Posted on 01/09/2006 6:22:49 AM PST by plain talk
A woman in Shelton, Wash., who was reported missing by her husband, was found dead under piles of clutter in their home, where she suffocated to death, according to police. Shelton Police Chief Terry Davenport said the home was so cluttered that police officers' heads touched the ceiling as they climbed over the clutter.
Authorities found the body of 62-year-old Marie Rose buried under clothes after 10 hours of searching. She reportedly suffered from a condition known as hoarding. Rose's husband believes she fell while looking for the phone in the house this week and suffocated. There were so many piles of items that the man did not realize she was dead in the home.
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I love Flylady! Thank you!
I'm going to give the excuse that I moved all my stuff in a storage room while I lived with my brother for over 2 years while building a house. I threw stuff in boxes because living quarters were so crampt.
Plus when I moved out of my brother's I took all the stuff that was my late mother's that he didn't want.
Not to mention that I have construction clean up to do, which I am STILL doing. OK, so while I am a bit of a packrat, ;) a lot of my de-cluttering was moving in, setting up my office and workshop as functional areas, assimilating/combining, unpacking, sorting etc.
Plus getting all my dance class stuff set up and organized. OK, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it :)
Don't feel alone. Mine does the same thing.
Thanks for the link.
Ha!
She who dies with the most fabric wins ;)
And that's why I used the word "build", not "buy". :)
Bricks and boards are quick and cheap.
My, what an interesting tale.
No the best thing to do is help an accidental fire....
I've seen an extreme example of this. My cousins husband started working when he was very young and used to sleep in his car at night. When his mother died I was asked to go and help clean out the house and I saw the reason he didn't want to sleep inside. The entire house was filled with JUNK with little pathways going from room to room. There were fleas everywhere and the filth was staggering.
I know not everyone has this opportunity, but it is a great feeling when you have someone whom you KNOW that you can give things to and KNOW that they need it and will use it. Hubby and I gave a LR suite and book cases to a niece when we moved and knew we would be getting new furniture.
Old furniture, dishes and kitchen utensils are GREAT for college kids who are moving into their first apartment.
My mother hoards and my sisters and I throw out things regularly. I think it is genetic because a niece and nephew both hoard (and they have never been deprived of anything).
Take heart! My son went from living as you describe to being in his own place. You could walk through his place blindfolded at midnight and not step on a stray piece of thread. Clothes are washed (and IRONED) and bed is made. Scary but true.
I predict this will be in a CSI episode.
a bump for later!
This was a needless, sensless and avoidable tragedy..
and why God invented snorkels...
My idea of housekeeping is to sweep the room with a glance.
Well not, really but it sounded appropriate.
I have actually helped several pack rats to give themselves permission to release the things they collect. One of the things that you must get into your belief system is.....
Does this item exist anywhere else in the world? Yes most likely it does. Then if you needed it you could search the world for another one.
The other montra that you must learn is....
Let some other idiot store it for me.....
The idea there is that if it is money related, bank statements, credit card bills, really anything that you owe money to someone else you can bet THEY WILL HAVE A RECORD OF IT. and you can always ask for a copy.
Banks and retail stores spend billions on record keeping, there is no way you can compete with their system and almost all of them will provide you with a copy if you need.
Oh - every time we've had a garage sale we've been stunned at how much our junk added up to! But you can't only choose to sell stuff that is worthless... gotta put some bigger ticket items out there.
This could have been me, during the clinton years, so intent I was at wanting them to get theirs. I'm not sure I vaccumed from 1994 until Innauguration Day, 2001.
lol, makes me feel like I need to go clean house today.
And you wonder why COPS films up in that area so often...
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