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The residence where deliveries are made places their meat on the walkway without any covering whatsoever.
D
That’s for you; it’s a tip
T
Some people are just so ungrateful
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I guess the cost of electricity is just not sustainable for them. Their freezer is outside in the winter. To each their own.
S
Or it’s the last deliveryman.
C
Could it be a Tri-tip?
R
I don’t think that’s food storage, I think it’s mental illness
B
Yeah, could be. When I was a kid, there was a dude in a neighboring village that had apparently been raiding people’s garbage, somehow getting bank account information, and then using the stolen money to buy meat. How do we know what he used the money for? Well, authorities showed up to his house because of a reported smell. When the police showed up, they found every cupboard in his house stuffed full of raw, rotting meat.
T
I was repairing a heating system and when I went to the apartment, I almost vomited when I walked in. Every cabinet door was replaced with chicken wire and they had chickens and rabbits living in the cabinets. I left because of the smell and overall filthiness. My boss understood and told the building owners that we would repair the system when the place was cleaned. They had no idea of the condition of the place. I grew up working on a farm, but the smell in the apartment was unholy.
O
The HVAC company I managed did a free furnace replacement for a man who had been without heat for 6+ years. This was in a city that sees -45’C at least once a year, so it was a big deal and the city had finally moved to condemn the home. We went in to do the work & discovered the man kept ROOMS full of pigeons, and at one point had 100+ cats which had been seized by the city. The guys doing the furnace work were puking in buckets while working due to the smell.
T
Meanwhile, when I have the service guys over, I’m all like OH DEAR ME DEAR ME PARDON ALL THE MESS OH OH ITS NOT ALWAYS LIKE THIS BUT WITH THE WEATHER YOU KNOW over some glasses out and a lack of vacuuming
L
You know, that’s the secret. If you want a tidy house, invite people over. You’ll shame-clean in no time.
D
Sketch idea: a budget “cleaning service” that just has an employee come by to visit every weekend so you’re forced to clean your own house.
J
My mom use to hire a cleaner to clean with her. She actually just couldn’t sit still while someone else cleaned her house, so she helped. Edit typo
C
Sounds like a form of body doubling ( https://add.org/the-body-double/ ).
N
That’s adorable! And a good idea…
X
Can confirm, our house gets cleaned twice a month – once by the cleaning people and once by us in preparation for the cleaning people.
P
I figured this out a couple years ago. I started inviting someone over for dinner twice a month. It really helped me get on track and form better cleaning habits.
L
That, and try to avoid leaving a room empty-handed. I ‘ve got a lot of neat little tricks, and still I’m struggling XD
O
So I now own a cleaning company and I can confidently say: if you’re worried about the state of your house, it’s not that bad. If people describe their home as “not that bad”, we brace for people who have gone dirt blind.
A
Its the same in pet care. If yhe owners are worried about their house or animals, they’re FINE. The ones that think their animal’s shit don’t stink? Problems, usually… lol
N
My first high school girlfriend roped me into helping her take care of some crazy cat lady’s house while she was in the hospital, and I shit you not, there were over 300 cats in this two bedroom 600 square foot house. We went one day, opened the doors to the cages and house, and never went back. I still have nightmares about the smell.
P
No fucking way there were THREE HUNDRED CATS. Are you exaggerating?
N
No. There was a single car “garage” on the property, and the interior had been framed in with 2×4’s and chicken wire to make a giant “cat cage.” This did not include individual cages throughout the property. There were obviously dead cats in the house and in the giant cage. It was atrocious.
T
The Mother Teresa of cat ladies.
M
Damn. That reminds me of the hoarders episode where the old lady had like 120+ cats and like 40 were dead. Something like that. How can they not see the harm they’re doing and take action?
N
She was so fucking glib as they kept pulling out dead cats. Some even skeletal. Didn’t one of the skeletons even have a collar and name tag? “Oh, that’s what happened to Fluffy.” I can’t watch that show anymore. Not after the shit hoarder, when the cleaning crew got down to carpet level and started asking, “Where did all of this mud come from?”
B
As someone who is borderline OCD about cleanliness and germs, that show is like a car wreck I can’t look away from. There’s a quote I will never forget from the show though, I think it was Matt said – “ We’re all one decision away from shitting in a bucket”. It’s always terrified me to think that one wrong decision could start you on the path to that kind of life. Letting depression drag you down, gambling problems, alcoholism, shopping addiction, any addiction really. It’s stupid how much that one quote, and seeing the possible consequences, has kept me on track lol we really can’t help where we draw inspiration from I guess
C
I was in that position once. Severe depression, alcoholism, and in general not giving a F about myself and my environment anymore. From my bedroom door there was a little path to my bed and to my computer. Other than that: Trash everywhere. Happy to say that I’m doing a lot better now in my new place. I still occasionally fall behind on laundry and dishes and stuff but nothing that can’t be tidied up within an hour or so. A far cry where I came from.
M
Yeah! It was so horrific. Those poor kittens. Oh lord, that’s vile. Yeah, it’s like watching a train wreck, but also NSFL.
N
God, this reminds me of a local news story many years ago about a house being found with something like 60 cats, a few of them dead, and they were writing the story about rescuing the rest and taking them to the humane society for cleaning, and medical care, and were taking donations and a list of names of potential adopters. In the article, and I’ve never forgotten this and probably never will, they mentioned that many of hte cats had ammonia burns on their paws from the piss soaked floors and cages, and some of the dead kittens had their eyes MELTED AWAY from ammonia fumes.
K
Worked with a lady who ran a “rescue house” for animals, but in reality it was a hoarding situation. She had over two hundred cats and a dozen large dogs in her house and had animal control called on her several times due to bad/hazardous conditions though she was never shut down.
E
I used to work in the veterinary industry and unfortunately, that is all too common.
C
Curtis Silwa, who ran against Mamdani as the Republican nominee for Mayor of NYC, had 17 cats in a 320-square-foot apartment. 300 cats in double the space seems insane.
P
What a random fact! Did he explain himself?? Why does one person have 17 cats in a tiny apartment??
V
I watched an interview of him in there with them. They were everywhere. He said he only had that many at one time because he was taking in pets from people that no longer wanted them during the pandemic. I pulled up an article to make sure I was remembering that correctly and it said at the time of writing the article which was September 2025, he was down to 6 cats.
P
How do you feed 300 cats? Are you getting pallets of food delivered to your house?
B
I don’t understand how the neighbors never complained. If the smell was that bad.. it’s crazy that nobody else knew
B
Holy shit, that’s horrifying.
O
One of my dads old tenants had like three dogs and would let them pee inside the house and would not clean up. It got to the point the floor warped from the pee. That house wood floor, the fixed furniture, and dry wall had to be removed in order for the smell to be removed properly
A
> Every cabinet door was replaced with chicken wire and they had chickens and rabbits living in the cabinets. My father tells a similar story from close to 50 years ago. The call was prompted by a leaking ceiling from the neighbor downstairs. Along with the ‘cages’ the tenants had laid plastic sheeting in one of the bedrooms and planted a rice field. Apartment was considered a total loss.
T
I did rental property stuff for a while, and pretty quickly learned that the reason rental applications are super paranoid is because people like this exist. You’ll have no idea. Guy seems totally reasonable in a conversation, but it turns out he lives like a lunatic and is teaching his two kids to do the same thing. Never had anything this bad, but definitely had a couple people who were slobs to the point where they were destroying the property. Didn’t clean after themselves or their pets, ever. Like one emotional crises away from becoming a full-on hoarder.
S
Hoarding can be unbelievable when you stumble across it. I experienced it when I was working for a property management company. The most extreme case was a woman who wanted her kitchen cabinets painted. There was a pathway from the door to the kitchen that was piled waist high with “stuff”. It wasn’t garbage, it was boxes of nicknacks, department store bags of unopened clothing and new household goods in packaging, etc. The countertops were also completely covered. The only section of the cabinets, other than the uppers, that I could see was in front of the sink. I could also see into a living room and there was a small TV that was elevated in a cabinet, but no furniture was visible due to the meter high pile. There must have been a path that led to a chair, but it wasn’t visible. I maintained my composure and told her I couldn’t really do much at that time. She knew she had a problem, and told me in a very round about way that she was getting help. It’s really unfortunate that a reality show was made exploiting a mental illness. No one is making sport out of cancer patients.
Y
I had a neighbor who was hoarder and would go through every dumpster on the block to find discarded things, including raw meat, that she would then knock on our doors and try to sell to us at 2am. We had locks installed on our dumpsters to keep her out and she went ballistic…
A
That’s called a meth head
P
Or a meat head i suppose.
S
Man, I got these cheeseburgers. They some double cheeseburgers.
X
Was her name by chance Methany or Crystal?
S
this genuinely sounds like an episode of the magnus archives wtf
M
It is. [Episode 18 – The Man Upstairs](https://the-magnus-archives.fandom.com/wiki/MAG_18:_The_Man_Upstairs).
B
Wild! The particular incident in my story took place in a village called Stamford (rural NY) in the early 90s.
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