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.
This is clearly the work of a someone with a mental disorder of some type. Its disgusting but sad that this person has been reduced to such a lifestyle with no help from family or friends to get her on meds or take care of her.
It's a sad day when the sloppy, disgusting lifestyle of some young woman has to be BLAMED on some type of mental disorder. Do you have no heart? Couldn't you think that maybe, this girl was a normal human being? A woman who was just not brought up right, and that this could possibly be 100% her OWN fault? It's a sad day in society when people resort to ignorance and use whatever minute knowledge they have of the real world to try and explain things. And no, I don't have any mentally disabled relatives, I just wanted to point out how stupid and ignorant you were.
It's a sad day when the sloppy, disgusting lifestyle of some young woman has to be BLAMED on some type of mental disorder. Do you have no heart? Couldn't you think that maybe, this girl was a normal human being? A woman who was just not brought up right, and that this could possibly be 100% her OWN fault? It's a sad day in society when people resort to ignorance and use whatever minute knowledge they have of the real world to try and explain things. And no, I don't have any mentally disabled relatives, I just wanted to point out how stupid and ignorant you were.
Imagine the roaches and rats...at night,when you laid down in a pile of filth,Roaches would scurry all over you...in your mouth....ears..ass...her cunt......
To assume she's fat just because of the fast-food trash everywhere shows how stupid some of you are. What you see in those photos is YEARS worth of garbage, not a week or a month If every one of you frat jocks gathered up all the pizza boxes and burger wrappers and slurpee cups you've used in the last 5 years and dumped them all into a small apartment, it would look exactly like this. Use your fucking brains, what little you have, and think about that for a minute.
I dated a guy that had a few rooms that resembled the pics above. I used his bathroom and ants were crawling all over the toilet and out of the shower. I got curious and pulled back the shower curtain and almost screamed aloud. His shower was soot black and orange mold and ants everywhere. Mold on the hair products and anything in the vicinity. There was at least an inch of black mold and his curtains were thick black mold. His sink had mold all over too and the towels looked like they were never washed (EVER!). Also he had no vacuum cleaner and I could tell his carpets were never cleaned. I took my shoes off and stuff stuck to the bottom of my feet. When I mentioned that I was bothered by his filth he first tried to make a joke about being friends with ants. Then I mentioned it again and was so turned off that I could not imagine myself lying in his bed with vermin crawling over me. YIKES! He is also very intelligent and an managerial executive. Sometimes there are reasons why men are BACHELORS!
Come to think of it... Reminds me of a guy who lived down the road from me as a kid. We kept biking past this "abandoned" house and thought it'd make a cool hut. Scouted it out one day, never saw anyone in there over 3 months. So one day we decided to make it into our gangsta ass hangout, got on the bikes and pulled up with a screwdriver and a crowbar... Only to have the guy walk out the front door, "whaddya want" .... "uh... is this place for sale?" His couch was made of junk, an old bike, mouldy clothing, a cheese grater and lots of broken electronics - covered by a sheet.
And yes, as far as this apartment goes, you can't blame it on a mental illness, unless laziness is one. As most people have said in this chain of comments, people who live in this kind of shit are geniouses at math or science or whatever. E=mcleanyourfuckingroom²
Blame the parents for not teaching them how to clean up.
Thank you very much, Plops. I think it's just fantastic that you found it very, very important to make sure no one on your internet be allowed to think that some woman who does nothing but eat fast food in front of the computer without ever lifting a finger around the house could be fat. That was both a valuable AND intelligent use of your day. If only there were more people willing to sputter with rage in their chairs over inconsequential internet nonsense and then congratulate themselves on their own genius for having done so, the world would be a more meaningful place. "Frat jocks" beware, Plops is here to call you stupid on the internet! Do his brain-smarts not shame you with shame? Do you regret all the wedgies you gave him now?? Oh you're a fun, magical person. I like you.
I once stayed in a condo that looked similar to this, but not nearly as revolting (there were no overflowing piles of used toilet paper or anything like that). The owner was an elderly Southern Californian woman who had hoarder's syndrome on top of a million other mental disorders. She was a nice, intelligent, generous, chatty person, and she cared a lot about animals. She was retired but she used to work in aerospace. My friends and I felt really sorry for her, so we cleaned out her apartment top to bottom. We organized everything into neat little piles. Underneath the piles of junk, there was food that was rotting and had somehow gotten ground into the carpet. The more we cleaned the worse it seemed to smell. We came back to visit her about six months after I had moved and everything was back to what it had originally looked like. Although she was physically healthy, she just couldn't take care of herself and she ended up moving into an assisted living place.
By the way, why all the bitch and cunt talk? If it were a black person, would you call them the n-word? Guys, there are women reading this too.
My son is a contract painter and has numerous contracts with apartment complexes to do "move out" repainting. He says this sort of thing (even this bad) is not uncommon at all. He had one that was three+ feet deep in beer cans throughout the entire apartment ... there was a path between the couch and the tv in the living room, and a path to the bathroom, and a path to the fridge.
This person is clearly mentally ill. Not an excuse, but this must be the case. As far as the cats they can only stand so much filth themselves. They are clean creatures by nature. They probably escaped a long time ago. I would doubt they were still in the house.
I in someways believe that most of the people responding to these pictures are more ill than this person. I can't believe the the harsh and cruel things people are saying about her. You can only look at just one of the pictures to realize she has OCHD: Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding Disorder . Its not that they are lazy or just some dirty person they can't part with anything. I knew of a woman who's place looked similar and well she was finally placed into a care facility because she could not part with anything. After being place on medications and monitored she was finally allowed to move back into an apt which was then monitored by mental health care workers. http://understanding_ocd.tripod.com/index_hoarding.html and another web site that has a good help on it it's called http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/296059/facts_about_ochd_obsessi... So I think instead of calling her a welfare lazy bitch slob 400 pound woman you might want to check out some of the sites and get educated.
This has been the best page I've ever visited. The comments are even better than the pictures. Wow I just got a bunch of laughs. Which I had something ridiculous to add to the comments though. Some of you are crazy.
Also looks fake because some keyboard keys are clean and others are not - are you saying this person used the computer regularly but never used the "Q" key for example?
Oh puhleeze, people, this is so obviously staged! The only-lit-for-10-seconds cigarettes, the too-perfect groupings of the same kind of soda cups with nothing else in between them, the cigs and ashes on TOP of the monitor? Wtf-ever! Nice fake pics, landlord, you'll probably get a settlement out of the poor dumb chick, who likely didn't take photos to prove the apartment was NOT in that condition when she left.
Enough of all the comments that either allude to this waste of life being a victim. THIS WOMAN, YES IT WAS A SHE, was capable of getting all that food, cramming it into her face,ironing her clothes,and she was also capable of paying her bills up until she fell a month behind as the post states.
SHE IS NOT A VICTIM. For those of you bleeding heart types out their who certainly want to label her a victim do us a favor.
Get of your high horse, come out of your tower, go find her and help her. Bring that filthy P.O.S into your home. Let see how fast your opinion changes when they do this to you. The property owner is the victim. That animal, needs her income- welfare or payroll garnished for the rest of her life. Or maybe instead of a GOV program to help her, how about using your tax dollars to reimburse the property owners when they are the victims. I mean this could classify as a natural disaster, hurricane "fat worthless P.O.S"
I need FEMA asap
Where is natural selection when you need it.
these comments are fucking retarded, im sure youR DAD AND YOUR UNCLE WORKING IN THE APT INDUSTRY HAVE SEEN MUCHHH WORSE (100X WORSE!) PLACES AND SHES FAT AND SHE SMELLS LOL!!!! fucking faggots
This is not so bad. It's just rubbish after all. If it was full of corpses then it would be much more disturbing. Although I guess there may be a few stiffs under the rubbish (maybe that's why it's there). My house is in a far worse state then this and even though the chicks I bring home don't really dig it I have kind of adapted to it. At least I can always find a cup when I need one. The fact that I have no arms kind of makes it difficult to clean up anyway. I just kick the rubbish out of my way and go about my business.
A bloke came around a while back trying to sell me a vacuum and offered me a demonstration. I let him in and had a bit of a chuckle as he turned white as a sheet. I do keep my sheets clean and have fresh towels and I have a system installed that sprays my arse with water after i take a dump so it's not that bad.
I own my house so it's nobodies business what it's like inside.
And if your wondering how I typed this with no arms well I have a voice recognition system on my computer so I just dictate. Yeah life sucks but so does cleaning up.
The first thing that struck me is how *clean* this place is. YES there is shit everywhere, but there is no dust on all the pizza boxes/cups etc. But then the TV and antenna are covered with dust. This definately is "Where's Waldo?" My favorites: In the kitchen and bathroom there are some cleaning product spray bottles, in the hallway there is a broom lying partially on top of the garbage along with some clean rolls of paper towels. There are a couple books lying around (what does she read?). The fancy electric Oral-B toothbrush package in the hallway. The tupperware container and CD on the coffee table. What are the orange bags under the ironing board? Also, the USPS box in the bedroom. Cookies from mom?
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's staged. It looks like the cigs were just poured out onto everything. I wouldn't be surprised if someone just took a dumpster and unloaded it in this place.
My friend and I were amazed and shocked at the pics. We came up with a semi-decent idea. Gameshow....1 million dollars to the winner if you lived in this house for one year without cleaning! I honestly couldn't do it! lol
This isn't fake. This is like the house I grew up in, except not as bad. That's right, not as bad. Imagine growing up in a house where the trash isn't taken out in 16 years. Imagine 16 years of trash. Imagine never eating dinner at the kitchen table, because you can't see the kitchen table. Imagine never having friends over. Imagine all the curtains taped shut, the floor buried under two or more feet of trash, the winding paths from room to room, furniture buried that you didn't know you had. Toilet stopped working when I was ten, so we flushed it by hand with buckets of water. I never opened the fridge or turned on the stove. Couldn't reach them. The minute I got out of bed I put on shoes. I took a sponge bath every other day in the tub (there was a cooler of rotting food in the rest of the tub). I brushed my teeth because my mom told me to. I went to school and got good grades, did my homework.
But I didn't tell anyone until I was 16 and my therapist finally dragged it out of me. They sent in Children's services since I was still a minor. They took pictures and documented and said, "We'll be back in two weeks and we want to see progress." There was "progress." They never came back. Progress stopped. We moved, and had to clean out 18 years of trash, just me and my mom. My room took 78 trash bags, and it was a small room. The place we moved to was clean for a couple years, but it started to get worse. I moved out. And now, she's doing it again. She's not on welfare. She's a database administrator and she's very smart and has friends and none of that matters, because it's happening again.
I've talked to her about it. I've offered to help clean up. I've bullied her about it. I've nagged. I've outed her to her friends. None of it is helping because she won't do anything about it. I read up on hoarding syndrome. I printed off pages about it, and underlined pertinent facts, and asked her to read it. I'm sure it's in a pile somewhere, collecting dust. At this point in my life, there's not a lot else I can do. Except keep my own house clean.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 04:49 am
This is clearly the work of a someone with a mental disorder of some type. Its disgusting but sad that this person has been reduced to such a lifestyle with no help from family or friends to get her on meds or take care of her.
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:13 am
Well.. at least it's well lit!
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:18 am
It's a sad day when the sloppy, disgusting lifestyle of some young woman has to be BLAMED on some type of mental disorder. Do you have no heart? Couldn't you think that maybe, this girl was a normal human being? A woman who was just not brought up right, and that this could possibly be 100% her OWN fault? It's a sad day in society when people resort to ignorance and use whatever minute knowledge they have of the real world to try and explain things. And no, I don't have any mentally disabled relatives, I just wanted to point out how stupid and ignorant you were.
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:20 am
It's a sad day when the sloppy, disgusting lifestyle of some young woman has to be BLAMED on some type of mental disorder. Do you have no heart? Couldn't you think that maybe, this girl was a normal human being? A woman who was just not brought up right, and that this could possibly be 100% her OWN fault? It's a sad day in society when people resort to ignorance and use whatever minute knowledge they have of the real world to try and explain things. And no, I don't have any mentally disabled relatives, I just wanted to point out how stupid and ignorant you were.
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:23 am
Imagine the roaches and rats...at night,when you laid down in a pile of filth,Roaches would scurry all over you...in your mouth....ears..ass...her cunt......
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:27 am
She isn't fat. She is a witch. Look closely and you will see a broom, and you just know the skank didn't use it to clean the house.
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:44 am
i love whataburger too :P
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:51 am
This shit is ridiculous.
September 23rd, 2008 at 06:11 am
man thats nothing try living in mexico
September 23rd, 2008 at 06:16 am
To assume she's fat just because of the fast-food trash everywhere shows how stupid some of you are. What you see in those photos is YEARS worth of garbage, not a week or a month If every one of you frat jocks gathered up all the pizza boxes and burger wrappers and slurpee cups you've used in the last 5 years and dumped them all into a small apartment, it would look exactly like this. Use your fucking brains, what little you have, and think about that for a minute.
September 23rd, 2008 at 06:35 am
I dated a guy that had a few rooms that resembled the pics above. I used his bathroom and ants were crawling all over the toilet and out of the shower. I got curious and pulled back the shower curtain and almost screamed aloud. His shower was soot black and orange mold and ants everywhere. Mold on the hair products and anything in the vicinity. There was at least an inch of black mold and his curtains were thick black mold. His sink had mold all over too and the towels looked like they were never washed (EVER!). Also he had no vacuum cleaner and I could tell his carpets were never cleaned. I took my shoes off and stuff stuck to the bottom of my feet. When I mentioned that I was bothered by his filth he first tried to make a joke about being friends with ants. Then I mentioned it again and was so turned off that I could not imagine myself lying in his bed with vermin crawling over me. YIKES! He is also very intelligent and an managerial executive. Sometimes there are reasons why men are BACHELORS!
September 23rd, 2008 at 07:04 am
Umm.. Since when to bookkeepers have the right to break into people's homes, take pictures and post them on the Internet?
Hoarding syndrome is a terrible mental illness related to ADD, and is very difficult to treat.
September 23rd, 2008 at 07:49 am
But do you think she ever washes her hands? lmao
September 23rd, 2008 at 08:30 am
jesus... how does a human being stay in such a place?
September 23rd, 2008 at 08:43 am
Come to think of it... Reminds me of a guy who lived down the road from me as a kid. We kept biking past this "abandoned" house and thought it'd make a cool hut. Scouted it out one day, never saw anyone in there over 3 months. So one day we decided to make it into our gangsta ass hangout, got on the bikes and pulled up with a screwdriver and a crowbar... Only to have the guy walk out the front door, "whaddya want" .... "uh... is this place for sale?" His couch was made of junk, an old bike, mouldy clothing, a cheese grater and lots of broken electronics - covered by a sheet.
And yes, as far as this apartment goes, you can't blame it on a mental illness, unless laziness is one. As most people have said in this chain of comments, people who live in this kind of shit are geniouses at math or science or whatever. E=mcleanyourfuckingroom²
Blame the parents for not teaching them how to clean up.
September 23rd, 2008 at 09:10 am
Thank you very much, Plops. I think it's just fantastic that you found it very, very important to make sure no one on your internet be allowed to think that some woman who does nothing but eat fast food in front of the computer without ever lifting a finger around the house could be fat. That was both a valuable AND intelligent use of your day. If only there were more people willing to sputter with rage in their chairs over inconsequential internet nonsense and then congratulate themselves on their own genius for having done so, the world would be a more meaningful place. "Frat jocks" beware, Plops is here to call you stupid on the internet! Do his brain-smarts not shame you with shame? Do you regret all the wedgies you gave him now?? Oh you're a fun, magical person. I like you.
September 23rd, 2008 at 09:14 am
this just shows ... dont mess with Texas
September 23rd, 2008 at 09:31 am
I once stayed in a condo that looked similar to this, but not nearly as revolting (there were no overflowing piles of used toilet paper or anything like that). The owner was an elderly Southern Californian woman who had hoarder's syndrome on top of a million other mental disorders. She was a nice, intelligent, generous, chatty person, and she cared a lot about animals. She was retired but she used to work in aerospace. My friends and I felt really sorry for her, so we cleaned out her apartment top to bottom. We organized everything into neat little piles. Underneath the piles of junk, there was food that was rotting and had somehow gotten ground into the carpet. The more we cleaned the worse it seemed to smell. We came back to visit her about six months after I had moved and everything was back to what it had originally looked like. Although she was physically healthy, she just couldn't take care of herself and she ended up moving into an assisted living place.
By the way, why all the bitch and cunt talk? If it were a black person, would you call them the n-word? Guys, there are women reading this too.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 am
My son is a contract painter and has numerous contracts with apartment complexes to do "move out" repainting. He says this sort of thing (even this bad) is not uncommon at all. He had one that was three+ feet deep in beer cans throughout the entire apartment ... there was a path between the couch and the tv in the living room, and a path to the bathroom, and a path to the fridge.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
looks fake because walls and all white things should have been nicotine stained
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:28 am
This person is clearly mentally ill. Not an excuse, but this must be the case. As far as the cats they can only stand so much filth themselves. They are clean creatures by nature. They probably escaped a long time ago. I would doubt they were still in the house.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 am
well, at least she irons?
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I in someways believe that most of the people responding to these pictures are more ill than this person. I can't believe the the harsh and cruel things people are saying about her. You can only look at just one of the pictures to realize she has OCHD: Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding Disorder . Its not that they are lazy or just some dirty person they can't part with anything. I knew of a woman who's place looked similar and well she was finally placed into a care facility because she could not part with anything. After being place on medications and monitored she was finally allowed to move back into an apt which was then monitored by mental health care workers.
http://understanding_ocd.tripod.com/index_hoarding.html and another web site that has a good help on it it's called http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/296059/facts_about_ochd_obsessi... So I think instead of calling her a welfare lazy bitch slob 400 pound woman you might want to check out some of the sites and get educated.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
This has been the best page I've ever visited. The comments are even better than the pictures. Wow I just got a bunch of laughs. Which I had something ridiculous to add to the comments though. Some of you are crazy.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
THAT is why you shouldn't smoke!
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
yeah it looks fake..they should have trashed the wall and the door's to so it would look real...
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Also looks fake because some keyboard keys are clean and others are not - are you saying this person used the computer regularly but never used the "Q" key for example?
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Oh puhleeze, people, this is so obviously staged! The only-lit-for-10-seconds cigarettes, the too-perfect groupings of the same kind of soda cups with nothing else in between them, the cigs and ashes on TOP of the monitor? Wtf-ever! Nice fake pics, landlord, you'll probably get a settlement out of the poor dumb chick, who likely didn't take photos to prove the apartment was NOT in that condition when she left.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
This girl looks like she was trying to do a "sustainable dave", and collect all her waste in that apt. for 1 year. Epic Fail!
And, that PC can't run WoW. Oregon Trail, FTW.
September 23rd, 2008 at 01:18 pm
Enough of all the comments that either allude to this waste of life being a victim. THIS WOMAN, YES IT WAS A SHE, was capable of getting all that food, cramming it into her face,ironing her clothes,and she was also capable of paying her bills up until she fell a month behind as the post states.
SHE IS NOT A VICTIM. For those of you bleeding heart types out their who certainly want to label her a victim do us a favor.
Get of your high horse, come out of your tower, go find her and help her. Bring that filthy P.O.S into your home. Let see how fast your opinion changes when they do this to you. The property owner is the victim. That animal, needs her income- welfare or payroll garnished for the rest of her life. Or maybe instead of a GOV program to help her, how about using your tax dollars to reimburse the property owners when they are the victims. I mean this could classify as a natural disaster, hurricane "fat worthless P.O.S"
I need FEMA asap
Where is natural selection when you need it.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
ill stick to my high horse and white tower. you sound like the next hitler
September 23rd, 2008 at 01:25 pm
these comments are fucking retarded, im sure youR DAD AND YOUR UNCLE WORKING IN THE APT INDUSTRY HAVE SEEN MUCHHH WORSE (100X WORSE!) PLACES AND SHES FAT AND SHE SMELLS LOL!!!! fucking faggots
September 23rd, 2008 at 01:37 pm
The walls are so clean...
September 23rd, 2008 at 01:46 pm
"I say we ... nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
September 23rd, 2008 at 03:32 pm
This is not so bad. It's just rubbish after all. If it was full of corpses then it would be much more disturbing. Although I guess there may be a few stiffs under the rubbish (maybe that's why it's there). My house is in a far worse state then this and even though the chicks I bring home don't really dig it I have kind of adapted to it. At least I can always find a cup when I need one. The fact that I have no arms kind of makes it difficult to clean up anyway. I just kick the rubbish out of my way and go about my business.
A bloke came around a while back trying to sell me a vacuum and offered me a demonstration. I let him in and had a bit of a chuckle as he turned white as a sheet. I do keep my sheets clean and have fresh towels and I have a system installed that sprays my arse with water after i take a dump so it's not that bad.
I own my house so it's nobodies business what it's like inside.
And if your wondering how I typed this with no arms well I have a voice recognition system on my computer so I just dictate. Yeah life sucks but so does cleaning up.
September 23rd, 2008 at 03:48 pm
I completely agree with Aftersun,
it has to be World of Warcraft.
Bet she has some good gear.
September 23rd, 2008 at 03:51 pm
The first thing that struck me is how *clean* this place is. YES there is shit everywhere, but there is no dust on all the pizza boxes/cups etc. But then the TV and antenna are covered with dust. This definately is "Where's Waldo?" My favorites: In the kitchen and bathroom there are some cleaning product spray bottles, in the hallway there is a broom lying partially on top of the garbage along with some clean rolls of paper towels. There are a couple books lying around (what does she read?). The fancy electric Oral-B toothbrush package in the hallway. The tupperware container and CD on the coffee table. What are the orange bags under the ironing board? Also, the USPS box in the bedroom. Cookies from mom?
All time favorite: the Q key on the keyboard!!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 03:51 pm
obviously it's staged.
September 23rd, 2008 at 04:05 pm
I guess no one could smell any of that, on account of the Glade Scented Oil Candle she burned.
September 23rd, 2008 at 04:28 pm
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's staged. It looks like the cigs were just poured out onto everything. I wouldn't be surprised if someone just took a dumpster and unloaded it in this place.
September 23rd, 2008 at 04:42 pm
sorry folks
this was my place
i am not fat
i am not ugly
i just fell off the rocker and ............then i didnt bother
i will help clean up now
thank you all very much for your encouraging comments
September 23rd, 2008 at 04:46 pm
Nice linkbait but you forgot the walls and doors! It clearly gives it all out.
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:13 pm
yum, pizza and quzzino. Makes one want to run out and get some!
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:16 pm
WOW as in world of warcraft. Epic gear.
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:21 pm
My friend and I were amazed and shocked at the pics. We came up with a semi-decent idea. Gameshow....1 million dollars to the winner if you lived in this house for one year without cleaning! I honestly couldn't do it! lol
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:26 pm
i don't think she bought enough cleaning products and febreze to make that place better. but she sure had enough pizza :(
September 23rd, 2008 at 05:52 pm
My friends place is way worse.
September 23rd, 2008 at 06:45 pm
heads up to whoever lives there -- i think something spilled inside that chili's bag
September 23rd, 2008 at 06:49 pm
This isn't fake. This is like the house I grew up in, except not as bad. That's right, not as bad. Imagine growing up in a house where the trash isn't taken out in 16 years. Imagine 16 years of trash. Imagine never eating dinner at the kitchen table, because you can't see the kitchen table. Imagine never having friends over. Imagine all the curtains taped shut, the floor buried under two or more feet of trash, the winding paths from room to room, furniture buried that you didn't know you had. Toilet stopped working when I was ten, so we flushed it by hand with buckets of water. I never opened the fridge or turned on the stove. Couldn't reach them. The minute I got out of bed I put on shoes. I took a sponge bath every other day in the tub (there was a cooler of rotting food in the rest of the tub). I brushed my teeth because my mom told me to. I went to school and got good grades, did my homework.
But I didn't tell anyone until I was 16 and my therapist finally dragged it out of me. They sent in Children's services since I was still a minor. They took pictures and documented and said, "We'll be back in two weeks and we want to see progress." There was "progress." They never came back. Progress stopped. We moved, and had to clean out 18 years of trash, just me and my mom. My room took 78 trash bags, and it was a small room. The place we moved to was clean for a couple years, but it started to get worse. I moved out. And now, she's doing it again. She's not on welfare. She's a database administrator and she's very smart and has friends and none of that matters, because it's happening again.
I've talked to her about it. I've offered to help clean up. I've bullied her about it. I've nagged. I've outed her to her friends. None of it is helping because she won't do anything about it. I read up on hoarding syndrome. I printed off pages about it, and underlined pertinent facts, and asked her to read it. I'm sure it's in a pile somewhere, collecting dust. At this point in my life, there's not a lot else I can do. Except keep my own house clean.
September 23rd, 2008 at 06:55 pm
Best part for me: The Oral-B electric toothbrush box. At least they had clean teeth.
haha me too, but the food, and cigaretts probably that toothbrush wont help. I wish they showed the person.
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