This brave soul posted pictures of her squalor. It is totally unbelievable.

http://www.network54.com/Realm/Squalor_Survivors/index.html

OMG that is HORRIBLE! How can people LIVE like that! OMG, I was literally GAGGING at some of those pictures. :eek:

...and I thought my house was a mess and in disorder...this is incredible. I stopped eating my icecream while looking at the pictures...

I don`t want to judge this person, but what a terrible way to live...

I can't find the pics???:(

Opps. Got it! Lemme see these.........

ugh...how gross! I thought my house was bad, but it's nowhere near as bad as that one!

That is disgusting! :eek:

Now I think I may really be a neat freak. I thought my house was a total wreck,makes me feel better to know I'm no where near that. Can we say-"Fly Lady" NOW>>>

:eek: Wow, that is pretty bad!!!!!!

I think this mess was more than Flylady could handle. I can't believe people live like that. I hope all you ladies feel better about your housekeeping skills! :crackup:

Oh that is so gross !! I live in a Clean Palace compared to those pictures!! :( :yucky:

Oh my gosh! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Yes, Danielle!!! I feel like I`m a great housekeeper now! :D

I think it was Woman's Day that showed alot of this about 2 years ago--YUK, the book she talks about by Julie Morganstern, "organizing from the inside out" really is a great resource, especially for organizing paperwork.

Do you think those pictures are real? I don't see how anyone could live in that?

Anyways--that was gross! Now I feel like the best housekeeper ever! LOL

Anyone who lives like that must be terribly depressed. To come home and face that everyday, I can't imagine. Being an ex-landlord though I can say that it is more common than you might think.

After one eviction I literally had to rake the food from the carpet before I could vacume. It was a roach picinic. YUCK! :(

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I am going to show those to my husband the next time he complains about the house! Maybe then he will shut-up!:lol:

That is really sad. I could not imagine my life being so out of control. I know for myself I get depressed just having a bunch of stuff out of place- but to have actual garbage and old food laying around with it- I'd shoot myself.

I knew this lady who's car looked like those pictures. I can only imagine what her house looked like.

Laura

OH MY HECK!!!!! That's totally NASTY!!! I literally feel sick to my stomach!! How can anyone live like that?!?!!? Depressed or not..I couldn't! It seems the mess would make a person MORE depressed!! Ugh!! I need a drink of water before I :puke:

All I can say is GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW :eek:
I knew people who had filthy houses but NEVER as bad as those pictures.

God bless her heart! Can you imagine how miserable she must have been to live like that? I am so glad things are better for her now.

Kathi i totally agree with you. I felt so bad for her. I am also glad she has it cleaned up. my house is a mess right now they are insulating. I think i will defantly download some stuff when i get it back though. the only thing i can add is by the grace of god go I.

All I can say is OH MY GOD!!!!! how in the world can people live like that?

WOWOWOWOW! I am going to show this to DH the next timehe complains about the "mess" (two dog toys and a pair of sandals on the floor!) around here! ICK. :yucky:

How does your after Christmas mess compare? LOL

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Not even! LOL
Poor thing, I am glad she found the help and stamina to clear it out. I think I would have burned it down and started over!

I feel badly for her also. I do know someone who has lived like this though so it doesn't surprise me. Often when someone has very low self esteem and is very depressed, this happens.

I too am very glad she got some help.

Ok, where are these pictures? I never did find them....

So to the site. It will say on the left hand side, photos. When you hit the photos button, you'll see under it, kitchen, living room, etc. Highlight those and you'll see them.

THat is so sad, I would have come over and helped her. There is also a "link" that had a HUGE collection of photos.
I have been in one home like that, it was so sad. THe steps going up stairs had the bottom steps missing.........I have always wondered how they could live that way. I would have taken a bag and trashed everything I owned.
I am so happy that she found her way out, I know there are people that could help and learn from her. Sending prayers for anyone living in that condition.

There is a link how this all started, from Julie Morgenstern's web site. http://juliemorgenstern.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000042.html

My old college room mate lived similarly.

Her moms home even had cat (there must have been 8 cats in that home) feces in it...all over it, in fact....and NO one bothered to pick it up....as though to say it wasn't 'their job'.

Later, when Ihad a craft booth, the manager was being cited by the city for all the trash and lack of plumbing in the house....can't remember if it was rented or owned, but it was a huge effort she had to take off work for in order to clean a path for the plumber.

Did anyone see that show recently about the professor (we are talking Physics and Math!) whose home was condemned and boarded up by the city? She came and went through a broken window....and because she was also a lawyer, she kept the city tied up in legal BS to postpone cleaning her home.

They said she could have afforded to have it cleaned, but wouldn't.

To me, it is more than depression...it is rebellion and decadence.

ICK!!!

That is heartbreaking.... How can someone become so depressed as to live that way ???? How is it that she had no-one to turn to...I'm glad she found help.... We have a woman here in town who had 60 or so dogs and 30 or 40 cats.. she tore all the carpet out of her house and removed the furniture and let the animals take over, she simply poured 50 pound bags of food on the floor, she most often slept in her filthy car, but sometimes in the house, neighbors reported dead rotting animals and new sick puppies being born all the time..... It took years of legal battles and all of her money was spent defending herself..... she was finally forced to get rid of the animals.... The shelter took them and destroyed almost all of them as they were ill and were like wild animals...... so sad.... You could smell her house from blocks away..... she had family here in town too..... 2 brothers who had washed their hands of her because of her mental illness....... It was so shameful the whole thing.......

I know a few people that live pretty bad, but not that bad. I have offered to help one of the laides, but she doesn't want anyone to get rid of her papers............which are ceiling high. So sad, its a depression.

Thanks, I finally found the pictures. So sad.

I at first thought that house was an abandonded home. As everything looked like trash, no treasures. Till I started reading the link to Juiles site.
I did see that show on the Rich peoples home, last year on tv that had to go through the broken window. Amazing.

That is/was horrendous! :yucky:

I read the link and only the first page of the posts. What a sad story. I'm so glad that she was able to find the encouragement and understanding from the few people on that board.

I can easily see how someone with depression could fall that deep. I had always been a pretty good housekeeper but I continually have to strive to take my home back. If it were not for my friends and family it could be so much worse for me.

I'm so glad she was able to get the help that she needed and was able to open up to her psychiatrist just by posting on an organization board. Truely amazing what just a few words to someone can mean to their life.

I am so glad she got the help she needed. How sad to be that depressed and alone! :(

Read her post for one year later and see how happy she sounds!

I personally think the woman is amazing, to post pictures of the squalor she had to suffer now that she is through the other side of it. To share with others so as they know they are not alone.

I have read this thread when it first started, looked at the site AND bookmarked it!

I don't live this way but I am also aware how 'easy' it would be to wake up one morning and find you were HER. :(

I think the courage she had to overcome this situation can only be admired.

I think it is wonderful she was able to clean it up. I hope she has kept it up.

There is a women who lives a few houses down that has a house like that. She has lived in the house 18 years and has never removed the builders stickers from the windows. She is missing roofing, her garage door is buckled in. I was in her house once selling girl scout cookies, it was horrible.
She does have someone come every 2 weeks to mow after the city wrote her up for her long grass. She is a teacher.
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My mother in law's house looked sort of like this before we moved in. Now it is clean. I can't believe somebody would live there.....it's sad. I would probably shot myself, I get upset if there is a mess, but that.....oh well

Stephanie

I had posted about a woman down the street that lives like this. He house even looks bad on the outside, with the garage door caved in and shingles missing from the roof. She hires someone to edge and mow every other week, but nothing else is done.

She has sheets in the windows, but a neighbor looked in once and said the room was covered with stuff. The garage is 4 feet deep with stuff. My husband peeked in a crack in the door.

Should the city be called? Do you think this is a fire hazard?

I had seen these pictures before. Made me think of what I have seen on TV as a "drug house" meaning no one actually lived there, just hung out. I would hate to say by the look of it that would be a good thing. I have seen some pretty dirty houses, but it is hard for me to believe someone actually lived in that. Also with Cat Fecus matter everywhere the smell would have been horrible.
I have been cleaning my house today and noticed how dusty everything was and thought, "Thank God no one came over." Could you imagine? I can't.
Jeanna:puck:

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My home isn't always as tidy as I would like it to be but it's nothing compared with these pictures...
I never thought anyone could live like that. Unbelievable. Still, I think it's brave to put these pictures on that site. I probably would have been too ashamed to do so.

YEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

:bump: and adding a new home. lol Not as bad as the first, but interesting.

http://www.thehomeland.org/insane/

Oh my!:eek: How sad, I wonder what empty spot (inside herself)that womans is trying to fill.:(

Lots of bubble wrap too.:toothy:

I wanted those paperweights. lol

Originally posted by smnoel
I wanted those paperweights. lol

Me too, they were dusty but beautiful.

I don't doubt some of that stuff is worth something the rest is just stuff and more stuff. The sister I don't talk to supposedly buys things and doesn't open them too, just puts them in "the room". She's probably branched out to other rooms by now. Sad stuff.

I've seen that site before. My mother knows an elderly woman who lives like that. She only has a pathway in her house. The fire department made her leave her home and she cannot return to it until the squalor is cleaned up.

Ick!! I need a shower!

I had seen the first site before, but not the second one. My home is cluttered (small house, too many people and way too much stuff!), but nothing like these places!

How about this one?
http://www.mostemailed.com/images/misc/badNeighbour/

yucko

Oh my goodness! No, I can honestly say I do not live in squalor!

another-

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2002/local/07/10/trenton.html

It doesn't matter how many times I see these pictures, I am always shocked by them.

It also made me feel a lot better today about the current condition of my home until I'm all unpacked. At least it's clean!

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That was sad to see! But I think that it was a great accomplishment that this lady got her act together:smball: It had to take alot of courage to share this with others.

That is really sad.:( I wouldn't even live there cleaned up! Yuck!

I will never complain about my house again! It's messy because we are packed in like sardines. But have mercy! Who could live like that?

My kids rooms are palaces next to thoses places . Yuckkkkkkkkk