When your apartment gets to this point, I wonder if you even bother shitting in the toilet, or anywhere near the bathroom, for that matter. The moment you feel a dump coming on, do you just drop your pants, squat down and start squeezing no matter where you are in the apartment? I'm also assuming you don't wipe if you're willing to live in this, too. According to Houston-Imports.com:
This has nothing to do with the Hurricane. We had a resident who had an outstanding balance for over a month and no one could get ahold of her. The Bookkeeper went inside after so many tries to leave a note and this is what we found.
The pictures do NO justice. There is suppose to be 2 cats living here but we cant find them (we think they're dead somewhere inside the apartment-we contacted the SPCA). The place REEKS to say the least, i gagged non stop.
Somebody stated that the cups would've disintegrated. However, those Whataburger cups aren't made of parrafin wax - they're styrofoam. Some fast food places do that; Whataburger is one of them. Thus, they'll last indefinitely (which is the case here).
Many people say that this is a mental illness, or a case or hoarding. I'm not so sure I agree with that. Although this was a 40-year-old caucasian woman (I won't say lady, she obviously isn't), I think that it's just a basic case of laziness. I have friends who keep a filthy apartment; it's not because they're mentally ill or have any type of hoarding thing going on. It's because they're just lazy fucks who, after finishing a meal, or a drink, or something, will set it down instead of throwing it away and never address the issue again. I have seen this in action and it gets bad. (They would probably never clean if they didn't have friends over - sometimes, negative judgment can have positive effects.) This apartment is a prime example; the pizza boxes, the cups, the food containers - they get put down in the wrong place and are never moved. The cigarette butts - ashtray's too far away, I'll just put this out on something and toss it elsewhere. The shoes and underwear in the bathroom - "I'll get it later" and it never happens. (The shit, though, and the socks - that's beyond me, I mean, damn.) This happens with many people, only in this case, it was really extreme - most people have a certain threshold for messiness and/or nastiness. Once you pass that threshold, you have the urge to clean until things are acceptable. This person obviously had quite the tolerance...or, by the time she hit her threshold level, she was in too deep and just didn't want to clean it. (I wouldn't want to tackle this either, so I mean, y'know, I can kinda understand that?)
Regardless, this is pathetic, ridiculous, hilarious, and mind-blowing. I can't fathom it, and I definitely can't stop laughing at the pictures and the comments. I feel bad for the landlords....for her, I vote death by firing squad. Damn.
Quote: “There is suppose to be 2 cats living here but we cant find them (we think they’re dead somewhere inside…)”
Did you check to see if the woman was in there too!???
Hmmm no bugs in any of the vids! wtf!
Love the cleaning Products.
Tut Tut World of Warcraft. she shoulda stuck to Guild Wars!
Love the Dusty Tv!
I have a feeling she's a chain smoker!
Love the ironing Board! at least she loves her clothes!
And did anyon else notice she stopped to have Fish And Chips once???
Gotta Love you Americans!! Wonder if any aussie's live like this????
If the Australian neighbors that moved in a few years ago are any indication, OH GOD YES some aussies live like this.
Their place is pretty bad... they ripped out the front wall of the house and added some sort of makeshift front porch complete with piles and piles of garbage, and giant blue tarps hanging instead of doors. This is an upper middle class neighborhood, too. It's pretty sad to see... nobody is sure if they're just eccentric or if they are actually crazy. And nobody really wants to find out, because their cars have an NRA sticker on the back. And they clearly don't live like that because they're impoverished, they have two really nice cars, an Audi and a BMW. Very strange.
This is a work of art and should be preserved carefully for future generations. It makes the mess we all produce visible. Cleaning this up is only cleaning up your conscience.
It seems like this might have been an upset tenant that trashed teh place on purpose. I mean really, the cigarette butts alone make me think she went out and stole huge ash trays full. If that's what she did, brilliant!
ya know my wifes mom lives like that but add in sixty million cockroaches! all of her children attempt to clean her house but give up pretty quick. they all moved out as soon as legally possible. no surprise there.... I attempted to use her computer once, but after prying what appears to be dried up peanut butter from the stuck open disc drive i decided to leave it alone, and the fact that more roaches inhabit the keyboard than you can imagine.... not to mention all the cig butts and ashes. if i took pictures you all would think that this house presented here is in pristine order. ya know you live nasty when even the cats move out... i mean obviously from all the food containers that finding food was not the issue behind the missing cats.
the walls are not all THAT clean if you look closely, although I DO find those pillows unusually clean. i imagine half the nights, she doesn't even get to her bed. look how much crap is in the way.... seriously... yeah a lot of that trash looks newer but imagine all the old trash underneath. ewww. and you CANNOT fake that bathroom.
Lovely place... it looks like mine. But seriously, nasty people like that touch money... the same one you have in your wallet right now. Can you imagine how many bacterias you have it right now in your wallet?
Remember when you wrote this:
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GREG375 Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I GUESS THEY’LL START HOLDING THEM “ACCOUTABLE” SOMEDAY. YOU THOUGH BOSCO, SHOULD PROOF READ BEFORE YOU POST. IT MAKES YOU LOOK IGNORANT.
Maybe before you go making stupid ass remarks about how someone needs to "proof-read" their message...Maybe YOU should run a spell check...The word is spelled A C C O U N T A B L E.....Dumb ass...It's probably YOUR apartment...
How come everything looks like it just happened? Was this a group of 15 people who lived in the apartment for a week and decided to get artsy with the trash?
This has nothing to do with the Hurricane. We had a resident who had an outstanding balance for over a month and no one could get ahold of her. The Bookkeeper went inside after so many tries to leave a note and this is what we found.
I just love the decor - it reminds me a little of my place, except mine has semen stalegtites hanging from the ceiling, and a shit load of stick books in the shittery.
I'll go with the general consensus on this one...the flexible container of Massengill (douchebag) ***REALLY*** needs help!!! :-O
I don't believe that any sane, mentally well person could let their home go to pot like this - she has to be suffering from a severe mental illness - more than can be "fixed" by a little Prozac or carbamazepine too.
Her level of mental illness might merit being institutionalised for a time...at absolute minimum, it would provide her with at least a temporary reprieve from walking through mouldy pizza boxes & fast food bags, knocking over plastic cups (that may or may not have liquid in them and that may or may not have also been used as buttholders), or fixing that nasty ass toliet (it's fairly obvious that the shitbowl is broken because of the presence of the pissbucket on the top of the lid and the missing cover for the top of the cistern).
To play games like World of Warcraft or CounterStrike, you need:
W, A, S, D and the Spacebar, and the mouse.
And look, the keyboard is COVERED but you can see the screen, W, A, S, D are CLEAN even though the Q right next to it is in peril, and there is a small clearing around the mouse. She's playing these games all day.
HOLY CRAP!!!!
I get that the apartment resident is CLEARLY disturbed, but I'm wondering about logistics. How did she even manage to walk/wade through that to move around the apartment?? How did she afford so much fast food??? Why bother ironing her clothes?
It's sad and gross but kinda fascinating. How does a mess like that accumulate? I have had a messy house before, I think everyone has, but how does that even build up? I wonder how long it took?? So many questions that will go unanswered :(
I cannot believe somebody can live this way.
This only shows a person with no love for herself and life, maybe a deep depression.
Note appart of the disaster shown, is the sad feeling of a woman alone and lost.
I was disgusted by what I saw, and I've seen similar things before. I have an aunt who lived like this.
People who do this have something wrong with them, and it's not just laziness or some other moral fault. Usually, these people have a form of obsessive/compulsive disorder. When my family tried to assist my aunt, she wanted to put a lot of stuff that was obviously worthless into storage. If she was willing to take the time and spend the money to hoard trash, this is not a lazy person; this is an obsessed person. Think about it? Would anyone in their "right mind" "freely choose" to live like this?
What many of us feel a sense of schadenfreude when we see these photos, and with it a sense of righteousness: "I don't do that." What we should feel is sympathy and a desire to help.
i lived with a chick as a roommate in a house in Montrose, Houston who REALLY wanted to live like this...she TRIED AND TRIED...in the end the filth drove her out and i was left to clean up her shit and her filth.
it was one of the most horrifying few months of my life, i had no idea she was like that when we signed a lease together. She was not as bad as the images depicted here, but im sure that if she lived alone there would be no difference between her place and this one....PERHAPS THIS IS HER PLACE!!!!! aaahhhhhhhh
I can tell you exactly what kind of person this is. I've seen it before.
A girl who's in college who probably doesn't have a real job. A girl who's parents pay for everything...who has probably never had to pick up after herself a day in her life and even though her parents house is probably absolutely spotless, shes not going to lift a finger to clean because she's never had to. She is probably always on the go and never there for very long...to eat and then get a change of clothes and then leave.
Her friends obviously never come to her place, she is always at theirs and she tells herself "I'm never home anyway" as a sort of reassurance of not having to clean. More than likely her parents came and saw the dump and refused to pay for it until she got it cleaned...hence the back rent.
In the end, she probably made a deal with them that she would move out and start over and promise to keep it clean if they would pay her rent again...being as why she left all of her furniture..they probably promised to buy her new furniture because they didn't want their baby girl to catch a disease.
And she's probably not fat at all...she's probably normal sized and in the public eye and to her friends is probably quite normal...but i'm going to guess that her car looks alot like her apartment...but probably gets cleaned out every now and then because people actually see it. And when she moved she probably took her cats with her...she may be a filthy slob, but shes going to take her pets I guarantee.
Look. it Can NOT be World of Warcraft that caused this., ALL her Number keys are Dirty as shit. WoW without using ur number keys? no. MUST HAS MORTAL STRIKE.. SHIT NO NUMBER 3 KEY!!! = fail.
she' prolly sits typing to all the fat ugly men who wont even touch her with a pole because she's lazy and won't clean her fuckin place
When I was really young there was an older woman in my town who would walk around with a shopping cart, picking up radom stuff and trash. I knew she wasn't homeless cause my town was pretty small and we'd know if she was. I would always ask my mom who she was and what she was doing picking up trash.. i knew she wasn't trying to help the enviornment or anything. My mom would just tell me she was sick and she didn't know what she was doing. My mom also said that even when she was young she'd see that lady walking around with a cart. I ask my mom where the lady's family was, and my mom said they were embarrassed of her and they kind of dis-owned her a long time ago. I wasn't sure where she lived, but one afternoon me and my friends saw her pushing her cart into her front yard... Her front porch was filled with loads of crap.. there was like stuff coming out of her front door. I felt bad for her neighbors, it looked like a junk yard. Her house was large and she lived by herself. I could not imagine how bad the inside of her house must have been.
I looked up "hoarding syndrome" cause some people on these comments said thats what caused the mess in the pics from this apartment. apparently it is indeed sort of related OCD. Here is some info..
Frost & Hartl's ('96) definition of clinical hoarding:
(1) the acquisition of, and failure to discard, a large number of possessions that appear to be of useless or of limited value; (2) living spaces sufficiently cluttered so as to preclude activities for which those spaces were designed; and (3) significant distress or impairment in functioning caused by the hoarding.
People with compulsive hoarding syndrome may have immense difficulty throwing anything away, from the oldest paper clip, to a used food container, to an out-of-date newspaper, for fear that they might need those items in the future.
..So i guess that old lady that lived in my town was so bad that she was afraid when other people threw their crap away and had to bring it back to her house. crazy.
ps. i was cracking up for so many of the comments on this page lol.. but damn, it would suck to be sick like this. Alot of people are arguing on here saying don't blame it on mental illness, but c'mon now... she was even keeping used toilet paper/tampons. The info I read about hoarding said hoarders are "procrastinators, avoiders" etc. There's a difference between a filthy ass bachelor pad/lazy college students who party every night and someone who is so sick they can't stop collecting trash.
on a lighter note.. I think this apartment might make chuck Norris pinch his nose.
perhaps because the landlord was a jerk this person decided to seek revenge. toiled didn't work, he didn't fix it. this is squalor. maybe she died in there...doesn't anyone watch CSI?
While this is gross... It's also pretty sad. No person who valued their life or anything in it for that matter would let this happen. This person must be suffering from severe depression or worse. Very sad.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 07:56 am
LOL. Look at where there has been cigarrettes pushed back so she can move her mouse. Fantstic healthy lifestyle.
October 21st, 2008 at 06:12 pm
i wanna know what happened to this chick... are we sure she's not in there somewhere?
October 20th, 2008 at 07:46 pm
Somebody stated that the cups would've disintegrated. However, those Whataburger cups aren't made of parrafin wax - they're styrofoam. Some fast food places do that; Whataburger is one of them. Thus, they'll last indefinitely (which is the case here).
Many people say that this is a mental illness, or a case or hoarding. I'm not so sure I agree with that. Although this was a 40-year-old caucasian woman (I won't say lady, she obviously isn't), I think that it's just a basic case of laziness. I have friends who keep a filthy apartment; it's not because they're mentally ill or have any type of hoarding thing going on. It's because they're just lazy fucks who, after finishing a meal, or a drink, or something, will set it down instead of throwing it away and never address the issue again. I have seen this in action and it gets bad. (They would probably never clean if they didn't have friends over - sometimes, negative judgment can have positive effects.) This apartment is a prime example; the pizza boxes, the cups, the food containers - they get put down in the wrong place and are never moved. The cigarette butts - ashtray's too far away, I'll just put this out on something and toss it elsewhere. The shoes and underwear in the bathroom - "I'll get it later" and it never happens. (The shit, though, and the socks - that's beyond me, I mean, damn.) This happens with many people, only in this case, it was really extreme - most people have a certain threshold for messiness and/or nastiness. Once you pass that threshold, you have the urge to clean until things are acceptable. This person obviously had quite the tolerance...or, by the time she hit her threshold level, she was in too deep and just didn't want to clean it. (I wouldn't want to tackle this either, so I mean, y'know, I can kinda understand that?)
Regardless, this is pathetic, ridiculous, hilarious, and mind-blowing. I can't fathom it, and I definitely can't stop laughing at the pictures and the comments. I feel bad for the landlords....for her, I vote death by firing squad. Damn.
October 20th, 2008 at 03:02 am
Quote: “There is suppose to be 2 cats living here but we cant find them (we think they’re dead somewhere inside…)”
Did you check to see if the woman was in there too!???
Hmmm no bugs in any of the vids! wtf!
Love the cleaning Products.
Tut Tut World of Warcraft. she shoulda stuck to Guild Wars!
Love the Dusty Tv!
I have a feeling she's a chain smoker!
Love the ironing Board! at least she loves her clothes!
And did anyon else notice she stopped to have Fish And Chips once???
Gotta Love you Americans!! Wonder if any aussie's live like this????
*Deep in thought*
March 24th, 2009 at 05:00 pm
If the Australian neighbors that moved in a few years ago are any indication, OH GOD YES some aussies live like this.
Their place is pretty bad... they ripped out the front wall of the house and added some sort of makeshift front porch complete with piles and piles of garbage, and giant blue tarps hanging instead of doors. This is an upper middle class neighborhood, too. It's pretty sad to see... nobody is sure if they're just eccentric or if they are actually crazy. And nobody really wants to find out, because their cars have an NRA sticker on the back. And they clearly don't live like that because they're impoverished, they have two really nice cars, an Audi and a BMW. Very strange.
Pretttty scary.
October 14th, 2008 at 07:39 am
This is a work of art and should be preserved carefully for future generations. It makes the mess we all produce visible. Cleaning this up is only cleaning up your conscience.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Meth.... Not even once!
October 8th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
It seems like this might have been an upset tenant that trashed teh place on purpose. I mean really, the cigarette butts alone make me think she went out and stole huge ash trays full. If that's what she did, brilliant!
October 5th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
ya know my wifes mom lives like that but add in sixty million cockroaches! all of her children attempt to clean her house but give up pretty quick. they all moved out as soon as legally possible. no surprise there.... I attempted to use her computer once, but after prying what appears to be dried up peanut butter from the stuck open disc drive i decided to leave it alone, and the fact that more roaches inhabit the keyboard than you can imagine.... not to mention all the cig butts and ashes. if i took pictures you all would think that this house presented here is in pristine order. ya know you live nasty when even the cats move out... i mean obviously from all the food containers that finding food was not the issue behind the missing cats.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
caracaa ! de onde se viu um apê desses mano !! de onde veiio toda essa lixarada ?! ;P
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 am
That is totally rank. It's hard to believe that someone could actually live like that.
October 2nd, 2008 at 09:43 pm
No used condom wrappers in all that mess? What a shocker!
October 2nd, 2008 at 09:10 am
Once I faked farting and everyone in the van smelled it. Huh...what a weak people we are.
October 2nd, 2008 at 06:38 am
the walls are not all THAT clean if you look closely, although I DO find those pillows unusually clean. i imagine half the nights, she doesn't even get to her bed. look how much crap is in the way.... seriously... yeah a lot of that trash looks newer but imagine all the old trash underneath. ewww. and you CANNOT fake that bathroom.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Lovely place... it looks like mine. But seriously, nasty people like that touch money... the same one you have in your wallet right now. Can you imagine how many bacterias you have it right now in your wallet?
September 30th, 2008 at 06:57 pm
Looks a lot like my house! Mine is just a hair cleaner. I think we should call Oprah or HGTV.
Maybe they would help out and not tell anybody
September 29th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Hey, at least they iron!
September 29th, 2008 at 09:11 pm
HEY GREG375...
Remember when you wrote this:
_______________________________________________________________
GREG375 Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I GUESS THEY’LL START HOLDING THEM “ACCOUTABLE” SOMEDAY. YOU THOUGH BOSCO, SHOULD PROOF READ BEFORE YOU POST. IT MAKES YOU LOOK IGNORANT.
________________________________________________________________
Maybe before you go making stupid ass remarks about how someone needs to "proof-read" their message...Maybe YOU should run a spell check...The word is spelled A C C O U N T A B L E.....Dumb ass...It's probably YOUR apartment...
September 29th, 2008 at 04:07 am
I bet she's never logged out of World of Warcraft. She probably has a level 70 of each faction / class / gender combination.
September 28th, 2008 at 08:05 pm
I think its odd even use a computer with all that ash and ciggarettes around it. I almost at times looks staged.
September 28th, 2008 at 07:46 pm
I Found Waldo! LOL
September 27th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
How come everything looks like it just happened? Was this a group of 15 people who lived in the apartment for a week and decided to get artsy with the trash?
September 27th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
SO? Did you want a hurricane?
September 27th, 2008 at 01:58 pm
This has nothing to do with the Hurricane. We had a resident who had an outstanding balance for over a month and no one could get ahold of her. The Bookkeeper went inside after so many tries to leave a note and this is what we found.
September 27th, 2008 at 02:02 am
I just love the decor - it reminds me a little of my place, except mine has semen stalegtites hanging from the ceiling, and a shit load of stick books in the shittery.
September 26th, 2008 at 06:40 pm
so disgusting. i can smell it form my computer.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I'll go with the general consensus on this one...the flexible container of Massengill (douchebag) ***REALLY*** needs help!!! :-O
I don't believe that any sane, mentally well person could let their home go to pot like this - she has to be suffering from a severe mental illness - more than can be "fixed" by a little Prozac or carbamazepine too.
Her level of mental illness might merit being institutionalised for a time...at absolute minimum, it would provide her with at least a temporary reprieve from walking through mouldy pizza boxes & fast food bags, knocking over plastic cups (that may or may not have liquid in them and that may or may not have also been used as buttholders), or fixing that nasty ass toliet (it's fairly obvious that the shitbowl is broken because of the presence of the pissbucket on the top of the lid and the missing cover for the top of the cistern).
September 26th, 2008 at 08:41 am
There is a dead animal on the bathroom floor, to the left of the cabinets on a purple piece of fabric. Either a kitten or a squirrel.
September 26th, 2008 at 05:04 am
Staged pic show...who would keep lighting ciggs and smoking them halfway.
February 24th, 2009 at 06:48 pm
my gf's mom does
September 26th, 2008 at 04:35 am
I love Shipley's too, who can blame them? I love the intracate arrangement of the cigarette butts.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Did anyone find Waldo?
September 25th, 2008 at 07:51 pm
She's a gamer! I figured it out!
To play games like World of Warcraft or CounterStrike, you need:
W, A, S, D and the Spacebar, and the mouse.
And look, the keyboard is COVERED but you can see the screen, W, A, S, D are CLEAN even though the Q right next to it is in peril, and there is a small clearing around the mouse. She's playing these games all day.
Yikes!
September 25th, 2008 at 03:59 pm
HOLY CRAP!!!!
I get that the apartment resident is CLEARLY disturbed, but I'm wondering about logistics. How did she even manage to walk/wade through that to move around the apartment?? How did she afford so much fast food??? Why bother ironing her clothes?
It's sad and gross but kinda fascinating. How does a mess like that accumulate? I have had a messy house before, I think everyone has, but how does that even build up? I wonder how long it took?? So many questions that will go unanswered :(
September 25th, 2008 at 02:34 pm
I cannot believe somebody can live this way.
This only shows a person with no love for herself and life, maybe a deep depression.
Note appart of the disaster shown, is the sad feeling of a woman alone and lost.
September 25th, 2008 at 02:31 pm
I was disgusted by what I saw, and I've seen similar things before. I have an aunt who lived like this.
People who do this have something wrong with them, and it's not just laziness or some other moral fault. Usually, these people have a form of obsessive/compulsive disorder. When my family tried to assist my aunt, she wanted to put a lot of stuff that was obviously worthless into storage. If she was willing to take the time and spend the money to hoard trash, this is not a lazy person; this is an obsessed person. Think about it? Would anyone in their "right mind" "freely choose" to live like this?
What many of us feel a sense of schadenfreude when we see these photos, and with it a sense of righteousness: "I don't do that." What we should feel is sympathy and a desire to help.
September 25th, 2008 at 02:06 pm
i lived with a chick as a roommate in a house in Montrose, Houston who REALLY wanted to live like this...she TRIED AND TRIED...in the end the filth drove her out and i was left to clean up her shit and her filth.
it was one of the most horrifying few months of my life, i had no idea she was like that when we signed a lease together. She was not as bad as the images depicted here, but im sure that if she lived alone there would be no difference between her place and this one....PERHAPS THIS IS HER PLACE!!!!! aaahhhhhhhh
THATS THE LAST TIME I LIVE WITH A WOMAN!
September 25th, 2008 at 01:26 pm
I can tell you exactly what kind of person this is. I've seen it before.
A girl who's in college who probably doesn't have a real job. A girl who's parents pay for everything...who has probably never had to pick up after herself a day in her life and even though her parents house is probably absolutely spotless, shes not going to lift a finger to clean because she's never had to. She is probably always on the go and never there for very long...to eat and then get a change of clothes and then leave.
Her friends obviously never come to her place, she is always at theirs and she tells herself "I'm never home anyway" as a sort of reassurance of not having to clean. More than likely her parents came and saw the dump and refused to pay for it until she got it cleaned...hence the back rent.
In the end, she probably made a deal with them that she would move out and start over and promise to keep it clean if they would pay her rent again...being as why she left all of her furniture..they probably promised to buy her new furniture because they didn't want their baby girl to catch a disease.
And she's probably not fat at all...she's probably normal sized and in the public eye and to her friends is probably quite normal...but i'm going to guess that her car looks alot like her apartment...but probably gets cleaned out every now and then because people actually see it. And when she moved she probably took her cats with her...she may be a filthy slob, but shes going to take her pets I guarantee.
September 25th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Come on everyone...why is everyone so harsh! Don't you all realize this person is trying to save our landfills. She's a treehugga!!!!
September 25th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Look. it Can NOT be World of Warcraft that caused this., ALL her Number keys are Dirty as shit. WoW without using ur number keys? no. MUST HAS MORTAL STRIKE.. SHIT NO NUMBER 3 KEY!!! = fail.
she' prolly sits typing to all the fat ugly men who wont even touch her with a pole because she's lazy and won't clean her fuckin place
September 25th, 2008 at 08:07 am
When I was really young there was an older woman in my town who would walk around with a shopping cart, picking up radom stuff and trash. I knew she wasn't homeless cause my town was pretty small and we'd know if she was. I would always ask my mom who she was and what she was doing picking up trash.. i knew she wasn't trying to help the enviornment or anything. My mom would just tell me she was sick and she didn't know what she was doing. My mom also said that even when she was young she'd see that lady walking around with a cart. I ask my mom where the lady's family was, and my mom said they were embarrassed of her and they kind of dis-owned her a long time ago. I wasn't sure where she lived, but one afternoon me and my friends saw her pushing her cart into her front yard... Her front porch was filled with loads of crap.. there was like stuff coming out of her front door. I felt bad for her neighbors, it looked like a junk yard. Her house was large and she lived by herself. I could not imagine how bad the inside of her house must have been.
I looked up "hoarding syndrome" cause some people on these comments said thats what caused the mess in the pics from this apartment. apparently it is indeed sort of related OCD. Here is some info..
Frost & Hartl's ('96) definition of clinical hoarding:
(1) the acquisition of, and failure to discard, a large number of possessions that appear to be of useless or of limited value; (2) living spaces sufficiently cluttered so as to preclude activities for which those spaces were designed; and (3) significant distress or impairment in functioning caused by the hoarding.
People with compulsive hoarding syndrome may have immense difficulty throwing anything away, from the oldest paper clip, to a used food container, to an out-of-date newspaper, for fear that they might need those items in the future.
..So i guess that old lady that lived in my town was so bad that she was afraid when other people threw their crap away and had to bring it back to her house. crazy.
ps. i was cracking up for so many of the comments on this page lol.. but damn, it would suck to be sick like this. Alot of people are arguing on here saying don't blame it on mental illness, but c'mon now... she was even keeping used toilet paper/tampons. The info I read about hoarding said hoarders are "procrastinators, avoiders" etc. There's a difference between a filthy ass bachelor pad/lazy college students who party every night and someone who is so sick they can't stop collecting trash.
on a lighter note.. I think this apartment might make chuck Norris pinch his nose.
September 25th, 2008 at 07:43 am
tHIS PERSON NEEDS LOVE, NOT ALL THIS NEGATIVE STUFF!
September 25th, 2008 at 05:32 am
OMG! I have no place to live now and I had to leave my computer! What will I do???!!!
September 25th, 2008 at 03:05 am
er, that was toilet. so sorry.
September 25th, 2008 at 03:04 am
perhaps because the landlord was a jerk this person decided to seek revenge. toiled didn't work, he didn't fix it. this is squalor. maybe she died in there...doesn't anyone watch CSI?
September 25th, 2008 at 03:03 am
While this is gross... It's also pretty sad. No person who valued their life or anything in it for that matter would let this happen. This person must be suffering from severe depression or worse. Very sad.
September 25th, 2008 at 02:47 am
Bravo.....F. the Landlord
September 25th, 2008 at 02:11 am
I don't blame her, if I had an emachines I'd piss all over it too.
September 25th, 2008 at 01:17 am
Dominoes was a big hit with this lady too! I deliver Dominoes but not in Houston. I've seen some strange stuff but I never saw a house like that!
September 25th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Resident Evil: The Cleaner Girl.
That's a museum... of shit.