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I'm Ann and I really love Christmas.
It's just a lot of fun.
People come over and they "ooh" and "ahh" over your trees,
and you take joy and pride in knowing that you did that.
It's a creative thing.
But we don't have people over for Christmas anymore.
We can't because we have so much stuff.
I'm Scott, and Ann is my wife.
This house is absolutely a disaster.
It honestly looks like Christmas just
threw up all over the house.
I have been taken down the decorations
myself for, I'd say, roughly seven or eight years now.
I can't get to them because of all the other stuff
that is in the way.
The kitchen is completely covered in boxes of mail,
and just debris.
You can't use the bathroom downstairs.
There's a path that goes through all the stuff
that she's purchased in the house.
It's horrible and it just keeps getting worse, and worse,
and worse.
She just gets hysterical.
Whenever I'd throw things out, she
would go and get them out of the trash, and bring them back in.
I do want to get it cleared out to a point.
But I want to make sure that I keep
what I want to at the same time, because it is my stuff.
It is my house.
SCOTT: I feel like she's prioritizing
her stuff over my health.
That I should just watch where I'm going.
I told Ann that if she was not gonna clean up, that I
was gonna end up just leaving.
I'm at my wit's end.
I can't take it anymore.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm Standolyn Robertson, a certified
professional organizer.
What I'm seeing is a compulsive shopper.
I mean, to have a house so filled with perfume,
lotions, makeup, clothes--
that's all impulsiveness.
None of this is stuff that you even need to survive.
This is all a luxury, so why don't you just
start making decisions of what can have new homes
to make someone else happy?
Keep, keep, keep, keep, keep, keep, keep.
Just tell me the ones that are going.
Donate that.
How did the donates feel?
Does it feel good?
No.
Why does it feed hard?
Because it's brand new product and I spent
my hard-earned money to buy it.
Is it fair to say when you bought it, you didn't need it?
I still like it and it might be a good deal.
Is it a good deal?
If you can't walk in your house, is it still a good deal?
Well, no, not if you put it like that.
Well, that's the way I want you to think.
Is it a good deal if it smells sweet and looks good,
but it's in the middle of my relationship?
ANN: No.
STANDOLYN: If you don't absolutely love it,
it can't stay.
Little things-- we're talking about thousands of bottles.
It would take her years to go through that.
Unless she turns over some of the decisions,
we won't get this done.
SCOTT: Taking down the Christmas tree was absolutely phenomenal.
I'm so glad to see the house without Christmas.
It feels like an actual house again.
We're at the end of the day.
Our team has done a pretty good job of clearing some space.
Yes.
STANDOLYN: So right now, just having the freedom
to walk through the house--
that's the luxury that you have now.
I think it looks great.
STANDOLYN: It looks great now. - Especially, like, right now.
Yeah. STANDOLYN: Yeah.
There's only one concern, and that is the amount of stuff
that's out on the lawn.
ANN: This is stuff that I either need
to go through on my own time, or I want to keep
STANDOLYN: So is the plan that we'll just
have paths on the first floor?
ANN: It may be.
Rome wasn't built in a day.