I no longer feel like my apartment is that messy, and maybe that is the whole point behind seeing something like this. That link, which takes probably 20 minutes to get through, is hands down one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It is a series of photographs that a college student, who lives with his mom, took of his mom's house, and how utterly cluttered and clogged it is with random junk that she either refuses to throw away or acquired on eBay or various yard sales and whatnot. Honestly, this is a case where a picture really is worth a thousand words, because without all those photos there would just have been no way to truly convey what a disaster that house is (although the student's accompanying text is quite hilarious as he explains what all that crap is). If you have a little time to kill, I highly reccomend you check that link out.
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wanna bet?
My sister's mother in law's house was so cluttered that they had corridors to get around. :eekWish I could do a visual comparison but when we were in Boston for my sister's wedding, they wouldn't let our side of the family see the house, they were too embarassed. My brother in law's mother had to meet us at the b&b we were staying in.:lol
I can only imagine!
When she died they hired an estate sale consultant and they got quite a bit of dough from all the sale (an auction too!) of some of the crap.:smile
Posted by iendive | February 10, 2004 6:03 PM
Posted on February 10, 2004 18:03
Come on Paola, did you look at that link? Those people have to spend an hour re-arranging stuff if they want to get into the closet or use the washing machine. Did you see the dust piled up cause they couldn't even get to most of the areas of their house? Does your sister's mother in law have to move boxes piled 6 or 7 feet high so she can use the shower? :lol
Seriously, look at that link. The only way that could be dirtier is if they started shovelling in dirt and shrubs like Richard Dreyfus in Close Encounters of the Third Kind :lol
Posted by Yams | February 10, 2004 11:22 PM
Posted on February 10, 2004 23:22
Hello? did you read my comment?The woman's deceased... what makes you not think that perhaps her demise was somehow a consequence of her "self-imprisonement" by clutter?
Ok actually it was not, but this guy had his friend over, as you can read from one of the replies (oh my God I HAVE no life, now I am pubblicly admitting that I read the replies :sad ) nobody was allowed over at our "new" relative's house.
I am told there were stacks of newspapers dating 5 six years back... daily newspapers not even the sunday editions only subscription type deal... she thought she was going to catch up on her reading sometime.
It's actually quite a serious disease!
Happy birthday to me... to the minute of this post :grin
Posted by iendive | February 11, 2004 1:29 AM
Posted on February 11, 2004 01:29
Happy Birthday, Paola :grin
I still can't imagine a place more cluttered than the place pictured there. Someone not wanting people to come over and see the house actually shows some awareness of how bad the place must be, whereas someone who is oblivious probably doesn't care and has no interest in things getting better. Apparently it is quite a serious disease though. Keep in mind that even though your sister's mother in law may have had those old newspapers, the guy in the link has plants in his house that have been dead for years just cause they can't get to them :lol
Posted by Yams | February 11, 2004 1:52 AM
Posted on February 11, 2004 01:52