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** ''VideoGame/Persona4'': Futaba hasn't left her bedroom in over a year. As such, trash is piled on every surface when the other characters first venture in. The Phantom Thieves decide to clean it while she's on her computer- she's so focused that she doesn't notice them removing the bags of trash or even running a vacuum cleaner!

* In ''Series/CasesOfTheFirstDepartment'', major Vaclav Plisek's desk at work is always disorganized and messy. Major Tomas Kozak often tries to convince him to clean it, especially if Plisek can't find important papers or his glasses. In the episode "A Policeman to Gun Down", they have to look through a suspect's garbage. Kozak comes later and jokes that he's pleased that Plisek decided to clean up. Surprisingly, Plisek's home is clean and cozy, even though he's an old bachelor.

** A morbid example; [[EvilCounterpart Chaos]] [[SuperSoldier Space Marines]] of the [[TheBerserker World]] [[AxeCrazy Eaters]] Legion wear power armor known for its distinctive crimson paint scheme. At least, it was assumed to be a paint scheme. As learned by a slave forced to clean a suit, their armor actually bears its original blue and white paint; the red is actually layer upon layer of ''[[RustproofBlood blood]]'', caked on from countless victims over the millennia. Seems here the author got the facts wrong. Old, caked blood isn't crimson, it's ''[[ColorCodedForYourConvenience black]]'', or, if it's somewhat fresh and in a thin enough layer, a kind of rusty red. In fact, dried bloodstains are often almost impossible to distinguish from the rust stains without proper chemicals. It's kinda understandable, given that the main oxygen-bearing agent in a human blood is, well, ''rust''. Then again, they spend most of their lives in a hell-dimension where the laws of physics are the playthings of crazy gods.

* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'': Although Willy Wonka cannot stand ugliness in his factory, his pockets are always incredibly full. When he wants to find his very important recipe for Wonka-Vite, he digs for it in his pockets, bringing out objects including a trick fried egg made of rubber, a yo-yo, a tooth with a filling in it, a stink bomb, a slice of salami, a packet of itching powder, before eventually finding the recipe on a very crumpled sheet.

%%* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'': The Ewell family's house and yard are described this way.%%What way?

%%* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: This is the premise behind "Trash Day".

* ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'': ''[[https://notalwaysright.com/the-epic-of-the-impossible-store/172885/ The Epic of the Impossible Store''. Among the ''many'' things that had gone wrong, not only was the store itself in squalid condition due to having not been cleaned in months, to the point that the solidified mixture of dirt and grime had to be chiseled off the floor, there was a "trash room." The previous manager of the store had, rather than taking garbage to the dumpster, simply started throwing bags of trash into a back room, then locked it and covered the door with boxes once it was full.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Stumpy, Quack Quack, and Mr. Cat generate [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/kaeloo/images/4/4d/Whatamess.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161201063412 piles and piles of trash]]. It's mainly food packaging since they spend most of their time eating snacks and sitting on the couch watching TV.

* ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'': Sorata finds [[IdiotSavant Mashiro]]'s room in this state after the first night moving in there.

Related to MessOfWoe. Compare MenCantKeepHouse, ThePigPen, ItCameFromTheFridge, DownInTheDumps. For the opposite behavior, see NeatFreak and SoullessBedroom.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Professor Ivy and her assistants live like this, which is one of the reasons it seems like heaven to cleaning freak Brock.

* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': Taiga's apartment, with a sickening stench emanating from the kitchen sink which was polluted so heavily that its contents were [[{{Pixellation}} censored on screen]]. Naturally, she is complemented by a NeatFreak co-star named Ryuuji, whose first reaction to seeing said apartment is to ''beg her to be allowed to clean it''. Since Taiga is a very LonelyRichKid living by herself and only returns to her apartment to sleep (her bedroom is the only room that's not covered with a carpet of trash) she just doesn't care enough about it or spend enough time there to hire anyone to clear it for her even though she clearly has the means to.
* ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'': Sato's apartment definitely counts. He at least tries to keep things marginally tidy during his 'oh god I'm a {{hikkikomori}}' moments, but for the most part, it's a sty.

* This is also common for those that grew up during TheGreatDepression or were raised by those who had - throwing something away is deemed "wasteful", so even items that have been fully replaced are kept, just in case.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': TheShutIn [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1413 Marigold]] has a borderline-toxic mess in her bedroom, at least before her friends enlist the SuperOCD-afflicted Hannelore to deep-clean the place in a HazmatSuit. {{Discussed|Trope}} when Hannelore tears a strip off her for letting the mess get to the point that it's a genuine health risk.

* ''Manga/MoriartyTHePatriot'': Every time Sherlock's home in 221B is shown without John or Hudson having been around recently to clean it, they're full of a strange amalgam of things piled everywhere on the floor with very little care for anything but his lab equipment and his violin.

* Chris Chandler, the... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] creator of ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'', doesn't have the cleanest house, with at least one room completely blocked off by garbage. Chris's parents were aware of how much trash was in their house, but didn't do anything about it. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome It eventually caught on fire in early 2014]], not that it stopped Chris from promptly filling it back up once the house was renovated.

* ''Literature/RoadsidePicnic'' by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers demonstrates what happens when SufficientlyAdvancedAliens have this trait. Basically, all the mysteriously advanced (or just extremely weird) materials and objects found on Earth after some sort of unexplained incident are... the trash & fast food wrappings left over from some not-particularly-careful extraterrestrial tourists (For those not in the know, this book was the basis for ''Film/{{Stalker}}''.)