Cleaning a Level 9 Hoarder House for FREE!

hi welcome to Midwest magic cleaning my name is Dr Ram hard drive and this is a level nine hoarded house there are only nine levels and if you're thinking to yourself well that doesn't look all that bad the kitchen is not what makes it a level nine there are two rooms in this house both bedrooms spare rooms that are hoarded over the top of my head and you can't even open the doors but beyond that it's not just the visuals that dictate the level of The Horde there are other factors that go into it so for instance you can look up nine levels of hoarding on Google image search and they'll give you kind of a visual representation of what that looks like but some of the other factors are things like safety biohazards functionality accessibility the age of The Horde could be a factor and really all of those things come into play with this particular house this was so badly piled up that most of the kitchen wasn't accessible and that's the room we're going to be working on today because we've actually spent 4 four days at this house we got the entire kitchen done and the living room is only what I would consider to be half done I have to go back to the house this weekend and continue where I left off but I do have the house functionally safe and accessible which is like the bare minimum of what I was going for so anyway we're gonna show you the kitchen it's pretty nuts because I lost count of the amount of mouse nests that I found in this house and the whole floor a lot of the shelving and cabinets and countertops were just completely covered in Mouse poop and shredded newspapers from the the mouse nests now we're going to talk a bit about how a house gets into this condition here in just a bit but first I wanted to talk about how bad it actually was because really even the video doesn't capture how really in the weeds this house became it's an elderly couple and both have disabilities the woman has diabetes and she also has extreme mobility issues to the point to where she has been saving her used insulin needles and I found at least a hundred if not more than that and I put those in containers and put them over to the side with the needles facing down and then later we found a large biohazard disposal box that we could put those into and then that way she could get those up to the hospital and have them properly disposed of the mouse droppings and mouse nests were really really bad they were absolutely everywhere they had destroyed so much of her paperwork that she was saving the floors were so bad I had to clean them with a paint scraper then sweep then mop then paint scrape again then mop again then sweep again I I had to do that roughly six times I believe before the floor became clean there was food dating back to 2020 and a couple of uh Oddball pieces of food like canned goods that dated prior to that like 2014 the oven was unusable which reminds me I actually have to clean that oven I haven't done that yet but I will there are some things we didn't do I didn't get underneath the fridge if you watch my videos before you know that quarter refrigerators can get extremely heavy and I've got a bad back and so I can't move those without help like a lot of help I also didn't clean the inside of the fridge she said she was working on that her and her husband but the insides of the cabinets were so saturated and mouse droppings that we had to get rid of almost every piece of food that she had in there I mean it was all expired anyway but even if it wasn't I wouldn't feel safe keeping pretty much anything that she had in those cabinets so how does a house get into this condition there are a lot of factors so one I mentioned both of the the husband and wife are disabled to varying degrees the husband had taken two super nasty Falls one for fractured his skull and the other one broke or fractured his neck the wife has diabetes extreme mobility issues she had I think she said a quadruple bypass she had several shoulder surgeries she actually had many many surgeries she had been in several car accidents she's had deaths in the family and it's just the perfect storm of loss versus the actual hoarding disorder itself that kicked it into overdrive and created what you're seeing here this cannot be surpassed without therapy I have mentioned that to them and had there not been an attempt to clean it up they very easily could have ended up in Adult Protective Services so typically the way that works from state to state is if there's an attempt to clean it up Adult Protective Services tends to back off and allow the cleanup to happen because they're seeing progress and if there's no attempt to clean it up then that's when they have to step in and start formal paperwork in order to get them into homes and things like that anyway back to what actually causes this when you get that perfect storm of mental illness versus anxiety and depression and physical injuries and loss and disabilities and you already have a pre-existing hoarding disorder what happens is the house starts to get dirty and your depression takes over and doesn't allow you to clean it so it gets a little dirtier and a little bit more cluttered and then you find yourself putting things like your drinking glass by where you're sitting and then you don't bring it to the sink then you find your dishes piling up and that gets overwhelming so you just kind of let them go and then your trash starts to overflow and then you get like a big trash pile so you start tossing other trash onto that trash pile and it starts to grow and get bigger the longer you go the more overwhelming it becomes so it's a self-feeding cycle over the course of years that builds and builds and builds until until it becomes your normal and you know that it's not normal you know that other people don't live like this but there's nothing you can do about it mentally and physically you're now at the point where you're too embarrassed to ask for help you won't allow people in to fix things that get broken because you're ashamed of the condition of the place so often times there are electrical problems and plumbing problems that exist within the house but they never get fixed and then it just becomes this out of control freight train that you just can't stop and you need an outside hand to come in and say all right I can help you get back to Ground Zero but without therapy that can very very easily build up again and it's one of the most common questions I get which is aren't you afraid the house is going to go right back to that condition again and the answer to that is no because I'm doing what I can to help and I actually expect it to get back into this condition again I'm not talking about this how specifically I'm talking about all houses that are in this condition specifically from hoarding disorder there's a high likelihood that they're going to return to this condition without therapy but that shouldn't ever stop me from helping I mentioned in another video that if a heroin addict were to come to me and ask me to help them get clean I'm not going to say no because you're just probably going to end up using heroin again I'm going to do what I can to get them clean because they're asking for help and because my help is a good thing not just for them it's not entirely altruistic but it makes me feel good and feel like I have a purpose so regardless of whether or not it goes back to that original condition at least for these couple weeks or couple months they have some peace in their house and they've got the elimination of stress that's just been eating them alive and to me that's worth the effort now that being said I was really really impressed with her because she was in the other room doing things like she was going through paperwork and and getting rid of the ones that she didn't need whenever I wasn't there they were going through tubs that I had packed up to find what they needed to throw away versus what they wanted to keep now this place is not going to be perfect overnight it's just not she is in a very severe hoarding cycle I say she it's both of them it's the couple who's in the severe hoarding cycle and that is extremely difficult to break but they let me get rid of a bunch of stuff we got a full dumpster and we filled it at least halfway full by the time I had to stop and then she said she's going to actually leave the dumpster there rather than having it hauled off because then she can at least bits at a time go through more tubs so she is helping that's something you hardly ever see in a hoarding situation there are two things actually one you hardly ever see anybody throwing anything away at all or letting someone throw something away but actively taking part in getting rid of things as a rarity and I told her that she should be be proud of that the husband still works so while I was doing this he was off at his job but there is still a massive amount of stuff that really needs to go it's just she's not ready for it so I was pretty careful about what I threw away and what I didn't at the start I just focused mainly on trash and then if I happen to find some stuff that was broken or in what I would consider to be a near biohazard for instance things that were covered in Mouse poop and pee those things went so even some stuff like some of her old cookbooks were just absolutely shredded from mice those just had to go there was no discussion about that I couldn't allow those to be in the house but those kinds of things were few and far between the real thing that we're going to have to concentrate on and you'll see this in the living room on the next video that I post is there are two rooms a computer room and a spare room that are completely packed from door to wall with just stuff it's all smashed Stand Together the computer room you can't open the door more than about four inches the spare room I got the door open enough for me to step inside but I could only put my foot into the doorway before The Horde stopped me realistically all of that has to go at least 90 percent of it so that I can make room to put a lot of the stuff that we're going to be cleaning and packing away otherwise it's just going to be sitting out in the kitchen so we did what we could but it has a long long way to go before it's back to Ground Zero again now the kitchen was so bad that I felt the need to basically clean all of her knickknacks and all of her shelving because it had been so long since it had been done I really didn't feel like it was safe so that's one of the reasons this kitchen took so long with both me and Adrian here that's Thug little Thug it still took us 28 man hours it was seven hours one day and seven hours the next day multiplied by two people so 28 hours to to clean this kitchen another factor in that decision was that there was so much mouse and rat poison scattered everywhere that I could have filled my vacuum canister twice or you know those little bathroom trash cans I could have filled one of those or if like you hollowed out my daughter's head you could have filled her Hollow lifeless skull like say three times with just mouse and rat poison we got all that cleaned up and there were just so many things in here that I would have considered a biohazard that really both Thug and I should have had Tyvek suits on during this cleanup and you'll see in the next video that I did have a Tyvek suit when I started cleaning up the living room because we did find out that there is bed bugs in the house they had spread to the living room though they weren't quite as bad in the living room as what I had initially thought but they are bad in the bedroom I get that that question a lot would I clean a house if I found out it had bed bugs and I do and I am in this video and how I handle that is after I get done with the cleaning I have my wife open the garage door I walk in with all my dirty stuff my dirty rags and anything that I'm going to keep and I close the garage door and strip down right there in the garage and then I immediately throw my clothes in the washer on a hot cycle with extra soap and then I run it through two drying Cycles on the hottest setting and that'll kill off any bed bugs my shoes stay out in the garage and I say bringing in my dirty stuff my dirty rags that I'm going to keep but in a house like this I threw all of that away I use the vacuum on their house and then that vacuum either gets tossed or given to them one of the two in this case I gave her my vacuum the mops and the brooms all get tossed and the irony here is that I have to be able to clean it in order in order to get rid of the bed bugs because the Exterminator can't do much if the house is still piled up so whether I wanted to clean it or not if I truly want to help and we want to get rid of the infestation I have to go in there and clean first to give the Exterminator access to the things that he has to kill so this would be step one in that process foreign now the actual process in which we're going to make this safe is a one-two punch that I use a lot whenever I'm going for sanitization over just shininess and that is I'm going to use Mr clean's Clean Freak in order to get rid of like the dirt grease and grime and oils and that exposes the the surface of anything we're touching from knickknacks to shelving or whatever Adrian's head face then I'm going to use my homemade APC new users that stands for all-purpose cleaner it is a mixture of 70 isopropyl alcohol and five or six drops of Dawn dish soap that kills any germs any bacteria and or demons whatever you're cleaning but it also has the added benefit of shining at the same time so we're going to sanitize the entire room and not just clean it for the floors we end up using at one point I sprayed them with straight APC but we use Lysol to clean those because that that's really good at sanitizing but yeah we're going to do that with pretty much every surface in this kitchen and every knick-knack every cup there's one cabinet full of old cups that they didn't use that I did not wash that they're gonna have to wash and that was just a case of thyme I looked around the kitchen and was like we could be here for a week on just the kitchen if I don't find a stopping point so I left the handful of Cups and stuff and you'll see that coming up here in just a bit and then I told those cups to suck it and then I spin kicked Adrie right in the neck because that's how I roll son and that's how she rolled that's why they call her getting spin kicked in the neck by her dad Johnny back in Kansas City they're like yo man is that old getting spin kicked in the neck by her dad Johnny I don't know let's expose our neck and see if it gets footed I bet it does and it will it will get footed foreign foreign foreign thing to note this floor was so cluttered and there was so much stuff in this kitchen that it was a one of those cases where I couldn't just move everything out of the kitchen and then clean the floor and then move everything back remember the living room is a level nine horde it is massively cluttered so there's nowhere to put this stuff so basically you have to clean everything in like a five foot by five foot area if you're lucky most of the time it was like three or four feet by three or four feet and then I had to just take Mr Clean and hand clean these floors to get the main part of the grime off of it so that whenever I could come back later and Lysol it the Lysol could make contact with the floor instead of the film of dirt and grime so you'll see a picture here in just a bit of where I've hand cleaned versus where I haven't and that picture is pretty crazy to see I mean you can see a pretty defined line on where I was cleaning versus where I stopped foreign foreign I got to this little white cabinet over here or shelving unit this is where if I had carte blanche to do whatever I wanted that entire thing would have been thrown out in the dumpster it's really old it's wobbly it's barely held together she needs it in order to store her knickknacks But the irony being that the knickknacks are causing a space issue so if it was up to me not only would that shelf have gone in the trash but all of the knickknacks on it would have also gone in the trash but that doesn't help her in any way by just throwing things away because you see an end goal of hey the house needs to be opened up and cleaned and cleared out and decluttered the easy thing to do would be to just throw it all away what that actually does is it causes her a massive amount of anxiety which then exacerbates the actual condition which is triggered by anxiety so in other words what can happen is you get rid of the stuff without her permission anxiety and depression question hits which then triggers more hoarding so you're actually making the problem worse some people have tried to help her in the past and they had just basically ransacked through her house and just tossed and tossed and tossed without her permission and then you see where this ends up I understand why people think that way but when somebody comes in to say the comments and says I would have just gutted the whole thing no you wouldn't have won you wouldn't have cleaned it at all and then two it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to gut this kitchen and just to get this stuff out and into a dumpster and the labor and everything that it involves and three it would have triggered the hoarding so badly that she would have lost trust in anybody helping her again and then the hoarding just kicks up to another level and in just a year or two's time it would have been far far worse than what it is right now so suck it [Applause] okay the floor was a bit of a nightmare fortunately she has really good linoleum in here it was all stuck to the floor really well meaning that the glue was intact and so there weren't any bubbles there wasn't any crackling whenever you stepped on top of it from old glue so that meant that I could slot mop this which means that I just take a mop and and dip it in the Lysol and then dribble that Lysol all over the floor so that it has time to soak while that's soaking after it softens up the big chunks and stuff on the floor then I can take a paint scraper and scrape that up then mop it again and then change the Lysol out with new Lysol mop it again and then just keep repeating that process until the mop water stops getting really dirty you don't have to go until the mop water is clear or anything that's insanity but we keep doing that over and over again until the floor looks good and again we could only do half of the kitchen floor because the other half was just covered in stuff so what all we're doing is cleaning off one half of the kitchen then moving the good items from the cluttered area to the now clean area for a temporary storage and then cleaning the area that we just uncovered so I mentioned in a lot of videos that it's like one of those old slider puzzles where you've got nine squares but one of them is missing and if you manipulate them and slide them in the right way eventually you can make a picture out of them all it's the same thing here it's like clear an area clean it then slide all that stuff into another temporary holding spot and then clean the area that you've uncovered and continue doing that in little squares until the whole thing's done it takes a massive amount of patience but fortunately my weird brain is all about those puzzles it's how I see most rooms whenever I walk into them is just a giant puzzle foreign so some of the things that they hoarded even if some weren't intentional she was shocked to find out how much vinegar she had we kept four bottles like gallon bottles and then she had another one in her living room I threw away at least five bottles I think so there was a bunch of that they had a ton of light bulbs a ton of coffee type stuff mail from way back if if I should have genuinely bought her a paper shredder because before she threw mail away the when I mentioned earlier how she was going through that while I was doing this she would tear those into strips to protect her identity I genuinely should have just gone to Walmart and gotten her a paper shredder because then I could have handed her entire boxes of mail and just had her go crazy on shredding that stuff there was so much of it uh realistically they need to get rid of about 75 percent of their drinking glasses there were at least a hundred spoons and then I was finding more all over the floor they said they had even more in the backyard from where a family member had at one time quote unquote helped them clean and then just through all of the extra stuff out into the backyard in bags and so there's a bag of civil silverware out there but man they definitely don't need it because when Adrian was doing the dishes it was mostly spoons so much that we couldn't even fit them all in one drawer we had to make two silverware drawers just to accommodate the spoons and now I've got that sound garden stone stuck in my head this is the cabinet that I didn't wash the cups I kind of wish I had because it wouldn't have taken that long to do them but also Adrian was doing dishes for hours and so I couldn't really like add more to her workload it was just we spent so much time in here but you're this is also where you're going to start to see a massive amount of mouse poop and rust from canned goods and so it took quite a bit to get all that cleaned and sanitized while I have your ear I'd like that ask you for a favor if you want to help me in return for me helping these people the easiest coolest thing you can do is just hit the Subscribe button it doesn't really help me as far as like YouTube algorithm or anything like that I just personally want the gold plaque and we are closing in on a quarter of a million subscribers right now which is so far beyond what I ever 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you're a member I always announce those t-shirts before I announce them in public and for like the first I don't remember if it's two days or three days they get a pretty healthy discount on those things so I guess that's another way you can kind of benefit from the member section also I post all those videos pantsless so I'm not pantsless in the videos I'm just pantsless when I make them I don't know why that would benefit you at all but it benefits me from the waist down higher cool foreign [Applause] [Music] which one uh back to the many many mouse and rat nests that I found in this house uh one of them was I think some people call this a lazy Susan or a swinging Betty or a round Glenda I don't know why people call them but there were some bags of flour down there and the owner didn't know this but mice like flour I I didn't for a long time I didn't know that mice got into flour but they evidently love it so they had chewed through the side of the bag gotten flour everywhere and then set up shop in that thing beside it you would have noticed there was a canned goods cabinet right beside that that had a bunch of really black tarry looking stuff in there and that was actually two cans of pineapple juice that had sent so long that the acidity of the juice ate through the can and then leaked out all over the other cans which then caused the chain reaction of the pineapple juice eating through them and they all just rusted out so that was a common nation of sugar and acid and rust which I just took out with Mr clean's Clean Freak I soaked that down and then let it sit for about 10 minutes then soaked it down again and used a scouring pad to get it all off foreign foreign for all the drawers I pulled everything out and just vacuumed them and then I sprayed those down with APC let it set for just a minute or so and then wiped it down and that's enough to sanitize the drawers because they all did have Mouse poop and stuff in them all the silverware that was in here all got washed because I mean it's literally sitting in mouth sewage so I can't morally just clean out the drawer and put all those back in now fortunately I cleaned those myself and Adrian just watched me do it because she doesn't she didn't do any dishes at all I did them all myself and you'll see that on video here in just a bit because that's just the kind of guy I am they call me doing dishes all by myself and not adri doing them Johnny back in Mexico City foreign get to the dishes we had to start putting things away for instance like bottles of cleaners which is one thing I always find hoarded in hoarder houses they have an overabundance of cleaning stuff so we put all those away which then exposed the stove and then I was handing Adrian things to put in the cabinets like some of the few clean dishes that were on the counter once we got those off I just cleaned the stove with Mr clean's Clean Freak and Then followed it up with APC and now little by little we're making our way across the counter now the goal is to be able to run dishwater and do all these dishes but in order to do that I first have to clean and sanitize the countertops as well as the sink itself so this is a juggling game of cleaning moving cleaning moving little bits at a time so that we can even make the room to do the dishes this is all in preparation and it's very very tedious this is one of the reasons it's so overwhelming to people once that gets stacked up so high foreign Adrian dishes and then she's putting those on the floor because they're the only place that we can put these plus I told her you put these dishes on the floor or I will elbow you in the temple and drop you with a stone cold stunner sun and she started crying I'm like don't cry just put them on the floor put them on the flow [Music] thank you now that the sink is opened up we're going to start taking off the little small appliances so we had coffee maker a little electric mini oven thingy up there I think that's what they call them up there they had some mixers KitchenAid and they were all sitting on top of a mountain of Mouse Poop mouse poison and a ton of coffee grounds coffee grounds spilled coffee the counter was just well you can see it now that we're starting to pull things off of it but it's just ground in brown so obviously we can't do dishes and drain dishes on that we have to clean it first I should have backed the camera off and showed you the floor at this point because as we're stacking stuff on the floor The Horde is getting bigger and bigger and bigger and that's again another thing that can really discourage people because they don't think they're making progress they think they're messing it up when in actuality you're just temporarily holding it in those positions okay so for the countertop I just take a dry rag and get all the loose stuff off and just to note I threw away every rag that we used in this place then I saturated that with Mr Clean so bad that it Formed puddles foreign I wet down the sink and then used Bar Keeper's Friend now this is a porcelain sink a really old school porcelain sink so I want to use a scouring pad to get off the main part of the stains and then I'm going to use a trick that a lot of people never think about but any of the stains that you have left after you've cleaned it you can use toilet cleaner specifically I use Clorox with bleach and I use the clinging gel because it holds onto the sides of the sink a little bit better so it makes contact for longer so I'll rinse all this off kind of give it a quick wipe down then I will use our toilet cleaner and then we take another break for another like 15 minutes while you're putting it on you'll be like do you like that sink it's all like I do like it when you put the toilet cleaner on my sink body I am a talking sink thank you so I just scrub that off with scouring pad again rinse it down and now it looks just like a brand new sink it's crazy how different that looks now I'm just going to bounce to the countertop notice how much that cleaner is puddled and then I'm going to use a scouring pad wipe it down with my Rag and then I'm going to APC it right in the face now we could have gone a step further I could have used a magic eraser to get off even more stains but again we could have spent a week in this kitchen you have to find a stopping point so I got the I got it cleaned and sanitized but I'm not worried about stains just yet we can do that later here you can see me doing the dishes here too I did change outfits and dropped about two feet in height but adri just kind of stepped back and watched me doing these dishes mainly because she's a piece of crap foreign nah but for real like while she was doing this I was over on another countertop um D hoarding that it was if you can see in the background how all those books and stuff are stacked up there's like one section that's really stacked the entire thing was like that and in fact it was a little worse on the right hand side so I was uncluttering all that and uncovering even more Mouse poop and so many diabetic needles you can see I'm stacking two cups with the needles pointing down for the ones that were uncapped because there were a bunch that were uncapped so I had to really take my time in order to make sure I didn't get stuck by accident and then I ended up putting those containers on top of an unused dishwasher and then we found the biohazard box and put those up with it so then she could dispose those of those herself which should be pretty easy because the tops of those things can come off and she can just dump those in but yeah those really need disposed of she had another large container of those in one of the hoarded spare rooms that I'll show you on another video but there were hundreds of these well I wouldn't say hundreds I would say there was at least a hundred of them that I found I'm hoping there's a program out there that can get her a weekly housekeeper once I get this all cleaned and back into shape and maybe even like a a weekly nurse or somebody who can come by and collect her needles to dispose of because again they they are disabled she does have mobility issues getting out and around is not something she can do every day but I'm not aware of how those programs work I know that some people have told me before that there are programs where the state will pay for housekeepers to come in for people who are disabled but I have no idea what those programs are or even who to ask about them now one of the saddest Parts about this particular house is that there are a lot of things she wants to do specifically revolving around crafting so she wants to turn her computer room into a craft room where she can crochet which is totally doable and she wants to turn the spare bedroom into storage which is the way I want to do it because that's the most logical place to do storage in the house she wants to set up her old VCR so she can watch old VCR type movies and I I get that Nostalgia too so that's it's totally cool I could totally do all that the sad part is that there's only one thing stopping any of that from happening and that's the horde itself if we were to be able to clear out both of those spare rooms the computer room and the proper spare room we could absolutely make those things happen in like a day but the problem is those other rooms are so hoarded that the only solution outside of just throwing away everything is to bring in one tub at a time and have her go through it and then tell us what to keep and what to throw away and that is going to take days especially whenever you see the one spare room that's so tightly packed it'll take days just to go through it and then we have to hope that she throws away enough in order to progress and to utilize that room for storage because even if she got rid of 75 percent of the things in those rooms there would still be too much stuff to put back it would still be ultra hoarded so I gave her a heads up toward the beginning of this that the ultimate goal would be if 10 items pass through her hands nine of those items would be thrown in the trash now that's not doable for most hoarders the disorder overrides their desire to have a clean clear home foreign foreign foreign imagine if every time you turned on your kitchen light the garbage disposal came on too because there were some weirdness with your wiring that made the lights and the garbage disposal connected eventually you'd stop turning on that light switch because the garbage disposal would be too annoying and you can't really get in there and fix it yourself because you're not an electrician so you would need to call an electrician to help you out that's kind of what it's like on hoarding disorder there's a misfire in the wiring if you will that makes the emotional connection to objects so powerful that it's like throwing away a memory throwing away a pet or a child and the only way to get past it is to get outside help to fix it for you it's important to know that that outside help is not the therapist themselves it's the therapy no one can come in and fix you but they can facilitate the therapy that can and anyway that doesn't happen overnight that takes a very long time to do it takes dedication and it takes a therapist who knows what they're dealing with in order to help steer you in the right direction and make sure that you're thinking positively about the process once she reaches that point whether she gets therapy or not and again I keep saying she but that's who I'm dealing with in this cleanup it's a two-person problem so like they would have to get therapy but once they get to that point then all bets are off we can do whatever we want to that house and turn it into a crafting dream world if they want but it's it's not going to happen overnight this is a very very good first step in that direction and I'm really proud of her for being able to jump in and take care of old paperwork and she's really putting forth the effort to go through tubs that I'd set aside and she really has thrown away some stuff that she struggled to get rid of before so she's making great effort I hope that her husband can do the same because I think that as a team if they're both going in the same direction they can really get past this they've got a really good chance of progressing and turning their their home back into a nice safe comfortable existence foreign foreign members I will see you this Wednesday everybody else I will see you next Saturday we'll have part two ready to go by then if not Saturday then Sunday the latest and I'll be able to show you the living room which was extremely exhausting to clean I'd show it to you now but it's not quite done just yet I got to go back this weekend anyway I'll see you next weekend don't forget to hit subscribe unless you want this elbow right in your neck right in your neck face later foreign

Channel: Midwest Magic Cleaning

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Keywords: Housekeeping, cleaning, satisfying, timelapse, time lapse, house cleaning, organization, organizing, free, free cleaning, depression cleaning, depression help, kindness, help, autistic, autistic cleaning, hoarder, hoarder cleanup, extreme clean, extreme cleaning, hoarder cleaning, biohazard cleaning, biohazard cleanup

Id: D4-vopi689I

Length: 59min 31sec (3571 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 31 2023