Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Sort Your Life Out Unpacked with me, Dilly Carter. Every episode, a celebrity guest will hand over three boxes, each containing an item from their own home. We'll unbox them together and hear plenty of memories and stories too. Along the way, there'll be simple tips to help you sort your own life out. This episode, I'm joined by a documentary host and a model who grew up in Merseyside.
She's got three kids and says that some days she's a 10 out of 10 when it comes to organisation and sometimes she's a minus 10. It's TV personality, author and autism advocate, Christine McGuinness. Hello.
Thank you so much for having me.
Oh, welcome. And I have to say, Christine has walked in and she looks like impeccably dressed to match the set. Everything she's wearing blends in beautifully. You look so stunning sat on that leopard print chair. My autism is very happy. My OCD is love and life, right?
right now your mugs match your blouse your trousers match my cushion it wasn't planned this was not planned at all but you are blending in beautifully already so welcome and thank you so much for being here I mean let's just talk about that a 10 and a minus 10 they are worlds apart how are you feeling today just a neutral I'm where I'm supposed to be I match the set so I'm going to give myself a 10 out of 10 oh no I was a little bit late so I had a bit of being unorganized this morning so okay cool
Why were you unorganised this morning? Wondering what to wear, swapping and changing my trainers ten times. Then not getting in my cab on time, so I got a line by.
But I'm here. You're here and we're very grateful you are. It's almost time to unbox your items from home. But first, I'm going to ask you a few quickfire home truths. What do you hide in a cupboard when guests turn up unannounced?
Oh, my chamomile tea. Chamomile tea you hide? Yeah, I do. Why would you need to hide the tea? Because we do have loads and I'm not being tight, but everyone just seems to go for that one. It's my favourite one. Oh, it's your favourite?
And then if I haven't got one, when I'm on one, I'm like... So you're like, I've got every tea, just no chamomile. Keep a little bit for me over there.
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Chapter 2: What does Christine McGuinness reveal about her collection of white T-shirts?
And it's absolutely stunning. So I don't want to get rid of it.
Absolutely stunning. All three rings are absolutely beautiful. And I love the fact that you haven't sold it. You haven't got rid of it and that you're keeping it because I'm sure that a lot of people that have got divorced or going through divorces or, you know, their immediate thing is to get rid of anything connected to that divorce.
I mean, tell me, first of all, you know, how it felt when you took those rings off. For the first time.
Taking their rings off was really, really hard. And I didn't think it would be because I'm not showy offy. I'm not really big into like accessories and things. But obviously it was the sentimental value and the symbol of the marriage. So taking it off, you do kind of have that feeling of, oh, God, this is the end of my marriage. And it was really hard. And I found it interesting.
even more harder when one of my daughters noticed, when one of my daughters said, Mummy, you haven't got your ring on anymore. And I just said, oh, Mummy just took it off because I wasn't ready to really explain to her at the time. But now I just think it's an absolutely beautiful piece of jewellery, like I said, that holds so many good, amazing memories.
And although it might have been the end of my marriage, it certainly wasn't the end of... my family or my relationship with my ex-husband. And how is it the fact that you are still living together under the same roof? It's like a comedy show, honestly. Some of the days we sit there going, nobody would believe this. Nobody would believe our life. We genuinely do.
just get on and laugh and it just works and I think we always naturally fall back to going oh it's for the kids and it is for the kids it is absolutely for the children because you know they struggle with change and we don't want to be going oh you're going to daddy's house for a couple of days and now you're going back to mummy's and our routine is all over the place with work it's not like we're
You know, we're not on a rotor pattern where, you know, he has them for a week and I have them for a week. It's not like that. We're dipping in and out all the time. So having that comfort of being in one house with the children is really good for me and him as well, actually. It does really work for us.
Tell me, how do you split the house up between you and him? Do you still share certain areas or is it that you just live separately in different areas of the house? No, it's our house equally.
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Chapter 3: How does Christine's autism diagnosis influence her daily life?
And there's no reason for me to get rid of it. I'm fortunate it's not something like a need to... sell it for money or I need to get rid of it because I haven't got space. I'm very lucky that it's not doing me any harm keeping anything from the marriage in my home, including my ex-husband.
Exactly. I think if you are so many people, again, they're like, what do I do with my wedding dress? I've got divorced. I don't know what to do with it. I think if you've got children and you want to keep it, I think keep on to it unless obviously you want to let go of it, then sell it for as much as you can, get your money and run.
But if you had any type of relationship with your ex and you have children, then I think it's lovely to keep it. Store it in a beautiful box, put it in the attic or somewhere you can. Vacuum pack it if you need to, if you lack space. But just keep on to it for as long as you can.
I agree. They're not doing any harm.
OK, should we move on to your third box? Yes. OK, so this is the biggest box. It's quite light as well. Let's see what's in this box. Okay. Gosh. So this is a bag. It's a bag for life. It's a bag for life. So it's blue and it's got pictures of houses on it. So tell me why I've got a bag for life in the box.
I'm kind of going to blame my mum for this one. Okay. I'm a very proud council estate kid. Yeah. And where I grew up, the rubbish was just always put in a bag. It was hung on the door every time you'd walk in the kitchen, it would fall off, it'd go everywhere. And now I live in this very beautiful home. Yeah. But I still have these carrier bags just in the kitchen hung up for the rubbish.
And it's just that thing that... I suppose a little bit of comfort and nostalgia and home life for me, what I had as a child. I kind of still have the bag full of rubbish on the side. Are you one of these people that's got 2,000 bags for life in their cupboards? Yeah. Cupboards full of bags of bags. Yeah. I even Googled how to store them and I watched a lady doing origami. Yes, you can.
With the carrier bags. That took too long. Probably because you've got too many.
That's why it took you too long. So number one, tips for your bags of bags is declutter them. Do you get any online shopping to your house delivered? So you know that they will take all your bags of bags. So regardless of where they are from, number one, Next time they drop off your shopping bags, say, can you please take all these bags? They will take all the plastic bags that you've got.
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