The Secret Lives of Hoarders_ True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter - Matt Paxton [91]
Will’s case
written plan for cleanup
yard hoarders
Zasio, Robin
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Matt, between jobs!
With his company, Clutter Cleaner, Matt Paxton is a featured hoarder specialist on A&E’s Hoarders. He appears regularly on radio and television, where he speaks on hoarding and senior relocation.
Paxton has been, variously, a research analyst, a database manager for Caesar’s Palace, a triathlon wetsuit designer, a professional gambler, a volunteer grief counselor for children, and a housecleaner. He has started three companies, traveled around the world, and run five marathons. When Paxton started Clutter Cleaner in 2006, it was intended to focus on organizing and cleaning houses for grieving widows and relocating seniors, but he quickly found himself sought out by extreme hoarders.
Paxton went to college at the University of Mary Washington, where he earned a degree in business administration. As a teenager he spent time with his great-aunt, who had a serious hoarding problem. He estimates he cleaned her house at least twenty times while he was growing up. Today, he and his wife, Sarah, live in that house in Richmond, Virginia, with their son and dog. It is very clean.
To learn more about hoarding and to follow Matt, visit his website at www.5decisionsaway.com.
Phaedra Hise has covered subjects including entrepreneurship, small aircraft accidents, big problems raising kids, and what it feels like to rev a motorcycle around a racetrack at over 100 mph. She is an instrument-rated private pilot, a triathlete, a competitive cyclist, a scuba diver, and the cofounder of a growing literary nonprofit, and was an insider on two company startups.
Her award-winning work has been anthologized and published in national magazines including AARP, Salon, Popular Mechanics, and Ladies’ Home Journal, and she has covered the world of entrepreneurship as a staff writer for Inc. and contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Small Business. She has written four other books and lives with her very messy teenaged daughter in Richmond, Virginia.