No one knows how to store anything in my house. Whenever I actually try to fix up an area, it is very easy to minimize the mess, it's just I usually get so many complaints during the cleanup, and no one will let me move anything without checking with them first, that I rarely bother to do it. If I do anything I usually try to do it while others aren't home, otherwise I'm having arguments the entire time. Though no one will let me do what is needed to really fix it. I swear half the floor space is covered (no one seems to stack anything more than a few feet) and looks like a warehouse half the time. I was away at college for a year, and my apartment (my house is basically could be rented as a two family house, my grandfather used to live in the second apartment but he died, I got it a few years later) is now covered. My father buys a lot of stuff for ebay, but sells barely half of it (I buy a lot too, but I sell it all and keep it in a small area). I got that in my apartment too now. I've spent the last week making it look somewhat normal, and I'm about 25% done, though I think I can do it (we have an unused queen bed in the bedroom that needs to be removed, and the only I can get around in that room, it's been used as the family storage room for years though I'm planning on clearing it out and making it into an actual room). Seriously, I refuse to have anyone but extremely close friends over my house (that's 3 people), and my mother is the same way, it's just way too embarassing. You have no idea how refreshing it was to have my own apartment in toronto (just moved back home when classes ended though) and it actually being normal and presentable. It was cleaner than many other peoples I knew, and that felt great.
My whole point of saying this is my house is so far cleaner and more maneuverable than that womans that it's ridiculous. You can get anywhere in my house (well, I can, some of the corners my parents can't climb over the boxes to get to) it's the sides of the rooms with all the stuff, not the middle. And while it can be dusty, it's not dirty as in disgusting dirty, just undusted and messy. Seriously, seeing houses like that make me feel so much better.