A report on a room where several tons of garbage had accumulated and been left in a six-mat room… Characteristics of the room owner revealed when we infiltrated the work of a cleaning company.

After the work was completed, Mr. Ishida was taking a break before heading to the next site. When I asked him about the characteristics of his clients, he gave me a surprising answer.

Many of our clients are in their 30s and 40s. The ratio of men to women is about 4 to 6, with a little more women than men. I have the impression that many of them are busy with work, such as teachers and nurses.

Many of the clients have serious personalities and are very polite in their communications and request letters. I think most of them are too busy with their work and the garbage has accumulated little by little and they can’t do anything about it, so they ask us to do it.

Stress from work and personal life causes them to place a low priority on tidying up, and they end up with a messy room.

We were able to speak with the client on the phone this time, and when we agreed on a date and time, the call came in right on time. The client on the other end of the phone was a man who said he worked in the restaurant industry. We asked him how the room had become a mess and why he decided to ask us to clean it up.

He said, “The place I was working at when the room became a mess was a place with long working hours and severe power harassment. While I was working there, I was dumped by the girlfriend I was dating at the time, which made me sick, and I couldn’t clean up the mess. After 10 years of such a life, I ended up with a dirty room.

The reason why I decided to ask Garbage House Specialist Partners to clean up the mess was because I was getting married to a different woman than the one I was with at the time. From now on I will be careful not to let this happen to me.”

For this cleanup, the fee was a little lower because the schedule was coordinated with a nearby dirty room cleaning service, but it still cost several hundred thousand yen.

Many people who have experienced living alone have probably had the experience of accumulating garbage and throwing it all away on the next collection day. When the mind becomes tired, it becomes impossible to clean and throw out the trash.

Of course, this is a personal problem, but the structure of modern society that creates excessive stress may be the cause of the increase in trashy houses and dirty rooms