i'm kathy i'm a former dance instructor and i'm the mother of 14 children
oh my goodness i have so many things up here
pictures clippings receipts clothes things that i don't even know that i have
it's like an accumulation of the 40 some years that i've lived in this house
i'm april and i'm kathy's 11th child
the house is disgusting it makes my skin crawl when i walk through there
i have hand sanitizer in my purse and i find myself squirting sanitizer on
my hands without even having touched things that's how gross and disgusting it is to me
my house is an absolute labyrinth it's very confusing because i live in the
upstairs area next to where i live i have the dance studio where i used to teach dance
below me i have two apartments that are rentable and it's majorly cluttered cooking is really
interesting i need to get the food from upstairs and then i bring it down to the large apartment
and put it in the microwave and then i take that food and go into the small apartment
and sit on a couch there and eat my food and watch tv my mom's at an age where she should be retired
instead right now because of her clutter and her hoarding she has to work a full-time job
it's sad to see because she could make enough income off of the dance studio
in these two apartments that are already available to her to make money off of
i'm sarah and i'm kathy's eighth child
when i was growing up the house was pretty orderly for the most part but there was always one room
where everything would end up kind of a catch-all for everything
i just was like numb and i just would get bills and i would just pigeon hole
and i didn't deal with things my brother's passing really took a hit on my mom she started to be less
careful about cleanliness and less interested in getting rid of things i think at that point
her disorder took on a new form so there became everyday garbage just piling up
i'm sam and i'm kathy's 13th child as i grew up it wasn't that i hated her it was i
hated her behavior she was sick you know i can't hate her for being sick i love my mom
i want her to spend her last final years in peace but i fear that my mom will pass away
in a state of mind that's not healthy in a home that's surrounded with gross disgusting dirt
good morning everybody
i'm dorothy brenninger i'm a professional organizing expert and i specialize in hoarding
i've never seen so many family members here you have nine of my children three grandchildren
and two in-laws and our main goal here is to get you out of this financial crisis so first we're
going to work on the two downstairs apartments and the dance studio we need to get moving
tell me what you're saying what's going on no you'll smell it you'll smell it in a bit
smell it tell me what you're smelling um rotten rotted food um dirt yes i can smell it from here
even through the mask it's it's makes me want to throw up i know i know thank you for not throwing
up yet it's heartbreaking to see mom continue to live with food that's turned food that's rotten
and it was hard to see her kind of just dismissing it got to go home no no they're good no they're
spoiled mom no they're not my mom all this food that we just need okay whatever i want
to take it a step past whatever let the kids do it because the kids won't always be here you actually
have to learn how to make these decisions in a healthy way hey why don't we sit right over here
right behind you are these tutus dr tolen and i'd like to get a blanket
rule about what we're going to do with these costumes so what do you think the blanket rule
ought to be kathy i will be so upset at throwing them away it will be upsetting i mean can we
just come back to it remember not dealing with it that's the kind of behavior that leads to hoarding
really what kathy wants is to hang on to things i just see a whole lot of uses for him and
everything else is a story that she tells herself to justify it just for christmas decoration
i can make like a little christmas tree she has this burning desire to just hang on to things
i need it i want it it's mine i'm gonna donate it to this place the bottom line is she just wants it
here we are it's morning and we lost a ton of time yesterday all over the tutus
so i'm calling a morning meeting
thank you for being here and elizabeth i want to welcome you you are daughter number one
daughter number seven childhood club got it good to have you here thank you for being here we need
you we're running out of time okay i'm going to need you to look to your children to make
decisions so if it's soiled if it's dirty if it's stinky if it's broken okay family let's get to it
i want you to chuck this in here i'm holding it and you're chucking okay
guess what there it is there it is kathy you just did your dining room table on your own
i'm ecstatic we have actually succeeded in clearing everything
out now we just need to show kathy what has been done look at this wow
the whole thing here was we really wanted to create some financial security for kathy
is this rentable this is printable okay
oh my goodness
oh my gosh you guys oh this is beautiful
kathy your family is here for you they're here to celebrate and support you
after all this family has been through they still show love and generosity of spirit toward kathy
it's really wonderful to see i didn't expect this thank you everyone for being so amazing
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