Do you know anyone who has terrible housekeeping skills?

Or no housekeeping skills? One of my friends, and a couple of relatives simply don’t clean their homes, and don’t seem to care that it’s not clean.

All of them seem to be one step away from being hoarders, and on several occasions, I actually wondered if someone would eventually call the health department.

All of these people are people who I care for and like, so I occasionally find myself in their homes. I just suck it up and try not to touch anything that might be sticky, broken, or covered with some type of filth.

I’m pretty sure all of them realize, at least to some extent, that their homes are filthy, so I don’t comment upon it.

My friend used to live with, and take care of her mother (this was about 15 years ago) and her mother’s home was filthy and loaded with junk. After my friend’s mother passed away, I helped her go through the house and get it cleaned up and cleared out to be sold. My friend has lived in a succession if houses since then, that were kept equally filthy, and packed with stuff, as her mother’s home had been, so it seems like it has a generational aspect to it.

My relatives have also had their homes cleaned up when they have moved, but they become filthy and packed soon afterward.

Do you know anyone who can’t keep their house clean? Have you or anyone else tried to help them? How did that go?