Check out this challenge that I have in my job

I really have never talked on here about what kind of work that I do..
I own my own business..cleaning and organizing homes, garages, yards and businesses..I have had people work for me in the past..but now it is pretty much me and if I need certain things done, I have friends that I pay to come and do those things.
I run into all kinds of crazy stuff in my line of work..My customers are almost always women..that somehow their house got out of control or it has always been that way and they need me to come in and get it back in order..usually they just leave it up to me on what I get rid of...I love my job and it is very satisfying..I free up these peoples lives..let them be free again from the burden of clutter...they even tell me "I cant stop thinking about it"..and that is what I do...I give them peace of mind that it is done and they never have to think about it again..well, at least for awhile..
Ok. here is one of the jobs I am doing...84 yo lady..has been living in this house for 50 years...I got my work cut out for me..I did the bedroom yesterday and it took 7 hours.. it looks really nice.

i bet you come across some cool stuff.old people save everything
keep your eyes open for stuff you can sell on the antique road show

Yeah, I come across all kinds of stuff..you name it..I really should save more stuff..but I dont..I just like to get it done and be done with it. Plus, my dad likes making trips with me to the dump. LOL..but your right I should be more aware of certain items.

Did you do that hike this weekend?

Geo that client isn't simply cluttered... what you have there is a first-class, grade A, Div I varsity SLOB.

Yeah, that too..lol..she is 84..if that is any consolation

I took 600 lbs of basically garbage out of the bedroom alone yesterday..

Don't get me started on the failure of our so-called 'modern' society to take care of its elders. Where the hell are her grandchildren in all this? Shouldn't they have offered to lend her a hand long ago?

They were there when I left..her granddaughter and her husband..both extrememly overweight..sleeping on the couch.

Do you drug-test your friends that help you? J/K! :-)

Wow! That's a pretty big mess! I've seen places like that myself, and usually the person is incapable of cleaning/organizing due to mental or physical disabilities.

Stinkyattic: you're right, family should intervene before it gets that bad. Not everyone has close family, though. I know I'd never let my parents or grandparents get that bad. It's really sad how some people have no one to watch out for them.

i'm not sure but should you be showing pictures of other peoples personal lives???

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i'm not sure but should you be showing pictures of other peoples personal lives???

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Do you know this person?
Who is it hurting?
Do you even know what state I am in?



Plus, I asked permission to take the pictures.

I pretty much take the beginning and end pictures everytime.

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Do you drug-test your friends that help you? J/K! :-)

Wow! That's a pretty big mess! I've seen places like that myself, and usually the person is incapable of cleaning/organizing due to mental or physical disabilities.

Stinkyattic: you're right, family should intervene before it gets that bad. Not everyone has close family, though. I know I'd never let my parents or grandparents get that bad. It's really sad how some people have no one to watch out for them.

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No drug test for weed. LOL

But that is usually what it..either mental or physical disabilities which makes them unable to pick up after themselves.

wow

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I pretty much take the beginning and end pictures everytime.

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That probably helps when talking to prospective clients, you can show them before/after pictures so they know the kind of work you do.

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That probably helps when talking to prospective clients, you can show them before/after pictures so they know the kind of work you do.

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It help a lot..plus, they have to trust you..

I don't see any vintage porn.

Stuff from the 30's would be worth some money.

And, crickets. Did you find any?

I need you, Geonagual. I have a junk room that's not as bad as that lady's house, but it's not good. I haven't got the mind that can organize it. It's my junk, though, so it's my responsibility. This gives me hope that there might be someone like you in this area who could come help. I think I'm going to be like that elderly lady when I'm old. I'm not a packrat, but I'm not naturally organized.

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I need you, Geonagual. I have a junk room that's not as bad as that lady's house, but it's not good. I haven't got the mind that can organize it. It's my junk, though, so it's my responsibility. This gives me hope that there might be someone like you in this area who could come help. I think I'm going to be like that elderly lady when I'm old. I'm not a packrat, but I'm not naturally organized.

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Fly me out to Texas and I will do it for free..lol..I would love just to visit.

I have seen much much MUCH worse hehehe.:D

do you get the pest controll in before you start? or do you take a gun and shoot the rats as you go along?

Its cluttered, I wouldnt go as far as calling them complete slobs, cause u can tell its kind of tity trash(oxymoron) cause u dont see trash, like food plates, wrappers, garbage bags full of rotting abysses.

geo.. you wanna come reorganize my room? i cant pay ya but i'll smoke you up:jointsmile:

lol that looks like a big bag of weed under the lamp in the first picture maybe the old lady is just too stoned to clean up :stoned:

DUDE!!!! You know what would be fun!!! If you hid a bong in a picture and posted it weekly. Sort of a wheres Wally theme. THAT..... would be sick!

I finally finished this job..I was only doing it once a week at the most...she had a lot of stuff going on and I have a a lot of other jobs going on to...but I finally finished..ended up doing the entire house and yard...I took to the dump over 10,000 lbs of trash to the dump from the house and yard..I was there for 2 days by myself and my friend was with me for 5 days..so, right around 100 man hours..house looks awesome now and she is so happy..the smell is much better to..

wow is right. I can't stand anything of mine being disorganized. Much less, dirty.

Wow Geo, too bad we are in different states, we could team up, I have entirely too much experience with packrats (myself included unfortunately) and I have a booth in an antique mall where we could make a killling! thinking of all the things you have probably tossed hurts my soul. But that is a wonderful and much needed service you provide.

geo i tried hitting you up on yahoo messenger i'm matthiasj5_0 hit me up

hey man, any after pics? we wanna see your handiwork!

Wow, thats kewl Geo! This summer I did a job sort of like what you do, and I am thinking of makin a small business out of it eventually? This summer I was helpin a friend of my x-wifes move(she paid me to help), I wasn't aware of the state of the place she was movin out of was like. The first thing I noticed when i arrived was the intense smell of cat urine. She had a cat and never cleaned the litter box(I know this cause I saw all 3 litter boxes, full of cat shit, and piss), and the couch was covered in piss, and shit, it was so nasty! There was clutter everywhere, in the kitchen the fridge was full of rotting food, and there was a pack of rotten hamburger meet on the kitchen counter. It was disgustin, so after me and another guy Moved her, she hardly had anything packed. So after the move she was just going to leave the mess behind, i told her thats wrong and you can't leave that foir your landlords, so i said I would clean it, if she paid me, I did it for about 300 dollars, and it took the better of a week to clean it all up( on one day off of work, and after work in the evenings), I smoked a lot of weed those days, I hauled out 12 garbage bags full of Garbage, salvaged a about 12 boxes full of her stuff, that she just wanted left behind. And then I took a box home of stuff that she was just going to throw out. It took her like 2 months to pay me..it was an awful job, but in away I rteally enjoyed it, cause I knerw the landlords apreciuated it very much! :) The bathroom was so disgustin (had 2 litter boxes in it full of piss and shit) it smelt so bad in that place the first day of cleanin i was usin a drywall dust mask to block out the smell..I'm thinking of starting up my own business of the sort, cleanin up after Tennants move, either for the landlord, or the tennant. Might start up again soon! :)

i believe that it really isn't that uncommon for older people who live alone to let their houses go to shit, i had to clean out my grandma's house a while back and it was pretty much a hallway system through all the rooms, it was insane. Ya good luck with that

ever find any smoking shit? haha clean some little old ladys house and find like a 4ft bong. "i was wondering where that was, i got some fiyah ass chronic i was wantin to smoke"