Look at this place...

http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/

Unbelievable.. Someone needs to tell her what a trash can looks like and what they're used for...

Ebay is evil... lol...

Wow, that's some seriously bad addiction.

My jaw actually dropped when I saw that refrigerator.

I knew someone like that! In college one of my friends needed a roommate and ended up with "Freddy". Freddy proceded to fill up the apartment with junk. This was before e-bay, but he was a master. He'd take home completly useless things like broken Xerox machines and just have them sittling there in the middle of the living rooom floor!

Watch "How Clean is Your House" at 11 eastern on Mondays on the Lifetime channel to see places like this, and enjoy the cathartic, albeit vicarious, thrill of seeing it all cleaned up.

coco

I have a couple friends RL who their hour may look like this in 10 years, Right now it's only about half as bad but you still have to clear off furniture to find a place to sit when you go over there

Wow - this lady could seriously use some help. It looks a lot like obsessive compulsive hoarding. Compulsive hoarders actually have a physical difference between how their brain works and how other brains work, their neurobiology is different.

It can be treated, but it's not all that easy to treat. They have found that medications that treat ADD are more effective than the standard medications that they give to people with OCD.

I really hope her son does not allow it to continue because it can really cause serious problems with many aspects of her life. Usually hoarders don't have fulfilling relationships because no one can live with the clutter. They are usually broke because they wind up spending all their money on items they are collecting to hoard. They usually wind up losing their home and in trouble with uncle sam because they are too disorganized to pay their taxes or bills.

I have a friend who suffers from this and it escalated when her kids went off to college and she began buying everything she could from the Home Shopping Network. She lost her home, wound up broke and her husband left her before she finally got help. She had boxes and boxes of unopened junk from HSN, clothes not even in her size and her home looked a lot like those pictures.

Very sad.

one time i helped an old lady move who was getting evicted for stuff like this. she had all her rooms filled floor to ceiling with boxes and only a little path around the outside. because she was getting kicked out and didn't have family she had to leave almost everything behind and looked like it was killing her but she gave me some antique books to thank me for helping her save some of it. pretty sad.

That looks a lot like my mother-in-law's house, only less of the crap is boxed. Ever scarier to me, that woman looks a whole lot like my mother-in-law also.
Rose Karuna is right, its actually a mental illness, this hoarding, and its quite serious for the reasons she mentioned, plus it also makes the home rather dangerous .... all those boxes and paper laying around is a fire hazard, and imagine how long it would take to dig your way out of the house if you had to get out fast.

You need to read about Mr Trebus , he was famous in the UK after appearing on a show called Life Of Grime.

It depicted his house and his life, and I kid you not, there was only sleeping and sitting room for one, the house was infested with rats, from the front door (that was boxed up) to the back garden, Mr Trebus had kept everything, he had ever owned (including some urine and human excrement).

It was a job that took over a month, required five large trucks and 11 skips and cost more than £30,000.

After the war, Trebus joined the Polish resettlement programme, then moved to London, where he married and had five children. The family moved to Crouch End in the early 1960s, and it was there that he first became a serious collector. At first, his obsession took the form of mild eccentricity. He filled the upstairs rooms of his four-storey Victorian house with the spoils of hunts through local builders' skips and junk shops. One room was packed with vacuum cleaners, another with cameras. Trebus bought every recording he could find by Elvis Presley.

As time passed and his children moved out, the collections piled one on top of the other, like sedimentary layers, until each room was full to the ceiling. Trebus would push a small cart around the streets of Crouch End, gathering discarded building materials, which he carefully arranged in the garden, doors in one corner, windows in another. There were washing machines, wood, motorcycles and bicycles. There was even one of musician Dave Stewart's old synthesisers, retrieved from the back of his recording studio. Like all the objects, it came to be forgotten about and covered up over time.

Trebus's neighbours remained on surprisingly good terms with him, while, at the same time, making vociferous complaints to Haringey council about the growing health risk from the rats which infested house and garden. His wife used to sit in her deck chair on a patch of grass, surrounded on all sides by a growing mountain of junk. In 1981, she left - and he covered that patch too.

By 1998, Trebus was reduced to living in a small corner of his kitchen, surrounded by newspapers and children's toys, with only his Jack Russell terrier for company. The garden was so full of junk that he needed ladders to get in and out of his house.

After years of legal wrangling, Haringey council decided to act. When its clearance team erected scaffolding, Edmund, then aged 80, climbed up with a pair of mole grips and tugged at the bolts holding it together. He was arrested, and the contractors moved in. Freed from the cells several hours later, he returned to argue, with wit and infuriating logic, about the value of almost every item in the 515 cubic yards of rubbish they removed.

That show is Hilarious and those two little ole british lady's they are the shit... especially when they start sending stuff off to the Lab for testing so they can tell the people just how close to death they came.

Shadow.

This woman has just inspired me to finally sift through my old crap and throw away just about everything

OMG Deja VU, that is what my house was starting to look like before my divorce!!

Now with my new life I'm throwing EVERYTHING out, I have a waste container (of the construction site type and size) sitting in my driveway!!

My goal is to move the teen out, already got rid of the husband , have my computer a table and a chair.

Who needs a bed? I work all day and play eq2 and sl at night...what is this sleep everyone talks about?

Yes!
Every year I have to force myself to give away (or toss) stuff I havn't read, worn or used. It doesn't come naturally- the "but it's mine" notion is hard to shake, even if it's something that I'd never miss if it vanished on its own.
Weird.

I can relate to this, I am currently moving from a 2600 sq ft house to a 1600 sq ft house and I am having to get rid of A LOT of stuff. One can accumulate a lot in 50+ years even when they aren't a collector.

The worst was my closet, I actually had one or two outfits from highschool.

By the time I was finished cleaning it out, I had filled 22 kitchen trash bags of stuff to give away. I think the reason the closet was the most difficult for me is that I associate what I wore at times with actual life events. I'd look at a certain outfit and say "Oh, I wore that to my brothers graduation", and then not be able to give it away because it made me feel good thinking about where I'd worn it.

I decided that I would cull through things every year now and if something has not been used or worn in a year - it goes.

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I so know what you mean...I've only been accumulating 38 years, and most of it the last 7 years. The latest stuff was the first to go...I am having trouble with the oldest stuff but its slowly but surely going.

22 bags? me I should buy stock in Hefty.

Thank you Willow Zander for the story about Mr Trebus ... how bizarre.
I think the one-year rule is very good, and roughly go by that myself, excepting a small amount of actual collectibles, mainly my hockey card collection.

I might add that one of the reasons I prefer building things in SL as oppossed to more tangible crafts I used to do (painting and colored pencil art), is that SL creations don't clutter up my house and won't end up as pathetic garage sale offerings in the (hopefully) distant future after I kick the big bucket.

Yes - buying clothes for my Avatar in SL has greatly reduced the amount of closet space I require in RL.

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I think you house needs work hun lol needs to call HGTV network ..... lol they have a show called Mission: Organization Thursdays 8pm e/p
Mission: Organization brings order to chaos by redesigning living spaces one room at a time. Learn how you can organize your home and resolve your clutter problem from kitchen catastrophes to bedroom bedlam
WAtch this see if this will help any ..lol ..... my house get bad ... every like 2-3 year ... stuff i havent wore it goes to goodwill ect ...... im a reformed junkie ..... now a neat freak ..lol

cant stand a mess ...

If my mind was a house, it would be like this house.

That place is a firetrap/hazard.

*Shudder*

What the hell is with all those printer/copy paper boxes? There looks to be scores of them. I wonder what is in them. Hopefully not more fuel for that firehazard.

On the forum he origionally posted the pictures on there was a question about the printer boxes, aparently she can get them free from work and therefore thats what most of the stuff is in.

Alright, you are definitely my evil twin (or vice versa). I love this Chance person!

Send em here...http://www.theplan.com/dmi/pix/livroomler.htm
or here...http://www.disposophobia.com

DNA