The General Musings of Falkie2013 (George Senda, The Guy From Pittsburgh)

[coaster]

Its hard to warp my mind around the fact that there will be two morbidly obese people living in that cramped little apartment. With all the clutter, I'm surprised they don't get stuck. Imagine if they both met in a hall or the kitchen or something. One of them would literally need to back up like a truck to let the other one out.
Two fat people. One apartment. Cats. Roaches. I bet it smells like the world's biggest armpit in there.

[PathoJen]

Falkie, mostly always you make me laugh. Sometimes you make me laugh AND cry.  This most recent video was one of the latter.  Now listen.....I honestly am not trying to give "unsolicited advice".  I am just going to try to make a long story short.  I would feel remiss and uncaring if I did not, regardless of the consequences.  I once thought I would be strong and healthy, and able to travel the world forever. Then one day something happened, and then some more stuff, and one day I knew I needed help.  It got difficult for me to figure out simple paperwork.....ok well, maybe paperwork is not so simple anymore, and getting around was not as easy as it once was. *nuff said*   I did not want to leave my "home" however humble, it had my memories, and my "favorite things" in it.  My lucky stars brought two old friends to visit me one day.....and they knew about stuff I had NO IDEA about.   They did all the paperwork for me, and got me moved into a building that has people to do paperwork for you that you cannot do yourself, they have aids to come help you clean twice a week if you want, and they have nurses aids, and even doctors to come see you if you cannot get out and about so much as you used to.  In my building, they inspect every appartment at LEAST once every three months, so that if you need help, they make sure you get it.  I realize you probably will not, but it would make me very happy if you would look into places like this in your neighborhood.  Your video of all the work you have ahead of you with a bad back and asthma, and maybe not enough help, made me very sad.  You DID mention me in your video however, and for that, I shall die a happy gabbling.  Good luck whatever you decide to do Falkie.  Sincerely, Brig.

Brig you are such a sweet lady. Your post made me tear up, and tearing up in the Falkie thread is new to me. If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Senda does live in a "senior living" type of building but by the looks of things, they don't help you when you need help.
As many things as Falkie does and says that piss everyone off, he is an elderly man, a human being, and with the help of friends, and others, should live in a more inhabitable environment. Best of luck Falkie. If my dad, or grandpa was living in those conditions I would be heartbroken and work my butt off to make it right.

[aldousburbank]

I bet it smells like the world's biggest armpit in there.

IOW, like Bakersfield, CA.

[Yorkshire pud]

Its hard to warp my mind around the fact that there will be two morbidly obese people living in that cramped little apartment. With all the clutter, I'm surprised they don't get stuck. Imagine if they both met in a hall or the kitchen or something. One of them would literally need to back up like a truck to let the other one out.
Two fat people. One apartment. Cats. Roaches. I bet it smells like the world's biggest armpit in there.

Hold that thought....Just close your eyes and have that vision take hold and grow in your head, let it (cont pp94)

[chefist]

IOW, like Bakersfield, CA.

Or the Salton Sea

[Jocko Johnson]

After seeing the video of the falkie hovel, it looked like one of those hoarder shows. The only way to fix that dump is with a bulldozer and a dumpster. Why would anyone show that to the world? Falkie you can't be proud, can you?

So now Art and you hate each other...oh my God, what happened?

[bateman]

These videos make me think of the opening scene of Seven.

[SredniVashtar]

After seeing the video of the falkie hovel, it looked like one of those hoarder shows. The only way to fix that dump is with a bulldozer and a dumpster. Why would anyone show that to the world? Falkie you can't be proud, can you?

Well, at least we were spared the bathroom - there is enough sadness in life without being exposed to that chamber of horrors. He's probably preparing his next episode: the masturbatorium - photoshopped pics of Henry Kissinger in a bikini, and Noory being brutally violated by a mountain goat.

[Yorkshire pud]

After seeing the video of the falkie hovel, it looked like one of those hoarder shows. The only way to fix that dump is with a bulldozer and a dumpster. Why would anyone show that to the world? Falkie you can't be proud, can you?

I'm guessing your a regular with a new handle; so you know the score. Senda has no sense of self awareness. He doesn't even get it when people try to point that out to him.

[PathoJen]

After seeing the video of the falkie hovel, it looked like one of those hoarder shows. The only way to fix that dump is with a bulldozer and a dumpster. Why would anyone show that to the world? Falkie you can't be proud, can you?

So now Art and you hate each other...oh my God, what happened?

Where'd you hear that? He said Art wrote to him, and it's all good. Said he loves art.

[Jocko Johnson]

As usual you ignore what I said. I am NOT done in there. I concentrated on the bedroom. If you weren't so determined to be aurtomatically a bitch about anything I do, you MIGHT have listened to my explanation.

The very first thing I said in my kitchen/living room/hallway video after I said :

" This is The Guy From Pittsburgh. "

Was ...

" I am NOT done yet. ... ".



Except for the piles of boxes in the bedroom, once the bedroom shelves are cleaned and dusted and the back corner is also cleaned, dusted and vacuumed the bedroom will be done. I can't do more cleang in the bedroom until the boxes are out of here after the first.

Here's the bedroom.

People had asked for before videos of my place. This is semi before.
If you don't like it Laura, too damed bad.
No one from Bellgab offered to come and help except for Drone who said if he could come here, he would have helped me clean up.
Drone saw what the place looked like before I got sick and it was a lot worse.
Paperboy was in here as well and saw the whole apartment when it was also a lot worse as well.
At 2 pm Kathy comes over and I go help them finish moving the rest of stuff out of her apartment so they can finish cleaning and have the final inspection.
Then tonight I go and finish up in here, stack the boxes neatly in the back corner and start doing laundry tomorrow and start finishing the living room and get it straightened out.
And a number of things in the living room and bedroom will go into storage next month and the place will look a lot better than it is now Patty will be over to help though with some more storage bins and sending stuff off to storage it will not be anywhere as bad as it is.
I rely on Patty and Kathy to help tell me what more needs to be done.
They sincerely suggest what I further need to do and not call it a hellhole.
If I had a bigger place, less stuff or had been well more, it would have never gotten like this.
And I sure as hell don't want to let it get messy again.
I will have Patty talk off camera about just what she and I did in the limited time we had to clean together.
Kathy admitted when she came over here it was a lot better too.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd-U4OkqEk8

That's the bedroom? Where the fuck is the bed!!??

[PathoJen]

Health would improve appreciably if no less than half the shit were pitched.
You need a Dumpster, man, not a duster or vacuum cleaner.

Let's call in How Clean is your House, American Edition.

[Yorkshire pud]

That's the bedroom? Where the fuck is the bed!!??

You mean you couldn't smell it?

[coaster]

The place is full of nothing but garbage and Falkie shows us a small trashcan and says, "that's the stuff I'm throwing out". Throw all of it out. Its junk. Falkie, even if you did have someone to help you clean, it wouldn't work. Because in typical hoarder fashion, they would try to throw something away, and you would want to keep it. Seriously, you have a problem.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

The place is full of nothing but garbage and Falkie shows us a small trashcan and says, "that's the stuff I'm throwing out". Throw all of it all. Its junk. Falkie, even if you did have someone to help you clean, it wouldn't work. Because in typical hoarder fashion, they would try to throw something away, and you would want to keep it. Seriously, you have a problem.

If Falkie were to get rid of a single napkin or old cereal box, it would bring severe separation anxiety.  You see, to you and me that is just junk, but to Falkie it is a fond memory of his loving mother.  That napkin was the time he went out and walked miles in the pouring rain so that he and his mother could have some wipes after they enjoyed Thanksgiving Dinner together, and that cereal box was what he was looking at when his mother was on the phone telling him to eat better.

When surrounded by all the stuff he has collected over the years, it's as if Falkie's mother is still right there with him every step of the way.  After all, if Falkie had bad memories of his mother wouldn't he want to get rid of all the stuff he collected over those years and start anew?

[ADG12311990]

<How I feel after watching both videos.>

[Who]

That's the bedroom? Where the fuck is the bed!!??

Be grateful we were spared.  Seeing the Falkie bed would immediately result in retinal burnout and olfactory arrest. 

[Yorkshire pud]

Be grateful we were spared.  Seeing the Falkie bed would immediately result in retinal burnout and olfactory arrest

I have no idea what they mean but it sounds sexy. 

[coaster]

That mattress has seen things I'm not ready to know about. I bet it weighs a ton, full of bedbugs and falkie's dead skin cells. Now I'm hungry.

[Yorkshire pud]

That mattress has seen things I'm not ready to know about. I bet it weighs a ton, full of bedbugs and falkie's dead skin cells. Now I'm hungry.

Yummmy!!!

[MV/Liberace!]

That mattress has seen things I'm not ready to know about. I bet it weighs a ton, full of bedbugs and falkie's dead skin cells. Now I'm hungry.

i'll bet it tastes salty.

[Yorkshire pud]

i'll bet it tastes salty of Mayo.

Ahem

[coaster]

[SixWeekTenure(tm)]

Patty versus Falkie CAUGHT ON TAPE!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuky7-v4QR4

[SredniVashtar]

I think I have solved the bed issue. Remember that a mattress that has had his fat ass lying on it for a minimum of 22 hours every day is bound to have beaten down to the thickness of tissue paper, so no wonder it ain't particularly prominent.

Just trying to think of something other than the unmentionable horrors that that bed has seen over the years.

[area51drone]

Patty versus Falkie CAUGHT ON TAPE!!

Holy shit that was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.  I'm crying I'm laughing so hard. 

[PathoJen]

You guys know what Art said to Falkie in the email? I'm dying over here. Art is such a cool dude.

[Keyser Söze]

Falkie bedroom, kitchen ...    unbelieeeveable

[PB the Deplorable]

the problem is, he's a hoarder.  hoarders are sick people... their malady is rooted in greed and naked materialism.  you can not get through to these people with words.  for them to understand, their home must be taken away by a municipality or they must be evicted by a landlord.  in his mind, there's a reason for him to keep every trinket... every odd and end.

The people I've known with homes full of clutter say the books, magazines and papers are for 'future reference', they hope the old clothes will fit again someday, they will fix the broken things someday, they are holding onto the collectables and memorabilia because it will be worth something someday, the projects they started and have abandoned will be completed someday, they have odds and ends related to various hobbies they may or may not have an interest in now but plan to pick up again someday, old video games CDs DVDs records cassette tapes they haven't touched in years but will watch and listen to again someday, old outdated items are 'too good to throw away', and so much more.  There are items that look like junk to anyone else that have 'sentimental value'.  Without help - or a bit of self generated gumption - they can't part with any of it.

Falkie should make 3 piles - the smallest pile by far would be the things he seriously needs and wants to keep:  books limited to what can fit on one bookcase, a very limited number of true sentimental objects (preferably things with actual uses), things he really needs(dishes, clothes, etc).  The second pile is anything of value he could sell on Craigslist, eBay, and at a garage sale.  The third pile is everything else - and that gets thrown away.  Then follow up by selling and throwing away

Falkie, you've pointed out a thing or two the apartment manager objected to.  Does that mean she doesn't mind the sheer quantity of your things as long as you keep the place dusted, and the grime to some minimum?  Because if not, her definition of 'cleaning' could include de-cluttering, which you aren't doing and a misunderstanding on this might bite you in the ass

Paying for storage to keep this junk is money down the drain, the Storage Wars guys will end up with it and just throw it away anyway.  Sell what you can and you'll be that much closer to buying the land you want somewhere, you can't take this crap with you when you leave anyway

About selling your things on eBay - you've already had 2 offers on this thread, one for the old computer games, and one for your paranormal books.  You ought to jump at the chance to sell those items, seriously. 

Hell, make a list of your memorabilia and collectables for sale and post it here

[coaster]

Falkie should make 3 piles - the smallest pile by far would be the things he seriously needs and wants to keep:  books limited to what can fit on one bookcase, a very limited number of true sentimental objects (preferably things with actual uses), things he really needs(dishes, clothes, etc).  The second pile is anything of value he could sell on Craigslist, eBay, and at a garage sale.  The third pile is everything else - and that gets thrown away.  Then follow up by selling and throwing away

This is a great idea. It would really simplify things and make it easier to make a decision. Falkie, this is solid advice broham and cheese. Do it. The storage is a horrible idea imo. A complete waste of money that you do not really have to spend Falkie.