i'm melinda i'm retired and i'm a hoarder
my children would probably describe the house as a mess
i'm jennifer and linda's my mom the smell in that house is
not pleasant i'm not sure what the smell is but it's not good
i'm curtis and my mom is linda my mom's bedroom is full of purses and shoes and makeup
the room at the end of the hallway is my old room and stuff stacked literally the ceiling
in that room the shower is not usable at all i don't know honestly how they get bathing done
and then go into the kitchen around the corner and the countertop is stacked up with food in every
angle there's no place to even make a sandwich in the kitchen because every countertop is just
stacked up with stuff the cabinets are full of stuff and the fridge is full of stuff that
expired
well it's expired i leave it on the shelf because things aren't always available
and you buy them when you can and then when you need them you have them
there's food stacked up on shelves that's probably 20 years old i don't check my old canned
goods because i buy new ones you know go to the grocery store and i see 10 for 10 i'll buy them
how do you clean a house that's that cluttered you know i think
it's almost impossible to clean it at this point
i'm dave and i'm linda's husband i don't feel very well about the clutter in the house the
hallways got where i had to actually hold them on the walls and move down the hallway
then my health got to a point that i really couldn't go up and down the stairs anymore
so i ended up moving to a couch and that's basically where i slept the last couple years
i had congestion heart failure and i've been on the list for a heart transplant
and uh two weeks ago i got my heart transplant and i'm hoping to go home soon
i'm looking forward to my husband coming home with a new heart and it's very emotional
if dad came home to the house in his current state i know
for a fact from talking to a social worker they would not let him stay
you know dad was given a wonderful gift and if he came into the house and got
some kind of infection or something because of the house you know it's almost like
not appreciating the gift that you were given
good morning good morning good so is everyone ready to get started yes
i'm standalone robertson certified professional organizer we're going to ask you to make some
hard decisions and i want you to trust your family to help you through that process
okay miss linda let's get going tell me is this donation
okay how about this that's donate sony donate these are napkins for those donate yeah okay
time to tackle the kitchen first thing is the refrigerator right
get that hamburger out of there that's disgusting i just bought that that is
are you kidding you want to keep this i just bought that
yum oh god please close that this milk it feels like cottage cheese i'm not drinking it
yeah it's freaking nasty these are actually my raisins oh that's disgusting don't even open that
toss that i don't want to smell it this expired in 2014 mother this is july of 2013. september 2011.
i want to point out in that purse right there this is what you had for food you had a pantry
yeah right okay you're you're not upsets with eating food but what you're obsessed is
having it happen and having available having it available if i need it yes okay there's
a real overflow mentality about food i'm asking her to think a different way about it
why is this going on you know there's a deeper reason and to tell you the truth it
made me more conscientious and determine to get get it clean and keep it clean
so wow wow wow great
this is wonderful awesome i'm just overwhelmed this what you had in mind for a living room yeah
definitely it's it's awesome i couldn't hold the tears back because it looks so
great in years i've never seen this house look this good wow look upward oh my gosh
this looks great it looks great you know this is just unbelievable you know that you know
somebody come in and do all this work that's really means a lot to me it's true yeah great
wow it looks like a different house it really does yeah i know it really does
geez when i walked through that front door it was more than amazing it really was this is your chair
that you had it looks like so much more room with all i mean i never thought it was this big before
i couldn't believe it was my own home in a way you know it just uh
some people really worked their butts off to do this and i can't thank anybody enough geez
counter space wow yeah i knew you'd be happy yeah i guess wow big big difference my goodness
this story was personal to me as a living organ donor i wanted to make
sure that that heart was going to have a good home and i think we accomplished that
it's just mind-bog boggling really to see it the way it is now and remember where it was you know
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