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Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out!
She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans,
Candy the yams and spice the hams,
And though her daddy would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceilings:
Coffee grounds, potato peelings,
Brown bananas, rotten peas,
Chunks of sour cottage cheese.
It filled the can, it covered the floor,
It cracked the window and blocked the door
With bacon rinds and chicken bones,
Drippy ends of ice cream cones,
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel,
Gloopy glumps of cold oatmeal,
Pizza crusts and withered greens,
Soggy beans and tangerines,
Crusts of black burned buttered toast,
Gristly bits of beefy roasts…
The garbage rolled on down the hall,
It raised the roof, it broke the wall…
Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs,
Globs of gooey bubble gum,
Cellophane from green baloney,
Rubbery blubbery macaroni,
Peanut butter, caked and dry,
Curdled milk and crusts of pie,
Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,
Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,
Cold French fries and rancid meat,
Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.
At last the garbage reached so high
That finally it touched the sky.
And all the neighbors moved away,
And none of her friends would come to play.
And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said,
“OK, I’ll take the garbage out!”
But then, of course, it was too late…
The garbage reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate.
And there, in the garbage she did hate,
Poor Sarah met an awful fate,
That I cannot right now relate
Because the hour is much too late.
But children, remember Sarah Stout
And always take the garbage out!

GROSS, DUDE. I can't even imagine smoking that many cigarettes. YUCK.
 

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Ahhh! Where the Sidewalk Ends, lol. My son is doing a book report on it right now. I used to love that poem as a child.
 

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Seem stuff like that before. We had a TV programme called Life of Grime, that used to follow people doing grotty jobs, and there were a lot of people who live like that.

And a series about serial hoarders.

It's messed up. Usually depression.
 

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oh my gosh. Sadly I've known two people like this. One was when i lived in New Mexico. My friend's family rented part of their property out to someone who was a friend of the family and didn't know prior to just how slobbish she was. You couldn't walk in there without stepping on trash. She had chicken sitting on the coffee table that was an inch thick in mold... the milk was completely separated... everything was DISGUSTING!... we found out she had a kitten. She was gone for a week and we were doing work over by the house... we heard a meow and peeked through the window and saw a kitten trying to hop over all the trash. I know we shouldn't have trespassed, but we couldn't leave that kitten in there like that. We climbed through her bedroom window to rescue the cat who had no food or water. It was sickening.

The other person I know that's like this is my friend's mom. She's a chain smoker and has ciggs piled high like in these pics. There's trash everywhere. The carpets are stained and pooped and peed on by the cats. The stairs are falling apart. I tried to walk up the stairs (and was horrified of course) and grabbed onto the railing and the railing was loose and rocked over to the side causing me to almost lose my balance and fall. There's holes in the walls and there was stains all over the bathroom and cat poop in the tub. I wanted to vomit and get out of that place sooooo fast. It was about 5 times worse than I've even explained so far.
 

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Yeah, I've been into a flat where someone lived like that. But he also collected trucks. Toy ones, in the boxes still. They were piled up to the ceiling.

He was a client of a tenancy charity though, I was there with his support worker.. so he was getting help.

Plus I have just known a few really really mucky bastards.
 

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Wow :yikes:

I've never seen anything like that before... and I thought some of the Clean House episodes were bad!

I can't believe people can actually live like that :yikes: I feel SO bad for the people who had to go in and clean that.
 

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obviously it is a condition like ocd if you look at the link it explains it well.
A glitch in the wiring so to speak. When you look at it from that angle you see it to be the mental illness not just what it appears to be which is lazy beyond imagination. It is something "else".
 

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Dunno why, but those pictures never shock me.....

They fascinate me!! They don't suprise me, or make me feel sick.
 

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I've had fun with this thread with my family !! Daughter Jan ( known as a Martha today ) had the messiest room !!! Nothing like that but glasses with mold on top and clothes everywhere ! Her Daddy did a drawing of a rat with red eyes looking out from under the bed and a poem !! It was a riot !!! They are now posting between themselves about the computer and the ciggy butts !!! Sayint they're mine ! It's been fun !
 

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Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out!
She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans,
Candy the yams and spice the hams,
And though her daddy would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceilings:
Coffee grounds, potato peelings,
Brown bananas, rotten peas,
Chunks of sour cottage cheese.
It filled the can, it covered the floor,
It cracked the window and blocked the door
With bacon rinds and chicken bones,
Drippy ends of ice cream cones,
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel,
Gloopy glumps of cold oatmeal,
Pizza crusts and withered greens,
Soggy beans and tangerines,
Crusts of black burned buttered toast,
Gristly bits of beefy roasts…
The garbage rolled on down the hall,
It raised the roof, it broke the wall…
Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs,
Globs of gooey bubble gum,
Cellophane from green baloney,
Rubbery blubbery macaroni,
Peanut butter, caked and dry,
Curdled milk and crusts of pie,
Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,
Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,
Cold French fries and rancid meat,
Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.
At last the garbage reached so high
That finally it touched the sky.
And all the neighbors moved away,
And none of her friends would come to play.
And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said,
“OK, I’ll take the garbage out!â€
But then, of course, it was too late…
The garbage reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate.
And there, in the garbage she did hate,
Poor Sarah met an awful fate,
That I cannot right now relate
Because the hour is much too late.
But children, remember Sarah Stout
And always take the garbage out!

GROSS, DUDE. I can't even imagine smoking that many cigarettes. YUCK.
tiny hijack

I LOVE SHEL SILVERSTEIN!

Where the sidewalk ends was one of my faves in about 4th grade!! What was the poem about the thing that lives in your nose? ROFL! Oh man..........I may have to dig in my daughters room and find her copy :D

tiny hijack over
 

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I learn something new every day.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding


this link was posted in the comments. I am glad i saw it.
yep--mental illness...and you might be surprised who people are that have this illness--some are functioning as "normal" on the outside--hold a job, etc. But in their own homes....stuff like this. It's really hard to imagine...but true.
 

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