Sometimes I feel sadder for the cleaners than the people they help

Ben, before you know, they're grown up. Hope You've gotten the courage to having your kids over.

Both of these two lovely people need medical intervention.

He is such a nice person. Hopefully, he can get his OCD under control. He is missing so much!!

i just want to say thank you for whoever runs this channel. the videos really motivate me to keep my space clean as i depression rutted the last four years in my room. i was very suicidal and mentally unwell but i now feel strong enough to tackle mess! thanks again & the sense of achievement is unbelievable :)

He is such a good guy. How could you not love him? I would probably cry when he left too.

this video was surprisingly whole. They both seem like lovely people with completely opposite issues, but equally as lovely

HE IS A DIAMOND...THE HOUSE LOOKS BEAUTIFUL

I'm a recycler, upcycler, re-user, but I organise, regularly clean and send stuff to the recycling centre, and complete projects. It is possible to be disciplined and clean!

It was lovely to see how far you can get with a bit of kindness and compassion towards someone so different than yourself. Ben and Geri make such a good team, I wish both of them the best and many blessings. I hope Ben can overcome some things so he doesn’t miss out making memories with his kids.

Ben, please use your bed and enjoy your clean house and let your kids come and enjoy it too. Loved you and the lady and her family.

Ben and Geri made me instantly think of ice cream 🍦 🍨 😅

oxymoronically, excessive cleaners cause excessive garbage and pollution.

Oh no Ben, I appreciate cleanliness & order, I like it as well, but please sleep in your bed & have your children stay 🙏 Having said that, Ben & Geri worked well & her home looks amazing ❤

My house was so bad that I couldn't have my child over, so I deep-cleaned and redecorated the whole thing, now I keep it reasonably tidy, but not obsessively so. I only had to motivate myself to actually get on top of it, the fact that my son's mum was having addiction issues and social work got involved made it much easier, he needed to be removed from that environment and it was up to me to create an environment he could thrive in. I want a harder, just depressed and unmotivated, but now I feel happy and motivated- tidying and having my child living with me has improved my mental health, the inverse struggle with obsessive cleaning seems even more detrimental! I can tolerate the clutter my child creates and just tidy when he's at school, if I couldn't, he'd have a very sad upbringing, I'm glad to be able to give him the stable home he needs, even if I don't get any time to myself to do the things like dating that I thought I'd be doing when the place was this nice! I went from not being well enough to manage my own life to managing two lives! Took some adjusting as it was a very sudden transition, but apart from being a bit lonely for more adult connections, I'm much happier!

Ben is torturing himself. He doesn’t sleep in the proper bed!

OCD but his fly is down at 0:04 😂guess there's still some things that slip his mind

This show with these two, was just incredible to watch. They worked beautifully together and both came out smiling.

Ben, did the whole cleaning business 👨‍💼 in a soft hand, and Scence of humour, he wasn’t pushy , easy to work with😊

Woman tells him "would u like to see the flat" bro walks in scratching head 😂😂oh this is a fire hazard 😂😂😂

Ben and Gerri 😂

Ben, your children need you, not a spotless house. I am so disappointed in you and you need mental help now as your kids come first.

They both seem like such lovely people

Wow, what an absolutely beautiful home she has now! A little treasure. I really hope they stay in touch and Ben is able to work towards having his kids at his house 🙏

Hayley’s channel is Hayley’s Help. She just had her bathroom remodeled & she almost lost her mind! 😂

I can't believe Ben could actually enter! What a beautuful job they have achieved! They are both lovely, kind people and considerate of the each others issues. Really nice story this one!

Two lovely people,,,wishing them the best.

Amazing transformation!

Absolutely gorgeous what he helped achieve there

I love all of Geri’s color! That beautiful bedroom with the spectacular pink throw, and her gorgeous dress at the end. She’s so beautiful.

Watched so many hoarder shows, they all come up with the same excuses. Exact same rigidity / stubborness as OCD people, applied to different concepts. "I see potential in everything, Im environment-oriented, this is still good, I can sell it for profit, Im attached to this, it was my mom's, I spent X on it, can't throw that away, I I I I I get to decide, not someone else" ...

I hope her grandma can craft with her grandchild(en) forever and ever. Very succesfull !

Of course she’s going to keep in touch with him… next time her hob needs cleaning, she will be drilling his phone out 😂😂😂😂

I have noticed several hoarders have some empty shelves. Funny to me.

I don't think I'm as bad as this guy but very close when I make my bed every thing must be even and I live in Michigan and even in the winter time I hang my sheets outside because that makes them smell so good if my whole house isn't clean I get anxiety, when I was theses videos where someone goes in and cleans them I'm like omg how can people live like that?

14:44 (after handling a bunch of dead ass flies) Him: you’re not gonna make the bacon butties now are ya? Her: no no no just gonna immediately stick my hands in my face 💀😷🤢🫠🤣

I wish Ben could visit my house.

My dad would fluff the pillows as your butt lifted of the couch! His trash cans were never used he would cook and put trash in store bag as he cooked(must confess i too do that just makes cookin/cleaning easier but do use my trashcans!) He had knick knack and pic so perfect i would check if to see if there was a dot to match up!

I love this program, but these are repeat episodes. Why don't you make new episodes with the same cleaners for new people to instill hope? In us again

No one going to comment on Ben & Gerri?? No. Nobody??

I get it I have OCD especially when I lose.something

After watching Ben and Gerri I have a craving for ice-cream for some reason.

Did any body else notice how high the handles on the doors were and the windows were really high off the ground aswell .

This has been healing. I have been both of these people. Now I am getting out of a minor hoard and getting some middle ground. I miss my clean freak self yet I know now that I have more perspective so I am more even keeled.

Omg Ben is the sweetest man!! Wow!

Many hoarders once they get sorted will become better - never going to be perfect but can be better than they were and recognise when they are getting to a state they maybe need to reign it in again. Unfortunately, Ben has a mental block where he cannot see that his obsession lining things up and cleaning things that have never even been used over and over is just as damaging, if not more so. Gerri will allow a mess while having fun which can be cleared up afterwards. Ben won't allow the mess at all and fears enjoyment if it could cause a disruption in his perfect ideal. i know which one I feel most sad for......... 😞

the poor guy is stick thin! all that running around is going to make him ill!

Like the way Ben said good kick up bum if house is messy that's attiude to have

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actually its not the worst. she can actually work and walk a bit compare to some that i wouldnt even step inside. just a look would make me sick but her place is manageable. i would stay only if it meant being homeless

You can clean until you get rid of a lot of stuff

So sad, bless you!

It's nice to see there are men who actually clean their house. Where can I find a guy like this? 😃 I understand the need for his house to look 'perfect' but not sleeping in his bed is crazy. Why have a clean house if you can't use anything? I imagine he doesn't have time for much else. Keeping everything perfect is time consuming. I've tried myself in my apartment. I have the same tendencies with cleaning.

Both of them have exceptional endowments and also limitations. We can talk volumes...

Ben, you seem such a decent guy!!! Please find help, your 2 children need to spend time with you in YOUR house as well.🙏

Here’s a great word “Recycle”! They hold themselves trapped, that is not living.

What a nice guy.

The dust and dirt in there, they can't maybe see it. But she is breathing it daily 😢

I kind of feel them both

I am sorry for Ben. 😖 Please seek help. God bless you. 🙏🏻

How old are your children Ben? I was gonna say the bedroom is empty (no toys) our kids don't play with toys anymore. My youngest is 11. She has a phone and she loves going out.

I wonder why he got divorced… i bet he was a nightmare to live with

Imagine not having food in the fridge, not because you can't afford it, but because you spend a ton of money on cleaning supplies instead and want the "perfect" fridge.

Wow! Vinegar and bicarb cleans everything for me. Imagine the chemical hit he is getting from all those chemicals! He looks quite thin too. No time to eat well?

'If you're going to line them up, line them up right'. *moves flies with pen* He's come a long way just to even do that!

kids bedroom reminds me of that episode of Only Fools and horses when they paint a chinese kitchen

Because of Corona, people started to clean the houses. No more examples needed. Do it yourself step by step.

Ben & Jerry.... together they make an excellent ice cream!

BEN IS ADORABLE 😂

Insane

I don't have the time and good health to clean like him.Ive been diagnosed with OCD.

I'd be alot more worried that this guy is more concerned with a clean house then his on children.

Hasn’t wiped the hob for 3 or 4 weeks? I ain’t wiped mine in a year.

I used to be like that, everything clean and tidy, until I got 2 cats 🐈‍⬛, everything changed beyond my control,the cats have taken over the house and I’m a lot happier, only clean now once a week 😂😂😂😂

18:41 PIVOT!!!!

Having children that cannot stay over? Both are bring ruled by their obsession’s by the detriment of not having time with their offspring. Now that to my mind is really sad! They do not have “Homes” just rooms.

Fly cemetery? Bonkers!

Scroob the hoose😂

Ok what did they do with all her stuff because it looked like only the books were left and if she's a crafter that's not what she would do even if she gave up on the projects there would still be tools. It all looks great for the camera but doesn't seem realistic. Her idea of reusing everything while noble meant that nothing was actually getting used and was going to rot away inside her home. I think what he said was very sensible. Stick to bringing in one project at a time. Finish it, let it go and only then consider bringing in something new. We can't rescue everything even if we can see the potential in it. It's very easy for crafters to bring in everything that they have an idea for but you have to be realistic about how much time and room you have to dedicate to these projects. As for poor Ben his house did look lovely and clean but it could still look like that with a fraction of the time he dedicates to it but I understand that it's his anxiety that he is fighting rather than dirt. It's just a shame that his illness means he can't allow himself to actually use it. I clean my hob daily but it takes minutes at most. (Induction hobs for the win!)

All those chemicals. Planet destroyer.

IMO. Being TOO clean is just as much ‘out of the box’ as the opposite. Worst are hoarders who very often won’t let go of things that they never use, are broken, out of date/fashion or they have many of the same thing. They amass a hoard of stuff that stops them from moving or sleeping in their home, can be a fire hazard or can have/hide an infestation. They live in a tip and will not change. They are the biggest nuisance and I speak from experience. I honestly have no time for them.

17:37 iron might do a better job if the plug was in the wall not her hand

no disrespect but ya more bothered about creases and a spot of dust than having ya kids stay over that's just blown my mind i hope in the future ya can get ya ocd under control ya seem a genuine nice guy

Poor Ben is missing life .. 😢

Ben is super cleanliness obsessed but he puts the dropper in his mouth and sticks it back in the bottle??

Oh Ben???

Omg !!

Sorry but it's hilarious watching his reaction, I'm not an OCD cleaner but that would make me feel very uncomfortable 🥵

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Poor children

Wow

I think she did not feel valued in her younger years.

this guy is very extreme

Bags

Sorry I don't buy this OCD to the detriment of not having his kids stay cuz can't cope with kids mess needs to sort his issues out before he drives a wedge with his family

It will be back to its old state in no time sadly. She's lazy.

I understand why the show is formatted this way, but it still irritates me that it presents OCD as a 'good' mental illness because it fits a social norm.

I can understand why he’s divorced! Where is his medication ? His children should be more important than a sterile home.. yes I said HOME…from one extreme to another.. ridiculous even laughable to the extent you would want to cry…😳

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Ben & Jerry?