...how can anyonw live like this?

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2010/07/20/sotvo.il.hoarder.death.cnn.html

I'm just flabbergasted, how did she take a shower?...how did she eat?, hell how did she even go to the bathroom?

I don't even know how she survived that long without proper ventilation and such...

 

She was 82...

 

how were there "other inhabitants"?

 

I can understand that it is an illness and hoarders have a problem. If there were others how did this then continue unless they were also hoarders?

Baffling.

 

I watch the TV show Hoarders all the time but there’s at least access into the home

They use tunnels to get around – that’s FUCKED UP


Hotwater

 

that is sad

 

My high school boyfriend lived in a hoarding house...his mother was the scary teacher that all the kids hated to get.

She had stacks of papers, newspaper, garbage, everything...with paths clear to get from room to room.
Her bed had a small clear spot on it whereshe slept.

The kitchen was covered in dirty dishes, and the dsh washer was always open and full even though it was just the mother and son living there. (she was a man-hater and refused to tell him who his father was) Scary.

 

I have never met a hoarder. A few what I would call pack rats but never to an extreme.

It must be very difficult for someone to live with a person who is a hoarder and to cope with that.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAnah0l0rqk"]YouTube- Hoarders on A&E




Hotwater

 

I know it is an illness and like so many other illnesses it has a ripple affect on all those around the person who is not well. Must be very difficult to cope with for everyone.

 

Wait, so this isn't normal?

 

Normal in the sense that she wasn’t a rich 82 year old woman who was discovered dead in her home surrounded by antique furniture, jewelry, rare book collections, along with Persian tapestry and Picasso paintings hanging from the walls ….ehhhh…. which might provide a different picture



Hotwater

 

Huh? Not making sense to me.

 

You need to develop an eclectic sense of humor


Hotwater

 

Ooops my bad!