
Couple of Junk Lovers Tackling Projects Together
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A Grayson County couple works together to tackle projects most wouldn't dare.
Sometimes we may look around and think we have too much stuff. But for some, piles and piles of stuff is more than just unsightly, it's a problem. Laura Rogers introduces us to a Grayson County couple who work together to tackle projects most of us wouldn't dare.
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Couple of Junk Lovers Tackling Projects Together
Clip: Season 3 Episode 187 | 3m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Sometimes we may look around and think we have too much stuff. But for some, piles and piles of stuff is more than just unsightly, it's a problem. Laura Rogers introduces us to a Grayson County couple who work together to tackle projects most of us wouldn't dare.
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>> So stuff we may not love.
Sometimes we look around our house and we think, gosh, we've just got too much stuff.
But for some piles and piles of staff is more than just unsightly.
It's a problem on this Valentine's Day.
We introduce you to a Grayson County couple who work together to tackle projects.
Most of us would not dare our Laura.
Just Jordan's them on site and Litchfield.
>> When I walked in and I see a big mess.
I get excited.
Ash road and even more foul.
There was a house that had a chicken coop in a bedroom.
Eddie and Karen Anderson of Litchfield are junk lovers.
It's a in care would jump lovers.
A husband and wife team a clean up what others leave behind.
>> The next year or more grow said it is.
We know a lot of people don't want to do it.
So part of us takes pride in doing something that most people don't want to do.
>> It's like this current cleanup, the House will work on the day.
It is a hoarder house.
I would say a stage 5, which means that the place was very, very cluttered.
There was stuff piled everywhere.
In fact, this house has such permanent damage.
It will soon be demolished by the city.
This is something that >> typically gets change behavior.
Intervention.
Specialist Haley Smith says mental illnesses like depression and anxiety.
>> We the hoarding disorder.
Sometimes they can get very overwhelming to take care of your house, your job, your kids, your family.
The Andersons are usually called by a realtor or a surviving relative after their loved one has passed away.
A lot of times they don't know how bad the situation has actually gotten because a lot of people with hoarding disorder, they're ashamed of what people in the House.
>> People don't want to live in that type of environment.
It's not good for anybody.
But Smith says people are often hesitant to reach out for help, sometimes unable to afford those services.
When your space is messy and you feel overwhelmed and kind of make you shut down another area.
And if you don't feel like you can move through your home or you can find what you need in order to be productive with whatever you're trying to do.
Then.
>> They can definitely cause some issues with your productivity, your brain, just a functional.
and he and Kara estimate, they've completed about 50 projects since they started junk lovers and 2022.
On a house like this.
If there's about 5 bedrooms, it might take about 5 days.
They do come across some interesting paying.
>> We were cleaning out an attic in an abandoned house and there were a million dollars or more baby Doe.
>> Care was in the attic because she smaller and she can sit up there.
>> Just wait till you see what I'm about to give you.
And she said, look at this when she dropped down some prosthetic legs, we try to recycle anything.
We can anything that salvageable.
We do salvaging either donate or we take our free market.
But a lot of it goes the dot camera and daddy say the hard work and sometimes hazardous conditions.
Sometimes the floor caves in are worth it.
Knowing they're helping people who are physically or emotionally able >> to do it themselves.
This job is a lot more purposeful.
>> Then we expected here.
Yeah.
I've met with the the sister whose brother passed away and he was a hoarder and she live so far away that she can't take care of it.
The lady who >> has a dad who is a veteran and he's ill and his house was left in disarray.
I didn't know how many people needed the service till we got in here.
And that makes the process of clearing the junk.
That was a lot of work to little easier to love.
>> A Kentucky edition.
I'm Laura Rogers.
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