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From: joannequilts
Date: 05-26-2005, 07:06 PM (1 of 22)
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To live like this is not possible. is it? http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/ |
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From: MaryW
Date: 05-26-2005, 07:13 PM (2 of 22)
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That person is sick. Jo, where did you find it?
MaryW
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From: joannequilts
Date: 05-26-2005, 07:20 PM (3 of 22)
| Was on an embroidery forum. |
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From: esrun3
Date: 05-26-2005, 07:36 PM (4 of 22)
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unbelievable!
Lyn
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From: KayTee
Date: 05-26-2005, 07:52 PM (5 of 22)
| As anyone who knows me can attest to, I'm no neat freak (and apologies to those who are!) but this has to be a major fire or health hazard. If I were that lady's neighbour I'd be temped to call the fire department or health department. |
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From: allie-oops
Date: 05-26-2005, 08:01 PM (6 of 22)
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I don't remember where it was, but there was a website devoted to pics like this of people's homes. Her house looks a lot like my hubby's room - I don't know how he functions in there. The rest of my house is fine. But I tell you, when you live with someone like this, it's a constant battle. Especially if you're a clean freak like me. I'd love to know just how common this is. My mom has tendencies like this too, which I think is why I'm such a clean freak.....nothing on my counters, nothing on the fridge, nothing on tables, etc. I looked at these pics, and just ITCHED to get in there and throw it away for her, lol!!!!! Allie "onward through the fog"
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From: Pudge99
Date: 05-26-2005, 08:04 PM (7 of 22)
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WOW!!! Some of those pictures do look like parts of my house. I often end up with a table top like that and my bedroom has a lot of boxes that don't fit anywhere else, but it doesn't stay that way all the time. This makes me look at my clutter in a whole new way. I think at least mine is not that bad, then I think if I am not careful I could end up like that. Mine wouldn't be e-bay stuff though, I would have boxes of fabric that I got on clearance.  I am anal about the identity theft thing too, but I have a shredder right next to my desk and shred whenever the garbage can gets overflowing. Thanks Joanne for posting this. Seeing it has given me motivation to get rid of more stuff. I definately don't want to have my kids posting pictures of my house on the internet. Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
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From: joannequilts
Date: 05-26-2005, 08:05 PM (8 of 22)
| Oh I am not pointing fingers here at all, I just couldn't believe my eyes lol...that has to be some compulsive behaviour and needs help. |
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From: DorothyL
Date: 05-26-2005, 08:33 PM (9 of 22)
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It looks like my sister-in-laws house -- only neater. Dorothy |
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From: Debby215
Date: 05-26-2005, 08:43 PM (10 of 22)
WHEWWWWWWWWWWW  I thought my house was cluttered, this woman makes my house look like a showcase... Most of my clutter is fabric and UFO's nothing glass or breakable.. 
Debby
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From: Jeke
Date: 05-26-2005, 08:48 PM (11 of 22)
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Rather recently there was a Dr. Phil or Oprah show that had a few people on with this illness. They also had a Dr. that specializes in trying to help them come to grips with keeping everything. It was interesting and bizarre at the same time. Jeke Jay
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-26-2005, 08:51 PM (12 of 22)
| I don't think that was real. If you look really hard at those pics you can see dust on the furniture but the counter tops are shinny clean and so was the floors and it was mostly stacked neatly. I think someone posted that on there as a joke. I don't doubt people live that way but some of it looked staged to me. What do you think? Look again with what I said in mind. |
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 05-26-2005, 08:55 PM (13 of 22)
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They had a show about this on Oprah...these people have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). They save everything and can't bear to throw things out....they need psychiatric help and meds....it's a sickness like any other. I'm not a neat freak, my house is cluttered sometimes with 'stuff'..(ferret toys, books, magazines) but they're usually less than 5 and not hoards of stuff...I feel sorry people live like this but, they CAN get help. The woman they showcased on Oprah, the show actually made me ill and I'll watch/read just about anything. She had dogs that never went outside, FOR ANYTHING. She never threw away food, she let her birds fly around the house. She never cleaned her home. There was dog poop, old food, dirty clothes, shoes, books anything you can name, IN HER BED, where she slept. On The show she looked like a million bucks...dressed in a beautiful suit, make-up perfect, jewelery perfect, hair clean and beautifully cut. But she lived like NO ONE SHOULD. She had 2 bathrooms, one full of dog poop, all over...the other was hers, but the toilet had never been cleaned, neither had the shower or sink...she had a crockpot full of old food that had magots in it...a FLAT of moldy strawberries on her dinningroom table. She never cleaned her dishes, they were all over the house....they got her help and people cleaned her house. They had her on again not too long ago...she's back to her old ways...thats too bad...but yuck...If I don't clean my house at least once a week, dust twice a week, do the dishes everyday, I feel unclean.... Chrys
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 05-26-2005, 09:13 PM (14 of 22)
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I know someone who will end up like that. Nothing I can do to change that happening. They have shown things like this on TV and I am always amazed. I am the opposite, if I don't use it in so much time out it goes. If it has sentimental value of course that is different. I am that way with my fabric too, after a year or two if I haven't used it, it goes. Summer Summer
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-26-2005, 09:32 PM (15 of 22)
| Chrys, I am gagging at what you said about the magots. That is gross. They have a show on tv called "How clean is your house" and the people who let them come in their homes and film this has got to sick. If my house was that bad I'd not want anyone come a mile from here. Yuck!!!! |
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From: carman
Date: 05-26-2005, 10:26 PM (16 of 22)
there has to be some mental issues on this one and that lady Oprah, she needs head help before she needs a clean home 
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From: BRG
Date: 05-26-2005, 10:54 PM (17 of 22)
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Someone wanna apply to Clean Sweep for her?
- Brenda -
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From: DorothyL
Date: 05-27-2005, 07:27 AM (18 of 22)
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My mother-in-law had a lot of stuff and she couldn't throw anything away. She would give it to us and we would say "Thank you. Just what I always wanted." and bring it home and throw it away. When she became ill and couldn't go up stairs or down to the basement the sister-in-law-from-hell -- who has always lived there -- and her daughter took over everything but the ground floor and there were piles of stuff everywhere. You couldn't walk without stepping on stuff. And there was a pile growing around the chair sister-in-law-from-hell always sat in right next to where her mother lay dying. And when she moved out SHE TOOK IT WITH HER!! Just junk. She took so much that the apartment complex she moved to complained to my husband (he'd paid a years rent so she wouldn't have to deal with it, lose her home and try to move in with us). And even after she filled the apartment to overflowing we still had to hire someone to literally shovel out the rest from the house. And none of it was her parents stuff because my family and my other sister-in-law (from Albany, which is pretty close to hell but she's a nice lady) cleaned all of the parents stuff out. Is she sick? Yeah, but it's just one more way she tries to get attention. She spent so much money on that crap she ended up bankrupt. And she just got arrested for shoplifting so we know where some of it came from. Oh yeah -- she got off on the shoplifting charge for being crazy! I don't feel sorry for these people. Let them live in their filth. Now I've vented. Dorothy |
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From: DragonLady
Date: 05-27-2005, 01:59 PM (19 of 22)
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OCD is a nasty illness. It causes people so much suffering. And while there is help available, a lot of people can't pay for the treatments. It takes both medicine and regular counselling and sometime neither one is covered by insurance. I'm not sure if Medicare/Medicaid will cover it either, unless it's life-threatening somehow (people compelled to chase red cars or obsessed with/stalking other people). This woman's whole life is held captive by her need for that junk -obsessed with owning it and always compelled to buy more. I feel sorry for her, I really do. She's a prisoner of her illness and may never be able to get the help she needs to break free. "No more twist! No more twist!"
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From: deesolo
Date: 06-03-2005, 08:39 AM (20 of 22)
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this women is very ill. no one should have to live like this===ocp is very serious condition. dee |
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Member since: 05-12-2005 Total posts: 2 |
From: natred2
Date: 06-03-2005, 08:46 PM (21 of 22)
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I have seen that episode of Oprah, I think they did one on this lady who never threw anything out and used nasty old sponges to clean with and a 10 year old tooth brush too. Made me want to get up and clean, and I mean really clean.
Don't be so open minded your brains fall out.
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User: natred2
Member since: 04-09-2005 Total posts: 81 
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From: pucktricks
Date: 06-06-2005, 10:02 AM (22 of 22)
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That seems to be the best purpose of all of this, it makes you want to clean like crazy. Ticia |
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Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 570 
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