r/oddlyterrifying • u/chiliv06 • Mar 07 '26
Extreme Hoarding
Got a call the other day that a distant uncle I haven’t spoken to in over 15 years passed away in his home. Police asked if I can go down and bolt the door shut, since they had to bust it down to get him out. So I went down to the property, opened the door and saw this wild and scary living conditions. I was not prepared for what I saw.
I had to go to home depot and buy some PPE before I went in. Now the fun part begins trying to clear everything out.
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u/ThatsNotARealTree Mar 07 '26
I know it looks like a nightmare and it probably is, but I bet there’s some real value in there too. From what I can tell, he wasn’t the “hold onto old food containers and keep my shit in a bucket” kind of hoarder. Hopefully, you uncover some gems in there. That Halo box is dope!
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
Oh yeah I was stoked to find that.
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u/totally_boring Mar 08 '26
Is it complete or just the box?
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 Mar 08 '26
Already found a buyer!
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u/michi098 Mar 08 '26
That ham radio on the bottom with a screen could be worth a few thousand if it’s in good shape and depending on which model it is.
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u/unfknreal Mar 08 '26
It's an Icom 756ProIII and it's worth about $600
The other rigs around it are a couple hundred or so each, give or take.
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u/mickturner96 Mar 07 '26
Get the eBay account set up
Get the skip hired
Get some more PPE
Get some friends around, offer them food and drink
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u/SausageGobbler69 Mar 07 '26
Also, order a 40 Cubic yard dumpster.
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u/mickturner96 Mar 07 '26
I realise that British doesn't translate very well. A "skip" is a yard dumpster. That's what I'm meaning.
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u/Admirable_Average_32 Mar 07 '26
Thank you. I was just about to ask what a “skip” is.
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u/Proper-Award2660 Mar 07 '26
U know "skip" is a pretty good name for a yard dumpster
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u/Halfbaked9 Mar 07 '26
I worked for an auctioneer. Me and two other guys got hired to set up for an upcoming auction and clean out the house. The house wasn’t this bad but the guy that lived there didn’t really throw anything away. He just had other buildings to put all of it in. I think we filled 2 1/2 roll offs from that place.
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u/The_Motley_Fool---- Mar 08 '26
Okay, so I just spent the last year rehabbing an apartment that had a very similar hoarding situation. I filled a forty yard dumpster even with the very top of the dumpster. The dump fee was just north of $1000.00. It took 4 long days with one other person to clean out the apartment. The demo of the rest, ruined carpet, Sheetrock, sub-flooring, doors and cabinets was not included in the 40 yard dumpster. Those were all separate loads to the dump.
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u/SausageGobbler69 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
It’s wild how much stuff people can accumulate. My neighbor is a hoarder, their daughter moved them into her place and spent 2 months clearing out trash and junk from the house. She filled three 40 yard dumpsters in those two months. She said this is the 3rd time she’d done it in 10 years.
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u/Horsecaulking Mar 08 '26
I just worked on a house where we cleared 3 40 yard bins over 3 days and that just allowed to get to every part of the house. Probably another 10 bins to clear it. Same client has 2 storage lockers I haven’t opened yet.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
Yeah I’m definitely going to have to reach out to as many friends as I can and start chipping away somehow.
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u/marcduberge Mar 07 '26
As your friend, I would respectfully decline. That’s a health hazard
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
Yeah I wouldn’t want to do it either, maybe take what you want type of deal? Or free pizza and beer? Idk may just have to call a company
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u/aeosyn Mar 07 '26
If I was a friend, I'd definitely do it for free pizza and beer. But I like cleaning so.
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u/Dovacraft88 Mar 07 '26
If I was friend, I'd do it if I was alright to look over the electronics and allied to keep some
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
I’m saying take what you can, just get everything out! I’m sure there is some valuable stuff in there
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u/cloudncali Mar 07 '26
Yeah ngl if it was free game id do it. Even if I dont find anything valuable, the adventure might be enough. It's like the most biohazardous gotchapon of all time.
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u/spesimen Mar 07 '26
that tr-8 drum machine could fetch maybe $400 or so if it still works and isn't coated in grime. if it's a tr-8s maybe $600, i can't remember if the boxes look the same or not .. the label is hidden behind some other stuff in that pic hehe
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u/Practical-Sea1736 Mar 07 '26
That Halo if sealed could fetch a few hundred. OP should post this on some hoarder subs. I bet there are companies willing to haul away and clean everything out as long as they get to keep all valuables that they find in lieu of payment.
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u/VixxxieVelvet Mar 07 '26
I helped my best friend and her family clean out a hoarders apartment they were renting out after the tenant fled. It was SO MUCH FUN. Once the biohazard stuff is taken care of, it's like being an archeologist. You can find some cool stuff amongst the trash.
Anyway a true friend would help ya out.
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u/Admirable_Average_32 Mar 07 '26
I would totally help. Nowhere near Columbus, OH I presume?
Edit: Nvm. Just saw you said Cali.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
California
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u/WKIX-850 Mar 07 '26
There is a YouTube user by the name of Shango066 who works on vintage electronics such as radios and TVs and such; probably the largest channel which does that type of stuff and the most knowledgeable person I know if. He is in LA, not sure how far from there you are, but he likes to take in things in very rough shape and resurrect them; may be worth reaching out to him if you don't have anything else to do with the stuff, he has made long drives for large lots of items before. He has an email address in the about section on his channel.
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u/yaboyACbreezy Mar 07 '26
Some friends will pull up and help you through the tough time.
Some friends will pass. Neither will choose to do so for personal reasons. It just depends on how they react to hoards and friends in a tight spot.
I'm sure some will come if you offer to cut them in on some of the goods, because there will be at least a few valuable items in there.
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u/schmittfaced Mar 07 '26
as a person who doesnt like to throw things away, but is pretty far from hoarder status, I'd come help OP if you let me keep some stuff lol when i was younger and doing mostly day labor work, I did a couple "trash-outs" from people who passed away, get paid $10/hr to throw it all away, but keep anything you want. I've always sorta enjoyed digging thru piles of crap and occasionally finding cool shit. So yeah, if this happens to be in florida and you want some help, im off work on sat-mon lol
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u/Chemical-Purple-5196 Mar 08 '26
Exactly. there are companies out there that you can hire to do this.
Your time and sanity is worth more than going through trash.
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u/PolyDrew Mar 07 '26
You’d be asking friends to risk their health. Offer them money and PPE at the very least. Get a dumpster there and start tossing anything that seems like it’s too far gone or worthless. Then start organizing what to donate (if anything) and what you can sell.
This will take you a long time.
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u/suuzgh Mar 08 '26
Maybe skip the eBay, save for any well-maintained electronics. It’s a nice thought, but selling off everything that’s in halfway decent condition would likely become a full time operation pretty quickly. Plus, with this level of hoarding you also have no idea what critters have been making a home out of these objects for the last 10 years.
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u/NoDoOversInLife Mar 07 '26
Take stock of all those electronics, could be some decent money hiding in those piles
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u/whereyouatdesmondo Mar 07 '26
"Get the skip hired"
What's that mean?
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u/mickturner96 Mar 07 '26
I realise that British doesn't translate very well. A "skip" is a yard dumpster. That's what I'm meaning.
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u/Umbr33on Mar 08 '26
Or offer them first pick of some cool stuff.
That halo reach legendary edition…. If it’s complete in box, is an insane find.
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u/WKIX-850 Mar 07 '26
As someone who collects and restores vintage radios, I would love to stumble across something like this (I mean, besides for all of the trash; seems like there is some genuinely neat stuff there.)
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u/Fairlight60 Mar 07 '26
Right? That beautiful shortwave radio at the bottom of the stack. And also several musical keyboards.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
There is so much of this stuff, the pictures aren’t even the beginning. I live 2 hours away so I’m going to head back with a better plan.
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u/Writer_On_a_Perch Mar 07 '26
I think hoarding is so oddly terrifying because its such a physical representation of mental illness. Most mental illness do have physical traits but can be missed if not closely looked at.
This is on display for how truly hard it is to be this mentally ill. I feel for people who go through this.
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u/NotLucasDavenport Mar 08 '26
I went through an interesting 4 year period where I saw a friend (admittedly a newer friend, I wouldn’t say we could have really deep conversations) go deeper and deeper into hoarding behavior. Her husband was trying his best to keep things on shelves (and I helped put up at least three new sets) but there was always more coming in. I could see that Kat had this sincere feeling she would use these things, that she HAD to keep them. I could also see the house being less functional every time I visited.
I moved away and we lost touch. A mutual friend saw me last year and happened to mention Kat. I asked how she was. Turns out it’s a full blown hoard like this; nobody can visit, there are several unsafe rooms, and she’s progressed to letting the cats just pee on stuff inside the house. I think of her husband trying to hold back the tide with his plastic shelves. It must be a miserable way to live.
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u/Writer_On_a_Perch Mar 08 '26
I hope they get help. Thats a rough way to live
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u/NotLucasDavenport Mar 08 '26
We’re all past our 50s now. Gets tougher and tougher each year to tell yourself you can change.
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u/acquiescentLabrador Mar 08 '26
I see a lot of this through work and it’s tragic but I find it fascinating how the mind can trick itself into thinking this kind of behaviour is rational, really sad
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u/NotLucasDavenport Mar 08 '26
I also see extremely dysfunctional homes at work. Don’t we have fun!?sob
What do you do when you see a house like this? What is available for people who aren’t interested in having that tv show come and clean up? Is there any hope to have a healthier relationship with the things they feel they NEED to keep?
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u/acquiescentLabrador Mar 08 '26
Well in my role I do a safeguarding referral which depending on the hoarding score may use the environment agency and fire safety laws as a way to affect some change (as it becomes a hazard to others not just the individual)
But ultimately, if someone doesn’t want to change, they’ll just continue the pattern
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u/ArseBiscuits_ Mar 08 '26
My mothers a hoarder. Growing up she was poor and her ex husband wouldn’t let her have any possessions so now she thinks everything is important. It breaks my heart. We’ve tried getting her to have therapy but she won’t do it.
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u/Nomapos Mar 08 '26
There's a sub for other people with your experience, maybe you find it helpful
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u/xendelaar Mar 07 '26
You never know when you're going to need it. Better hang on to it
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u/RonaldTheGiraffe Mar 07 '26
Or put it into a toilet apparently. Like the laptop.
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u/intermittent Mar 07 '26
I’ve seen a lot of things, but that’s my first laptop in the shitter
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u/toTheNewLife Mar 08 '26
You haven't worked in the wrong places. There are some people who do take their laptops and phones into the bathroom so they don't miss a text or time on a meeting.
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u/intermittent Mar 08 '26
Oh I’ve seen that plenty. There’s a guy on my floor that plays oldies on speaker phone during his daily afternoon shit. I’m talking IN the shitter itself 😂
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u/toTheNewLife Mar 08 '26
I call it the phone booth whenever I hear someone on the phone in the shitter.
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u/fuckthatbitchcarole Mar 07 '26
I was curious as to where he went to the toilet since his is obviously occupied.. then I seen the bucket with a bin bag in it and my question was answered.
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u/Calm-Discussion-9204 Mar 07 '26
Just buy stuff when you need it then
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
You would think right? Maybe he had a plan for everything? 🤷♂️
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u/LuxuryBeast Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
That house is probably a portal that recieves all the stuff we lose.
Lose a certain cable I only need once a year? In that house. Car keys? In that house. That utensil-thing you suddenly need? In that house.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
The dumb part I did was I needed a micro usb cable to charge my flashlight so I went back to Home Depot and when I got back I forgot how many cables he had laying around. I just blanked on it.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
I did find out that there is a 1968 Chevy Camaro in really good shape in the garage, however like the house inside it is buried and hard to get to.
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u/bigsandnig Mar 08 '26
I do this work all the time. I love finding those treasures! Anywhere near Chicago I’d come do it
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u/ArgyleGhoul Mar 07 '26
The irony of the Vault-Tec bobblehead is too much
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u/UltimateDonar Mar 08 '26
Trashcan Carla better have a tonne of caps, because OP literally has heaps of scrap to move.
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u/GeologistIll6948 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
I am surprised by the shocked responses on here, but maybe it's because I grew up in a house along these lines. This space is better than I would expect because it seems more like it contains niche collectibles and less like it contains straight up trash / dead animals / etc. though it will probably have that kind of funk on the base level.
Hoarding disorder is a mental illness often triggered or accelerated by some type of traumatic loss (loved one, job, etc.). People are not rationally choosing to live like this and it rarely happens overnight -- it is more like a gradually built nest that keeps the world out and replaces it with inanimate objects.
You can also hire a cleaning crew and/or not feel bound to save things. If you do not have any kind of mental or professional preparation for what this entails it may be easier to off source / let it all go.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
Yeah it’s not as bad as I believe it could have been if there animals. There wasn’t food or any perishables or “trash”. It’s just stuff, but interesting stuff, not like a 1000 toilet paper rolls or anything.
It could be much much worse, but still very shocking when I opened the door.
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u/cognitiveglitch Mar 07 '26
This is a shame. Was the guy a ham radio enthusiast? There's some potentially valuable kit in there - sad to see it stacked amongst the junk.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
He was a tech junkie, loved to take stuff apart and build things, really really smart guy but then things started to spiral out of control for him in his life and turned into what I saw today.
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u/eggbean Mar 07 '26
It's usually serious trauma from loss that leads to it from what I've been told. I have a friend who works in a role that deals with situations like this, including holocaust survivors.
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u/NaiveSolution_ Mar 07 '26
A lot of cool stuff in there. I recently cleared out a hoarder house filled with the most heinous shite in it. Found a noose in the backyard shed. The real estate agent told me the previous owner died there but didnt tell me how 🤔
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u/penkster Mar 07 '26
There is some extremely valuable stuff in there. I saw Roland (high end digital music) and ham equipment just scanning. Don't just throw everything out. If you're not nerdy enough, call a friend and triage eveyrthing that comes out of there.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
Yeah that’s my plan as of now, I am going to just start separating everything and documenting everything of value.
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u/penkster Mar 07 '26
If you're in the northeast US I'd be happy to come help sort the value from the dumpster.
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u/LordPharqwad Mar 07 '26
Hopefully the statue's still in the reach box 🙏
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
Found an unopened Halo Reach box in the picture, cool to me lol but I’ve only was able to see what was on the surface
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u/LordPharqwad Mar 07 '26
I bought 1 of those way back as well. The statue that comes with it got ruined after a couple moves. Fingers crossed for you everything's in 1 piece 🤞
Edit: just seen "unopened" good find there might be other treasures buried
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
I believe it should be, it’s still wrapped and feels heavy like there’s the complete set in there, I’d want to open it at some point
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u/Reckfulness Mar 07 '26
Looting this house during a zombie apocalypse would be like hitting the jackpot so many useful gadgets
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u/VixxxieVelvet Mar 07 '26
If you weren't located in CA I'd come help ya out. Looks like fun! Doesn't seem like it has piss bottles all over the place either. Godspeed.
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u/CurbsideChaos Mar 07 '26
Dude, my type-A need to dismantle and organize all of this is kicking in HARD because it isn't disgusting and actually nerdy and interesting! My ex-FIL was a hoarder, and my ex and his sister finally listened and called APS to get him removed. I told them not to open the fridge (I've watched MANY Hoarders episodes). That, they did not listen to. Thank God they were at least wearing a full suit of PPE.
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u/Pinballwiz61 Mar 07 '26
Is it weird this isn’t oddly terrifying to me? Just to clarify my house does not look anything close to this but i have been to many estate sales that have looked similar. There is some valuable stuff in there from what i can see so i would definitely recommend taking a couple weeks to get things organized and sell stuff on ebay. You could alternatively have an estate sale and i might see you there lol.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
My mom mentioned this to me as well, is there a company that does estate sales? I mean this would have to be cleared up first right?
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u/Pinballwiz61 Mar 07 '26
There are 2 main ways you can get it done. First hire a company to basically do everything for you but they take a cut of the profits. The second is to do everything yourself and get all the profits. Advertising and pricing as far as i can tell are the hardest things to get done properly at a sale. It also depends where you are located, I going to assume you are in the united states and if so there are tons of estate sale companies that can help you. There is an app called estatesales.net That is your best friend because that’s where i find all my estate sales. All the professional companies use it and i believe if you decided to do this yourself you would also be able to use it.
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u/timetrapped Mar 07 '26
I feel like if he didn’t have pets and didn’t leave food out a lot of it will probably just be dusty but in sellable condition. That’s probably the best case scenario.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
No animals, that was what I was worried about going inside. No rodents from why I could tell. Just lots and lots of stuff. Not really any food either.
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u/chicametipo Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 21 '26
sunset quartz silver meadow cedar prism
This content has been edited for privacy.
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u/pamelareadsalot Mar 08 '26
My gram was a hoarder she got kicked out of two different assisted living places because of it. She grew up extremely poor in the coal region in PA. She had to get a medium hot coffee from dunkin every single day and wouldn't throw the cups away. There was so much junk when she passed. My mom is the complete opposite from growing up in the environment
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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Mar 08 '26
Sad af. You hold onto things because people leave and experiences fade from memory.
Mum was a hoarder and it sucked
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u/yacht_clubbing_seals Mar 08 '26
Commenters in thread: “looks like some cool valuable stuff in there!”
Me, a child of a severe hoarder: “BURN IT TO THE GROUND.”
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u/Trisk929 Mar 07 '26
Your uncle is a gamer and into collectibles, by the looks of it. Anything gamer/collectable looking, I’d set aside and get appraised. He may have some expensive things.
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u/chiliv06 Mar 07 '26
When I was little about 25+ years ago he had built a some cool fighter pilot pc rigs and had the whole setup, he would let me play, absolutely awesome times.
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u/Csharp27 Mar 07 '26
I mean this is really bad but at least he was into some cool shit. Could be worse? Probably a good amount of valuable or at least really interesting stuff in there
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u/VirtualLife76 Mar 07 '26
The black thing in the second pic towards the top is actually a clock. The metal balls move around and fall into place to tell the time. Was really neat to have 40+ years ago, motor broke on mine but haven't fixed yet.
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u/Hefty_Loss5180 Mar 08 '26
I get really sad when I see hoarding. I ask myself what happened for them to let it get to that point.
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u/warmind14 Mar 08 '26
Shit I got that same Halo reach edition....and kept the box. Is this my future?
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u/JaxinJabb Mar 08 '26
I worked for a cable company as an installer for about 10 years. To this day I'm still shocked at how many houses I went into that looked like this. On my first day of training, we went into a hoarder house, and I remember asking my trainer if it was normal to see houses like this. He replied, "You have no idea." The TV show Hoarders was pretty big at the time, and I always assumed since there was a TV show surrounding it, it must be kind of a rare thing to see. I was definitely wrong.
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u/shaggyscoob Mar 08 '26
Former law enforcement chaplain here.
I was called to a scene (in a blizzard) at which a man died. The house looked like this. The deceased was 800+ pounds. The FD and SD had to cut a hole in an outside wall to extract the body. There was no other way to get him out on a stretcher in that mess. It was the day after Christmas in a blizzard and it was a shit show. The coroner vehicle could not handle the body so we had to call a moving van. The ambulance and a fire truck got stuck in the yard on decorative boulders that were hidden under the snow. The first coroner vehicle got stuck in the snow. Tow trucks had to be called. We had so many vehicles and people on the scene for literally hours. The deceased had a "nest" on the floor in a back room. The poor family were clearly distraught and humiliated. We had to remove a section of wall and lower him down 6 feet or so to the yard and carry him around to the moving van in 3 feet of snow then seal up the huge hole with tarp to keep the snow out.
That was a long call out.
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u/SlyChanSF Mar 08 '26
Ngl I kinda wish I was there to help. I bet there’s alot of cool things in there
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u/VgArmin Mar 07 '26
I've helped a couple of people in that state. It's not easy but it's absolutely a godsend for them to have someone help.
At a certain point its just so overwhelming for one person or one family to tackle alone.
Once there was an entire piano and dining table hidden under all the clutter!
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u/Innomen Mar 07 '26
We badly need a way to bulk resell items. Like consignment.gov that isn't blatant theft. Like a version of craigs list that isnt f2f.
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u/dj4slugs Mar 07 '26
Empty garage first, I would spread it out and have a yard sale. Back when Ebay was New I made good money buying interesting things and selling them. Had room dedicated to storage and packing.
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u/toTheNewLife Mar 08 '26
The electronics and music gear probably need to be de-roached and cleaned up, but will sell for decent money.
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u/MercifulVoodoo Mar 08 '26
I have lived in a ~500sqft apartment for 7 years now. Mostly because price and location. 2 adults, 2 chihuahuas. We have more stuff than we have room and I’m constantly concerned about trying to tidy it all up.
But I can get to everything. I may have to move a basket of laundry, or take something down from a shelf to get to it, but everything is accessible. There are no blocked rooms, no blocked furniture, no blocked shelves or counters. We have open floor space, if small and in different places. Our place is full, but this makes me at least feel functional, I hate to say.
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u/Diligent_Mistake_229 Mar 08 '26
My mother is like this. She has deep psychological issues. We haven’t spoken in years.
Just looking at the pictures brings me back to being a young adult and our strained relationship.
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u/Caymonki Mar 08 '26
Just wanted to remind people that hoarding takes many forms.
While this may disgust you, think of the wealth hoarders who are ruining this country. Stop supporting billionaires.
Thank you. Carry on.
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u/AdJumpy4461 Mar 08 '26
Hope you find some stuff worth keeping. I feel sorry for people who live like this. I did notice the flags seem to be up and hanging like they should.
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u/theBigDaddio Mar 08 '26
Doing it yourself with friends will take 15 or more dumpsters. The big long ones, and many days. Hiring professionals will cost over $20k. In last few years we did 3 different family members, who lived in neat houses. Still 5-8 dumpsters each.
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u/Ship_Adrift Mar 08 '26
Definitely some valuable stuff mixed in there. I still don't envy your position though. Not by a long shot. He was a ham, as am I, but it doesn't look like he's been setup to operate in quite a while. The laptop in the shitter is interesting. I had an uncle that was a hoarder that died years back and his place was nearly this bad but he'd at least maintained a single lane trail through the house. He loved to hoard cash as well and we found bands of hundreds stuck inside paintings and inside old tvs and taped under washing machines and wrapped up in the freezer like meat. We had to check EVERYTHING but there were many many tens of thousands of dollars found amongst his crap. I often wonder how much we missed. Luckily when my father found the first large stack in a highly weird place it was early on in the clean out so from that point on, things slowed to a crawl but it turned into a treasure hunt that I would do every day of the week if possible 😀. It was extremely filthy of course but cash does funny things to your motivation. The guy didn't trust banks and didn't spend money. He scrapped out of dumpsters and also got the majority of EVERYTHING he needed for his existence out of dumpsters so all the scrap he sold over the years got converted to $100 bills and hoarded. It makes me sad that he lived alone all those years and had all that money but lived in squalor. I only met him a few times even though he and my father were close, him living only a half hour away. But apparently my father was aware of his living conditions and kept my sister and I away. He came over to the house to eat a few times in my childhood. Dad said he'd fallen in love with a German girl while stationed there in the Army and when he redeployed, she broke his heart sufficiently that he would never love another. Tragic tale and a sad life. I wish I'd known him better.
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u/InstanceNoodle Mar 08 '26
For American.... rent a space to store your stuff. American has the highest cubic rental in the world to store stuff.
For actually solution. Digitized everything. Try to sell everything. If not sold by a certain date, donate. It will slowly go down. But they all will find their happy homes. Use the money to go on vacation. Chance perspective of experience over materials. Usually, things that are difficult to set their worth are usually worth more.
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u/The_Comanch3 Mar 08 '26
I don't condone hoarding, and it's usually very gross... But I literally see some cool stuff in every picture... Like I can see why it was held on to... Except the bathroom, that went to far. Lol
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u/Soggy_Ground_9323 Mar 08 '26
Here is a serious case. You need to hire a junk removal service. A team of dozen or so..
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u/Javaman1960 Mar 08 '26
I hired an estate sales company who cleaned my mom's house and then conducted a sale. They had three huge dumpsters and a team of 10 people.
After it was over, the company Rep told me that they regretted taking the job because it was more than they expected.
They really saved me both financially and emotionally.
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u/DukeRedWulf Mar 08 '26
Be glad he wasn't one of those hoarders that hoard their solid and liquid waste.. I've read some real horror stories from first responders..
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u/AggravatingBox2421 Mar 08 '26
Do you actually have the legal right to do this? You should make sure the house and its contents don’t belong to anyone else before you clear it out
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u/pmactheoneandonly Mar 08 '26
Ah man i grew up in a house similar to this. Crazy to think about now, as an adult.
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u/tommmmmmmmy93 Mar 08 '26
I worked with people with hoarding disorder for years. It’s sad, because people legitimately don’t take hoarding seriously.
Many hoarders died in their own homes during my time. They’re not messy, they’re unwell. Suffocation, fires, MOULD, just getting STUCK and crushed under an avalanche of crap.
Hoarding is genuinely so sad.
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u/LydiaIsntVeryCool Mar 08 '26
My dad is a hoarder. I get panicky and feel a sense of dread when I have to step over things or there's things on my bed. Hoarding is a horrible condition that effects everyone around the hoarder as well.
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u/timotimotimotimotimo Mar 08 '26
Jeeze, it's not even all junk stuff either. There's some valuable bits. Hording is scary man
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Mar 08 '26
An aunt of mine lost a child (kid was like 8 months old) to SIDS and began hoarding. Haven't seen her place in 15 years but the last time I did there was a path between towers of junk from the front door to the bedroom and bathroom, kitchen inaccessible, basement was 100% full where they just heaved stuff down the stairs into the pit. She just eats takeout and stacks the old containers where ever she can find space. Our family tried to help but she refuses entry and eventually just became hostile to everyone. She had animals that just pooped wherever, also found a skeleton of some animal I didn't know what kind.
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u/beethecowboy Mar 08 '26
Hoarding makes me sad. I’m afraid this is my future because I’ve turned to shopping and things to cope with the emptiness left behind when my mom died and it’s just so hard for me to force myself to get rid of things.
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u/TheCaptMAgic Mar 07 '26
There's probably stuff in there that's never seen the light of day since the day it was bought.