I'm watching the rerun of Anna (some kind of health care worker), and Claire and Vance.
Anna's sister and adult daughters broke into her house while Anna was at work, and a neighbor called Anna, and she told the neighbor to call police. Then, Anna denied she knew the 'burglars'. Anna claims she started hoarding a couple of years ago, when her mother died. She's lying, that junk has been piling up for many years. She won't let Matt Paxton, Dr. Z, and the cleaners and relatives inside her house.
Then Claire and Vance bought a house, moved in, and removed most of the appliances, to stack books to the ceiling in every room. I'm shocked the house hasn't collapsed (I'm a retired librarian, the weight load of books can collapse a floor), and Claire says they yell "Timber" when there's a major collapse.
I'm always chilled when a hoarder says they work in home health care, or in the medical field. The germs and filth are dangerous.
As a retired librarian, believe me when I say that no library wants moldy, outdated books, especially encyclopedia sets.
They removed 20,000 books from Claire and Vance's house, estimated at 10 tons, and have only made a walking path with books still packed to the ceiling. A bookcase fell over on one of the cleaning crew too. The kitchen is claimed to be clean (Dr. Chabaud, and Dorothy), but there are still books piled to the ceiling. I don't care what the end screen said, I doubt Anna, Claire or Vance will ever clean up.
Tonight's new one is "Meryl". She's been with her husband for 30 years, and he's another hoarder enabler. Worcester city code enforcement have told her to clean up. SHe actually heard the code enforcement pounding on the door, she hid in the bathroom, but they refused to leave, and she's been cited for a lot. Codes enforcement have threatened to condemn the house, if they don't clean up.
They are $100k in debt, plus a first and second mortgage. The husband says if he had to be off work for two weeks the house would be gone. Both of the couple are such liars, when Meryl's mother died, Meryl moved in everything from her mother's house, and was going to sort through it, it's all still there. Plus, Meryl shops constantly. There are paths through the junk, but everything else is packed to the ceiling. The sister-in-law tried to help them clean up 8 or 9 years ago, and Meryl decided on the basement. She did nothing to help the clean up, and they barely touched one basement room. THe mother was really sick in 1997, and I bet died not too long later. The sister-in-law and husband have given up. Meryl's brother refused to participate again in another useless clean up. Meryl wanted $15k from brother and SIL to clean up the house, partly to get the furnace repaired, and spent all of it on other things.
I'm in shock, the sister-in-law says Meryl is about to turn 60, I thought at least 10 years older. At the beginning, Meryl is doing fine. Most of what the cleaners are bringing out is nothing special. Then, Meryl's mom's stuff starts coming out.
Edited April 20, 2021 by CrazyInAlabamancG1vNJzZmien6fCrr%2BNqamipZWptq6x0WeaqKVfqbyxtcJob3JvYWh6qbvAq5ueqqNitKa6xKuYpWWUnsCkwdKsoKimX6WuqLGObGdo