Woman Offered a Deep Clean for Grieving Family. She Walked in and Found Hundreds of Bottles Filled With Yellow Liquid
The man's daughter and granddaughter had no idea until he passed away.
Brogan (@nottheworstcleaner), a cleaner from Canada, offered a free deep clean to a bereaved family that just lost their grandfather. But when she walked into the room of the deceased man, she stumbled upon endless cigarette butts and bottles filled with a yellow substance.
“There is nothing in the world more upsetting than losing a loved one, only to find out the entire time that they have been living like this,” Brogan told TikTok as she opened the man’s room to reveal a mountain of clutter. There were beer cans, bottles filled with an unknown substance, and other junk, effectively burying the furniture beneath the trash.
“So, when a sweet young girl reached out to me, saying that this is how they found the condition of their grandfather’s home after he passed away, I knew I had to help,” she added. The girl wanted to move into her grandfather’s room but couldn’t because of the mess.
The home, often called ‘the bottle house’ by Brogan, is a rental property. Its landlord gave the family until the first of August to clear the space, adding that it would take at least $10,000 to have the room cleaned, implying that the girl should give up. But because the girl’s mother grew up in the home, Brogan took on the challenge.
What’s inside the bottles?
Brogan said that when she started cleaning the room, there was no lighting. She started removing the piles of beer boxes in the room, placing them in a bag. After an hour, there was still a heap of trash waiting to be sorted. Since the room is on the third floor of the house, Brogan planned to carve a path to the window to make disposal manageable.
“What’s actually slowing me down are all of these that I discovered,” Brogan said, gesturing to the bottles filled with yellow substance. In another video, she confirmed that the bottles were filled with pee. She couldn’t shovel the debris because it could break and unleash the biohazard in the bottles. Brogan had to pick the bottles up one by one, and by the end of the first video, she had reclaimed roughly a foot of the room.
“The most shocking part of this house was not the bottles. It’s how someone can completely hide that they need help,” Brogan said in an update video. She explained that the family home is a large, three-story house. When the family visited the grandfather, Brogan said there was no reason for them to check the last floor.
“Even when I walked in the first day, I genuinely thought I had the wrong house,” Brogan added. Although she said the main living areas also needed a deep clean, those rooms paled in comparison to the trash hiding on the third floor. Brogan said that the man’s daughter and granddaughter “blame themselves” for not knowing.
“Had they known that this was happening, they would have done everything possible to help him,” the cleaner defended. Nevertheless, many people were curious about the man’s use of bottles. Brogan said this wasn’t her first “bottle house,” and that usually, people who use bottles to pee in are either unable to go to the toilet or don’t have one. However, the large house had two functional bathrooms. From the family’s stories, Brogan was able to piece together an explanation for the pee bottles.
People struggle behind closed doors
“It wasn’t the grandfather. It was her uncle,” Brogan said. The girl’s uncle had been drinking and smoking in the cluttered third-floor room, hiding his addiction from his parents. The cleaner said that the uncle most likely didn’t want his parents to see him stumble out of the room in shame. This uncle had also passed away.
“If you see only the mess, then you’re missing the whole story,” Brogan commented. By the end of the third day, she cleared the mountains of trash from the room. People may be going through loss or mental health battles behind closed doors. Like Brogan, a man got a senior from Wichita out of the weeds after offering a free gardening and cleaning service. As people age, it’s crucial for a community to step up and tend to the needs of the vulnerable.
Brogan has successfully removed the nicotine stains on the wall and cleaned the room. In her final update, she said that the family plans to turn it into a pink library.
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