How to Clear a Life Away
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In Dagenham, London, another abandoned house calls for the work of the council’s extreme clean team to get it back to looking spick and span for new tenants. But unlike the usual filthy properties the team normally have to deal with, this house feels rather homely… Strewn among the usual waste, is a number of pictures, keepsakes and documents that are clearly of rich historical and sentimental value to the previous tenant's family.
Usual procedure for an extreme clean is to throw everything in the bin. Without any owners present to collect the items it can be a ruthless process. Thankfully, professional Grimefighters Gary and Luke recognise the significance of some of the items and salvage what they can to return it to the next of kin. Well done, Lads.
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The thing that makes me worry sometimes is the fact that when I die all my stuff just gets the bin. Have to accept that though
You could always make arrangements so that it's donated.you can do things like that.
Robert PL9501 you could always get family members to pick it up
If got sevraul thousend £ worth of Lego.
My family always decends on dead families members house and take stuff so I dont have to worry about that lmao
Things that are precious will be kept, don't worry.
My mother's old aunty Dirkje had a sister (my mom's 60, so imagine how old her auntie's sister was) who hand-embroidered an old kitchen-garment.
Not sure what it's called, I'm Dutch, we call it an 'schort' or 'keukenschort.'
Either way, beautifully blue with handmade white embroidery. It's my fancy keukenschort and I've got it now.
Her other embroidery-works have gone to collectors, in some cases sold or donated.
Stuff with stains or very broken items, had to go. The rest was donated and/or preciously saved and cherished by many (hand-embroidered things are very much wanted, either for old people's homes, dementia-homes or just people that like embroidery in general.)
I honestly wouldn't mind if we stopped making stuff for a while and used up what we had. That stuff is usually of way better quality.
My sister had moved council house's and an error in there system ment that they went in 3 days early and emptied her property unfortunately she lost a few bits and bobs that she was planning on keeping but she was absolutely devastated when she found out that they had also thrown away her 2 children's baby albums the council apologized and admitted it was there mistake but the album's where gone.
Stephanie Calderon so sorry to hear that for your sister. Good reminder for me to scan and have favorite pics backed up in email, etc. as fires, floods, uninvited clean-out crews, can happen.
Councils are quick when it comes to empty properties I've even known them to kick people out when someones died and that person who was living there with the person who's died's name hasn't been down on the tenancy of the house its cos everyone's gunning for a property I guess but yeah it's disgusting what happened to your sister
@@Itried20takennames me too I back up all of my children's photos.i did have a few baby photos of my niece and nephew on my computer but nothing compared to what she had in her albums.
@@purpleglitterladette yeah that's exactly what I think happened they where in that much of a rush to turn over the property.
Makes me sick. If they can drive to the dump why can't they drive to a charity shop and drop it off? I know for a fact that charity shops like Sue Ridder, cancer research, YMCA, salvation army would of taken donations of many of those items. Sad.
That’s a real shame to lose all those pictures and toys and witch items. Glad the 2 men took the soldier pictures. 💚💚
I would have a hard time throwing the photographs away. I would've put them aside in a box and taken them to be scanned and posted online, that way if someone was able to ID them they could go back to the right people.
Totally
It should be against the law to throw away old photographs like that.
Operates on the basic principle that if it's important to the person, they should take it with them. Can be heartless in many cases like this.
@@crazyfishmonster459 Just because the person who lived there last may not care, doesn't mean there's not somebody else who doesn't. This is history being thrown away. Someone may really care about those photo's and the people in them. I care that the photo's of somebody's history has been thrown away. I'm sure myself and other's would be willing to take some of these old photo's, if not to preserve them, but at least to digitise them so that some relation may find them one day,
Yes and agaist the law to of chucked valuable stuff in the tip. If they can drive to the dump why can't they drive to a charity shop and drop it off? I know for a fact that charity shops like Sue Ridder, cancer research, YMCA, salvation army would of taken donations of many of those items.
Wasteful and heartless.
What tiny piece of perceived logic makes that a good idea?
They left many good things. I wonder why they left family pictures
Some people are just not interested When we divorced I thought my husband would be fighting over family photos. He didn't want a single one even of our children!
@@janesmith9024 No offence but you got the hell out of dodge, any man who doesn't want at least one photo of his kids to carry on him or have beside his bed Is a bit of an ass hole....
Most people find the memories too painful to revisit and often become scared
Because they didn't leave by choice they was abducted by nazi ninja alien's from Mars who wanted them so that they could do tests on them involving moon cheese sandwich, a pot of lube and a tooth brush covered in mysterious green goop
Every Saturday I visit the local farmers market with high hopes of buying old photographs. I select them carefully, looking for photos taken from 1920 to 1960. I'm especially looking for photos of trailer homes and people sleeping, somehow that's interesting. Also many random subjects including World War II soldiers.
When my grandma passed, I made sure to all and sundry who were involved in clearing out her house ( I helped too btw) that anything that was usable had to be donated. I volunteered at a local charity and we would receive boxes upon boxes of so many beautiful things that you just know relatives just cleared out a china cabinet or whatever in 5 minutes, didn't bother looking, and done away with it. I was so sad when I saw that and I vowed that would not happen to my grandma's things. All the best stuff we passed around the family, pictures shared among us etc. and so only the stuff that no one wanted was given away. Only very few things went to the landfill. That's how it should be. Makes me so sad when I see things like this, but it's all too common.
What a waste. Some of that stuff could of been donated and gone to someone who would of liked that. What a shame.
Yes, If they can drive to the dump why can't they drive to a charity shop and drop it off? I know for a fact that charity shops like Sue Ridder, cancer research, YMCA, salvation army would of taken donations of many of those items. 100% The boss here just couldn't be bothered.
from experience the people who work clearing the houses will take stuff that is still in working condition.
imo they sold some valuable stuffs from there
oh well. this episode was filmed like 12 years ago lol
@@rockolutheran It's important for the people that read it *now* though.
Too many people enjoy chucking stuff away and buying new stuff thoughtlessly, while others live in a home with an old chair with flees and no plate to eat from.
I've moved house many times in my life and I've learned to pare down my possessions each time I do so. Now that I'm old, the physical part of moving becomes more and more difficult. Perhaps if people would go through their stuff once a year or so as if they were preparing to move somewhere else, it would be easier to weed out stuff that isn't needed any longer and it can still be donated somewhere. It doesn't take much to have this sort of thing happen.
This just proves the only thing you take with you to the grave is who you were as a person. Material possessions don't go with you.
I'm sorry but the "Oh we can't give it to charity because it takes to long" is a load of crap. Having worked for charity shops my self they could of drove it to a ymca or cancer research them selfs and dropped it off. Charity dont always need to come and collect it. This guy didn't even bother calling some local charity shops, what a dam waste.
Thats was nice of the guys to find the people to give them bk their photos of the army days great guys thank you for your service god bless
I was doing a house removal the other day and it was a massive 5 bedroom 4 bathroom house and it was there whole family history in there they left in a hurry. There was photo’s from 1900’s old photos of dogs and the original dog beds from the time and the chains for them and family and baby photo’s war memorabilia and most of it had to get chucked away because they didn’t come collect it and makes you think how can you leave a whole family memories behind.
They mishandled all his possessions until they found out he was a fellow serviceman. Not right. We all need to be empathetic towards other people, especially when it comes to handling personal possessions like photos and dinnerware that might have been passed down generations. This really broke my heart.
Family was there and walked away from the "photos and dinnerware", leaving all that work for someone else to do. Those men are not paid enough to be anything but businesslike - don't disrespect their hard work in the face of other peoples' can't-be-bothered. And you say the shirkers should be respected? You make no sense.
Its always intriguing that abandoned houses with the owners belongings tell a story.
So you can save a few photos that are of interest to you but everything else goes into landfill? What a shame.
Why If they can drive to the dump why can't they drive to a charity shop and drop it off? I know for a fact that charity shops like Sue Ridder, cancer research, YMCA, salvation army would of taken donations of many of those items and be happy to do so.
It’s a shame that family photo got chucked, councils should be more considerate.
Kinda makes me worried what will happen to my stuff when I pass.
Good lads, I hope those pictures found their way home 🏠
Good lads and thankyou for your service
The furniture and toys were in good condition to bad they were taken to the dump, It could have all gone to a less fortunate family living rough.
You have to arrange with charity shops to have things taken? Good grief. In the states, we take a car load to Goodwill. Easy peasy. Goodwill sorts it. They need such a shop. No arrangements needed and less rubbish for the landfills.
Agreed we do. I'm sure that a lot of that stuff someone would be glad of.
We do here but the owner of the house didnt want to do that cause hes a wanker 🙄
I think that’s just an excuse. The workers could easily take it to charity instead of the dump but since they’re not getting paid to do that they say fuck it. At least they kept some photos at the end though but that’s just out of kindness.
The guy saying they have to arrange for a charity to pick stuff up and takes two weeks is totle BS If they can drive to the dump they then they can drive to a charity shop and drop it off. I know for a fact that charity shops like Sue Ridder, cancer research, YMCA, salvation army would of taken donations of many of those items. The boss here was just ignorant and couldn't be bothered. He don't care as he's getting payed thousends already to do nothing.
Damn, I would have saved the model train set and Scalextric track.
I like this show but the fact that they chuck all these items out, that would be so helpful for other people just isn't right.
In America we called it a "clean out", some private individual with a large truck well gladly remove everything at no charge, provided they can sell everything for a profit at a flea market. I did this several years ago hauling everything to an auction that would fit in my x-plumber's van and received about $400 for my efforts.
Some sort of garage sale, donation or a second hand shop could give some of these objects second life...
To everyone getting annoyed over the tipping of belongings understand that alot of the properties you see in these vids will be disease ridden and infested with all manner of creatures the charity shops will not take the belongings also teams on these jobs have 3 to 4 houses a day to clear so its not arrogance or a lack of empathy there simply is no time to sort out the good from the bad and donate
3:01 How SAD! They had time to arrange it with "TV crew" to film but did not have time to arrange with Charity Shop to send someone. WHAT A WASTE ! WHAT A SHAME ! WHY can't his cerew just pack things up and take it to the Charity Shop ?
Because it’s illegal you div.
@@colonelsanders1349 It's illegal to donate, but not to dump?
This is sooooooo sad!!! Someone’s memories just destroyed 🥺🥺 if the person past and the family didn’t want to keep it, that’s fine but there might be someone’s out there that would’ve liked to have kept it!!
I can only imagine how many antiques they’re also throwing away
I’d be crying if I looked at the pictures
I find it slightly frustrating that the cleaners were more then happy to retain the pictures of the army related things to try and find the owner but they did not wish to retain the other very old looking photo from the start ish of the clean. Surely if they are going to spend the time looking for the owner of the army photos logically the same person will have a link to the photos they threw away.
The genealogist in me is raging
This is just one of many reasons I hate the council. They don't care about ppls life's & things. They're just interested in getting more tenents in fast enough, so they don't loose out on any money. They should be ashamed of themselves !
i bet when these guys aint being filmed theyll take a thing or two that looks decent. like i worked at a pub and the staff there would knick glasses and shit, they for sure taking stuff thats just gonna end up in the bin.
What a shame that all those toys and furniture went to waste I know that they didn’t have a choice but it’s really sad they couldn’t recycle many children could’ve gotten those toys for Christmas it’s sad
Anyone know which series this came from originally? Would love to watch proper episodes rather than these odd clips.
Grime fighters or something similar I think
It was Grime fighters back in 2009
Are there no charity shops in Britain?? This is ridiculous. There is plenty of time to arrange a pick up ...OR take a truck load to the shop.
As I've said in a previous comment, we do, in fact we have many but the owner of the house didnt want to do that cause hes a wanker 🙄
SHINeeWHINee considering I have not seen your previous comment, that was unnecessary to mention.
Because just about every council in the land is as thick as pig shit!
I don't care about the modern stuff being thrown away but I was upset about the old family picture. To preserve ours some of which I have back to the 1890s I have scanned them all. I have also uploaded to on line family trees the older ones so anyone searching that person late will see them (and also kept the originals in a tidy marked box for the children when I die)
I am glad the ex solidiers kept a few of the photos.
The rental system in that area of uk.. They dont have regular 3months checking or inspection of those property!!
My friend had to leave her house because they couldn’t afford it anymore and she had to leave a lot of her stuff behind. She had a toy snake my dad bought her before he passed away and I suppose someone just came in like this and threw it away. She was really depressed about it and made her really upset. She couldn’t help it, but that was years ago so it’s okay. Everyone has a job to do.
They clean out real well, but the only thing that will clean these places, is a sanding to get the yuk off everything.
A wicked waste. Any charty shop etc would rush in.
It's a shame to throw away some of the belongings. Some of them are antiques or treasures. If I find a handkerchief that's a 100 years old, I'd keep It.
I think I can shed some light on this, he says maybe the parent has died and the children dont want to take the tenancy, thats probably not what happened. The original tenancy was probably given to a couple, you can only inherit a council property once, when the second parent had died the children could not inherit and were probably evicted.
In my husband's and I's will it states that our house will be opened up for an estate sale. All money goes to the SPCA. Whatever belonging are left will get donated to the Salvation Army.
Our vehicles and house will be sold to pay for our funeral arrangements, pay off left over bills and the rest goes to the SPCA.
Stuff like photos, pet urns/ashes will be in our coffins with us (We're not having children)
You have to have a will. It's legal binding. If you don't then people won't give a shit.
I agree with that guy, that's so wrong in this day and age NOT to make the extra effort and let charity come and get those items that are still good or bring it to them. Also the old pics should have been given to a museum or something. Man, the history of it all...😔
Wow some of those old toys are worth a bit,especially if in original box
I've watched this show long enough that I know 100% life is cheap.
At the very very least they should keep the photographs and stick them in the library or an archive somewhere. Throwing away real history there. I love looking at my grandparents old photos from the 30s onwards even if I don;t know who half the people in them are. Just so interesting to me seeing the way they lived back then.
It’s a shame they saved the photos they liked and tossed the rest of the photos they didn’t like. From experience in the business I can tell you it’s because they wanted to take those items home for themselves.
You can call a church, thrift stores, shelters, post a sign outside and people will come get almost anything and everything to prevent it from going to the bin. It’ll go to someone that can use it and wants it. Old fabrics, old electronics, cookware, old tables, books, appliances etc there’s demand for that sort of stuff always. Wasteful
why are the nasty curtains always left in the windows?
How upsetting to see someone's life and old photographs just chucked in the bin, surely there would've been some way to track the owners down to claim their stuff, if only the photographs 😢
We got thrown out of my mum private house when I was young, we had a month to move 7 years worth of 5 peoples and a dog things the house had never been checked on by the landlord and it was full of damp holes in floors and caved in ceilings that house was so bad I wont go too much into detail but we didn't have a chance to grab nearly half our stuff they'd tried throwing us out at Christmas but we managed to stay till nearly the end of January most of my baby photos,toys,school stuff etc we couldn't get as it was at the back of a big cupboard you couldn't get into the cupboard it was full of nasty stuff but I'm sure the photos were okay I wish they would of let my mum grab them not just bin everything :(
The cleaners will definitely get/sell all the best stuff.
the owner could call for antiques dillers or sth like that, or some hisorical sociaty or give them some things
People complain about council housing...but can't poor people take accountability for their own actions?...it is on someone else to clean up their mess..at least they are lucky to get a house. baggers can't be choosers.
There was a lot more in that house that could have been boxed up and saved for the old tenant or the tenants family. Its seems cruel to just chuck everything but a few pictures. Some would think they were lucky to get that, but if they are grieving the loss of a family member it might be hard to clean and collect what should be kept or passed down. I feel bad that a whole life of stuff was just put in the bin.
If I was responsible for the clearing of the house I would put all the items of furniture and toys one side and contact someone to collect it. Old photos of ex Servicemen should never be dumped, rather contact the Historical Society or the regiment and ask if they are interested. To be it's sad and disrespectful to the person who has passed away to dump their things. But then again I am different , I cannot deal with family members been disrespectful or don't care attitude towards one another.
No time to save some stuff!? This episode doesnt have garbage its things that. Can BE reused!!!!
Quick question when and where were these videos first broadcasted cuz it's clearly a few years old.
There used to be a programme called 'a life of grime' first broadcast in the early 2000's I think these clips came from that?
@@mrsjabba1985 ah thanks for the info man
the show started 2009👍
@@alfiekelly3563 cheers
There is ALWAYS a choice! Why not have the cleaners separate the trash from the usable things .
Takes the same amount of time, if not less, to pull up with two trucks, a bin wagon for the rubbish and a truck destined for a charity shop. A charity shop could have raised a good few hundred out of this house alone! The furniture project would have taken a lot of it for people who cannot afford to furnish their homes as well. This is such a waste!
Its a big shame we dont honour our military like we used to. God bless all our service men and women.
I'm puzzled as to why the UK has such small rubbish tips, it makes no sense when you have a house full of garbage.
I don't see why they didn't put the salvageable stuff on the truck first and just drive it to a charity shop. See id be sentimental and try to return all the photos to the family.
I try to own very little personal belongings. Essentially I don't have much in the way of treasured items. You can't take it with you when you die. (I still have my baby blanket, I want that shit cremated with me!)
Where do this tenant go in such a hurry!
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Apparently, too many people on one island.
legitly they probably won the lotery
The video is Bings answer to the question
There's so much rubbish
Oh my
This is so sad 🥺
I cannot believe they throw that stuff away they could have put it in the box and give it to the Goodwill over there or whatever in your country you call it that's sad to throw that good stuff away
Quite a few actually! Salvation army, cancer research and theres also a guarantee of the local citys/towns have at least 1 local charity shop
Amazed that it's always assumptions as to who was living in the apartments... in this case and hoping that death was not the reason for the apartment being vacant I think that some relative came and took the resident away...they probably viewed this video and wish that they had stopped and do some sorting...
They could of at least donated the can food to a food bank
Just take the items to storage until charity can pick it up or have a garage sale!! Simple.
Volume is too low, can't hear it.
Sucks to spend your entire life paying for someone else’s property and then have your life thrown away
If I could I would buy the war memorials
Join us next time where we learn how to clear up the crime scene!
You’d at least take photos when you left 🤦🏻♀️
They can't legally.
Seriously upsetting about the pictures!
egg socks..
Mood
a most insightful philosophy clearly written by a genius
Anyone know who the narrator is? I know I recognize the voice!
I think it's Martin Clunes
It's former BBC reporter John Sergeant. I'm sure that there's a famous clip of him getting interrupted mid report by outgoing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1990 who carries out an impromptu briefing! He does sound a bit like Martin Clunes though!
I thought it was Rodger Allam
Tins thrown in bin give it to the soup kitchen it's food there are needy people alot of them !!!!!!!
To see people's stuff on stalls on portabello road market is a bit strange . You outlive everyone that's what happens. I don't have any next of kin either. I'm 57 and I have got most of it down to what I only really need. I'd hate to see my stuff being disregarded . But that's life .. the circle...
Portobello Road.... Portobello Road... Street where the riches of ages are stowed... anything and everything a chap can unload....is sold off a barrow in Portobello Road!
@@mikegallant811 great song bedknobs and broomsticks. After all what are antiques really but dead people's stuff... Cheers
Who said crime fighters don’t care ?
Total waste. They could've dropped this off at any charity shop.
Never been this early
9th or 10th not sure🤷♀️
Why dose the furniture have to go to the tip? Most of it looked good quality could it not be donated to a charity shop or even given to one of these companies that help homeless people get back in to living a some what normal life
Such a wast to just throw things like that away when there are so many unfortunate people out there that could use it
The fact that they are told they have to throw it away just gose to show that the council don't give 2 shits about the poor
It’s a load of old shit that needs to be dumped 🤦♂️
gem packt ???
What a waste...
I hate when you write a funny comment and nobody notices.
Why do people generate so much tons of waste?
This video😒 that proves everything valuable/non is all trash
Council housing?Load of shit, dumping good stuff that probably was worth a bit of money down the tip,and destroying it,a shit country we live in ,and 21st century sucks big time.
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Why are UK houses so ugly
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