[Kali_Namir]

I think this works here, but I'm not too sure...

So I just spent the past three full days cleaning my uncle's house.

He was/is pretty much a hoarder...

The trash was piled up to roughly knee height (so a couple of feet). And that's all it was, trash...Empty drink bottles, the packaging they come in, pizza boxes, old newspapers...this was a lot of just old trash.

We found mail and newspapers for 1996...it was bad...

He says he is ready to turn over a new leaf (after seeing the show Hoarders) and so he allowed us to come help him clean his house.

I will say this, to have had all that trash, there were little to no bugs (the occasional itty bitty spiders but nothing else really), no mice/rats, and no mold. It was just piles and piles of trash.

My dad had asked one thing, that my uncle clean up the bathroom. When we arrived it was almost spotless...(he even mopped the floor and scrubbed the toilet).

So we get there and the first night we start cleaning the living room, and the kitchen, then head to the bedroom we'd be staying in only to find out that it has had the door closed and is in no way dirty (a little dusty, and a few books in the floor but that was is). So the next day we finish the dining room and kitchen, work a little more on the living room, and then we tackled the hallway. We find the second guest bedroom, yet again, has had the door closed and is simply a little dusty. By then it's bed time. The last full day we finish the living room, and do the finishing touches on the other rooms (mopping, dusting, organizing for him, and trying to get the nasty film off the carpet). Then on one of the MANY trips to the dump me and my mom decide to tackle his bedroom...it had to be the worst room in the entire house...It was HORRIBLE...(still no bugs or mice though [aside from a computer mouse])...It literally took at least 26 DRUM LINERS to get all the trash from his room. I've never seen anything else that bad before!!!

Well we get done and it's bed time. This morning we get up and my uncle is happy and cheerful and cleaning up after himself. It was a major difference in his demeanor and everything! (and the house is clean and safe and livable again!)

Have you even seen the inside of a hoarder's house, or helped to clean one?