Inheriting A Storage Unit And a £2,500 Bill | Storage Hoarders | Only Human 

It's quite a task, though. If she hadn't had the help it might have just been too overwhelming for her.

@@judylloyd7901 the daughter is lazy and the BF is an AH. Simple Mom payed for 12 month. Daughter took what she wanted and ignored the rest for 2 years or so. They get a free trip to America ones a year with everything payed.

The mum would have been more thoughtful to have got rid of the stuff herself, even if she had to pay professionals to do it. She probably would have known already which items her daughter would want, so could have passed those on to her first. I wouldn't do that to my children.

Lynda Painter Make sure you go through it well. My Mama was hired to help clean out an apartment of a man who died. His niece was his only family. They found several hundred thousand dollars hidden in mattresses, couches, clothes pockets, books. They found pickle jars full of pure silver coins. It was crazy.

@@amandakelley1665 A friend of mine asked me to help him clear out his Aunts place, we found packets of money all over the place, stuck under drawers, behind paintings and a plastic bag containing $27,000 in a small rock garden close to the house - we only found that becasue he had to move a few rocks to put the ladder up to fix a broken window. Sheer luck! Some people are very imaginative (or crafty). I can assure you, my Mum only puts money in books - and not a lot of that! She sensibly has it in the bank. We will be checking everything.

@@lmp8932 I had a similar experience with my elderly parents and, in addition to the shouting and tears, I made the mistake of telling them that I would simply throw EVERYTHING out EVENTUALLY anyway. I really regret losing my temper (something I already inherited from them) and hurting their feelings.

@@amandakelley1665 When my parents died we took what we wanted [ they had nothing of value sadly] and a clearance company took the rest - 7 tons. They found a real skeleton but no cash! It was my father's medical skeleton from the 1940s.

My mother is the same. They want to sell their house and downsize and everything I visit they have made no progress on the hoard. I try not to dwell on it and have some hoarding tendencies myself. Programmes like this make me want to declutter my life more and more.

RAH Bruhn my great grandmother was a hoarder it took us months to go through her house. My mom and grandma are still sending me stuff they pulled out of her house almost 20 years ago. I can tell by the smell. I won’t do that to my kids.

it helps knowing it happened to other people

RAH Bruhn I agree. I turned 50 this year, and my mid-life "crisis" seems to be actually a regrowth period, and part of that is purging my house of things I just don't use anymore. I can pass them on to younger friends or charity, but I think it is unfair to leave a mass of junk for others to deal with one day. I've never been a hoarder, but it is amazing how much stuff people accumulate over the course of living, things you use once in a while, then forget about. I try not to bring new things in unless old things go out.

Impossible without the daughter's consent.

Yes, I thought so too. Her whole large house is empty and being done up so when it is done she needs all her furniture back - presumably 2 down stairs rooms and 3 or 4 bed rooms work of stuff.

Sandra Nelson it is true. And many don’t want fancy china, crystal and silver that we inherited and cherished. So, let it go, if no family members want it. I have released many of my possessions like that, and my nieces and nephews want very little of it.

I'm the opposite. I got quite a bit of stuff from my parents' house. They bring back memories, like the babyshoes I used to wear are precious to me because my mom has always kept them. There are other items too, I really still have to go through stuff, but I know my mom is really happy I saved two of her dolls, of which one was her own, feom being thrown away. When she judt got into the care facility she asked me a few times about them and I told her I had them at ny hoise and she was very happy. I won't toss those away, especially not the one she used ro own. The other is a cute little doll I used to have, they were always in a chair together in my parents' room. A silly rubber duck I once bought as an inside joke for my mom was always on top of the bed. It's now on top of my bed. Becsuse though it was a joke, she has kept it for all those years and I can't ger rid of it.

agree completely. Family should be asked if they want those "heirlooms" and if they do they have to come and get it!! I am the family historian of the group but even I have downsized a lot.

She is quite what we call posh in the UK. My family were coal miners so nothing much to pass on at all which is fine - makes life easier. I do have two silver items from my grandparents worth under £100 and I will pass those one but that does not take up much space.

What’s the point in name calling? If the mother had passed away the daughter would still have the stuff to deal with. The daughter, like many of us is guilty of procrastination and has hung onto everything longer than she needed to.

@@TheDriftdog But her mum isn't dead, is she? Why is it the daughter's responsibility to sort out all that junk that wasn't even hers to begin with? The mother should have done it before she ran off to the States. Part of the reason why the daughter hung on to those things may be the mum hasn't made it clear whether she still wanted them? An irresponsible parent doesn't get a free pass just because she's a parent.

I 2nd that .

@ravencrone56 Treasures? Her mum took anything that meant something to her to Florida. The daughter has established a home of her own and doesn't need the furniture or kitchen items. The fact that the mother payed for storage for a year suggests that she had good intentions. She may have thought that within a year's time the daughter would have been able to go through the items to see if there was anything she would like to keep. I suspect she didn't realize that what she was actually leaving was a burden.

@Carmen Hanrahan Good to know I`m not allone! 😂 And I admit it can come in handy sometimes, for example he can repair pretty much everything.. but I will still dream about a nice and minimalistic place 😅

Sounds like more of a problem than anything.

Good for you!

that was the first thing that came to my mind as well. Obviously she didn't do any cleaning or moving....dressed up like that!

Britains knife laws are very strict, too strict i think. You can even get arrested for carrying around a kitchen knife or having it in your car unless it is in a unopened package and or you have a receipt and can prove that you just purschased it. If not you can be charged with possession of a prohibited weapon. You cannot even carry a pocket knife in the UK unless it is a swiss army knife. Of course there are some exceptions like going camping, needing it for work etc but you have to be able to prove these things.

only if it had blood on it would it be incriminating

Any innocent tool, knife or otherwise can become an offensive weapon, it depends totally on the situation it is found. An extreme example would be, a farmer walking through the village carrying a scythe to access his field would be totally acceptable, on the other hand, if the same farmer turned up drunk outside a Nightclub carrying the scythe, it would be considered an offensive weapon. It all comes down to the use of the implement. As for the comment about knives in the UK, there is a separate law on blade length permitted in a public place.

@Phil Sale , in the farming community, I'm sure you're probably right. Somehow I don't think anyone could get away with walking down the main streets with it though. 😉

@@ExpatPhil You just reminded me of the scene in The Godfather III where the assassin stabs the guy in the neck with the leg of a pair of glasses. Anything can be a weapon, it's all about intention. The sgian dubh is an interesting case.

My daughter paid for one as hey lived in a flat and I stored a whole garage and loft of her stuff here too but we are getting through it. I have never paid for a storage but I suppose the diference is I had an hour 's commute to the city so could live in a house not a flat. Horses for courses.

Yeah. You're not buying space. You're buying time.

Yes, you need less stuff in most cases and then you can actually see what you have and use it. I keep doing this - all my life and even now as the children leave home but then 3 have come back to live after university with even more stuff. I am down to 2 student children now but still have possessions of 2 others to an extent. I will get there in the end......

@@janesmith9024 its harder with children!

Yes. I bought a 200 year old furniture unit for all the children's videos, cputer consoles etc for £2000 15 years ago. Even tghen people were buying fewer and fewer of those old antiques because things are so cheap from Ikea. I still like the idea that item is 200 years old actually . have a minimalist style in the house - my bed room has less on show in it than the average hotel room even. I love it that way after years of 5 small children's toys....

Probably because most people don’t Have actual antiques. Just because it’s old doesn’t make it valuable!

darklotuz, whew...good thing you didn’t have to, eh!

Yes but you are not her. Respect her choice also a material item is all that is. The issue with our society is to give material stuff an emotional value.

Yes, that is the main thing I learned here and from look at my parents' stuff when they died - just about nothing as a resale value that makes it worth your time bothering to sell it. Best to give it to charity.

I wonder if they made it as a couple? That BF was not to my taste. I would've given him the boot by the end of the show. None of her stuff is really his business. I wonder how long she put up with him.

Strange, cleaning out hoarders storage units, sending it to auction,only to sell to other hoarders. It's a cycle.

That's ok so long as others including the next generation arnt expected to do the same. Where does it end? Great grandmothers, hat, great grandfathers fork, great aunts tea pot etc etc. Some people would love that, other's would see it as a heavy burden. I hate clutter and nick nacks, i hate other people's clutter more, unless i can use it, and it adds to my life i don't want to have to clean and look after it.

RAH Bruhn ppl try keep thing that hold value never know ur clock or fork that’s been pass down might be worth a lot of money

@@jborrego2406 That's how the hording starts

And certainly NOT to a charity shop. She could get some of her storage rent back from selling many of those items. I can't stomach the lady in the red dress' accent, too thick and hard to understand. Must be Scottish?

I agree with you Danielle, I would have kept that clock as well... I don't have anything from my grandparents and I wish I did. The clock wasn't that big and keeping one piece is ok. Plus, you can sometime blend old/and new style together. Personally, I don't care for new furniture and prefer purchasing antiques because I know it will be good quality and will last longer. I am glad that Susan is renovating the bookcase.

Georgina's mother paid for the storage unit for one year. Georgina used some of the stuff (dishwasher, dining table etc) but didn't deal with the rest of the things. It's like accepting an inheritance, it's all or nothing. Once you accept something, you are responsible for it all, including any debts attributed to the estate. So, Georgina paid the unit the following 3 years. It is her inaction which caused the costs to rise.

Mom wasn't dead. Mom should have taken a vacation back and sorted the stuff.

and free holidays twice a year!

Also children have more although they thnk they are much worse off than in the past! When my husband's grandmother died in the 1980s we had just about nothing - could not even afford disposable nappies for the baby so a 40 year old oven was a huge gift to us and an almost broken table. Some people are richer today - young people will not believe me of course but it was so.

When I took a hired van of stuff to our local ameity rubbish tip the workers liked (1) the bicycles as did some other people there at the time - they were almost fighting over them (!) 2. garden and work toosl which i suppose workmen at rubbish tips might find useful. There was no interest in a white leather not very old sofa and chairs my father had had and none of my children could fit in their smaller flats which seemed a terribile wasgte but after 10 years of storage it just had to go. No interest in old fridges and dishwashes. My daughter knows what designer clothes she can sell on Ebay prettty well. Selling books is very hard and even charity shops sadly have to pulp a lot of them unless rare editions.

That little Britain comments is so spot on, first thing that came to mind when seeing a picture of her mom.

@@ehrenfeldmichael I couldn't resist it 😉

They will have to clear them out after you die however. May be sort them a bit before you get too old to do it.

@Joyce Blodgett it's the same here in Canada. Pretty sure it is there in the UK, too. These people on the show haven't stopped paying the fees though!

@@dodgingpineapples90 Yes, that's the point. The mother paid for year 1 and daughter chose to leave it there and then chose to pay for 2 more years herself as she was too lazy to sort it out.

@Jane Smith ahh, okay. I misunderstood your original post. I thought you were asking why these people's unit contracts hadn't been voided, and contents auctioned off.

Fiona Crispin then don’t call the show. End of story

Then keep paying rent on things that aren’t seen, used, and loved. It’s not like these were being displayed and enjoyed in a home. I loved and appreciated my family heirlooms and things I have collected over many years, but easily let go of most when I moved from a house to an apartment. If my nieces or nephews wanted them, they could take them, but aren’t into antiques and most collectibles.

Fiona Crispin: You sound like my 81yo mother and 87yo father. I don't want ANY of their "precious heirlooms" because they're all JUNK and although I don't have kids, I wouldn't save any of that crap for them anyway.

That stuff, other than a single item, had no emotional value for the young couple, and in the other case it was a pyschological ailment, i.e., hoarding, rather than "emotional value" that kept her from wanting to part with anything...including warped and battered old paperbacks, stained dirty suitcases and a cheap tin kettle.

Yes it is a very interesting issue. I have a copy of an ancestor's will who died in 1808 in the UK. He left his furniture to one daughter and clothes to another. he left his money equally to his children. He was the only one with any money and he could write which was rare - he was a "freeman" (owned property). The others would have had just about nothing, livein 12 people in 3 rooms, working in coal mines. My uncle's wife kindly sent me my grandfather's silve spoons and table decoration with his name on the latter. They had a bit of money int he 1930s. It is worth under £100 but still nice to have and my uncle had no children. I got it repaired of £100 recently and I polished it. I will make sure one of my children have it. if they want or their cousins if not. Trouble is we have so many ancestors. I have been doing the family tree back to the 1700s on just about all sides and there are so many even just direct ancestors. Perhaps the best thing we keep is their genes and the way they brought up their children which indirectly links to how our parents treat us - and perhaps possessions don't really matter anything like as amuch as that.

I disagree. Some antiques are worth a lot of money. I personally think that the new furniture is not well built and most of it is made with particle board. Ikea only lasts so long.... This is all I could afford when I was young but I learned over the years that it is made to break... . We had a day bed and an armoire that fell apart after a year. Most of the furniture that I now own is antique and made of real wood that will probably last for years. I also think that you can renovate an antique and change it to your style.

@@ibaber I agree. When I bought my first house at 22yo, I had inexpensive furniture and almost anything that looked like "wood" came in a box with 50 screws and bolts. Years later, all of those things are gone and most of my wood pieces are antiques. I have a 200 yeta old tea cart (used as an end table" that is in better shape that any particle board item that's just 2 years old. On another note, I am almost certain that any antique I've purchased and take care of it, will be worth at least what I paid for it if I ever sell it. Where as, even nice new furniture is going to depreciate by half or more the day after purchase. As for the original comment. Yes, in most homes there is likely to be a couple or a few pieces that are worth something, but most is has a value in line with a garage/car boot sale.

It was the otehr way round - mother kindly paid the storage for a year and gave the child all the stuff who was too lazy to sort it out in the year and just left it incurring costs.

Much more refined in UK. Auctions in US, especially in the south are noisy and obnoxiously embarrassing.

@@dbentleyto95 In the south, we often tend to be soft spoken, slow of speech and polite. We enjoy the pizazz of an auctioneer.

@@crowznest438 😃😄😁😆😅🤣

By the same token, Georgina has to bear some responsibility for not getting rid of the junk within the first 12 months when her mother was paying for the storage. She was told by her mother to take what she wants and to get rid of what she didn't want. The decision to keep the stuff was all hers.

I gave my parents' record player away a few months ago. One of my sons was interested as there ias been a bit of a resurgance of interest in vinyl records but he wasn't really. We were not allowed to touch it when it was bought at huge expense in the 1960s as very small chidlren so we were very very careful with it and it still works perfectly. It was quite sad to give it to the local charity shop with my parents' records icluding a few 78s but we were not using it so there was no point in keeping it.

moo moo what do you do with the peanut butter jars?

Isabella Rose, 🌹 that’s what they wanted you to think.

MrsFoley 1 I know and they got me so good! 😂

I don't think she has a claim to it; she "left it," now it's her daughter's stuff.

The amount made doesn't even cover the storage costs for the past two years. If anything, the mother owes the daughter for that.

probably not, the mom wanted a fresh start, she left everything behind, the daughter should have got rid of everything earlier.

Her mother paid for year 1 and gave her all the stuff. She chose not to bother to sort it out in year 1 nor to throw it away that is ht eonly reason she had to pay a single penny

Avoid having children then.... even though I have tried for years to have few things each child seems to bring more and more with it and wanting to store stuff here.

@@janesmith9024 there are channels of minimalists with childrens so it is possible. But yes its a bigger challenge for sure.

Oh yes she did 👀😁

It is interesting how it builds up. I scanned about 40 years of old diaries int he last few years and old photos. I have 100 photo albums in date order from 1979 which the children want me to keep in 10 boxes upstairs for example - now all scanned. I constantly clear things out - I quite like doing it but still more and more comes. I just mvoed 50 boxes of my daughters' things from the loft which isn ow totally cleared, to the garage after my daughter removed her landlord's furniture from there which had been there for 3 years as she had her own stuff and the landlord would not remove his. At least that furniture has now gone back to the landlord now she's bought her house so I jsut have the girls' 50 boxes but my sons get back from university this summer with all theirs stuff. Even just last summer one son bought a massive plastic paddling pool and a barbecue for a party which are both now here. Another has his 2 bikes here. I tihnk we are quite good as a family at celaring out but stuff constantly builds us even though I don't think I buy much.

The kid and her boyfriend are getting 2 free holidays a year in Florida courtesy of her mother. In addition, the mother paid for the storage for 12 months which was plenty of time for her daughter to dispose of the content. If her daughter wasn't so lazy and unenterprising, she would not have kept the storage unit for 4 long years.

But with no dead cats, rats or feces.

Product placement. The company has to pay for their name, product signage to be shown on screen.

Karen Piermarini kept it. She said it was “staying in the family”

And then bury it 😁

Debio one show (two lots of people) is filmed in the same storage unit at the same time / on the same day.