Anonymous wrote:I imagine many of us have a few boxes or piles of thighs stacked in a corner. (I do.) The thing that struck me - for both the bedroom and the kitchen pictures - are the things lying on the floor. I do not think a mentally healthy person would have anything on the floor, especially the kitchen.

....ha, ha....I meant THINGS, not thighs! I put my thighs away neatly!!

My kitchen would be less than 1. I have nothing on my refridgerator and very little on the countertops.

I imagine many of us have a few boxes or piles of thighs stacked in a corner. (I do.) The thing that struck me - for both the bedroom and the kitchen pictures - are the things lying on the floor. I do not think a mentally healthy person would have anything on the floor, especially the kitchen.

My bedroom is a 1, my bedroom closet is a 3

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, OP. I can't stop laughing at your pics. What is up with the portrait of the North Korean dictator on the wall?

OK here's a different one:

Jeez, just the cereal boxes or cookbooks or whatever they are on top of the refrigerator in Photo 1 are giving me the heebie jeebies. I don't even want to know what that says about me. But looking at the pictures it was interesting to see that the main differentiation (to me) between 1 and 2 was that there was stuff on the floor even before a lot of stuff on the kitchen table or on that side table thing where the newspapers are. I wonder why stuff on the floor would occur first before using off-the-floor spaces? This pattern was evident in the bedroom pictures, too.

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Anonymous wrote:First one.

Big jump from 1 to 2!

I think I am comfortably at 1-1/2.

That's me, too. Pretty close to a 1, with a few things out of order. I'd say I'm a 1.2. (But even then, I don't have things scattered on the floor.)

I was a 3 in my pre-teen years. Drove my Mom crazy!

The thing about these scales is they are meant for people with a mental illness. It isn't "How tidy is your house?" It is "How bad has your mental.illness gotten?" If you don't have that illness, it's not really an accomplishment to be a 1.

It's like doing a survey on depression and asking how many times a week you shower and put on clean clothes. Of course it's easy to do every day if you aren't suffering from a crippling unbalance in your brain, and you might feel aghast at people who say it's a struggle to do once a week, but you're judging yourself on a scale not meant for you,

A 2-3 could be a huge accomplishment and a good sign for someone who is recovering from hoarding. A 2-3 might just be major laziness if you're messy but not a hoarder.

I'm a definite one, although one of our lesser used storage closets would be worse.

I am a 1 24/7 throughout my entire house. Two small kids, work full time outside of home.

Unbelievably to me, my bedroom is a 1 right now. It was a 4 or 5 for about 3 years, when I was raising 2 kids under 4 on my own with a demanding job. Getting to a 1 has required a few weekends home.

I'm a one. Sometimes a 1.25. MAYBE a 1.5 on really bad days.

These scales seem off, though! There's like no difference between 4 and 9, but a massive difference between 1 and 2.

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Anonymous wrote:First one.

Big jump from 1 to 2!

I think I am comfortably at 1-1/2.

Same. I'm a 1 when it's immediately before or after our cleaning people come, but most days it's more a 1.5

Same.

1.5

I spent a weekend working to clean up my MIL's home and I can tell you that it opened my eyes to how horrible hoarding really is. Just overwhelming. So dirty and unhealthy and unsafe. So depressing. She was well toward the upper numbers in these images.

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