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[blukitten]

This is embarassing, but although I have reached a high-level of education, a bachelors and hopefully a masters and I am reasonably intelligent, I am made to feel as if I am mentally ill because I cant do this simple things. I cannot keep a house clean and tidy, I cant use an iron, I cant cut a steak, partially because of coordination problems with

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[mysticsong]

Legally I don't think landlord could do that -- that would be based solely on hearsay and sounds more like slander to me. You may have legal rights concerning that particular issue.

I can't iron and while I can be organized at work, I'm not at home. Friends of my parents when I was little said I had a "busy girl's room". I still do. It used to bother me if my friends saw my room all a mess but now ... whatever. This is me, live with it. I know where my stuff is and that's what's important to me. If I clean, I lose my stuff.

I keep the important things clean -- no trash, no old food, no hygiene issues, etc.

[sparrowrose]

Legally I don't think landlord could do that

That depends on where she lived and how messy her house was. I've lived places where a landlord can legally kick out a very messy tenant after giving a certain amount of warning time, on the grounds that the apartment is a potential hazard for fire or vermin.

(I know it was legal where I lived because I got the warning and I looked up the law to see if I had any rights in the matter.)

But laws vary from place to place so it's impossible to say if it's legal or not where the OP lived.

[inlaterdays]

I have a hard time remembering to clean things, too. Don't be ashamed! I don't think it is an uncommon problem.

My mom wrote me out a list of what chores to do when on a weekly basis (I am 46 and I still use it), and that helps A LOT.

Plus I really REALLY don't like touching trash, so making myself take it out twice a week is hard. I take a shower afterwards, which I know sounds silly, but it's like a reward for having done it.

[pewter_wings]

I have had to strip most everything out of our lives just in order to keep our surroundings livable and clean.

As for your landlord, you may want to consider taking legal action. They have no right to do this.

[idiotgrrl]

Let me weigh in as a landlord myself. First - are we talking just clutter? Or filth?

If it's filth, you have a health hazard. If it's just clutter, is it so bad you need GPS to find your way to the bathroom? I have been in houses like that and while it's none of the landlord's business unless it's a fire hazard, it could be a fire hazard. And sometimes clutter of that degree includes or leads to filth.

If it's just clutter and not picking things up, you probably have a landlord-tenant case, depending on what your lease says, but you'll probably also need to take pictures to show that the landlord evicted and bad-mouthed you for no cause.

Good luck!

Pat

[elanivalae]

[sparrowrose]

Also, keep diluted bleach handy in a spray bottle.

Or diluted white vinegar for those of us with respiratory reactions to bleach.