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I think there's also this channel run by a crime scene cleaner that also will clean hoarder houses. I forgot the channel name, but another identifiable feature of his is that he is obsessed with Scrub Daddy and the Scrub Daddy spinoff cleaning products.

@@peggedyourdad9560yes we gotta mention those angels

Thank you ❤❤❤❤

@@cleanwithbarbieThank you for what you do! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

You forgot Aurikatarina -the women is an angel

Right!? Like his videos usually get me laughing but his voice here is kind of soothing to me. 😂

Lol yes I noticed that too. The bravado is absent here and it's hilarious.

@@professionalpainthuffer 😅that was so funny!

YES! So strange LOL!

I doubt they got his permission for this video I've sent him a link. He's been having a lot of trouble with people copying his videos.

Agree!

Mack is so insightful and kind. I love his sense of humor and I look forward to his videos every week! He’s the spin kick king of the Midwest!

I started cleaning my house a few years ago. It's horribly piled up, dating back a couple of decades to when my grandmother (mom's mother) died, then mom's best friend died a month later. After that she had no energy to clean and things just gradually piled up. I didn't even live here for much of that period, but my having to move back home due to poor health didn't help any, since now we had to cram much of my stuff into the house as well. Much of the mess is mom's stuff, and she would _not_ go through it. It's sad to say, but the progress I've made (and it's significant in the rooms I've managed to work on) wouldn't have been possible if she were still alive. I started in the combined kitchen & dining room area when I realized that most of the stuff taking up the dining room part was clothes. Most of them were hers and I threw away the worn out/stained stuff and gave the rest to Goodwill. For dad's clothes I found, I threw out wasn't worth keeping, but let him decide if he wanted to keep the rest. What he didn't want went to Goodwill as well. As did much of my old clothes I found in that pile. I did keep some stuff for sentimental reasons, but very few things fell into that category. Cleaning wasn't fun, it hurt my back horribly, but tackling it as a set of smaller problems definitely helps. You also have to keep forcing yourself to clean until you make that first big breakthrough. Once it's happened, it makes continuing a _lot_ easier. I literally spent a month washing dishes almost every single day to clean everything in the cabinets (dusty) + what I found on the counters or in a pile somewhere. That wasn't remotely fun, but seeing all the dishes clean and neatly stacked in the cabinet still makes me happy a couple of years later. Doing the glasses was especially nice, since they went from noticeably dusty to clear and shiny. My dad's bad about piling stuff up. He won't break down boxes to throw away, he even leaves the plastic rings from six packs of colas piled up. I've started going through and breaking down stuff when I visit to gradually clean his house up a bit. That stuff's easy to do but can make a _huge_ difference. I take off all the recycling for both of us anyway (he handles my garbage), so I'll just fill up a box/bag of recyclable stuff and take it with me to get rid of later.

Your story is helping me stay focused as I am tryinv to make my passing as easy as it can be for my family. Thank you for sharing✌

Love Mack…the ONLY channel I send super thanks to regularly.

"they do it with incredible respect and patience." This is really the part that I loved. There's no judgement, just healing.

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Yes, they are amazing heroes! 💪🩵

I'm proud of your progress!

That’s an amazing story of being able to ask for help and being able to help yourself. Keep it up! 🎉

Amazing. Proud of you ❤

Takes a lot to let other people into your space and touch your stuff, hoarder or not! Super proud of you!

So very proud of you! Keep healing, friend. ❤‍🩹

Yes, but is he qualified to deal with the mental illness aspects?

@@Janna773 You didn't watch the video? The end says "The owner who hoards has started therapy and will need to continue treatment to avoid relapsing. The house was cleaned with permission from the family and with the individual's knowledge. Experts recommend specialized cognitive behavioral therapy as the most effective treatment for hoarding disorder." Mack at no point claimed to be a therapist and wasn't there providing therapy, the person has their own therapists for that.

@@Janna773 He doesn't DEAL with the mental aspects. He understands that there are many mental aspects. As aileen said, he is AWARE of them. Nowhere did anyone claim he is the one treating the person.

Yes ❤👍😘 they're amazing!🌻

uuuuuh... 5:20 they actually SAY right out that they are throwing his stuff away without his permission and they know that his mind is going to implode when he gets home...

@@bmolitor615 That isn't what happened at all, he says someone without hoarding disorder would see the final result and be happy it's finally clean, whereas someone with hoarding disorder will feel loss and be upset even if they hired you to clean it. The end of the video even says: "The owner who hoards has started therapy and will need to continue treatment to avoid relapsing. The house was cleaned with permission from the family _and with the individual's knowledge._ Experts recommend specialized cognitive behavioral therapy as the most effective treatment for hoarding disorder."

​@@bmolitor615 Rewatch that bit because that is not what Mack said. If you don't have the full story don't put words in people's mouths. The husband agreed and gave his wife permission to get help. They aren't just tossing belongings with no thought, and in fact, if you watched Mack's video, he doesn't bother throwing out the hoarded food in the basement because he doesn't want to trigger the man when there's more important areas to focus on.

@@ignota. sorry, kid, that's what he says.

@@bmolitor615 That's not what he says. You need to actually listen to what he says. He says that the person who hoards will probably not feel great that Mack has had to throw away so much things. That does not mean he doesn't know that there will be things thrown away. They explicitly say that the family have already cleaned things themselves and have already filled two containers.

Except this is the FOURTH time for this house. That is totally unreasonable. They are obviously not getting rehabilitated or changing their lives at ALL.

@@vjhreeves if at first you don't succeed try and try again.

Yes, the hoarder needs intensive therapy; if he's refusing to try to change, then he's just being extremely selfish toward his wife and toward the people who have worked incredibly hard at cleaning up his mess, now for the 4th time. It appears as though he isn't even participating in the cleanup.@@vjhreeves

100%🙏

I think a lot of us do, but don't like to face the reality of having a family member whose mentally ill. I've seen this across my wider and close family and it was especially hard in my immediate family. Two siblings and a parent with various disorders and hoarding being the chief issue. I gutted,deep cleaned and renovated two of their houses singlehandedly because of their resistance to having strangers inside and am currently doing the same in my parent's home. Accepting that it is a mental issue and seeking help is the first major step towards getting a better quality of life for those affected. The second and hardest step is maintaining their treatment and that takes the most effort.

These three cleaners totally understand that, and will hopefully help others realize it too. Mack is one of the most compassionate people on YT, and cleans with the knowledge that what he is doing could be completely necessary again in the not far distant future.

There's a spiritual component that is overlooked. Demonic strongholds over the mind is at the core of this issue. This can stem from familiar spiritus in the family tree that take advantage of spiritual portal openings in a family member's life.

@@bertuccigirlThere is a definite link between hoarding and a diet of loads of ultra processed foods…. However, many mental health workers are still not connecting the dots. Eating more plant foods that have not been heavily processed CAN make a big difference in many a hoarders’ life.

Yeah, I have a friend that has the tendencies to over buy stuff. I'm still eating down old bags of chocolate chips that miraculously aren't stale/rancid yet. Because when he found one I could eat, he brought 10. I would have maybe gotten 5 if O was feeling adventurous, but usually I only buy 2 or 3 of a thing. And buy more only if I'm sure I can eat that much.

My friend saw him and went "Woah, is that ol' trash spin-kick Jimmy?" and I said "I dunno, let's put some trash out and see if he spin-kicks it - I bet he does!"

@@turtledude83 ❗

👌Yes, he's one of my favorite RU-vid people. So compassionate and non-judgmental.

@@cleopatracatra2097 i started working my first job, cleaning houses, at around the same time that i started watching his videos and they were a huge inspiration to me. id go to work excited to help people! he's a really cool guy and im happy to see his work amplified like this

Same here. I'm 31, I've been through many purges over the years. My mom has much stronger attachments though so it's very difficult and I haven't been able to get her to see anyone about it but I'm gearing up to give it another try :)

Great job, seriously. It's not easy and it will be a lifelong struggle but you've made a massive leap forward!

I disagree with someone in the comments saying you will have lifelong struggles with this. I can assure you that you are saving yourself from future struggles. Starting addressing this at your young age is clearing the path for your future and creating new neural pathways in your brain. You're training yourself to think about why you don't need to keep something rather than why you want to keep something. Great job making positive changes in your life so young.

The lady wasn’t the hoarder, it’s her husband

Names of channels?

@@jayasmrmore3687 RU-vid Channels - A Beautiful Mess, Clean With Barbie, and Midwest Magic Cleaning.

Except it is trauma for the hoarder, that's what they were saying. It is an aspect of this disorder that doesn't need to be hidden.

What you aren't seeing is the trauma created. These extreme cleans ARE traumatic, it's even mentioned in here. Shows like Hoarders, which combines the extreme clean with specialized cbt, shows the challenge of changing the hoarding while cleaning the hoard. Yes, there is a lot of drama. That's just part of the process.

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The very same😊

They called him "Midwest Magic Cleaning Guy" back in Albuquerque

​@@IjeomaThePlantMama😆😆😆

I hate that show (Hoarders,, not MMC)! They treat the home owners with such disrespect--showing up to a house with dump trucks and a film crew all for ratings. I think no amount of after- care therapy is worth the trauma and distress they put people under. Mack may not be a licenced therapist but he shows more empathy and understanding than those so-called professionals.

Seriously?? This is the FOURTH time it's been cleaned out. No growth or progress is happening.