FANS of Stacey Solomon’s Sort Your Life Out have blasted a family for being ‘insanely wasteful’ after an ‘insane’ episode.
The BBC show sees the former Loose Women host try to declutter the homes of different families across the country with her team of organisers.
The family were confronted with how much they own in a shocking episode[/caption]
The family owned over 6,000 items of clothing[/caption]
Stacey went to Coventry for a record-breaking decluttering project[/caption]
A recent episode took Stacey to Coventry to help a family-of-five shift over half of their belongings from their packed home.
As part of the project, every single item from the family’s home was taken to a warehouse to lay bare the extent of their shopping habits.
During the course of the show, the family vacated their home while all their possessions made their way to the warehouse, and viewers were shocked by just how much the family owned.
Their four-bedroom home was covered in clothes, many of which had never been worn, and neither Sheeny nor her husband Sohan were sure what belonged to whom anymore.
Things were so bad that Sheeny admitted the clutter and chaos were overwhelming, and she admitted “it’s time for a change.”
It was soon clear how bad the problem was when they got to mum Sheeny’s mega wardrobe, which included a record-breaking number of clothes.
But it wasn’t just clothes the family had an excess of – the warehouse held a whopping 437 pairs of shoes, 39 phone chargers, over 1,000 kitchen utensils, including 50 pots and pans.
The family even had 28 suitcases, despite there only being five of them.
The clutter accumulated over 20 years, but they didn’t have long to decide what to chuck – which is where Stacey came in to help.
“You have 6,568 items of clothing. It is the most clothes we’ve ever seen,” Stacey told the family.
“This #sortyourlifeout is absolutely tone deaf,” one viewer wrote on X.
A second agreed and wrote: “This is the worst one ever I’d just leave them all to it.”
“Omg this is insane,” a third chimed in.
And someone else added: “These lot are actually just annoying and don’t deserve the help. Unwilling to help. Over 6,000 pieces of clothing? That’s just disgusting. Greed personified.”
By the end of the episode, the family got rid of nearly half of all their belongings.
What is a hoarder & is it a medical condition?
According to the NHS, Hoarding is a mental health problem that involves storing an “excessive” number of items in an unmanageable way. Newspapers, clothes, junk mail, bills, containers, and household supplies are among the variety of items kept.
The disorder can impact a person’s everyday life by putting a strain on relationships when someone else tries to clear the clutter and also makes it difficult to move around the house. The condition causes unhygienic living conditions, fire risks, and trip hazards.
Hoarding is often associated with other mental health conditions including severe depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
A GP can recommend the best treatment, which may include therapy or antidepressants.
“I doubted whether we could actually achieve what we wanted to achieve. But we got there, I’m so, so proud of us,” Stacey said.
The family were in tears as re-entered the freshly decluttered home, but some viewers were left convinced the home would end up full of junk again.
“Normally there’s a route course for the families on #sortyourlifeout. This lot just seem like materialistic hoarders.
“Go back in a year & it’s gonna be just as bad,” one said.
And another agreed: “She won’t change. It’ll all back to how it was within 6 months. She needs help with her shopping obsession if anything.”
The family-of-five ended up ditching almost half of their belongings[/caption]
Stacey and her team were brutal when it came to deciding what got to stay in the home[/caption]
The family had 437 pairs of shoes, 39 phone chargers, over 1,000 kitchen utensils, including 50 pots and pans[/caption]
