> Maybe this administration blowing up the government is good, actually.
My house was so difficult to walk through with the years of stuff piled up. Much easier now that it's all been burned to the ground!
My house was so difficult to walk through with the years of stuff piled up. Much easier now that it's all been burned to the ground!
For anyone who's dealt with a hoarder house that's not the reducto ad absurdum you think it is, just the tragic reality.
Likely you’re psychologically unable to ever do it, but it’s comforting to have this convenient lie.
There’s only one way to know.
"I'm not addicted, I can quit anytime I want"
No helpful disposition is required behind the "calling out" for that to be the case.
The (unverifiable anyway) intention doesn't add some magic dust to a comment to make it good or bad.
my experience helping clear out a hoarding family member's house tells me this is highly unlikely.
If the decision is just "dump", the problem become easy: you strip the house bare and throw it in a dumpster. There was a hoarder house near me that was cleaned out in a couple days that way - they parked a dumpster in the front yard, hired a couple guys to toss everything in the house in garbage bags and toss all the garbage bags in the dumpster, gutted it down to the studs, remodeled it, and sold it.
They regaled us with a tale of how they just got to the city and were looking forward to being able to furnish/populate their house, but it was obvious that they were just grabbing and selling everything as a career. No harm no foul though, as we just wanted stuff cleared out and it certainly ended up 'in circulation' for folks that could use it.
> they want to evaluate every single item
I almost gave up on him and only resumed when he was literally crying for me to come back. Did not regret coming back.
When he died 5 years later, my poor mother needed WEEKS to throw away all the useless shit he had accumulated in his apartment. Then I did regret not being harsher on him, but he was mentally and physically ill.
To anyone reading this: You are not the only one being hurt when you are a hoarder. Let people help you.
Even more unlikely when said hoarder says _they_ can do it in a few days.
It's not the junk that is the problem, it's the way of thinking that leads someone to refuse to discard it. Or more likely there is some even deeper rooted cause that makes them think that way.
It can also be the case that the people they live with don't help either.
Don't agree in demolition of the USG though - it's actually quite effective when you think about it.
As a matter of fact, hoarder house is quite an accurate description of the US government.
It's not funny, it's practical.
Even if we were to demolish and rebuild first there's cleanup. Then there is a survey. And then planning, input design and then after all that, construction.
If you were going to do all those tasks inside that building you already destroyed, it's now much harder to rebuild.
Order of operations matter.
Choices...
Goverments and lawmakers do get to "do that with people's lives". And they do that, affecting them, all the time. Including affecting them negatively a lot of the time.
And it gets worse: ineffective bureucracies (or incompetend ones) also "get to do that with people's lives"
["that" being: affecting them negatively, destroying their livehood, even causing deaths, e.g. consider some country's organization similar to FEMA being incompetent when there's a crisis].
We can never reduce the size of the federal workforce because it means people will lose jobs?
We can never cut any federal benefit or subsidy regardless of the cost, importance, or overall value to society because someone, somewhere is benefiting from it?
I was young, but I remember cries of "you can't do this to people!" then as well, just like we hear from a select group of people every time any cut is contemplated, which is why I asked the parent poster what exactly they mean by their comment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Rei...
And obviously sustaining an ineffective bureaucracy can never itself lead to the deaths of children and the elderly /s
I guess if the goal is to harass innocent Hispanics and deport fewer criminals then effectiveness is on the rise!
Almost always the real solution is the unsexy and emotionally unsatisfying task of just fixing the machine you've already got
Not if you need a house