Comments by "Johanna S. L. Brushane" (@johannas.l.brushane2518) on "A&E" channel.

It seems as if there's different kind of hoarders, not everyone is extremely attached to their stuff, I've seen a couple of episodes from british tv where some clings on to disposed chewing gum wraps and then there's others who seem as if they more git stuck in a severe depression and they couldn't cope and the pile of junk just grew, often these had entered the hoarding when their spouse died, divorced them or fallen ill. They also are relieved and grateful to people cleaning up, and of course, a depression has little chance of improving if there' s barely no space to breath in what was once a home.
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@CatBrash No, not if they actually know eachother. I see his point that there might be a concern that Cobra/Fred may try to escape from issues trough the jargon of a persona created for showpurpose.
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Yeah, when they say "make yourself at home" that means she can go in cupboards, not being shy of taking on to laundry etc for purpose of doing her job without asking everytime.
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@TheHungarianchick Yeah, and even if it's a home not totallt adapted to their impaired mobility it could still mentally be better to have them stay in their own home as long as is possible because moving to a new environment often take a huge mental toll. You often see elderly people who just have physical disabilities actually starting to have cognitive problems very soon after moving into a nursing home. Not being around with space and things familiar, a bunch of strangers of staff and getting accustomed to new routines when to eat, wash, when to sleep etc.
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Yes, he had a lot of beautiful things, but the beauty disappears in the mass of all.
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My Talking Pets Or vulnerable narcissism? I thought she was a bit scary. Like Norman Bates in Psycho.
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But a lot of that african art is probably not real antiques. You see it in about any fair around in Europe, and about any auctionsite where only a minor part are going for higher prices. It's handcrafted sure, but it's often modern made designated to tourists and for affordable interior decoration.
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@Traci.Klumper And they often overestimate grossly on the worth of their stuff. A man in another episode had some unused engineparts that he had left outside to rust and he was of the opinion that it should be sold as "brand new" because he had never used it though the cleanerstaff pointed out it's far from the condition an average buyer would expect from a "brand new" item where someobe sell of a purchase of wrong size that they forgot to return or similar.
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@withgoddess8029 No it's not inappropriate about the new leather chaise. Even someone not into interiordesign would notice it's special and new so it's probably not a "mistake" but rather arrogantly percieving him as crazy and that he wouldn't notice.
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He was annoying AF. When Lauren commented on they don't have a functioning toilet and shower and put up a cowboy attitude "we do what we gotta do". And then he brought up the welfare check two years ago as if it was at that point his mom started hoarding. So quick to shove responsibility for their malfunctioning behaviour on somebody else, nosy neighbours and the sister... And so typical they can't fix anything when they spend all money buying bargains they really don't need and allow to go to waste. But it is quite illustrative how this can become somewhat of a generational thing. The mom had old parents and her mom probably neglected her when looking after the father with dementia.
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She doesn't seem to have kept all that junk with a purpose like so many others who think it's reusable or similar. Maybe it was a depression that got herin a rut of not bothering to tidy up, washing clothes for her kids. I can guesstimate she initially didn't see it and when she did had become indifferent. Though she might be in a better place now and hopefully keep on top of it after recieving help to clean it up. I occasionally watch a show on YT with a girl from Finland, Aurikatariina, who cleans up peoples houses/apartments and often the person have had some mental issues and slowly recovering. Though that show don't have the resident there but accounts for their story. Sometimes a sister or other relative is also there helping in the clean up.
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Still in the 70s people typically smoked inside their homes, cars, airplanes, restaurants and such.
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@helenburns6914 Indeed, they needed a carer and she pulls over stuff that makes it difficult to move around in their own homes... 😛
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A seller at the swedish version of e-bay has eleven old breadcutters for approx $40 per piece. Though maybe there's less of them in USA and hence price might be higher with the right buyer.
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@lemottien8040 Though in this case I presume time is money, they don't have the time to do bargaining with presumtive buyers on every item.
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That he seemed relieved of the building torn down for which he had planned to have a "junkyard shop" have me thinking that he may have been stuck in his own idea of what he wants to be instead of living his life as he is, i. e. an elderly man withbphysical limitations that still have a lot to enjoy in what life can being. Even young healthy people can be trapped in their idea of what they want which in the bottom core may be what they percieve as what they should want rather than their very own desire of what to strive for in life.
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@quickchris10 I noticed as well there seem to be some certain amount of anger not really dealt with. And perhaps depression since the kids grown up and left. If she also is a woman with a troublesome menopause and it was around same time it might also have affected her somewhat.
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Lol, of course an interior deaigner have knowledge of people trading in the various items. They should have done that before even trying the fleamarket approach. Things may seem better when surrounded by furniture etc in a shop compared to laid out on a tarp, people can get a better idea of how it will work in their own home.
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I saw one of the british shows where an elderly man who let his apartment deteriorate after his wife passed. He chatted with the cleaners on why it happened and gave them free reigns and then he went to stay in a hotel for the weekend.
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Such outcomes must be so rewarding for the teams who are there to clean out the hoarders homes. Even if it may appear impossible at the start it must be great to having finished and know that they've made a significant positive change for somebody (well mostly, as there occasionally turns out the home is too run down beyond possibility to repair).
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 @railwaychristina3192 The scapegoat is the more sound and normal one.
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@GlassOnion602 It looked as if she had a lot of unused kitchen machines still in boxes after her shopping, probably some she have multiple items of if she forgot she already had one. If unused and clean in the boxes the could bring in some if sold. Of corse not near to pay all debt but a start to get the sense of going forward. And they could let the niece be in charge of putting out the things for sale so it actually happens.
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@MonicaElleRose Yeah, when time is expensive the realistic thing is to sell it in lots to someone who picks out valuables and then have charity shops taking what they think they may be able to sell and chuck out the rest. I wonder if he ever actually had any plan to sell them, it seem as he bought things just to be satisfied of bying something real cheap, a kind of costly greed if you neither use the item nor have it for some aestethical value (like to make a cozy, beautiful home you enjoy living in)?
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@Amyra Batya I understood that his shopaholics started before he even met her?
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Yes, and you can also see the twisted reasoning for the rationale of sleeping in a chair downstairs. Her illness would likely be better if she got a goodnight's rest and maybe roll a blanket up under her feet.
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Yes, hopefully she will not just get a place to live but also to contribute, getting a sense of contributing and being needed for a worthwhile purpose.
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They might have passed and those left behind may not be aware. Or they have stopped paying for the storage, after some notifications I suppose the items can be sold.
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Yes, I'm old so my mom was a stay at home mum but my mom went to nursing school about when Istarted first grade because she didn't want to become "a crazy old lady with no purpose" so it was apparantly something she figured she had observed.
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I don't personal thingsthat you sell because you don't want them is taxable. Unless he had a business where the purchases have been deductable I doubt tax agency would be interested.
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It's so sad when people have a mess because they can't do away with things from their parents. 9 times out of 10 their parents wouldn't be happy about them living in a mess for having too much. Edit: OMG she was such a beautiful woman. The picures from when she was young she looked like a moviestar!
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Yeah, such storage makes sense if you're for some reason temporarily lives in a smaller home. But if there's because there's too much stuff for your home and you're not in process of getting a larger house in reasonable future I find it hard to see the point. Family members aren't perhaps that interested. Even if some are nice expensive quality things they could have affluent relatives who already have all the nice things they want.
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They are prone to have skin and breathing issues, aren't they? That must be a greater risk in an untidy home.
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But candle? I'd presume he has a batteryoperated camping light somewhere?
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Yeah, the restcouch thrown in the dumptster looked like a le courbusier piece.
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Depression and SSRI weight. And they are likely not eating healthy since the can't cook due to the state of the house. Lethargic lifestyle and little or no excercise. They probably have very irregular sleep habits which tend to have negative impact on metabolism
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I bet a lot of the bears would be happy to be moved to childrens hospitals instead of stuffed in a stack in a house.
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A lot of the time their stuff doesn't seem to have cost that much though (she was in a second hand store) . Add to it that the hoarding seem to have started around the time kids moved out, so they woyld likely paid off a great deal odf their eventual mortgage and kids moved out. There should be money reasonably. Though this episode was special because there is something that she so obviously shuts off. She moves around rigid like a very old person and fends off criticism with quite the snarky remarks. She picks around a bit like someone in dementia. I hope they got that sorted, someone commented once to an episode of the british series that "a hoard often is a symptom of unshed tears", and this epusode seem illustrative of that.
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I hope the company can claim compensation from people like the first guy equaling what they may have to pay for other passengers who are delayed, and or miss connecting transports.
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