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| This is SO NOT my house! |
So I have this mini-obsession with A&E's "Hoarders"..
The other day I was talking to one of my friends and we were having our own little pity party about how sloppy and pig-gish the men in our lives are. So I told her how every time Tim watches Hoarders with me, he gets all grossed out and I'm like, EXCUSE ME? POT? KETTLE?
My friend laughed and said, ".. omg! You're SO THE ANTI-HOARDER!'
And it's true...
I can't stand clutter.. can't stand mess.. can't STAND things not being put where they belong.. or cabinet doors being left open.. or wet towels being left on the floor.. or dirty dishes in the sink.. or left over food on the counter... or sneakers left in the middle of the floor.. or underwear kicked under the bed.
I'm not one of those people that have those god awful kioskis collecting dust on shelves.. or buying things I don't need just because I want them..
Which, yknow, makes living HERE an absolute hell sometimes because if I didn't spend 23 out of 24 hours making sure the that there was no clutter, mess, closing cabinet doors and drawers, picking up clothes and towels and donning the daily hazmat suit to clean the bathroom I'd go absolutely insane!
I guess the reason why I'm so fascinated by Hoarders is because I can't wrap my mind around it. How can you live like that? But worse.. how does the husband/wife who isn't the hoarder, live in all the garbage and clutter?
I understand that it's a mental illness.. it's apparent from the stories I've seen that there was something tramatic that happened in these people's lives that resulted in this condition.
But GOOD LORD..!!!
It gives me the heeby jeebies just thinking about it!
I'd be the one to go thru the house while they were asleep with a garbage bag and traumatize someone. I wouldn't be able to stay 3 minutes in a house like that without having a trash can handy and starting to throw things away. I'm incapable of doing it.
ReplyDeleteYou know what really torques my crawl, Amy? Some.. almost all.. of these house are so amazing (after they're cleaned up, of course) .. and here are these people just trashing them .. meanwhile I live in a dump (which was always a dump, the boys aren't entirely responsible) and if I had a house like those I'd completely respect it and keep it immaculate. Irony sucks.
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