Squalor Survivors - Resources

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- Angelina Hedgehog Personal experience, with photo.
- Celeste Personal experience, with photo.
- Centime Personal experience.
- Cleanwannabe Personal experience.
- Craptacular Personal experience.
- Dillydaf Personal experience.
- Fierce bad bunny Personal experience.
- Finally Free Personal experience.
- Fivecat Personal experience.
- Grizzly Bear Personal experience.
- Hope Personal experience.
- JojoP Personal experience.
- Jokamo Personal experience.
- J's Junk Personal experience.
- Just Tired Personal experience.
- Kattybeme Personal experience.
- Maizy Personal experience.
- Mama Messy Personal experience.
- Melissa Ann Personal experience.
- Miss Jean Personal experience.
- Pigpen Personal experience, with photos and cake.
- Princess Piggy Personal experience.
- Script Personal experience, with photos.
- Thomas Personal experience.
- TrashMan Personal experience.
Pictures Reasons to photograph squalor.
- Kimmy An introduction to Kimmy's photos.
  - Entry area Before and after photos.
  - Kitchen Before and after photos.
  - Living area Before and after photos.
  - Lounge Before and after photos.
  - Bathrooms Before and after photos.
  - Bedrooms Before and after photos.
  - Hallway Before and after photos.
  - Room off kitchen Before and after photos.
  - Storage room Before photo.
  - Dining Before photo.
  - Back kitchen Before photo.
  - Laundry After photo.
  - Zero degree After photo.
  - One year later Reflecting back on the first year anniversary of Kimmy's thread.
- Patkortcam An introduction to Patkortcam's photos.
  - Bedroom, view 1 Before and after photos.
  - Bedroom, view 2 Before and after photos.
  - Kitchen, view 1 Before and after photos.
  - Kitchen, view 2 Before and after photos.
  - Living room Before and after photos.
- Petra An introduction to Petra's photos.
  - Living room Before photos.
  - Kitchen Before photos.
  - Bathroom After photo.
  - Bedroom Before photos.
- Suedonym An introduction to Suedonym's photos.
  - Entry room Before and after photos.
  - Front room Before and after photos.
  - Living room Before and after photos.
  - Dining room Before and after photos.
  - Kitchen Before and after photos.
  - Bedroom 1 Before and after photos.
  - Bedroom 2 Before and after photos.
  - Master bedroom Before and after photos.
  - One year later Before and after photos.
- Joe Before photos.
Squalor What IS "squalor"?
- Measuring Measurement scales for quantifying your squalor, clutter, or hoarding.
- Hoarding 3-part definition and description of clinical hoarding.
- Contributing factors Clinical depression, Post-partum depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Seasonal Affective Disorder; Physical factors, Behavioral and situational factors.
- Consequences The consequences of squalor to our self-esteem, our finances, our time, our enjoyment of our homes, our aspirations, our participation in society, our dealings with the legal system, and our health .
- Famous squalor Langley Collyer, Ida Mayfield Wood, Mr Trebus, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, Louis Bonard, Eliza Donnithorne, Quentin Crisp, Beethoven, Katie Holmes.
- Fictional squalor Pig Pen, Oscar from Sesame Street, Oscar Madison, Olive Madison, Cristina Yang, Momma Boone, Miss Havisham and Mrs Jellyby, the Seven Dwarves, the Cat in the Hat.
Overcoming
Yourself
- Self-worth
- Depression
- Perfectionism
- Demand-resistance
- Guilt
- Worry
- Indecision
- Goals
- Self-care
Your house
- Declutter
- Organize
- Clean
- Maintain
Special topics
Community
Resources Kimmy's original Living in Third Degree Squalor thread, available for free dwonload in Word, PDF, and plain text formats. Zipped versions available. Script's paper and finances page is also here as a downloadable document.
- Books A bibliography of useful works.
  - Organizing From the Inside Out review
  - The Messies Manual review
  - Living Organized review
  - Sink Reflections review
  - Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding review
  - Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff review
  - Is There Life After Housework? review
  - Clutter's Last Stand review
  - Speed Cleaning review
  - Sidetracked Home Executives review
  - Shelter For the Spirit review
  - Too Perfect review Dealing with perfectionism.
  - The Now Habit review Dealing with procrastination
- Software
  - Consistency review
  - Kirby Alarm and Task Scheduler review
  - Joe's Goals review Web-based application for tracking progress towards reaching your goals.
  - billQ review Web-based application for tracking your bills and their due dates.
- Web links Web sites, pages and mailing lists on organizing, decluttering, cleaning, and squalor.
Junk drawer
- Abecedary
- Cineplex
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Squalorer
- In Flanders Fields Angelina Hedgehog recorded this poem as a .wav
- The Many Faces of Toni
- The Tales of the HouseReclaimer
- Squalor Glossary
- The Little Things
- How Messies Invented Ballet
- Lies and Truth
- Sesame Street, squalor & me
- Grief goes on
- Life Cycle of Magazines
- Your squalor is rejected
It's not me This is the page for people who coming here looking for answers to help a spouse, relative, or friend.
- Lisa A cautionary tale from a supporter who cleaned a hoarder's house without consent.
Site:
- About The history of the site, plus a PayPal button for those who wish to donate towards site costs.
- Purpose Statement and Community Participation Policies Why the site exists, and Pigpen's vision for it.
- Contact How to contact Pigpen.
- Privacy Privacy Policy
- Sitemap YOU ARE HERE.

Web links

This is an organized collection of some of the links sprinkled throughout the site in the See Also: boxes. Articles are organized by subject. Web sites often cover more than one subject, so they are all grouped together. If you want to find information on, for example, hoarding, check the Articles and the Web sites sections.

Articles

Decluttering

Escaping The Clutter Trap: Five Steps for Increasing Productivity and Decreasing Stress by Barbara Hemphill
Get organized! by Kimberly Husband
declutter journal:cut the clutter! Four articles at OrganizedHome
What financial records to keep and how long to keep them

Hoarding

Hoarding not a usual compulsion BBC News, June 3, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3769677.stm
Compulsive hoarding Bio-Behavioral Institute
Hoard mentality A well-written article by Jennifer Wells, from the Toronto Star, Jan. 26, 2006.
Hoarding in the community Fairfax County Hoarding Task Force pages
Confronting compulsive hoarding by Chris Kelly. Target audience is landlords and property managers, contains information on tenant's legal rights
So much clutter, so little room: Looking inside the hoarder's lair by Nina Bernstein. NY Times,December 31, 2003
Hoarding is hidden OCD Originally published at ABCNEWS.com, May 22, 2001. This is an Internet archive copy.
Dr. Randy Frost discusses Hoarding , ABCNews.com chat transcript. 22 October, 2001. This is an Internet archive copy.
Saving the World by Fred Penzel http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Hoarding.html
Behind Closed Doors by Josie Rawson, CityPages.com 3 December 1997 http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/849/article3322.asp
Stuff by Tyler Gore. An essay by Tyler Gore about his family's battle with their own physical possessions, and especially about his father (it's Tyler's belief that his father got lung disease from living in squalor). This essay was originally published in the New York journal "Literal Latte," and got Tyler cited in The Best American Essays anthology.

Cleaning

Cleaning up after pets AllAboutHome.com http://www.allabouthome.com/tips/cleaning/pets.html
Clothing care and storage fact sheet http://www.martin.fl.us/EDUC/uf/clothin/

Overcoming

(This section is about changing the feelings and attitudes that affect your behavior, and therefore stand in the way of your desire for a clean house.)
Demand Resistance - Is it hurting your business? by Mitch Myerson
Microburst - Eliminate Dread with this Simple Inertia-Busting Technique by Cheryl Miller

Other

Excerpt of Organizing From the Inside Out at www.bookbrowse.com
Interview with Julie Morgenstern at www.newhomemaker.com
The Nature of Nature by Sarah Borruso. "It was a combination open sewer and pet store aquarium," says New York painter Alexis Rockman, 33, describing the drainage ditch that inspired his recent series of more than 200 mud drawings.
http://www.theplan.com/dmi/collier_story.htm
http://members.tripod.com/earthdude1/collyer/collyer.html
http://www.delorenzosdugout.com/collyer.htm

Web sites

Decluttering

ClutterLess Recovery Groups, Inc. http://www.clutterless.org/
http://www.juliemorgenstern.com
OrganizedHome.com

Hoarding

OCF's Hoarding Web Site Designed to provide information and assistance in a comprehensive and efficient way. Edited by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee
Disposobobics images of the house of a hoarding OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) sufferer. http://www.theplan.com/clutter/index.htm

Cleaning

Speed Cleaning Rules & More http://www.thecleanteam.com/rules.cfm?cfid=80883&%3Bcftoken=2301414
The Queen of Clean Linda Cobb http://www.queenofclean.com/
House interior HowToCleanAnything.com http://www.howtocleananything.com/frame_cleaningtips_Houseinterior.htm

Other

Writing the Journey Online Journal Writing Workshop http://www.writingthejourney.com/
Conversations Within Journal Writing and Inner Dialog http://www.journal-writing.com/index.html
Project Gutenberg Fine Literature Digitally Re-published: classic books and well-loved favorites as e-texts http://promo.net/pg/
The Online Books Page Book search http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html
Recipe Source formerly known as SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes http://www.recipesource.com/
Google Pretty good search engine http://www.google.com/
Bonsai Potato - Zen without the wait. Bonsai Potato is "the art of nurturing the artistic vision of a potato through various forms of encouragement and manipulation." http://www.bonsaipotato.com/
Celestial Realm Website of one of the Squalorees, Celeste. Warning: is very beautiful and contains no actual squalor. http://celestial_realm.tripod.com/celestial_realm/index.html