SORT YOUR LIFE OUT: 3 Steps to Transform Your Home & Change Your Life

by The BBC Sort Your Life Out team, Stacey Solomon (Foreword), Dilly Carter (Contributor)

The first official book from the life-changing BBC One show, Sort Your Life Out will have you falling back in love with your home in three simple

1. STRIP - how to let go and clear out the clutter (when you don't have a warehouse to hand)!

2. SORT - time to sell, donate, recycle and upcycle.

3. SYSTEMISE - learn how to organise, fold and store in a way that is manageable and sustainable.

Filled with every tip and trick from your favourite experts Stacey, Dilly, Iwan and Rob, this empowering book will give you the tools to transform your home and get that Sort Your Life Out mindset.

Genres: Nonfiction

234 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 4, 2024

Reviews

[Michelle Le Grand · Rating 2 out of 5]

OK, well I just want to make it clear that I don't watch this TV programme. Stacey Solomon may be a great person but she is so over-exposed and irritating that I can't stand to watch her. I find her voice grating and it annoys me, that basically, she was a singer and now, suddenly, she's an expert on craft and upcycling furniture. The other woman on the show drives me up the wall is a bit annoying as well.

However, obviously they didn't actually write this book and it contains some very useful information and strategies to clear your house. If we can skip through the pages bloated with patronising instructions on how to clean your sink and fold tea towels and, if we can ignore whole pages devoted to Stacey's trite pearls of wisdom:

This is a prime example - you can have all the storage in the world, but if you've got too much stuff to fill it, then it's not going to work for you.

(Wow, let's get this woman onto 'Celebrity Mastermind'.)
If we can ignore all that, then the basic principle of getting our similar items together into one pile, finding out we possess 103 white T-shirts and deciding to take some to a charity shop is very useful. Well, just a few. Well maybe one. Well, we'll just put it into a bag to be taken to a charity shop at some later date. When we have the time.

Then we come to this paragraph:

Books
With the exception of kids' story books, reference books and cookbooks, most other books are "single-use". Once a novel has been read, the book is likely to then sit on a shelf without ever being looked at again. Unless you really love a novel and re-read it regularly, there's no need to hang on to any book that has served its purpose.

Books are single-use! This has to be the most stupid sentence ever written in the history of mankind.

Well, there you have it. I can tell you that all the books on my shelves are NOT 'single-use' apart from this one which I'm now placing into a bag to go to the charity shop. (Now just let me remove that white T-shirt from the bag first.)

[Staceywh_17 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everyone needs a little (or large) declutter in their lives at some some point and the Sort Your Life Out team from the BBC series have just the answers.

Going forward I have learned some great tips on storage, and folding techniques (with step by step diagrams) that I'm definitely going to use, I hate that underwear drawers always seem to be the most cluttered!

It's all about being ruthless, which I'm not. I can't bear the thought of throwing away anything family memory related. Could you?

Each chapter comes with snippets of dialogue from the families that have appeared on the show and also shows the amount of things they found in their homes that they were hoarding and getting rid of...

17 packets of confetti
61 mugs
18 unused toothbrushes
115 Punjabi suits
1567 BOOKS

The last one I wholeheartedly disagree with. You can never have too many, right? And no- one ever gets rid of a book when they've read it, do they?

[Cidney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well this is the 2024 hardback edition and not the kindle one. I can't find the current edition on Goodreads anywhere even with the isbn number, this seems to be a recurring theme with goodreads of late for some very odd reason!!

I haven't seen Stacey Solomon in any tv programmes, my friends tell me I watch the wrong ones, but I came across an episode of "Sort your life out" on W the other day (no hd tv so no bbc tv or radio channels anymore) and was fascinated by it and by Stacey! She's a very creative hardworking likeable empathic young lady. She had me with her from the getgo. I was glued to my tv, and found to my delight that W had several of these episodes over a week or so, so that was me sorted out for my meagre tv viewing!

I was really glued to Stacey's Sort Your Life Out and have even gone out and bought some containers to begin sorting out my stuff, and there seems a lot of it, have made several trips to charity shops and second hand bookshops and even the local tip. Yes life is looking good, thanks to the very helpful Stacey Solomon! She is actually right in that having so much "clutter" around you does give you a negative vibe, but when you can start seeing the wood from the trees you do feel more positive and wanting to go paint the walls, well I've not gone quite that far yet, but have paint charts.

[Mrs A Cross · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book. I definitely think it's good to get a hard copy of if you can so that you can find relevant parts as and when you need them. It's the first decluttering book I've read and I've found it has really inspired me and has definitely helped me with my decluttering. If you love the TV series then I think you'll love this book.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty basic! I have watched every episode of SYLO, and if you take notes from the show, this book will feel a bit irrelevant. I picked up a couple of tips, and would definitely recommend it if you haven't watched the show, but I was hoping for a bit more from this book!

[KP · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read, quite fun and inspired me to have a bite of a sort out, but not the full treatment. Some good ideas, dotted throughout. I'm not as keen on labelling everything as the authors: the label printer went in the last decluttering exercise.

[Lindsey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Basic

[Kerry Henderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book from the people who brought you the hit TV show.
3 simple steps to decluttering your whole home. Plus some handy cleaning tips thrown in as well. If you like the show this accompanies it well.

[Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

sort your life out is a favourite show of mine and this was like reading an episode. easy to read and just like a perfect slice out of an episode.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the TV Series Sort Your Life Out and the book has given me lots of ideas of how I can organise my home a little bit better. Also inspired me to take a bag full of stuff to charity today.

[Alanna Jenkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

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