i'm nick and i'm 83 years old and i'm a retired mechanic
i like that shopping 99 cent tours
there's a lot of unusual items they put in it that you don't normally see
i like to collect nutcrackers and google clocks
and magic kits a lot of arts and crafts and things like that
no i don't think i'm a hoarder i think i had plans and i never got around to do it
so i sat there that added to the clutter in here
i am sandy and dick is my significant other
i met dick at a dance with parents without partners
i noticed dick on the dance floor he was a very good dancer
i didn't know dick had a problem of hoarding it was maybe a year before he
moved in with me he started bringing stuff over he was just collecting more than one
of everything and little by little it just started taking over i lost my home
i'm kim and sandy is my mother-in-law
i do crime scene investigation for a living and this is the worst house i've ever been in
they're nasa's homeless they can't sit down and eat a meal in their home they can't watch
tv they can't take a shower there's nothing they can do that normal people do in a house
they go in there and they sleep in a little tiny ball and then they leave
to go someplace else because they can't enjoy the home that they're paying for
i'm mark i'm sandy's son my mom is a very passive woman and she just let things run all over her
sandy does not tell dick no i think he likes to be very controlling dick just did what he wanted to
sandy and dick are currently living in a one-bedroom apartment and they're paying on their
three-bedroom home that they can't live in i love my home i want to stay there the rest of my life
good morning everyone good morning i'm dorothy brenninger i'm a professional organizing expert
and i specialize in hoarding you know normally we come in and we discuss how we're going to
sort things the categories that they're going to be in this isn't the case this
house is completely unlivable i don't know how they lived in it when they did live in it
we're bringing in shovels and barrels to work in this house okay okay we can do this
this isn't about picking and choosing what to keep it's shoveling it out into barrels
bringing it out onto the front and dumping it out to just rifle through and see if there's
any trinkets to be salvaged boy that's really something didn't realize that i had
brought that much in before boy i tried to chalk the heck out of me i just want to see how you're
doing this is tough this is my mom's house this is i'm saying i can't do this this family
is torn up sandy is feeling terrible michelle is in tears so is mark and dick doesn't care i
don't know if you can see michelle over here yeah yeah i always are she's crying yeah that was all
dick seemed completely detached he was sitting there he wasn't involved and
just plain didn't seem like he cared he's very ill emotionally very ill
dick you're shaking your head what are you thinking yeah i'm leaving down you're leaving
town yeah why are you gonna leave well uh you exposed everything out to the public and everybody
laugh at you but are you saying that you're so embarrassed that you leave the woman that you
love sure well holy sh how does that make you feel horrible you've invested 30 years of your life
with this man who obviously doesn't give a damn that's a good way to treat her dick did you see
this coming that he felt this way no but he wants to leave you and leave you with this whole problem
dick still doesn't realize how big this problem is and how he's destroyed this home
and instead of wanting to clean it up and make it better he just wants to leave he doesn't want to
take any responsibility for what he's done sandy what is your investment in this relationship
zero right now he could walk away and i would be happy i don't need him in my life
do you love him no there's no love when somebody hurts you all the time
you stole off
it is your house it's time for you to say i'm not taking this anymore and i want it on the truck
if you give us that permission i i give you my that permission let's just get rid of it
dick is not tuned in to what is going on here i see everything destroyed
and he sits there like he could care less over here over here right here
he's been sitting on a chair he's been moping oh that's a airbrush compressor and suddenly he's
out of his chair because he wants to see what's in the truck hang on one second here what's going on
this is not all of it but this is all that would fit on the tables i mean my automatic
response is well we said toss it where all the money has been on this are you going to toss it
you've got a few hundred dollars worth of jewelry here more than a few hundred i'm not sure dick
that you're really understanding the situation it's because of your love of stuff that this
house is destroyed and the two of you are now in an apartment do you understand partially right
he doesn't seem to be gathering any insight whatsoever he does not understand what he has done
and how it is impacting the family he's worried about the money that he spent on this
my grandmother doesn't have a home now she's living in an apartment and he's worried about
the money spent on some cheap ass jewelry i'll pay for her rent this place i know she wouldn't
need the apartment if you didn't do it to this house that chairs are nice it's really impressive
i wanted to just pick those suitcases up and throw them and tell him to go [ __ ] himself dick
do you hear us i hear you he hears that he just doesn't care let's just put it
out there right now would you rather keep this or sandy it's one or the other stuff
i think dick if this stuff is so much more important to you
then i think you're going to go have to live with this stuff well i will i'll
put it on the ground and i'll live with it i think that's what's going to come too
he's not even understanding right now the fact that his stuff has destroyed
your home and you know what he's doing he's sifting through his jewelry yes
the house is almost cleared we've got an inspector coming to look
at the house give us an idea of what things look like and go from there good
the family had already taken out 13 tons worth of stuff
we took an additional 13 tons out beyond that this family is not facing any good news
there's just major damage here major damage to the rift major damage to the flooring to the plumbing
to the electrical we have mold like substance at various areas throughout the structure
pretty severe you're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix this
no way could i afford to fix up the house it was a sad feeling that i was losing this
i want to hear from you dick are you guys moving together moving forward are you
moving in different directions together dr zazio sorry to interrupt but i'm shocked tell her if
you want to be with her now's your time now's your opportunity what do you want to say well
andy i'm willing to do everything i can try to straighten up my act i can't do it anymore i can't
what does this mean for the two of you that means i can't live with him all right after all this
i can no longer live with dick and i would really like to see him go into a home where he'll have
people to take care of him and i think that would be the best solution for him
dick is definitely one of the most resistant hoarders i've ever worked
with all the therapy i've tried to do with him has gone nowhere this is a very tragic outcome
the good thing is sandy is making something out of it i'm sorry that i put sandy in this predicament
she lost her home and uh she doesn't deserve it she'd rather live on her own and she can do
that and i won't interfere with her plans that she has hi thanks for being a fan of
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