Hoarders
I’m feeling tired, dizzy and crippled with a headache. I’ve managed to do a few small things, but mostly, I’ve been sitting around reading and catching up online.
My big mistake for today was turning on the television. I wanted to watch one show that was recorded, which I did, but after it was over I started mindlessly flipping when I came across a show on A&E called Hoarders. I am amazed at the way these people are living. Their house and yard are filled floor to ceiling with junk. They have lost spouses. They have had their children taken away. Despite this, they just cannot depart with their crap. In the process of cleaning up, they are freaking out about ripped up scraps of paper. They can’t let anybody touch anything without getting visibly upset. It’s a disease that you only hear about once somebody dies by being crushed by their own junk. They feature two people per show, and so far, it appears as if only one person actually was mostly successful in getting some of it cleaned up. The rest of them don’t get much done and turn down the further help offered. It is just amazing. The hired help to haul off junk has to have nerves of steel, or at least, they don’t show them ever losing it. You can see exasperation in their faces when they get chewed out for not treating the landfill of a house as a tomb filled with treasure though.
Speaking of, my next area of my house that I’m going to de-clutter is the storage space under the stairs. I’m thankful my house isn’t even close to as bad as the people in this show.
Where’s the like button?
I can totally understand people who just have a lot of things that are valuable to them and they want to keep forever, but the people who have all that trash and junk around their house are just plain crazy!