How much is too much?

Ummmm. I’ve been having a little bit of a spring/summer clean. I like a clean home although it never seems to happen. I’m a “my house is lived in not a show home” person.

But…….. I have a problem.

I’m a shopperholic not to the extreme of hoarding but I go through phases, just like the rest of my life it’s a bit of a flitter every now and then. However as I’m saying this I went through four of my drawers in my bedroom yesterday to declutter and found 10 shower gels, 10 pens, 5 pencils, 6 hair huggies, 11 razors, 4 tweezers, an abundance of lighters and much much more, mostly duplicates of what I already have.

I don’t physically have space for all this stuff, a couple of years ago I purchased plastic drawers as a temporary measure until I’d found homes for everything but it seems I’ve just filled them more.

I have always used my room as an excuse, not enough space, not enough storage, ect but now I can see it’s not that it’s me. I’m unorganised so when I can’t find something I buy another, this is not normal. Or is it?

If my family ask for something I want to be able to say yes I know where that is instead of I don’t know or I don’t think we have that go out and buy one.

But how do you make a disorganised person organised? I’ve never been taught cleaning, organisation or anything like that so how do you learn it at my age? How do I teach it to my children?

Funny enough we had a big house move 11 years ago. In doing so we got rid of around 80% of what we owned and stored 15% and took 5% with us. When we set up I didn’t want to send for the other 15% as I liked my home as it was, uncluttered and clean.

I have an attraction to clothes, bags, hair care, face care and nail care. I have hundreds of nail polishes, loads of face masks, stupid amounts of clothes. Oh and perfumes, body washes, make up. The list goes on.

I need to use what I have and reduce my purchasing. I could probably do with donating some of what I already have in all reality. It makes me wonder how many women are there our there that are like me?

Are you a person that purchases because it’s pretty, a bargain, you can’t find the item so you purchase another? Are there other people out there like me? Does it come in line with depression and anxiety? Am I more normal than I think? Or completely off the spectrum of normal?

As mums we never feel we have it all together but it makes me wonder am I on the bad mum scale or the surviving mum scale? I’m clearly reviewing my life currently and I’m looking at improving everything but it would be nice to know where I am in reality. We only ever see what people want us to see. Ie clean living rooms, kitchen ect but what do the bedrooms look like, what if you turn up on a day they’re not expecting visitors? what would you see then?

Tell me, let me know if I’m normal or not.