I love Niecy. She is actually really nice to the people on the show, even when they appear to need clinical help. As a compulsive organizer, I also get a lot of gratification out of a show that takes something really messy and makes it nice and neat!

i love this show- especially considering a lot of these people could be on the far more dramatic and depressing "hoarders", but instead we get a flower in the hair and some delicious decolletage!
giggles and organization... what more could a girl ask for?

i love that show! it's amazing what some people allow themselves to live in. the year-end "messiest house in america" is particularly eye-opening.

I love Clean House. It may not be high style but there is a vast difference between before and after and it reflects how most people decorate and live.

Great show! Niecy Nash is hysterical and the cheekiness is so silly, I can't help but laugh. It's a 'Hoarders lite' type of show, but can still be inspirational.

I ALSO love this show. And Niecy Nash. And watching the big purge. I'm embarrassed to admit that seeing hoarders like the guests on that show are partly what keeps me in check every time I get the urge to start amassing "stuff"

it's really satisfying to see the befores & afters of shows like that. my favorite one was called Neat, with Helen Buttigieg. it doesn't come on here anymore that i'm aware. xo

Yes yes yes. I love Clean House. I've gotten some really great organizational ideas from Trish (the yard sale diva). Sometimes, I get irritated when people are pressured to sell their nice furniture in the yard sales or when they paint the ceilings and the walls all the same color, like apple green. I also find it impossible to resist Hoarders.

Clean House and Niecy are my guilty pleasure. Sure, it's loaded with cheeseball jokes, and No, I don't believe they do all that in 2 days... but it makes me feel better about my house. Yeah, my garage is a mess, but at least I can walk thru the rooms in my house! Plus I love to watch Trish wrangle items for the yard sale.

P.S. I do always wonder how long the homeowners keep it up, though. Somehow, having a crew come in and fix everything instantly, doesn't seem like it would solve the underlying problem. And that woman in the most recent "messiest house" episode seemed like an absolutely ungrateful b*tch.

Love Neicy - She's so cool.

I recall one episode where the homeowner was NASTY and constantly sniping at her daughter...
...when the reveal happened, she actually stated that she HATED the results and complained that Neicy and her crew should have left her with her old piles of crap!

It's just unfortunate that the real issue of hoarding is not addressed. Instead, shows like this capitalize on the disease by creating entertaining-to-watch episodes of people "who are so messy" in order to make a buck. Hoarding (albeit not all families are hoarders, but most) is not cured by creating a sterile space, it's cured through therapy.

not everyone who is messy has a compulsive disorder...my fiancé and his former roommate lived in something that could have been featured on one of these shows! now my fiancé lives with me without much trouble, just the occasional normal "busy" mess.

I have seen a show that tries to address the issues behind the truly messy, but for the life of me I can't remember the name.

Most of the shows that I have seen (I do love a lot of cleaning shows) don't go near tackling real hoarders, but go after the merely frazzled, probably including a bunch of ADHD types. A real organizational structure and a free intervention can do wonders in those situations.

I have lived near some real hoarders and it is very tragic. Nowhere near what you see on most of these types of shows.

"not everyone who is messy has a compulsive disorder"

Agreed.

Complacency, external pressures, time and a million other reasons are a factor in many messy homes. Even for those without compulsive disorders it can get out of control and it just seems overwhelming to tackle it all.

I was one of those until I had to downsize from a 1400 sq ft house to an 885 sq ft apartment. Personal issues helped it get out of control and it took a move to get me back on track. I also got rid of 1/2 my crap that I had accumulated for 20 years.

Now I've only not made my bed 2 times since the beginning of June 2009. I can't stand clutter (except for the second bedroom as it's being used as storage while I look for larger digs). With my move went most all my 90s decor (but for key pieces that are classics) and am enjoying being free of a messy home.

Some people just need a push or some help to get back on track and are able to stay the course long term. Also, having that change back to order really frees up the mind and since you feel good about your home, you realize it's easier to keep on top of it rather than let it get messy again...because it's a mental exercise to go from organized to messy and get back again.

Oh and not all ADDers are messy or slobs, we just need to keep that order or it gets out of control pretty quickly. I've found that I can do two things: short bursts of cleaning each day which works for ADDers or I can get into hyper-focus mode and do a serious spring cleaning once a month. I do both now because I am weird.

I agree with the poster who'd like to see follow-up shows. I'm curious how long it lasts when the people don't clean up their own stuff.

I worked on this show in the early seasons--it used to be rather more fun, but it's a hideous amount of work. Niecy's lovely. Mark's very talented and works incredibly hard.

It's not two days--there's a weekend in between shooting and tons of work happens off camera.

The network wanted hoarders, but the crew (underpaid at Style) and the cast members (not trained psychologists) really didn't want to go into that. Also, hoarders tend to be not great TV, or at least fun, light-hearted TV. It's a show about clutter, not psychosis.

I love Clean House! I even went to clean house yard sale in the summer when I was in LA. I think it has the best elements of typical style/home/redo shows and came up with the great show -even with the corny jokes. As for the design, I think Mark does his best with the budget and dealing with average joes who probably would not appreciate a higher level of style.

if you don't love neicy nash, you have people issues.

they/ve done follow-up shows. some of the clients are hoarders. several have been reacting to a death. most are slobs. (c'mon the couple with black sludge in the toilet and a cat closet full of poop after the cat had been dead for years.)

and the lady who sniped at her daughter had a valid complaint. her own had been new and expensive. the orange c&b sofa they gave her was not right for her. instead of pressuring her to sell her new stuff, they should have built a design around her style. the problem with the daughter could not be solved by the show. the girl was a college grad, who would not respect her mom's house. it was time for mom to kick her out. problem solved.

ooooo baby, i'm goin in!

Those examples make no sense at all: Take a room that is a total dump/catch all/refuge of forgotten trash, empty it, then furnish it. Is this a challenge? Really?

Coming from two nearly hoarding parents, Niecy is the (needed ) fun voice in my head telling me I don't need more stuff. Along with BBC's How Clean Is Your House, guilty pleasure tv has really helped me both feel better and clean up my act.

xoxotoe - Neat with Helen Buttigieg was one of my favorite shows! You can get some of the old episodes on the FIT channel.

I know so very very many people she could help. Not hoarders, just people with too much stuff and not enough space, or people that simply just have insanely busy lives and never seem to slow down enough to clean up.

It's sad that life has come to shows like this.

I love these kinds of shows, I'm a bit of a clutter bug and I find that my home looks a state when I've gone through a busy period and can't get around to cleaning. Then when I've time I blast the place (love freecycle by the way)

I have to say, in the British version "How clean is your house", their challange is to use the persons items, cleaned, and put the house back together again. No new items bought (not even swirly carpet replaced) unless REALLY disgusting. Even though some folks stuff is naff, if you put it together well and orderly, you'd be suprised at the results

By the way, when I say disgusting, I mean 'health and safety/ health hazzard' disgusting. Not with reference to 'taste'

You can't be on Dragon lady's side Lady J- are you?
That woman was nasty and rude. She obviously didn't want the help and she was mean and cruel to her daughter.

If she didn't want to get rid of the sofa she should have kept it. They don't make you get rid of anything- they just say they will make that item a design focus for the room.

thank you, LaneC :) xo

I luv Niecy. Do it with sugar & spice. I specially liked the show she did with a college fraternity. She redid their whole frat house. It tuned out really cool.

There is another show called Hoarders. I found it difficult to watch.

i'm not saying dragon lady didn't have issues. but she did have a valid point. her furniture was brand new, expensive and to her liking. talking her into putting it in a yard sale was silly. decorating her house (pre-brunetz) without considering her taste was a poor choice. i wouldn't want that orange couch either.

the woman's daughter may have taken a tongue-lashing, but she purposely aggravated her mom. she slept on the couch, left her bath towels on the furniture and snickered when her mother yelled at her. she was overtly disrespectful to a mother who made it clear she struggled hard to put the girl through college.

their problem was not clutter. it was a lazy, ungrateful and disrespectful daughter actively provoking a mom who had had - and done - enough. It was time to put the young woman out.

I felt sorry for the daugter on the "Dragon Lady" episode.
The daughter wanted assurance that she wasn't crazy. The show validated it for her. Once Niecy and the crew left, I felt bad like her mother was going to physically or psychologically abuse her.

Anyway, I love that show, it made me throw away things I used to feel I couldn't part with. I love Niecy!

The way I see it, you have a choice to be on Clean House or any show like it. Everyone by now knows what to expect if you sign up to participate. If these people had a handle on their issues (messy, OCD, hoarding, etc. ), they wouldn't need to be on a show. So, for those who lose good furniture or nice stuff in the process- so what! They weren't enjoying it anyway in the mess and I get entertained in the process!

warponey -- yes, it is a challenge. watch an episode & you'll understand. Plus, its funny and gratifyingly honest (makeovers are done on an often EXTREME budget as the show will only match the amount the family makes at their garage sale, so the results are often not that chic).

Bonus = It's not depressing like the Hoarders show. That show is painful to watch... so I don't. :)

I had to laugh when I came across this post. My boyfriend had to work tonight so I decided to do some deep cleaning as a "present" (decided against actual presents this year because we're saving up for a few things). My "break tv" (getting away from bathroom chemicals) is Clean House. If I keep it on and browse through apartment therapy, after about 5 minutes I'm back up and sorting through books or my closet while the chemicals air out. It keeps me much more productive than any other show.

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