Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Woman suffocates under piles of clutter in home
Local6.com ^ | Jan 7, 2006 | Local 6.com

Posted on 01/09/2006 6:22:49 AM PST by plain talk

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 121-140141-160161-180 ... 261-265 next last
To: CajunConservative

I have a neighbor with this condition. There have been several interventions -- on one occasion two large dumpsters worth of trash were removed. In a few months, the situation was almost as bad as before. Parting with her trash causes an anxiety attack, it seems.


141 posted on 01/09/2006 9:18:32 AM PST by joylyn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Miss Marple
Its great to see so many Freeper Flybabies.
142 posted on 01/09/2006 9:27:33 AM PST by exdem2000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 128 | View Replies]

To: CajunConservative; sweet_diane

OK--I looked at the web site--tell me about your experiences with the flylady...I've heard of this shiny sink thing before.


143 posted on 01/09/2006 9:30:09 AM PST by Mamzelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: trisham

I think it was a freeper who said he had an old "whatever" sitting by the curb with a sign on it saying "FREE." Nobody would pick it up. He changed the sign to read "For Sale, $15" and someone stole it during the night.


144 posted on 01/09/2006 9:33:22 AM PST by Muzzle_em ("Get busy LIVING or get busy dying")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 137 | View Replies]

To: lorris

My MIL isn't even elderly! She's 64 and in good health. She has a spare bedroom that is just full of junk. There is hardly a path to walk into the room.

I am far from a neat freak, in fact I can live in hearty denial about the state of some clutter (like too many books or messy closets/drawers, etc.), but once I snap out of the denial I can't relax until I do something about the clutter. I guess MIL/SIL/BIL have an even heartier sense of denial then I do, because it would drive me crazy looking at that junk every day.


145 posted on 01/09/2006 9:34:32 AM PST by retrokitten
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 139 | View Replies]

To: sweet_diane

FlyLady drove me crazy. A gazillion e-mails each day. One would have helped me. 5 is just e-clutter, and another thing I have to sort and throw away.


146 posted on 01/09/2006 9:35:10 AM PST by I'm ALL Right! (ENDOFTHESPEAR.COM "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: plain talk

Here's a link to a good article that ran in Parade Magazine (the Sunday
newspaper supplement):
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_09-04-2005/featured_1

I know a retired professor that struggles with this problem. It's a
real challenge that requires real treament.
Unless they are somebody like Howard Hughes with a zillion dollars,
and a highly competent support network!


147 posted on 01/09/2006 9:36:46 AM PST by VOA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Muzzle_em
He changed the sign to read "For Sale, $15" and someone stole it during the night.

**************

LOL! Funny. Sad and funny.

148 posted on 01/09/2006 9:37:40 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 144 | View Replies]

To: trisham

Thanks for the support. It's not easy, ya know?


149 posted on 01/09/2006 9:51:24 AM PST by Paved Paradise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies]

To: Diana in Wisconsin

Excellent points! I think I could forgive the basement but what's hard about the garage is that I have to enter it daily. My car barely fits in there and it's a three car garage! I know when I look at the big picture, it's a small cross to bear. He's a great husband though he works too many hours. Your hub sounds like mine as far as the cr@p goes. I think what complicates it is I don't even KNOW what half of the stuff is or does.


150 posted on 01/09/2006 9:54:28 AM PST by Paved Paradise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 97 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Strange story, isn't it?


151 posted on 01/09/2006 9:55:26 AM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Paved Paradise
I know when I look at the big picture, it's a small cross to bear. He's a great husband though he works too many hours.

**************

That's what I keep telling myself. :)

Unfortunately, whenever I throw anything away, he immediately knows. Don't ask me how, it's eerie.

152 posted on 01/09/2006 10:01:03 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 150 | View Replies]

To: latina4dubya
BTW: We were referring to our kids rooms. Not the house! geesh!
153 posted on 01/09/2006 10:04:13 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (New Jersey gets the corrupt government it deserves!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 136 | View Replies]

To: plain talk
She was in desparate need of help from these guys:

154 posted on 01/09/2006 10:10:45 AM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alice_in_bubbaland
BTW: We were referring to our kids rooms. Not the house! geesh!

yes--i understand... and my response is: not all of us! i didn't mean to be offensive... sorry about that...

155 posted on 01/09/2006 10:31:48 AM PST by latina4dubya
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 153 | View Replies]

To: plain talk
We had a case similar to this near our home.

Former student radical Billy Marcinko was burned to death when neighbors and firemen could not manage to break into his burning house -- due to piles and piles of boxes of videotapes blocking entrances:

Fire victim was 'like a cult figure'
(ex-Rutgers "revolutionary" dies amidst piles of videotapes)

156 posted on 01/09/2006 10:37:25 AM PST by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: trisham

LOL! Mine is the same way. I have to bury stuff under other stuff. However, when we are doing big jobs (e.g. garage), he'll actually go through the huge garbage can and give me the "what-for" on items I'm pitching.


157 posted on 01/09/2006 10:38:23 AM PST by Paved Paradise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 152 | View Replies]

To: trisham
My wife's husband does too. :-)

You know... we really might need that stuff sometime.

158 posted on 01/09/2006 10:56:01 AM PST by ken in texas (Can't afford a tagline... please send money.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies]

To: frgoff
They lost their home and the new owner filled two commercial dumpsters,

Sounds like my experience.

I bought a house from an editor of a prominent daily newspaper, but there was one strange event in our first survey of the grounds: the realtor virtually body blocked me from going around to the back of the outdoor tool/garden shed.

I thought it was odd at the time, but didn't realize until after closing why: they guy had piles and piles of little lumber pieces, tin cans, gardening junk, half-full mulch and fertilizer bags, etc, all hidden in decaying heaps behind the shed. I'm talking 3 to 5 foot high piles.

I filled up an entire mid-sized dumpster with the refuse this guy left in the yard.

It was a the "Harry Homeowner" version of hoarding.

159 posted on 01/09/2006 11:40:36 AM PST by angkor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 127 | View Replies]

To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

My dh comes from a line of packrats. I have been working on him bit by bit over the years, and he is getting better, I must say. Over the holidays, he has been going through the garage, and I have actually witnessed him throwing things away!

Funny story: The last time my father helped us move, he looked at me while we were unloading into the new place, with the straightest of faces and said, "You know, I'll bet that husband of yours probably has his first booger saved in here somewhere." Lol!


160 posted on 01/09/2006 11:48:49 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 121-140141-160161-180 ... 261-265 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson