CH Messiest Home '09: Oh, My (2:13)

They seemed more like crocodile tears. I loved them at the end of the Ramstad episode. I think Niecy would be crying less if the show did a Peter Walsh on the keep piles of the people with the Messiest House in the Country. Tell the winners it's going to be a whole lot of work, because they are going to have to sort real quick through the first pass, then check the keep pile size, calculate a size that will conveniently fit in the design, and put the stuff that can't fit in the designated space in the sale. The first pass is strictly the owner's responsibility, spending no longer than a few seconds to sort each item. The second one is a wrestling match between Niecy and the owners. That way it doesn't have to be an excursion into the inner lives of the winners; it's about not being able to logically fit what they want to keep in the space provided. She kind of did this in the first season when she read the riot act to the Lurias about continuing to bring back things into the house. The keep pile kept getting bigger and bigger. She also was running into the problem of having an unwilling participant, namely, Sue. Maybe Niecy didn't question the keep pile in Cincinnati, because the hot mess was so "overwhelming."