Hoarders

Wobbie

Got any in your neighborhood? right around my corner, I have a strange house…from what I can tell, multiple generations may live there…it’s not he biggest shithole you’ve ever seen, but they like to collect flower pots and, lately, leftover christmas trees…they have 2 army style “mess tents” in the back yard..I suspect they’re packed with shit. any of you have hoarders in your hood?

2-feign-reluctance

Nope, but during my community case work days I went into (sort of) a few homes where there was hoarding amongst other things.

Malroth

boss is a hoarder. family business. screws up everything. has to separate the piles when we sweep. I could go on.

Gern Blansten

Not in my hood but I have a client who told me that she bought a house down the street from hers because her house was packed with shit.

She recently moved to assisted living and cleared out of one house and sold it for significantly less than market. It had to have been a fucking pit.

Fascinating how people get into that habit.

tempo_n_groove

YES.  Friend of the family is.  His house has slowly filled up over the years.  His pathway in the house has gotten smaller.  I tell him that when he goes, he’s 83, that his kids will have to clean up all this shit.

He has multiple sheds plum full of shit.  He likes tools that don’t work…

Wobbie

when I was a fireman, I’d say 80% of our house fires involved a hoarding situation. makes dragging hose a bit difficult.

Loujoe

If I lived in a smaller space I'd be buried in my dumb stuff. Would have to thin it out. But would I?

eeriepadave

I had an aunt that was a hoarder. When she died my mom had to go to her place to clean it out and she said it was real bad. There were newspapers and other junk there from years and years ago. She wished she took pics of it. I can only imagine. Heebie Jeebies.

PJ_Soul

When I lived in Banff I was forced to move into the basement suite of an old hoarder for a time (due to lack of housing availability). It was totally insane, and sad AF, as she was an senile old lady. It was a severe case - up in her living space there were literal tunnels between the junk. One day she nearly burned the house down and killed us while we were sleeping because she'd knocked a lamp over into a pile of oily rags. We woke up already half over come by smoke inhalation, but thank god we managed to put out the fire before the whole house burned down. She had no idea she'd even done it. Really close call.