets neglected a lot, but it is so important. We have spent all winter in our beds with heavy duvets on and blankets all the dust builds up.
“Think of all the skin in the mattress, it is a bit gross.”
- Have two sets of bedding
You may be tempted to hoard different bedding sets, but you only need three, according to Dilly.
She explained: “How many of us have so much bedding?
“So I would like to say one on, one off, one spare. That is the guideline for how much you should have.
2. Store your winter duvet
Now that warmer weather is here, the organising expert recommended packing away winter duvets.
She said: “It’s that time that we don’t need those 10 togs.
“We can opt for something a bit lighter so pack them away, vacuum pack them, and then you have more space to put that spring duvet on.
“Anything that you can pack away to save space is always going to be a good idea because the idea of decluttering is to create space in the house to make us feel lighter.”
“She loves it, so you know, it works”, Dilly said.
“I think there’s so much value in her appreciating and having a relationship with what goes on in the transaction of actually getting something”, Sophie responded.
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