How could anyone live in this?

[Drunken Irishman]

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[LostInAnomie]

1. How'd you get in my house!?

And, I want those three cigarette butts you stole off my computer back!

[JVS]

17. You need to use less shit in your hair! Look what happened to the couch armrest when you passed...

out there!

[AlCzervik]

2. how has that house managed not to have burned down?

[Drunken Irishman]

4. I don't know.

You'd think with all the cigarette butts, it would have sparked up somehow. Especially the ones that were by the couch.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Poor kitty/kitties who are stuck in there.

:(

[Drunken Irishman]

5. :(

Hopefully they'll find a good home.

[Quantess]

32. what makes you think they have cats?

oh, now I see all the orange IAMS bags in pic #6

[Zuiderelle]

44. And a litterbox full of cat poop in the "bathroom"

[Mutley]

61. How did you see that?

It's like a Where's Waldo picture.

[stuntcat]

38. yah

:(

[flvegan]

6. Looks like there might be a mental illness of sorts, maybe.

In which case I'd say, be very damn thankful that you don't understand how.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. Yes, it has to be a mental illness.

Hoarding is an illness, this is hoarding times a million.

[Lorien]

25. I think it's just plain ol' laziness

I've known a few guys who could NEVER pick up after themselves. Their moms always did it for them, so when they moved out of their parents home they just treated their own like a dump!

[Droopy]

13. Not necessarily

Perfectly sane people can do that kind of stuff. I used to have a room mate back when I was suffering from the symptoms of my illness whose room looked something like those pics in the OP. And he was the sane one. I would not tolerate it elsewhere in the place. I ended up having to kick him out and he would not clear out his room. I had to clean it out and I put his belongings out on the front porch.

[flvegan]

14. Hence the "might be" in my post.

[Droopy]

7. I've seen a couple of places like that in my time

I used to look at foreclosed properties quite a bit and I ran across a couple of them that looked similar to the pics in your OP.

[elshiva]

9. That person eats at the same fast food restaurant

A LOT. :(

[LeftyMom]

10. When I was managing rentals I helped clean out a few of those.

I do not miss that job.

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Yep, I used to clean houses/apts

Ugh. Nothing beats the sink full o' maggots though. :puke:

[mokawanis]

11. I will clean that place from top to bottom

for nothing short of, say, 4 million dollars.

[SeattleGirl]

15. OMG! Those pictures are disgusting.

I wonder, too, if the person has some sort of mental condition or something.

Gad, and I think that my house looks bad if I don't stay on top of the cleaning. Heck, mine is just a little mussed up compared to that place! :scared:

[JVS]

16. What happened to the bathroom?

[samuraiguppy]

18. hey how did you get in my house?

Seriously, does anyone remember the episode of friends where Ross dated the hot girl with the great ass--but her apartment looked like a pile of garbage--and he just couldn't take it?

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Well, it can't be a frat house

Delta Phi Epsilon wouldn't be caught dead with an iron.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. I bet you that person suffers from OCD or some form of it.

hoarding is a form of OCD IIRC.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. All of a sudden I feel very neat and tidy.

My embarrassing but mundane slobbishness has been spectacularly punked. I am a rank amateur...

[ThomCat]

22. There has to be a mental illness involved.

:(

I can't imagine any other explanation. I really feel sorry for anyone so ill that they live like that.

[rug]

23. That's sad.

[Lorien]

24. Apparently is not as uncommon as many would like to think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCpzP7nxsxs&feature=related

Now I'm not feeling so bad about the dishes in the sink. :puke:

[Droopy]

27. I used to invest in real estate

I've looked at a lot of foreclosures in my time and like you say, it's not as uncommon as some would like to think. I bet people who work with rentals see it more often than we'd like to think as well.

[TrogL]

26. that looks like my ex-wife's house

Which is primarily why she's my ex-wife.

The only difference is she smokes her cigarettes all the way down 'til the filter's burning.

Oh, and there's no fire extinguisher and she couldn't iron if her life depended on it.

[Ava]

28. ever watch "how clean is your house" on bbc america?

it's crazy how absurdly nasty people will let their homes get.

[wickerwoman]

39. I love, love, love that show!

It was my first thought. "Nasty in Nottingham" is actually worse than this one. And at least they don't have cat vomit all over everything.

[npk]

29. That house should be condemned

I can only imagine the parasites, and other bugs inside that home. The smell alone would be enough to make me leave immediately.

[crim son]

30. Uh,

WhoTF DOES live like that? Damn, and I feel creepy because I no longer disinfect the baseboards!

[MsTryska]

31. is there context for these pcitures?

They frighten the hell out of me, but I feel liek I need an explanation.

[Tektonik]

33. mmm schlotzky's

[Hangingon]

63. What a Burger too

[Critters2]

34. Hey! I don't go into YOUR house, take pics, and post 'em on the internets! nt

[Drunken Irishman]

35. BUT YOU HAD NO PROBLEM POSTING THAT ONE PERSONAL PIC I SENT YOU!!!!!!

[Critters2]

62. Oh, yeah. That. Okay. We're even now.

:)

[Krakowiak]

36. Looks like a friend's place

He never lets anyone come in, but once on a welfare check I had to go through the house, and it looks EXACTLY like that (sans cigarettes). That was 3 years ago. The city has fined him several times, but there isn't really anything anyone can do. He won't take anyone up on an offer to help clean the place.

[riverdeep]

37. That has got to be a breeding ground for disease.

Certain kinds of fungus can do real damage to your lungs. Not to mention lice and bedbugs and roaches and other nasties that love places like this. This person must be a picture of health- smoking, eating crap, living in filth. And I'm not sure I want to know, but where do they go to the bathroom? The toilet seems otherwise occupied.

[Droopy]

41. I was thinking about bathroom essentials as well

The answer might be the same as to where all those red and white striped cups come from.

[Blue_Tires]

57. go in the blue bucket; when it fills up, dump it in the backyard

[Blue_Tires]

40. take away the cigs and it looks like a friend of a friend's apartment

who i knew back in college...she was good looking and seemed relatively sane, but i wanted to puke for the entire 10 minutes i was in there because the whole place smelled like old sweat, piss, and rotten fish

[mainegreen]

42. Do not want.

:wtf:

[annonymous]

43. My father's house looked like this before it was condemned

My father suffered from vascular dementia and his personal hygiene as well as his house showed signs of marked deterioration. The house had no heat or working plumbing, the roof leaked, the steps were broken. My brother took pictures and mailed them to the city housing inspector who then condemned the house and sent my father off to the hospital for psychiatric examination. He was declared incompetent and spend his last years in an assisted living facility. I wouldn't be surprised if the person who lived in this situation was also sent to the hospital for pyschiatric evaluation.

[Vektor]

45. Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding Disorder. It's a very real disease.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/7224116.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding



Very sad.

[DarkTirade]

46. I feel a whole lot better about the apartment I shared with The Animator now.

I mean we were messy... but we weren't like THAT.

[NJmaverick]

47. That would be the home of someone who suffers

from mental illness and is not getting the help they need.

[lady raven]

48. Obviously this person is terribly ill

My ex husband is a hoarder and I fear if I had stopped the constant housework it took to keep up, our home would have looked like this.

It is very sad when someone reaches this point.

[SacredCow]

49. That is really, really nasty....

agreed that there has to be some mental illness associated with that.

[southpaw]

50. That bathroom is beyond gross!

How anyone could live like that is way beyond me.

[GreenPartyVoter]

51. Mine isn't that bad, but still bad enough.

[Iggo]

52. Do lots of meth every day.

Although there seems to be too much food trash there for it to be a real meth-head's house. Any good meth-head only eats three times a week.

[Z_I_Peevey]

53. Wow. I can smell it through the computer.

I've cleaned apartments, and I've been a motel maid, but I've never seen one that bad with my own eyes. Close, though.

[applegrove]

54. Very sad.

[DS1]

55. heh

[rockymountaindem]

59. LOL

I can't believe I laughed at that one.

[arcadian]

56. The keyboard is clean

Well, certain keys are anyway.

[tigereye]

58. wow, I feel really tidy now...

those folks need serious help.


:wow:

[undeterred]

60. I've known two people who had apartments like this.

And they were both wonderful people. Maybe they both had depression. They didn't invite you in, but that didn't seem strange, as I mostly ran into them in the neighborhood and walking the dog.

One of them asked me to take care of her dog when she went out of town, and she left me her keys. When I went in, I was in total shock. It was much worse than these pictures. It was years and years of stuff being piled up to the ceiling. You could actually see where there was still nice furniture somewhere underneath. There were dead plants, old newspapers, jars, and just tons of things not worth saving- at least by my standards.

There was a path from the back door to the couch where she slept. The bedroom was full and you couldn't even get into it. The bathroom - well there was a television on the toilet. There was so much stuff in front of the front door that it couldn't be used as an exit or entrance. And since it was a third floor apartment and there was a window open, there were squirrels coming and going from a nearby tree. And it smelled horrible in the apartment. I couldn't find the dog's water bowl.

I took her dog back with me to my apartment and never went back. When she came back she was embarrassed that I had seen the place, but she did not understand why I kept her dog with me. I just told her it was easier for me.

[Twillig]

64. You smell that? Crystal meth, son.

Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of crystal meth in the morning.

It's the smell of...

Squalor.

[JVS]

72. Does not compute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaB1So7rDzw

[1Hippiechick]

65. It's one thing for a FU*KING idiot to live like this, but I saw a damn pet crate in the bathroom.n/t

[libodem]

66. Makes. My. skin. Crawl.

Ewww.

[redqueen]

67. Mental illness.

I grew up in a house not unlike that. Not quite that bad... maybe worse in ways... I don't know. It's hard to have perspective about it.

It hurts to see it, and to read some of the comments that invariably pop up about it. (Didn't read this thread, so I don't mean here...)

[Pushed To The Left]

68. I can't believe they found somebody even messier than I am.

Okay...maybe it's close to a draw..

[PfcHammer]

69. Aside from the clutter, this person has good taste. This Texas litterbug

has the main food groups covered. Taco Cabana,
Whataburger, Schlotsky's, Shipley's Donuts,
Domino's, and prolly Wendy's. Oh, and smoking isn't
good for you. :thumbsup:

[YDogg]

70. man, what a filthy ironing board!

[hunter]

71. My grandma's house looked like that.

Best of all she had hundreds of dollars hidden in styrofoam fast food boxes... but there were also half eaten dinners and cigarette butts too.

Cleaning up the mess was like a treasure hunt!

The weirdest thing? Not lots of bugs. I think the cigarette smoke killed them. Eventually that's what killed my grandma too.

[JTG of the PRB]

73. Rush Limbaugh has to live SOMEWHERE, right?

I mean, have you SEEN the cost of living under bridges these days?