“Aesthetically, there are problems with unfinished projects,” he said. That’s cold, I’m warm,” she said.īrunetz said Crites already had a lot of great pieces for him to work with. Inside the house, piles of papers, boxes and Christmas Tree Shop bags filled with decorative knickknacks created a maze.ĭespite the mess, Crites recently managed to paint the walls a deep cranberry and khaki green to complement her Christmas Tree Shop finds, which never made it out of the bags. Other than that, Iseman said Crites keeps it clean.
“In her mind, it is organized,” Iseman said. This excess placed Crites at a 9 (10 being the worst) on the cast’s clutter scale. She had a lot of things that were really good quality. “Clutter is an outward expression of an inward thing,” Nash said. “All of us have parents that try to keep our childhood memories going.”Ĭrites even built a garage with attic space to house her possessions.īy day three of the shoot, the cast had filled a truck with items from the garage alone. “She brought a four-bedroom house to a one-bedroom house with no basement,” Balentine said. Balentine said more than those factors played a part in her clutter.
She said depression combined with a shopping addiction played a part in the build-up. The “Clean House” crew – host Niecy Nash (“Reno 911!”), interior designer Mark Brunetz, handyman Matt Iseman and organizer Trish Suhr – swooped into town recently to whip Sue Crites into shape.Ĭrites, a nurse, returned six years ago to the powder-blue home she grew up in. “Every time I walk in the door, it’s an argument.” Stephen has tried lending a hand in the past. I was nauseated,” Crites said.ĭaughter Traci Balentine, 40, of Haverhill and son Stephen Crites, 35, of New Bedford submitted a video of their mother’s cramped first-floor living space, hoping the show would rescue their mom from the clutter taking over her life. Then the Taunton mother of three learned her antique home had been selected as part of “Clean House’s” “Search for the Messiest Home in the Country,” to air next spring. Sue Crites loves watching Style Network’s “Clean House,” but she never thought she would be on it.
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