Here's a case of Ebaying, getting out of hand.

This person clearly has OCD, but somoen with OCD as bad as she has it, should probably NOT be allowed to use Ebay, and I think she needs HELP.
http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/

All I can say is wow. That entire house is a fire hazard.

:censor::censor::censor:?
time to start selling the dump and RECYCLE!

OMG I could not believe what I was seeing!!!I think that woman is mentally ill and her child should call social services immediately.

Oh ... my ... god ... !!! And I thought my in-laws were bad!

Yes that poor woman needs help and in addition needs the computer taken away and be sent on vacation for a month or so in order to get that house cleaned out. And I thought I was bad about clutter, I'd go crazy in that house.

How incredibly sad that her daughter would exploit her in this way and not try and help her-

Okay... I used to think I had a messy place around.

Hmm... how about SELLING all that stuff on ebay???? Listen, those glass insulators they used on phone lines and such, I could sell them for a couple hundred dollars... Leave that place to me, and I can make that lady a millionaire.

At first I found myself thinking "look at that place" and "I'm clutterless compared" although I normally regard myself as a packrat. As I got further down the page I just felt incredibly sad - this woman obviously has something deeply wrong. There is no indication that she's actually earning anything to fund this lifestyle. She clearly doesn't really "want" the stuff as most of it she has never even opened. She's obviously subconciously embarrassed because she insists on the windows being covered. It's terribly sad.

Hey, that woman needs some serious help with her compulsions...

The woman clearly has obsessive/compulsive behaviours. The one thing that kept running through my head was "If there is ever a fire, they are in serious, serious trouble." And I fear for any emergency personnel who has to go in that house to try and save them...

That is really sad. I think you are all correct about her needing mental help.
My sister's house looks nearly that bad, and I know for a fact she is as crazy as they come. She has been banned from ebay for something, I don't even want to know what. Hers was like that before ebay. She collects everything, including entire sets of dishes. The last 3 times she moved, my daughter asked me to come help her pack the house, since I worked in the moving/packing business for 7 or 8 years, and can pack breakables. I can pack my own collections and breakables in one day. It took 2 of us nearly a week to pack her crap, and stlll didn't get it all. That was just what was unpacked from her previous moves. She is on disability, and sometimes does not pay her rent because she buys so much crap. Don't even let me get started on the animals!

The person who owns that website and created the mirror of the thread that girl made, has a blog, and his latest entry talks about that mirror.

http://www.randomthink.net/archives/...s-new-again-2/

Apparently its incredibly linked all over the web.

There was a mirror in there somewhere??? HUH??

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There was a mirror in there somewhere??? HUH??

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Not in that packrat mess!

We are talking of a mirror site. You see, there's the California (From where else would such a crazy person come from?) girl who posted that thread in a forum with all the pictures about her mom's hoarding habits in 2003. Yet there's at the same time a blogger in New Mexico who set up a "mirror site" a website replicating that thread and then linking to the original thread.

Originally Posted by hissy

How incredibly sad that her daughter would exploit her in this way and not try and help her-

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complete with photo of "mom."

Originally Posted by yoviher

Not in that packrat mess!

We are talking of a mirror site. You see, there's the California (From where else would such a crazy person come from?) girl who posted that thread in a forum with all the pictures about her mom's hoarding habits in 2003. Yet there's at the same time a blogger in New Mexico who set up a "mirror site" a website replicating that thread and then linking to the original thread.

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I'm from California. There are a lot of nutty people here, but people with OCD are from everywhere.. I saw a show about it on Oprah last week. One lady was so overwhelmed by the clutter and filth in her house that she just never cleaned it up and wouldn't throw anything away. Then there was the lady who was the cat horder, she had 81 cats in her small house. Actually 81 cats and 6 dogs. Oprah found a No Kill shelter in her area to take ALL of her cats. I think that lady was from Oregon and was a High School Social Studies teacher. There are people with this illness everywhere.

I feel sorry for this woman. Her child should be looking for help for the mother. I would imagine the reason this was put on the Internet was in hopes of shaming the mother to clean up her house and get rid of her junk.

Originally Posted by HopeHacker

I'm from California. There are a lot of nutty people here, but people with OCD are from everywhere.. I saw a show about it on Oprah last week. One lady was so overwhelmed by the clutter and filth in her house that she just never cleaned it up and wouldn't throw anything away. Then there was the lady who was the cat horder, she had 81 cats in her small house. Actually 81 cats and 6 dogs. Oprah found a No Kill shelter in her area to take ALL of her cats. I think that lady was from Oregon and was a High School Social Studies teacher. There are people with this illness everywhere.

I feel sorry for this woman. Her child should be looking for help for the mother. I would imagine the reason this was put on the Internet was in hopes of shaming the mother to clean up her house and get rid of her junk.

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I know, and I have heard of a few cases like that in my area (though not of cats) I just like to play on that joke, that says that everything that isn't tied to its place winds up in California. But its true, that lady NEEDS HELP real bad. If I had to live there I would go insane within two minutes.

I'm a social worker and on ocassion my agency deals with this type of situation. It's not right to exploit her mother in this way, but she may have tried helping her in other ways and failed. I had a client whose house looked similar to that but there was only a very narrow pathway to walk through the house. The township was called, the fire company came out to inspect the house, the daughter tried to help, and my agency tried to help. In the end, as long as no "regulations" are violated and the person has a means of getting out of the house, the person has every right to live like this. It's unsightly and I know I wouldn't want to live that way, but it's just one of the freedoms people have in the USA.