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Sunday, February 2. 2020

A guy bought a cluttered house


He and his wife have an antique shop, aka junk store. He bought a hoarder house in Canada, hoping to discover treasure in it. A strangely interesting story and a good time-waster.


Canada has wooden dumpsters. 


Below is Part 1.  Part 2 here.  Part 3 here.  Part 4 here.  Part 5 here. There are many more, including segments about restoring the hoarder house into something delightful. I think a total of 16 or 18 youtubes. I watched them all over the past month. Tell me I need to get a life.


Another cool one: replanning the kitchen 


The guy definitely knows his junk, but he also knows a heck of a lot about restoring houses. 


It can be addictive to watch. The moral of the story is Do Not Leave a Bunch of Crap to Your Kids.







Posted by The News Junkie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:13 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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The moral of the story is Do Not Leave a Bunch of Crap to Your Kids.

After 15 minutes of viewing, I decided the moral was correctly stated.

I wonder how much money he made off the junk- how that compares with the hours he put in- but do not have the patience to watch and find out.
#1 Gringo on 2020-02-02 16:19 (Reply)
OMG. After seeing Salvage Dogs, American Pickers and now this I definitely want to put some stuff up for sale. Not that I hoard but do have things I no longer use and am sure the kids don't want it. They can fight about the guns, ammo, property and money and haul off the rest.
#2 S.Lynn on 2020-02-03 01:49 (Reply)
We purchased a house that hoarders had lived in. It only took us about a week, a large dumpster, the local junk guy and some strong helpers to empty it out. We didn't find anything much of value, but I didn't have to buy laundry detergent for over a year.
#3 LP on 2020-02-03 18:01 (Reply)

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