Most Disgusting Homes People Actually Live in 

That first one made me cry. The neighbor of that old woman is so awesome! So are the people who pitched in and helped.

The first one was a heartwrencher. Thank God for Lucy. That sweet old lady was so fortunate that she locked herself out.

Breaks my heart for the depressed people. I have been there, and sometimes... You just don't want to care anymore, then you get overwhelmed, tired and just... Don't want to even breathe sometimes. 😔 Anyone who sees this, and feels that way. You aren't alone..

I'm 64, and through anxiety, depression and a back problem I'd sunk into a life like this. Luckily, I found a woman that has gutted my house, and now it's clean again. It's hard sometimes. I've just gone through Christmas without seeing a soul. I have family. But no one came. I've worked for nearly 50 years and have ended up a worn out husk.

This not only makes me want to deep clean my room, it also makes me feel grateful that I even can. Every one has struggles in life that the rest of us know nothing about.

My cousin is a hoarder. Her house in Texas ended up being condemned and torn down. Ever seen mouse sized cockroaches?! Yup she had them!

I love Lucy. What a wonderful person she is. I'm not ashamed to say that the humanity of the story made me cry. Bless you, Lucy.

Lucy is such a sweet and compassionate person ❤❤❤ Rarely do people go through so much trouble to help people 😢😢😢 If only the world had more people like her 😊😊😊

the first story is so heartwarming. Going as far as to help give the old lady a bath and a good pampering session proberly did more for her mental health than redoing the house did. Even though she died shorted after I'm glad those last few years were spent knowing she was loved.

My sisters and I grew up in a house with my mother like these until my dad took custody of 2 of us in our teens. My dad never fully believed our stories until about 5-7 years later. Mom and youngest sister came to stay with us for a month and he got to actually see her in action. By the time they left, the bedroom with attached bath they stayed in was absolutely disgusting. My dad actually apologized to us for not believing us. My heart goes out to those kids who have to live like this because of their parents choices. Yes most of this is mental illness, but knowing you have a problem and not doing anything about it, is a choice.

Lucy is a real life angel I think hoarding is genuinely one of the more fascinating mental illnesses. Something most people wouldn't think twice about, throwing things away, and yet its like climbing a mountain for these people. Its tragic when the sickness has taken such a hold over a person that they can't recover.

My cousin was a hoarder and died on her pile at 80 and my mom and cousin's daughter went and cleaned up the house.. and oh man I feel for that old woman and God bless miss Lucy and her heart for helping that sweet old dear and it's stories like this I enjoy hearing instead of the usual depressing crap you see on the internet

Was I the only one who picked up that the mysterious hoarder literally gathered their newspapers in meticulous order. The piles were perfectly counted out lined up evenly and tied every time how odd they lived in such filth but when it came to putting those newspapers together there wasn't a paper out of place.

Here in Sweden the ”bud light”house would have been a goldmine if the cans would have been domestic. You get around a dollar per every ten cans

I owned a cleaning business years ago and we often got calls from relatives asking for us to clean a "hoarding" situation. After doing alot of these clean ups, and talking to the actual resident of the home, sometimes you realize they are actually addicted to certain behaviours (like urinating in bottles or defacating in bowls, pans,drawers..anything other than a toilet). Much of it is caused by trauma. Its very sad 😔

A personal story: This one hits pretty hard. I've helped to care for my elderly parents with health problems, my mom never threw anything away, always kept everything and my dad's a junker. His friends and neighbors always give him everything when they move or get rid of things. He never says no, and always says "someone can use it, better than throwing it away", and while he HAS been able to help people with some things people gave him, with his health problems, it became overwhelming for him. Between my parents' health issues and trying to not let my parents' clutter take over to the point of becoming like one of those houses, I've sacrificed a huge chunk of my life and haven't taken care of myself physically or mentally so it dragged me into depression, so it's an ongoing battle between me, the house and my mental health. As long as I'm trying, I keep thinking "small wins are still wins". People don't understand and make fun of us sometimes, some even laughing and saying it's a "crack house", which yes is offensive and hurts, but ignorant people who have no interest in understanding will say anything to make fun of others. Compassion is what's needed and being willing to listen and understand what people are going through instead of calling people names or speculating.

Ok, seriously, imagine walking into your bedroom and finding a skeleton in ur bed! 🤢 😱 😨

Lucy is the kind of icon we all need to strive to be

As a building manager I sadly see seniors in conditions like this, I do what I can for them.

Auri is amazing. ❤️ Watching her clean super dirty houses is so satisfying, too.

This gives you a reason to clean and help someone out

I used to help my mom rent mobile homes. In October of 2020, a 600 lb lady and her three kids lived in our trialer park. We rented to her because we trusted a friend. FYI, NEVER do that! Her boyfriend died a year before and caused her mental health to go downhill. He died in that trailer and she didn't call anybody to help her get him out of the house. He sat there for 2 weeks before her neighbor friend helped get him out and cremated. The body made a mess and she never cleaned it up. The kids had to see that! Even before all that, she was not a clean person. Then she stopped paying rent during the pandemic. She was living with her parents in the next town with the kids, while she said she still lived in the mobile home. She even claimed that she had renter rights and couldn't pay because of COVID. That was true so it made it impossible to evict her. Court was delayed by 6-8 months because the judges kept getting sick or dying from COVID. Finally after a year we were able to get the mobile home back. When my dad walked in, he gagged sooo bad. He never does that! My mom was appalled. The next week, we gathered all the cleaning supplies we needed, trash bags, and full body paint suits to act as a hazmat suit, shoe coverings, and crawled in there and cleaned up the place. There was trash up to your knees, rotten groceries in the kitchen on the floor, trash in the freezer, mice and roaches everywhere, bodily fluids on every bed sheet scattered throughout the house and so much more. The mattresses were covered in pee and period blood. The children wet the bed every night and the all slept in the same bed because of the trash. The wet laundry on the floor was next to the back door which was leaking and she never told us about it. It made the clothes to stick and melt to the floor along with the dyes that stained the floor. Both toilets overflowed and caved into the particle board of the trialer. Her 600lbs butt broke both toilets. I think they resorted to peeing in the vent ducts on the floor. There was a hole poked in the bottom of one 🤮. WORST OF ALL.... we walked in there and her boyfriends ashes were still on the kitchen table!! Who does that!! She abandoned everything including his ashes! We returned them to his family. They were so thankful. In the end it took a team of 3 people (I was one of them) a month to clean it, two dumpsters and 4 truck bed loads later. It was awful. I can't even do my dishes without being grossed out! One child was giving custody to a family friend and the other 2 to their grandparents. The mom was living with her parents for a while, but I think the mom is now living in a homeless shelter an hour away from that trailer park. But that was a year ago idk where she is now. I just hope the kids are in a better place then that. If you made it this far, thanks for reading it! ❤️

What a woman Lucy is. If only everyone we're that kind and compassionate.

Amazed: “Wait, is that the floor? At this rate, his room will be tidied by the time he’s 40!” HAD ME DYING 😂😂😂

The guy that had thousands of rats ( 14:15 ) was actually on a hoarders episode ( if I’m not mistaken). He started off with just 2 after his wife passed away and they just kept breeding and he couldn’t bring himself to let them go. It was a great story and I definitely recommend watching.

This so sad, This is what happens when people are ignored by authority and get no help. Im sure the dear lady wanted to live like this. God bless the neighbour and all the people who helped.

I wish I could be as good of a person as Lucy is, what she did for that elderly woman was so kind and generous, meanwhile I’m always feeling completely helpless and lonely, just sitting in my room in the dark on my iPad all day every day

I confess to being a borderline hoarder. I didn't have lots of actual rubbish lying around, but just lots of stuff. I lost my husband in 2019, struggled during the pandemic (living alone, but having to work in person) and I slipped down the stairs over some books and broke my ankle -- it snapped like a twig and my foot was at right angles to my leg. My mum owns the house and she went ballistic :D. My friends really helped, but as well as having a baaaad injury (I still walk with a stick 21 months on) I got well and truly busted on the house. I'm autistic and dyspraxic. The fatigue of working during covid was enough to push me over the edge, and of course lockdown during the winter was pretty bleak. I can't begin to express my gratitude to my friends and my mum, who turned 70 in 2020. I got a large life insurance payment from my husband and that has helped pay for therapy. If you're in this situation: GET HELP. Yes, it can feel shameful. Yes, it might hurt to go through it. But you come out the other side and you feel better with more space. (Big useful tip: get a powdered active charcoal toilet cleaner. It makes so much difference in ten minutes.) Animals and kids suffer at the hands of people enough. Don't make it worse. I'd love a cat or dog but I still struggle with my own health, so it would be a bad idea.

Lucy and the other's who helped that old lady are fantastic people who deserve more people to know about their kindness 😇

I'm talking as a CNA for 21 years that just because someone moved into a nursing home, assisted living, or care facility that does not necessarily mean that your life is going to be better from the situation you were just in..😢

So I live in an apartment building for mostly 55+ (long story, im a few decades younger than that though). We get random inspections every so often. I help out my friends and acquaintances to keep a lot of their places clean, as a lot of folks have trouble cleaning in advanced age. Made a lot of cool friends here, and a lot of them have made me food and stuff for the help! 💪🖤

The second house I watch on horders and this video doesn't even scratch the surface of how bad it actually was which is saying a lot considering the amount of diapers in the bathroom it got a lot worse through the whole house it was insane

A few years ago I tried to clean a hoarder's house. I got the kitchen, one bedroom, and the living room. Even the backyard was a mess, but the worst was the garage. It was packed with all of his parents stuff, and then his own overflow of more than sixty years. It was a solid mess that you couldn't even pull much out. Eventually, no matter how slowly I went, he couldn't handle anymore cleaning. I was meant to return but he kept gambling and lost the house. Last time I was in the neighborhood it looked so nice i was depressed! He was a nice man, but he had major mental problems we were unable to address. I hope his doggie was okay 😢

Really felt pain for the blind old lady who had the skeleton of her son, still thinking he was alive. Knowing the truth must have destroyed her. Poor woman, I hope she's doing better now and have people around to help her and keep her company 🤧😔

Man imagine how much money you’d get off all the empty beer cans.

My grandmother hoarded cats. Her house was horrible. My aunts did what they could. When she died, the house was torn down.

The first story is so wholesome. I’ve always wanted to adopt a grandparent. Lucy is an angel.

as someone who lives in germany, having that many soda cans would make me rich. ps: shoutout to people like lucy and aurikatarina who do amazing jobs for suffering people!

I adopted a cat from a cat hoarding situation. Over 100 alive, and who knows how many dead. She was so skinny and shy.she has blossomed into her full personality. Hoarding is a mental illness. They don't actually realize they are hoarders. I can't imagine the situation or squalor that my cat lived in. She is so happy now, full of personality and full of life. There is help for hoarders. Unfortunately, a bit of tough love helps them understand the severity of the situation. I have empathy for those unable to cope with a past trauma that often leads to hoarding. I wish only for them to get the help they need and help for the animals as well.

The first was so sweet. Lucy is a really good person, and that lady was so lucky to have her as a neighbor

I can relate to some of these stories. I suffer with depression and I am a hoarder. I had a home that was too much for me because the stuff I had. It wasn't filthy and smelly it was just extremely cluttered which made me feel even worse. I was ashamed to ask for help because of the embarrassment of letting people see it. Unfortunately I lost my home due to financial circumstances and I lost most of my belongings. Now I have pretty much nothing including a place to call home. I do know if I have the chance of a home then I will never let it get messy again.

I know what it’s like. My house isn’t like these, but it isn’t the best. I was so ill - still am - with fatigue last year. It’s hard to keep up cleaning and conserving enough energy to even function. I have no true friends either really. I really feel for these people.

My mum used to wach a TV show named "How clean is your home" and the houses that were there were almost as messy as these ones and some even worse.

I think the best thing about this video Be Amazed is that you said that hoarding is a mental health problem, sometimes people don't understand that 😕 This was a fantastic video in that you also featured those who help too 💖 My father was a bit of a hoarder, several rooms in his place were very bad and the same with the sheds. He did however hoard cleaning items too, over thirty packs of floor wipes when he'd never cleaned the floor in his life. Our relationship was incredibly toxic and I was too ill anyway to try help by the end, I have carers myself but we still tried again after the OT asked us. I've been catching Hoarders on RU-vid and it's been an incredible insight, more and more behaviours often found with hoarders now made sense. I also realise that he had multiple different things he would hoard, plastic boxes! Then more boxes to store the boxes. So many multiples of the same items. Then I got locked out by the Executor and that was that. I do the opposite myself, I extreme sort, file and tidy or paint stuff, that's my coping mechanism. At least I know where everything is 🤣

The Bud Light dude gives new meaning to alcoholism. Poor man. The hoarder stories shocked me.

As a former rent a center employee I can say I've been In dozens of hoarder homes and it was always disturbing esp when I'd be maneuvering through decades of trash while stepping on roaches

Lucy is a lovely lady. I can relate to the woman with depression and the sliding slope of neglecting yourself and the home. Thankfully, I got help after a few months so my flat was untidy but thankfully not filthy. I was hoarding newspapers. Looking back at that time, I'm still amazed. I still have depression but it's better now and while not an obsessive cleaner, my home looks nice.

Hoarders “making a new start in anew place” is just certain misery for the next homeowners. Someone in my family was pretty afflicted with it. It was the unspoken family secret, but people in town started to find out and gossip.

Regarding the elderly lady. I'm surprised she wasn't placed in a care home, or assigned with a carer. Unless she was good at hiding her needs from the council. I will also point out, I think most people here in Britain hardly know their neighbours.

I'm on the border of being a hoarder (pun actually not intended), my problems are - to name a few - that I'm severely depressed, a recovering alcoholic, and *I actually can't stand how icky it is*. In other words; people doesn't want to live like that, it's just a downward spiral, until one just don't give a crap anymore; what's another little thing going to do to all the clutter? Etc. When I have been away from home and come back, I simply can't believe how it looks, even if it right now is pretty okay. Please don't hate on those people! Everyone has a back story.

One of my exes used to have a bedroom full of crap-it took us 3 continuous days to dig through it all! He honestly wasn't bothered by it-I was😊

Oh my goodness!! I almost cried on the first story. We need more Lucy's in the world. God bless them both. ❤️

Thanks to Lucy! We need more people like her.

I dated a woman once, who I thought seemed to have the characteristics of a hoarder, but nothing like this. I don't think her place was anything like a hygienic hazard, the bathroom was cluttered, but not full of shit or mold everywhere. But her room was so piled with crap that she essentially carved trails from door to bed to closet. It was bad though. I dated another woman, some ten years later, who had a similar but lesser problem. Lots of crap everywhere, furniture you couldn't sit on from piles of stuff, but also not so bad that I would've called it unsafe unless a fire broke out or whatever. I tried to help the latter with it. I was happy to, I loved her and I was more than glad to clean with her. But she had gotten overwhelmed; and psychology was definitely part of it. I remember we cleared out a big portion of her living room, I thought it would be happy for us, but she had a huge panic attack and self-defeating spell. I feel for anyone who suffers in a way that these things get out of control. I don't believe laziness or indifference is the problem. It's deeper than that.

Yeah I know someone who needs to be on this...my sister...she got mad at me for wanting to throw out her trash she throws all over her floors and bed in whatever room she's talking over with her junk.and my parents for letting her do this to their house🙄 its discussing and super frustrating because she and my parents thinks this is normal and it's not and then she gets mad at you when you try to help her out..ugh🙄

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “hoarded” house, *without a box of baking soda* 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

Yep, when my uncle passed his entire house was covered in Bud Light boxes. He made tables, chair's etc..Every single wall was covered by the boxes and he built a fricken pyramid with them in his movie room. Took us almost 3 weeks and 4 rolloff dumpster's to clean his place. Sadly he had a massive stroke and passed in his sleep. We think drinking may have played a part in his passing.

This makes me want to clean my room up. My rooms not all that messy but I could re-tidy it up a little bit since I haven't moved things around in a while.

My grandmother was a hoarder. I don't remember it being as bad when I was little but when we went to clean the house after her passing it was bad. It's a very sad thing to see.

Auri Katarina is an amazing cleaner! I love to watch her videos! Thank you for including her in your video!

Lucy wasn’t horrified like the title said She was just shock

About the rat horde... That is crazy. I had a few pet rats and the first one, she was a absolute sweetheart. Rats are really intelligent in their own capacity because she cared for us like we did her. The second one we got was a little fiesty though with a few disapproving nibbles from time to time. Unfortunately, their life span is very short and usually end with them getting a cancerous tumor. It was devastating when the sweetheart passed. I can't own another rat because of their short life span makes my life more difficult handling all my grief.

This is what it truly means to be human. We are ALL family, friends and neighbors. If we don't look out for one another, who will? Take a moment and check on or visit a neighbor...

Way to go Lucy! This world needs more people like her!🔥💜🌍🌹

Lucy is not a human...she is a real live ANGEL....as for all those who helped...wow wow wow...and more wow...thumbs up to all.

We need more people like Lucy in this world. Add Auri to that, we also need more people like them.

Wow. What a big heart on the lady that goes to clean houses for free.

to you whose facing thru a tough times never lose hope keep going, you are doing fine! no matter how slow your progress, each new week is filled with tiny steps forward. be proud of yourself you got this. ☺️ Happy Holidays! ❄️🎄

its nice of people to help others in time of need like this cuz not all older people can clean there house and it gets hard for them

8:39, If you melted down those into Aluminum bars or just took them to a Recycling center, you could make SEVERAL THOUSAND dollars of this Haul of cans.

I was dropped off to clean a home and saw the kitchen and cried, really cried because the large kitchen floor was COVERED wall to wall with pots and pans that all had mold in them. Someone was cooking and buying new pots instead of washing them and putting the old olds on the floor. I cleaned it all up and found a nice-looking kitchen under all of it and the owners jaw dropped when she came home and saw it cleaned. I found that I like a challenge.

I've done a similar thing as the first story but when it comes to cleaning my own house 🙄 unfortunately council authority really don't care for humanity they are far far from caregivers

This video might have been a bad idea. As you said at the beginning, hoarding is a mental health problem. This video is more shaming than caring. These people need help that's all. No matter what anyone says, they really can't help themselves and need someone to support them. If an elderly person doesn't have friends or family, they have no one to reach out to. Aurikatariina has a RU-vid channel and she's amazing. She doesn't judge, she just helps.

It's amazing to see people come together and what they accomplish is amazing kuddos to everyone that helped the eldery women ❤️❤️

Why did I laugh so hard with the dancing skeleton on the bed 😂😂 I was 10 again for a minute 😂

I'm a minimalist and a single mother living in CA. Been working so hard so I can retire at 50 if things keep going well for me. Bought my first condo this month and I can't be more proud than I am right now. I'm so glad I made good decisions about my finances that changed me forever.

I bet Monica would be running around all those houses to clean up 😂

Another soothing, relaxing, funny, informative and entertaining episode!

Rats are beautiful, amazing creatures. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for a rat. It tears me up when someone calls them "vermin" as they're definitely not. They are sacred creatures for me.

I thought i might share my experience. I was a hoarder myself. It really is a life full of crap, depression and isolation. It always starts with some little dirt. Som trash you think "i will bring that out tomorrow." Soon you realize: Youre always saying that. And the trash is already scattered on your desk and floor. What happens next? Right. "I will do that tomorrow." You just cannot bring yourself up to do something about it. You start to hate yourself. You stop inviting people, making friends, because friends are a possibility for someone to see this. Day by day, it will get worse and worse. Not even my parents knew about this, until one day they had to drive me to the hospital because of an infection i got. So i was kinda forced to tell them, altough i really didnt want to. The shock was great and i felt no longer human anymore in front of my own parents. Sure, they helped me. For now, its clean again. But even although they helped. No one ever asked me: Why? People think, cleaning that stuff and renovating fixes those problems. But it wont. Years of isolation made an heavy introvert out of me, and im struggling to keep my home clean. I realize the same habits repeating again. I always thought about the many different reasons it could have. Maybe i have some mental health problems. Maybe im just lazy. Maybe i have that thinking of "If no one else cares, why should i?" Fixing a problem like this is not easy. And i know, how quick humanity is to judge the hoarders instead of offering some help, not in terms of cleaning, but also mental health. My parents just said "Hes given up" and thats it for them. No questions asked, no concerns raised. Sadly, humanity is quick to judge. Please dont just say "Those hoarders are dirty people, they should just clean!" Its not as easy. We are trying. We are fighting. But we are always loosing that fight.

My dad had a problem with a hoarder that rented out his house and never left untill my mum started to work on the house and kicked out the elderly hoarders and started to renovate the house. 4 years later our house is as good as new and the hoarders were kicked out of their house 5 months ago and apparently the house was so bad it was considered a crime scene.

The first story gives me hope for the future of humanity.

Oh, it's Aurikaterina! I had to stop watching her channel because she kept doing close ups of rotten things which made me hurl, but it's so great seeing her work

He could have paid rent if he cashed in on the recycling cans.

8:30 definitely “cracking a cold one” EDIT: I think I know why he couldn’t pay rent

I had a horrendous nervous breakdown, followed by bouts of depression. My home became pretty nasty. Since I have recovered I have so much sympathy, many people who either through health problems, depression and many other causes end up in situations like these. God bless and much prayers

Cleaning up a home were the homeowner died and bleed out and the body not being found month later is rough job.

This was really hard to watch..but I made it to the end..I immediately started cleaning..that's how gross I felt 🤭🤭

This the kind of content that is actually good Keep it up! And honestly this guy should have more subs like really he should

The first one is what keeps my faith in humanity alive. There are some good people in this world ❤

Hoarding is such a mental health problem and once you get caught in it’s trap you find it so hard to get out. You can be a clean hoarder too, do the cleaning you need to keep the place sanitary but still have piles of unsourced items that have some irrational meaning to the person who it belongs to. The hardest thing in any hoarding situation is that no one usually knows how bad it is and the person shuts everyone out knowing they don’t want to be seen living in this condition. They mostly just need help and support and linking to services that can continue to check in on them and keep them healthy.

I think it would be nice to do another series on a topic

Essentially these are Hoarders episodes.

Merry Christmas, Boxing Day, and Happy New Year!

I legit put this video on just to feel better about my life. I'm not even ashamed.

I feel kinda bad for those kids who had to live in that horendes house for so long.

Nice I've watch you for 8 months you've never disappointed me.

"Are you sitting comfortably" me: no, I'm not I'm sitting on the very edge of my seat literally

And I thought my room was dirty 6:05

I live in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. I once met a couple who lived in a 1 bedroom apartment and they had 72 cats living inside the suite with them . Wooooh what a sight