I would assume that is pretty easy to answer why upkeep was not paid on several levels but am curious if there are more subtle or harder to grok answers to that?
If memory serves, even the elderkin's living-quarters (the radio-handler, the piano teacher/principal) seemed cluttered as the story wanes... and of course, the protagonist/narrator's home went full-blown cat-lady/hoarder mode by the end.
Why keep tidy when your whole reason for being is dying?
sharePlus there is no power and no water. No trash disposal either. See how clean you can keep your living space and street for weeks without those.
The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.
Being tidy is the #1 rule to the road of rainbows and cloverfields.
SHe's everything you wish you could never be.
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As people started getting sick, they wouldn't be strong enough to pick up the mess in their houses. The Wetherlys had three children plus the neighbor boy Larry who stayed with them. That's four children; impossible to keep stuff picked up anyway. As for the old couple, most old people have cluttered homes because they never get rid of anything.
shareTrash collection ended shortly after the nuclear event most likely > People would go into hoarder mode don't throw anything away we might need it
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