We removed 100 bags of trash from this home for FREE

Dear Homeowner, if you’re reading the comments, it’s so awesome that you’ve taken the first step to achieving the beautiful life you deserve! Someone or some traumatic circumstance has hurt you immensely and this living situation is NOT your fault. It’s such a blessing that Mack and Jason have given you an amazing kickstart to you getting to a healthy, peaceful place. Praying that you will continue your healing with a therapist that can give you the resources you need to be whole again. It will be a slow, difficult process, but you are worth fighting for! You have thousands of real people watching this channel who are cheering for you. May God bless you! 🙏🏼 💜

“Asking for help is a positive thing and it should not be met with punishment.” Amen

Your compassion and kindness for these souls is overwhelming. Keep it going.

After many years of moving to different homes as a child and then couch surfing through my 20's, and later being evicted, and almost a year of being homeless, when I finally got my shit together and was stable enough to stay in my current home, I had lived out of suitcases, laundry baskets, backpacks, boxes, etc, that when I moved in to my new home I really struggled to utilize my closets, dresser, cabinets, drawers. I was so used to having to pick up and go at any time i was reluctant to unpack. I was in a constant state of fear of losing my home and having to pack up and leave again. Overtime I was able to accept that I was going to be in my new home for quite a long time and with help of a friend who lives for organization and space utilization I was able to unpack. When all had been unpacked and put away and everything had a home not only did it make my living environment healthy but it also healed alot of mental and emotional trauma. Just wanted to share my experience and what caused me to not use closets, cupboards, and drawers. I absolutely love this channel and everything and everyone that makes it what it has become. so suck it! 😂❤

“mental health is not a “suck it up” situation”. … thank you for saying that. No truer words have ever been spoken !

I couldn’t have done what you and Jason did. I’m glad there are people out there like you.

Watching this is making me want to cry I just paid under £5000 British sterling to have my small trailer cleaned just as you’re doing it and it is indeed PTSD Your kindness is one of the most beautiful things I’ve witnessed and humankind watching your videos is one of the things that made me brave enough to get someone in to clean it God bless you abundantly

"If I walk by someone who is drowning in a lake, I'm not going to not help them just because they might jump back into the lake. I'm still going to help them." And THAT folks, is what compassion and empathy look like. You are a beautiful soul. Thank you and thank God for you, your son, and people like you. You're rare. ❤🙏

Kudos for praising your son publicly. I pray it inspires other parents to do so even privately. 👍🏼🇬🇧

As someone with PTSD, never underestimate the power of a clean and organised house to help calm the 'brain chaos'

Speaking of roaches, when I was about 6 years old, we lived next door to a family beyond filthy. Little did we know. They asked me to feed their new puppy while they were on vacation. Parents thought, no harm there, and I felt so grown up. First morning on the job, bloodcurdling screams from their house. I had walked into a house layered, covered, floor to ceiling, with 3 to 4 inch long desert flying cockroaches. I remember my mom dragging me home, stripping my clothes off on the way, they had swarmed me the instant I stepped in the door. My dad was trying to get both of us out, trying to grab the puppy, no hope for it tho. Mom scrubbed me head to toe, dad took our clothes and burned them. Truly, to this day, I will hunt a roach to the depths of hell rather than it get away. So Jason, I admire the fortitude it took for you to face that terror. You are a far better man than I. God bless you.

Watching this made me sob. I grew up under similar conditions. I remember exactly how roaches smell. When the infestation is that bad, they start to literally eat you. I still have some slight scars that aren't really noticable, but to me they're a reminder of where I came from and why I absolutely, under no conditions, can ever go back.

Moose tax, thank you for helping this poor lady. I just hope she gets the help she needs.

I know I’m not alone in wishing there was a way for y’all to go back for a second time to this place, to be able to deep clean for this woman. I wish there was some way we could all put in to get an exterminator out there for her, no one should have to live like this. Y’all did amazing with the time you had, and you absolutely made a huge positive difference in that house, thank you for being a kind light in this sad world.

Thank you so much for the compassion with which you approach these projects, and for talking about the reality of mental health challenges. You may not be a therapist, but the kindness you speak is a real comfort amongst a chorus of voices that only seem to speak shame.

I grew up with a lot of "why can't you..." One I distinctly remember was when I was a teen setting the table while Mother was getting dinner ready. I was telling her something. (a stutterer) I stopped to talk, facing her instead of placing plates or tableware etc. She said: "Can't you do 2 things at the same time?" I paused, and finally got out a "no". Decades later of course I'm a scary machine on any task. But really sometimes we just can't; it isn't won't. Now at 75, I have a sign which an aunt had in her home: My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy. I see it needs dusting....................

Thanks!

Two days...TWO days...! If there were a compassionate cleaning Olympics, this would be the gold medal winning performance! This was absolutely astonishing. Thankyou for helping this poor person get her dignity back and a clean place to live, you are both heroes to me. (And yes, cockroaches do have a smell).

Hey, I'm an occupational safety professional-in-training who's currently studying ergonomics, and your comment about your back muscles being so sore they were visibly swollen broke my heart when I heard it. I want to see if I can help. Ergonomics is the study of "fitting the job to the person", or in other words, making sure that repetitive motions (such as cleaning!) don't harm your body over time. My advice is by no means professional advice and I can't guarantee it will prevent any further injuries, but I wanted to offer it anyways because it might help. (And safety is my autistic special interest, lol) One technique that could help would be to kneel down instead of stooping over whenever there's room and you need to work on something that's at waist height. For this, you would want to buy kneepads specifically designed to protect your knees while kneeling. These knee pads have cushioning to make sure that your knees don't hurt, and some models have a tough exterior that would be able to stand up to the kind of floors you're having to kneel on during these cleanings. You can buy these kneepads at most hardware stores or online by searching up "knee pads for work" or "knee pads PPE" and the like. These kneepads are lifesavers. If you don't believe me and don't want to spend money on them, I would be more than happy to buy them for you so you can at least try them and see if they make a different. Reply to this comment with your contact info and I'd be happy to work out an arrangement to Venmo you the money. Another thing is to simply try to be more mindful of your posture while you work. I'm definitely not saying that your pain is "your fault"- far from it! Simply that some basic knowledge on posture might help reduce your soreness. Keeping your back straight and your neck level are the obvious ones, of course, but your arm position can also severely affect how your back feels at the end of the day. Holding your arms out unsupported further away from your body will put more pressure on your back. Generally, you'll want to try and keep your upper arms straight up and down, parallel to your body, whenever possible. You'll also want to keep your forearms at a ninety degree angle from your torso whenever you can. Working with your elbow totally retracted or extended is harder on your body. A super big thing to avoid whenever possible is twisting your torso. Whenever you need to reach for something that's off to the side, try to rotate your whole body to face it by stepping towards it rather than twisting your back to reach over. Torso rotation is huuuuuuuuuuge when it comes to wearing out your back. It's one of the most dangerous movements to do repetitively. Stepping your whole body to face the thing you're reaching for might feel silly at first, but it'll be quick to get used to and it should save a whole lot of soreness. Similarly, when you're stooped over or kneeling while you're cleaning on the ground, you should also try to avoid rotating your torso. You can use your hands to reposition your whole body, or you can shuffle your knees, or other techniques to move as long as you don't rotate your torso. When you have to get on your hands and knees to clean, try to think of your body like a box. Try to keep your back straight and your hands directly beneath you. When reaching, try to get as close as possible with your whole body to what you're reaching for, and once you can't get any further, then you can extend your arm out. Try to keep your arms as close to you as possible at all times, and only reach far out when you need to, basically. Some other resources you could check out to learn more about this would be things called REBA and RULA assessments. These are basically worksheets that safety professionals use to quantify the risk of injury when it comes to a posture. Bending your back at a 90 degree angle, for example, is a +4 on those sheets, and you add those together to get a score. The higher the score, the more risk of injury. Looking at the worksheets could give you a visual representation of posture positions to avoid. You could also google something like "ergonomics and occupational cleaners" to get more resources to learn about this subject. Obviously, proper posture isn't always possible in the tight spaces you often work in, but simply being mindful of ergonomic principles can help out. I hope at least some of this advice is helpful!

Thank you for helping this homeowner ... Your compassion is positively overwhelming Mack & Jason ...