I hate trash, i really do i despise it! Why you may ask? Well let me tell you a story about trash and lies. Junk removal was my business, i would show up and get rid of trash and debris from residential and commercial properties. One day i arrived to get rid of a large dump load from a city parade the previous day and had way too many items to take of myself. When i arrived, the customer had already been given an estimate over the phone. Approximate, but not exact they were given the closest price that would befit what was described over the phone.

When me and my workers arrived we were ready to go and get the job done just as we always do. We did the hard work and picked up all of the junk and trash that the customer had available. It was a tough and grueling job because it was also about the hottest recorded date of the summer so far!

After we were done and used our teamwork to get rid of all the junk we met up with the customer to settle up on payment. It was a little more than what they described over the phone so we gave them the correct and fair price. The customer then refused to pay the amount! Can you believe that a person would do that? They argued with me until i had no choice left but to waste another 40 minutes on this job as we unloaded all of the trash and placed it in the same spot we had lifted it from. This was one of the worst junk removal jobs i had to do because of a finicky customer!

Have you ever felt the shame when a loved one or someone you know finds out that you are a hoarder? This feeling can be one of the worst ever to happen to a person with the disability known as hoarding! Yes Hoarding is a know disability that can leave a long lasting effect on a person and sometimes even cause great damage like depression and feelings of loneliness. This is also very much true if the hoarder happens to live alone and looks forward to nothing at all. Well, now is the time to contact this special Hoarder Junk Removal Company that can help you get back on your feet and not have to worry about much at all. Getting your life back and in order can greatly help with your health and mental well being. Junk Removal, Trash Out, and many other services are covered by this Los Angeles Hoarder Cleanup company that likes to keep it real and make sure that our customers are guaranteed to get  the best service imaginable.

With this Hoarder Junk Removal Company Los Angeles doing the right thing and helping their customers, we can help to battle this very disheartening and very real disease. Giving people a second chance with a clean slate is one of the best things you can do for someone that has problems which they cannot handle themselves. Removing junk items and debris from their households helps to keep the Hoarder tendencies at bay and in a smaller chance of having them cause greater damage to the individual with Hoarder Cleanup issues.

You find yourself scouring the internet for the lowest prices online seeking a cheap dumpster. Well what if i told you that there is a much cheaper alternative and you get to relax and not have to worry about much? That’s right, instead of renting out a dumpster you can just schedule a great Junk Removal Service! That’s right, you can schedule and low cots Junk Removal Service that will have a group of guys come down to your location and haul away all that junk you might have available. With a special junk removal crew showing up at your residence or commercial building all you have to do is point to the junk you need to get rid of and watch this group haul it away. Simple as that and sometimes even more cost effective and quicker. This also saves you the trouble of having to guard your dumpster rental and making sure that nobody else dumps unwanted items in there that don’t pertain to you.

With the Junk Removal Service that can be used on your trash, you will now have more time to spend on yourself and relax instead of stressing out.

Hoarding can creates piles of junk eight feet high or more. These junk mountains can shift or collapse if even the slightest thing is changed. It isn’t uncommon to find hoarders buried under an avalanche of stuff, suffocated or crushed to death. Fire is also an ever present danger for hoarders. Homes stuffed with clutter devolve into tinderboxes that can explode and burn. And once a hoarder’s home catches fire there is precious little a fire department can do to stop it.

HUMAN remains have been found under piles of rubbish at a home of an elderly woman, reported missing more than 18 months ago in Melbourne’s north.

Police searched the property of missing Fitzroy woman Phyllis Kelly in Little Charles St, after gaining permission from the Coroner.

 

The 82-year-old has not been seen since August 20, 2011, when she reportedly visited the State Theatre in St Kilda Rd just after 6pm.

 

A friend reported a phone call a month after Ms Kelly was seen but no one had heard from her since. Her bank account had not been used.

 

Officers and a pathologist discovered a severely decayed body under garbage piled metres high.

 

They found bags stuffed with garbage, material and clothes stacked to the ceiling with small walkways cleared through the rooms.

Hoarding can and does kill. If you have a friend or relative that is hoarding, get them help immediately. 

The faces of those with a collection or hoarding issue don’t match the TV stereotype either. As part of a panel during the day, four members of the western Massachusetts group shared their stories.

• Karen talked about how she used stuff as a buffer from people – to the point where clothes piled on her bed and table reached so high she no longer used them and basically lived and slept and ate on one sofa … then described how she realized she wanted people in her life not just stuff and how that turned out to be the first step of many small steps back from a hoarding disorder.
• The oldest of the group at 89, Lil described how losses of her patients to AIDs in the 1980s started a cycle where she started holding onto “things” to the point where others can now no longer enter her home. She has recently stopped adding new objects and now works in small baby steps to give away and clear collected objects.
• Carol calls herself a collector and confesses her challenges with getting rid of anything that has a personal meaning or represents who she is. “It may look like clutter to you, but I know where everything is!” she said. She has taken the first baby steps of sorting books, rocks, and other items into boxes to leave and boxes to stay.
• Star moved over and over again as a child, never having a “space”, and responded as an adult with a sense of needing to buy everything in the fear that if she didn’t, she’d never have a chance again. She recently began focusing on a professional goal and baby step-by-baby step removing the items from her collection not related to her core professional focus.

There is nothing wrong with being a collector. Collecting is a great way of preserving memories and accumulating antiques that retain value. Over time collections can increase in value and turn into worthy investments. But collecting has a dark side. Collections can often turn on their owners and end up owning them instead. Collecting valuables can often devolve into hoarding valuables given the wrong circumstances. So how can you manage a large miscellany of collectibles?

A three step strategy:

1. Simplify and Sort

2. Sell

3. Throw Away

Simplify and sort through your collection. Try to assess the things that are truly valuable (or truly valuable to you) and the collectibles that are not worth keeping. The goal of this process is to have less stuff, so keep less and throw away more. 

Sell. After you sorted through your collectibles and determined what you are keeping and what you are parting with, you have the option of selling your more valuable collectibles online or in person. eBay and Craig’s List are two of the more popular ways of selling collectibles.

Throw Away. In even the most rigorously maintained collections you are bound to find collectibles that are broken or that no longer have any value. Instead of keeping them, throw them away. If you have a large number of collectibles that need to be hauled away, you can call a junk removal company to help you.

Parting ways with things we’ve sought after and protected for years is never an easy decision. But culling down collections to only the most valuable items helps prevent hoarding and ward off hoarder-like tendencies.

So how do you fight a tendency towards hoarding and hoarding behaviors?

Seek Counseling and Therapy. Unfortunately, mental illness still carries a great stigma that leads many  to avoid treatment for mental disorders. If you feel you have a tendency towards hoarding or engage in behaviors that you consider detrimental to your life seek counseling and therapy. There is no shame in seeking treatment for a mental illness.

Try to stay organized. If you are a naturally disorganized person, try to stay organized. Use tools like to-do lists to prioritize and organize.

Buy only things you need and throw away things you don’t need. When you buy something ask yourself beforehand, Will I use this? Do I need this? When you buy something try to make a commitment to throwing something else out. For instance, when me and my girlfriend would be something for our kitchen (like a grill) we threw away something we weren’t using (like the breadmaker we got as a gift and never used). This way we never accumulated much clutter.

If you are starting to accumulate a lot of clutter hire someone to help you clean up. There are multiple junk removal companies that can help you declutter your home.

Preventing hoarding is not easy and for some people may not be possible. The main thing to remember is that mental disorders like hoarding can be treated and if you believe you have a hoarding problem, seek help early. It can save your life.

“Imagine walking into the mouth of madness and having to sort through whatever insanity you found there. Over the course of a year we tried to work with this tenant to get him to clean up the house. Multiple times we would make offers, threats, and even try to cajole but nothing worked. We eventually made the tough decision to evict him.

After the eviction process I was handed the daunting task of cleaning up after this tenant. I was advised to hire a junk removal company in the Los Angeles area. But I had already spent a decent amount of money on the eviction process and really didn’t feel like spending more on a junk removal company. 

I tried to clean up this home for a week. Even with a dumpster the process was achingly slow. I’d work for eight hours, look around, and feel like I barely made a dent in a wall of newspapers and clutter filling just the living room. It took me a full week to clear out the living room. Every night I was exhausted, every day I dreaded going to the house. On the sixth day I found the skeleton of (I think) a kitten in a closet. I went home and cried for the rest of the night. How could someone be that thoughtless, that cruel?

The next morning I called a junk removal company in the Los Angeles area that specialized in hoarders junk removal, trash removal, and household junk removal. They finished the job for me. Luckily they were experienced in hoarding clean ups and got the job finished in about three days.”

The emotional and physical toll of hoarding is why we generally recommend using a junk removal company instead of attempting to clean up after a hoarder yourself.

When you are dealing with a hoarder try not to be overly judgmental about their living situation. Avoid sarcastic comments and direct confrontation. Try to be firm yet sympathetic and understanding. Involve a hoarder in seeking solutions to their problem and seeking treatment. Typically, a hoarder is just as ashamed of their hoarding habits as you are, and they want a way out as well. Try to get a hoarder involved in therapy and get both the hoarder and therapist to work on reducing junk and items.

Many junk removal services in the Los Angeles area work hand in hand with hoarders and their therapists. They provide support for a hoarder during the junk removal process and can assist a therapist in helping a hoarder sort through accumulate junk.

Also involve the county and city government early. Los Angeles has many mental health services aimed at directly help hoarders. So contact adult protective services and seek advice on how to handle a particular hoarding situation.

You may also need to involve the law. Excessive hoarding is a violation of health and safety codes. A hoarder may only seek treatment if he or she is faced with a prospect of losing their home or being evicted from their apartment. 

The most important thing to remember when dealing with a hoarder is to be persistent. Never ignore a hoarder’s problem. Hoarding does not go away and does not “get better” on its own.