I know that there is some sort of particular thing misfiring in the brains of people who hoard, but we all have to live with the consequences here. Some of those consequences are that crackheads and drug dealers feel very safe in the maze created here. And we live in a city...I can't imagine what other "vermin" find this mess a safe haven. I wonder what that means to us neighbours now that the critters will all have to start looking for new homes. Ew.Well, gotta go...read a chapter of Harry Potter, pick some raspberries and then start plastering the walls of the walk-in closet. Eek. It's gonna be so gorgeous...did I mention?
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There is seriously something misfiring with the old hoarder complex. I have a touch of it. I fight it constantly!
I'm just as thrilled as you are with your home improvement project by the way! Progress! (see i'd keep the old newspapers. Hoarder!!!!)
My mom's bathroom (circa 1950's) is mostly ripped out this week. Her house is about 150 years old. Whew. I though my 50s bungalow was a mess underneath. It's a totally necessary project but it's unhappy and I can't wait for it to be done.
She really deserves a new bathroom. It was getting quite nasty. She's getting a claw foot tub and everything!
When I get home I'll load up your pictures and look. I can only get half a photo on dial up!!!
we still have the newspapers...i think we'll take them to the library and see if they want them, but we have been having fun reading all the classifieds, seeing what made the news here then...
I wonder too what makes people cross that line and become a hoarder. My mom had saved tons of things like cottage cheese containers and the little foam trays that meat comes in. There were cans of food that were far too old for consumption. I chalk some of it up to growing up during the depression. She was by no means a hoarder by those terms, but I can see the tendency.
Aren't those old papers a hoot?
We have a neighbor that hordes...When the pwers that be started showing up, and he started cleaning up, we got rats. Yup. One of the girls left the basement window open, and the homeless vermin found a home. I think that we got it settled. Still freaks me out. (shudders)Luckily, somebody else has been poisoning them, too. I can't imagine the trouble that the whole neibourhood would be having other wise.
I can't wait to see your finished project. Now that we know we are staying (YAY!)We are yanking up carpet this weekend. Shawn got some from work for FREE (not stolen) and that is my fav price!
You have inspired me!
I can't live with clutter let alone hoarding stuff. It does my brain in and I have a mad chuck out every six months.
I don't know how many truck loads they hauled out yesterday...city workers were here from 7:30 am until about 3pm. This morning they delivered a dumpster! OMG!!!!! Every feral cat around has been in my yard...they all just lost their homes. Hopefully, with all these cats, there won't be rats or mice or whatever. Not that I especially want these cats around, either. We finally got them to start staying out of our yard, ya know?
and not just ANY dumpster, either. That dumpster wouldn't even FIT in my yard. It's a biggun'. Like a shipping container size or something. OMG!!!!
My daughter is a hoarder. This week she is at art camp for a few hours a day and I'm taking this opportunity to shovel out her room. Might want to send that dumpster over here next...
Oh my...I have a dumpster in my driveway right now, I'd better take a picture to prove it...but it's just a tiny dumpster. It's for the last of our reno refuse. I love chucking stuff in it off the deck!
I hope the cats take care of the ra..er..rodents. What kind of stuff was being hoarded? I'm like Tod - clutter makes me twitch, although I do have brief pockets of it.
Rain, what WASN'T being hoarded?!? That is the question.
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