I watch Hoarders in A&E

Me too

A favorite. Why do they all poop on the floor and collect urine?

R2 that baffles me. Like that woman who chose to shit on her living room floor in front of her grandkids.

That's why I watch My 600 Pound Life. It makes me feel THIN.

That's why I watch Intervention. Them junkies make my alcoholic ass feel better

I can’t watch it - its too uncomfortable and frustrating

You must be very anal.

R6 here - yes, I’m anal and I hate filth and clutter

I'd be on the show if I didn't have cleaning ladies once a week.

I 💗 it when they shit on their floor!

It's strange that they shit on the floor but collect pee in jars etc. If you're going to poop on this floor why not just piss there too?

Lol r7!

I love the show but like 600 pound life, I don’t need to watch it for 2 hours.

On these Hoarders they go overboard to make it look dramatic.

Would you eat Dorothy Breninger out?

3 hoarders on tonight’s show.

Plenty of human and animal waste for all tonight!

And Dr Melba Greene! I love her!!

I like her but I don’t know if she can help them.

Nothing like a "Hoarders" to get me up cleaning before the second commercial break. Last time I saw one I started scrubbing the grout lines on my kitchen tile with bleach.

That one old man is unwilling to do what needs to be done.

I watch occasionally. It's a freak show. What I find most troubling about all of them is not the hoard and buried filth, but the sheer disregard and deeply buried anger that they inflict on everyone around them. These are indeed sad, terribly damaged individuals. Some with heartbreaking back stories. But nearly all are furious, controlling and unforgiving. Without intense therapy that addresses those issues I dont believe for a minute that they don't just pick back up where they left off. Collecting, as a means to control and belittle.

It’s a mental disorder

I had lots of trauma in my childhood and I internalized all of it.

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Don't hoarders and neat freaks have the furious, controlling and unforgiving traits in common? Remember Beth Jarrett in Ordinary People?

This is DL, R25, we're not allowed to ever forget Beth Jarrett here.

The worst for me was when they found a petrified snake caught and mummified between boxes. When someone pulled it out it stuck straight up!!! Other dead rats and cats are terrible to find. I don’t know if they ever found a dead dog...

Nothing motivates me to clean my house like watching Hoarders. It's the best incentive. One episode of that show, and you'll just want to scrub your floors with a toothbrush.

Isn't that what TV is for: to make us feel ' lucky'?

They shit on their living room floors!

And store pee in jugs, jars, etc.

I loved Dennis, his crazy wife and his very sad daughter. He was a retired cop and he said there was a gun in the house so law enforcement had to come do a sweep of the house before the organizers got there. Of course, they didn't find just one loaded gun, they found 7. But no pickles for Dennis!

The best one is when they found the hoarder's hoard of big black dildos and other sex paraphernalia. The blur-patrol was out in full force; some shots that's all there was!

R33 was that the episode where they visited your house?

I like Dr Robin Zasio; she is always so tactful, even when the smell of the house first hits her. I like Matt Paxton too; he works like a mule on some of those houses only to discover they are structurally ruined and need to be condemned. Cory Chalmers I find a tad hostile. And I love Dr Becky Beaton too!

anyone else think Dorothy Breninger's panties must be juicy AF every time she gets to roll around in another hoard?

yes yes

R35 I think she has a disorder herself. She gets off on it.

I really admire the restraint of Zasio, Paxton and the others who have to deal with these mental cases, I would have no patience. So many of them are just so selfish, mean and nasty, I would just be throwing everything into the dumpsters while they had a breakdown on the front lawn.

R39 me too!

I can't seem to find a link to it, but this Tuesday 4/9, they will be revisiting the Julian Price House in Greensboro, NC. It was their largest hoard.

The house looks beautiful.

I bet it looks real beautiful- not!

I swear I can smell those houses through my tv screen.

This woman lived down the street from a former coworker of mine-the families knew each other and apparently the daughter Shauna (?), who appeared in the series, was a chip off the old block--her mother was if anything even crazier. There's an lol moment on the show where she empties a bucket of human waste in her yard and tells the camera that the neighbors couldn't smell it--you could smell it a block away. The neighbors complained repeatedly but Seattle is reluctant to tell those who fly their freak flags higher than normal to take them down. I think she ended up in assisted or supervised living and the house was bulldozed.

Omg I remember that episode r44. I was retching. I figured that house had to be bulldozed, it was so hellish.

They need tougher therapists.....some of these people need tough love. "Karen, you're going to clean up this cluster fuck and you will shut the fuck up while you do it....Karen."

A recent Hoarders actually had Dr. Robin Zasio get angry, which I'd never seen before. It was the one with the lady in Florida who had THREE houses full of shit she was trying to sell online. Even Dr. Robin Zasio was like "this crazy bitch is on my last fucking nerve!"

Depressing show. I’m a closeted hoarder.

I'm going to start my own clean-up company for Hoarders. It will be called "I'm Throwing ALL Of Your Shit Out, You Filthy Pigs."

I always feel sorry for the neighbors of these filthy pigs, who get vermin and insect infestations in their houses because it all travels over from the hoarding neighbors. I would go ballistic, I would go out of my fucking mind. I don't know how these neighbors keep themselves from going over to the hoarder house in the middle of the night with a can of gasoline and a match.

They need tough assed therapists who take a no bullshit approach to hoarders. Make em throw all of that shit out! Don’t let them save a fucking thing! They’re sick!

Assholes

I knew it'd be back, it was only out of production a few years. As long as there are hoarders and tv, there's going to be a hoarders tv show.

Holy shit- I just stumbled onto this show and it's driving me nuts. They coddle these freaks way too much.

Isn't it bad to just throw out all of the shit hoarders save, because they'll just save 100X more shit in their new hovel? I thought that was why they have to go slow, so they don't "regress."

My mother is schizophrenic and generally pretty crazy/chaotic, but this show makes me thankful that her favourite day of the week is garbage day. She won't lift a finger to dust or clean her house, but she LOVES throwing shit away! So her house may be dusty, but she doesn't collect garbage, at least!!

[quote] Isn't it bad to just throw out all of the shit hoarders save, because they'll just save 100X more shit in their new hovel? I thought that was why they have to go slow, so they don't "regress."

I understand the theory that the therapists have when they say- the hoarder has to be in control and make the decisions- but in most of the episodes I've seen so far, there's the element of urgency introduced, such as my kids have been removed from the home or I'm going to be evicted or my spouse is going to leave me, etc. etc. My feeling is- fix the short term problem first and then work on the long term problem through therapy.

Yes, emptying out the house and leaving them to their own devices is not the way to handle it, but the coddling that goes on is insane. These people are big babies. I'm watching an episode from Season 2 with some cunt named Jill who has let her house get so bad that black mold has taken root and her family is sick from it. Yet she's screaming at her young son over a fucking cub scout uniform that was his 10 years ago that she wants to keep. Meanwhile her other son is on three different asthma medications. No, the time for coddling is over. Put this selfish cunt in therapy, but empty that fucking house and sandblast it IMMEDIATELY.

BUMP. Anyone else watch the Hoarders marathon on A&E every Sunday?

The new season started today, airing on A&E. I watch this show with my teeth gritted because invariably the hoarder is a dumbfuck who can't let go of their crap. Today we meet Carol, who filled a 3 story mansion with garbage and doesn't see how miserable she makes her family.

Dr. Tolin, of the intense blue eyes, is back. He's packed on about 50-60 pounds - he looks a lot like the wrestler Butterbean.

I have a phobia with hoarding. Partly because my mother was a hoarder, and my father became one, and when they were old and ill a brother who had the trait lived with them and a sister who ran out of space in her own house started bringing shit over.

I was powerless against the closed ranks.

Then when the folks died they abandoned the property, crap and all. I had to threaten to take them to court and got my lawyer to change over trusteeship and executorship to me so I could clean up the debts (they took all the money) and property. There were rooms so packed that opening the door would leave a wall with the whole room filled to the ceiling.

The brother was pissing in empty vodka bottles on the third floor where he slept and placing them like soldiers in a closet, interspersed with brown paper bags of shit. Their previous Thanksgiving and Christmas meals were still in the kitchen, rotting (I waited six months and it was spring before I got into the place.) It took months. And they house was ruined, of course. Every piece of furniture had been hit with an axe by the brother. Four stories of it. God, the stench.

After several years the house is still sitting there airing out.

So I can't watch Hoarders. They ruined it for me!

A hoarder is what you get when a crazy person has their own home. Anybody who thinks the homeless problem can be solved by just giving those people homes of their own needs to watch Hoarders. All it does is move the crazy indoors (and into suburbia, too).

I’m the opposite of a hoarder. I like to throw things out & the more I throw things away the better I feel.

Please tell me more of you watched it last night. I hated Carol with my heart and soul.

Did her husband kill himself at the end? I know they said he passed away, and they flashed the suicide hotline onscreen before the end credits.

Did anyone happen to watch Intervention afterwards?

They showed the suicide hotline at the end because his first wife killed herself but I believe he died from whatever illness he was suffering from.

They should've just kicked Carol down the stairs. OMG what a nightmare of a person.