HOW do humans live like this?

[Carsman]

I wouldn't call this hoarding so much as I'd call it sheer lazyness. I know a couple of hoarders that have a lot of stuff (including 25 year old newspapers) but it's stacked neatly, in storage boxes or put away in cupboards. A hoarder doesn't have to be a slob, though many slobs are hoarders.

I can see where a mess like that would be overwhelming for anyone to clean. The key is to not let it get like that in the first place.

If I think my house is getting a bit messy and have no gumption to clean it, I just watch an episode of Hoarders and I'm up and cleaning in no time!

Yes, all hoarders are not slobs. There was a program on TV a few months ago that showed hoarder "Candy Spelling", a multimillionaire, who could just not get rid of anything. She had a massive building filled with thousands's of her belongings, in neatly labeled boxes. Bizarre.