I agree that many people do not have toilets, nor do they have the WATER RESOURCES to run them, which is why they are drinking from streams that are contaminated. My point is that they do not have the toilets because they can not afford to waste the water in the first place. A simple well planned community can make composting toilets that use no water cheaper then installing pipes, septic systems (or major water treatment facilities) and the motors to run them. Giving people access to a clean working toilet is pointless when the amount of water needed from the nation is more then exists in their nations. It’s akin to an Eskimo telling a man in Bermuda that he is hot because he has not placed his igloo in the right direction. Great advice, wrong location to implement it.

Let me know if there is anyone you would like to have interviewed on the site. Every once in a blue moon someone will agree to an interview even when they’re not promoting something. Rare, but not unheard of …

Also, I thought it was interesting that when I asked her what organizing tip she’s taken from years of doing the show, she didn’t provide a tip in response. Instead, she talked about how she feels responsible for the families on the show and that it’s her calling to help them. This definitely wasn’t what I expected. She’s more of a big-picture sort of person. In front of the cameras she’s all jokes and laughs, but there is something deeper going on with her. I was really pleasantly surprised.

Uncluttering, like weight loss, is a mindset, not a one time thing. No one can change your mindset for you.

I must say, Clean House is one of my all time favorite “guilty pleasure” shows. Though a lot of their final designs are a little too hotel like for me, I love the process they go through with families. Of course, as your interview alluded to, it takes A LOT more work than they show on any given episode– it’s not a weekend deal, it’s many days and a big crew doing that work.

The only thing that ever bothers me on the show is when they are with someone (esp. on Messiest Home in the Country) who clearly has a severe hoarding problem (not just garden variety messiness). When you see people that can’t acknowledge they have a problem and don’t like what Clean House did for them, it makes you wish the show had some sort of treatment to offer to clinical hoarders.