Most of the cost is cleaning, repairing, and replacing what the good-for-nothings damage.
Some of that is that some people are never taught to care for things. Another problem is people who are angry that destroy things. The biggest problem is drug addicts that do not care. I've seen a drug addict always leave the freezer door open as he gets frozen Toaster Strudles to eat frozen - because he is on drugs and does not care enough to close the freezer or to cook the Toaster Strudle.
I lived with a woman who allowed the freezer to condensate to the point where the door wouldn't close and the compressor was running constantly trying to keep it cool. Of course this caused more condensation/ice and so the problem got worse. She resolutely refused to allow me to defrost the freezer and screamed at me the one time I attempted to do so: She said she couldn't afford to lose the food in it.
Let me guess, she was a hoarder also? Hoarders can't organize stuff, rarely know where things are stored and go on to get more and more of the things they hoard. Trash is regularly mixed with treasure as they have no thought about the actual value of things.
I'm living with a hoarder friend right now and if I toss even obvious trash out he complains bitterly. He says I'm "erasing" him. He wants me to wait till he dies and then I get stuck with everything. He can't understand that hoarding stuff now means he can't park his car in the garage, there's no space to do any work and or store valuable stuff. I've been bitched out for tossing broken flower pots that he claims he was going to fix. He'll plant stuff that he never waters and then when it dies he gets extremely upset if I toss a dead plant.
Or, when I do toss a dead neglected plant he won't notice it for months and then wants to know what happened to it. He'll claim he just watered a plant the day before but I check and it's wilted, has bone dry dirt, but yes, he "Just watered it".
A week ago he "gifted" me with two large bags of minerals his mom and step dad had collected over the years before they died. "I have a present for you" he proudly declared. It was late at night and I was a bit annoyed he just plopped them right in a walk way. I told him I'd go through them later and have a look. Yes, I knew about them anyways but it's nice he gave them to me. I expressed gratitude. The next day I removed each one from it's wrapping of old ripped up newspapers and the dirty plastic bags. Removed all the old wrappings and empty boxes from a shelf and then set them all back on the shelf for easy viewing and maybe I can donate them to a university as some are excellent specimens of their type.
He went into a long vitriolic rant when he discovered what I had done. How once more I was "erasing" him. How he had a specific plan where I could use them in gardening as decoration to a landscape scheme I had finished.
Uh, no. I told him, I'm not putting them out in a landscaping to attract passersby who would be tempted to trespass and steal. For landscaping a rock garden I use mostly granite boulders. This just made him angrier. Dealing with these sorts of people is extremely exhausting emotionally.
At one time he got high on meds and strew broken glass, artificial flowers, pills and other brick-a-brack all over the place. From his room out to the drive way. I cleaned up the mess and strongly advised him to never do that again and be careful with his meds or he'd end up in a care home or worse.
He started doing better but meanwhile was constantly asking about stuff he had broken. Then he went on a rampage in the trash pulling out some of the stuff I had tossed and throwing it back in the drive way. I patiently cleaned it all up again.
Why the fuck do you live with this lunatic?
Let me guess, she was a hoarder also? Hoarders can't organize stuff, rarely know where things are stored and go on to get more and more of the things they hoard. Trash is regularly mixed with treasure as they have no thought about the actual value of things.
Ooof, hit me in the feelz. Nah, I'm more of a hoarder than she was tbh. She was just a spectacularly disorganised and irresponsible person. Like to the point where we split up responsibilities for utility stuff and it took her three months to call the bin company to organise collections. By the time she finally made it happen there was a pile of bags the size of a small car outside our house and we were having trouble with stray dogs.
I'm living with a hoarder friend right now and if I toss even obvious trash out he complains bitterly. He says I'm "erasing" him. He wants me to wait till he dies and then I get stuck with everything. He can't understand that hoarding stuff now means he can't park his car in the garage, there's no space to do any work and or store valuable stuff. I've been bitched out for tossing broken flower pots that he claims he was going to fix. He'll plant stuff that he never waters and then when it dies he gets extremely upset if I toss a dead plant.
Wow, that's real bad. I take it you can't move because of wuflu?
Uh, no. I told him, I'm not putting them out in a landscaping to attract passersby who would be tempted to trespass and steal. For landscaping a rock garden I use mostly granite boulders. This just made him angrier. Dealing with these sorts of people is extremely exhausting emotionally.
Geez. Sounds like the floors in that house are made of eggshells.
He started doing better but meanwhile was constantly asking about stuff he had broken. Then he went on a rampage in the trash pulling out some of the stuff I had tossed and throwing it back in the drive way. I patiently cleaned it all up again.
Reminds me of the video of the african BLM types in Johannesburg. A white kid was patiently cleaning up trash and they were tossing it back on the ground to spite him. Dunno why he bothered.
She said she couldn't afford to lose the food in it.
Unlike a normal person, she wouldn't let you put the food into a cooler temporarily while you defrosted it?
Or cook it. I even offered to pay for it and she said no. The thing was a few inches open by the time she moved out.
For the non-Whites on the dole, from my observations I believe that they deliberately waste and destroy because they know that Whitey is footing the bill and so their wastefulness is a way to stick it to the paleface.
Notably, all the nogs who have their windows open in the winter while their electric heat is cranked at full blast, wasting the free electricity that Whitey is forced to fund for them.
I've known poor people who would call leaving their windows open "getting their money's worth." I avoid those people.
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