I've been watching this show on Lifetime called 'How clean in your house'.  These 2 British women go into people's houses and clean up after them, all the time making clucking noises and disparaging comments about "filth" and "pigstys".

And they're right.  I'm not the worlds best housekeeper, but I'm not filthy, nor is my home dirty.  I can sleep at night knowing there are a couple of plates and a mug in the sink, and I don't freak out over a little dust... sometimes my clothes don't hit the laundry hamper and I'm fine with that. I leave my wet towel on the bathroom floor occasionally, and I could care less if the CD's are in alphabetical order, so long as they're on the shelf.

But these homes...well, they made my lived-in habitat look like 'Home Beautiful' and postively sterile by comparison! I have to say I have never seen such...disgusting grossness before.  It was, it was absolutely sickening.  One lady had a cat that vomited perpetually and she didn't bother to clean up after it, so there was dried cat puke all over the carpet throughout her apartment.  She had rampant mold and rotting vegetation in the fridge, and - get this - cat poo in her bed!  Yes, you read that right.  Feline turds, under her pillow.  The cat pan itself was one big...well, you know.  It was truly disgusting.

The next house they went to was worse.  This lady had a beautiful condo...but had ankle deep garbage on the living room floor.  And I do mean garbage.  Rotting food on paper plates, cups and wrappers from fast food places, papers, dirty underwear......you couldn't see the floor for the garbage.  The fridge was again a penicillin factory, the garbage can had overflowed and had taken up half the kitchen floor, and the microwave...well, it was coated and caked with some nondescript brown...stuff on the inside.  You couldn't tell that the bathtub was supposed to be white because the soap scum was so thick and grey all around it, and the toilet...looked like someone had had explosive diarrhea in it 3 months ago and hadn't bothered to flush.

Neither of these women was nasty in their person...they both had clean hair, nice teeth and wore make-up and clean clothes.  It just made me wonder how they could stand to live like that.  How can you eat food out of a fridge that has things crawling around in it?  How can you put your bottom on a toilet seat that has old poop smattered on it, and how the hell can you get yourself clean in a vile bathtub?  Better still, how can you sleep with cat poo in your bed???

I just don't understand it.