Hoarders

I do, too. Magazines. Comic books. Photos. DVDs. Action figures. VHS tapes.

Trying to get organized and part with some stuff.

I understand it can be a real challenge for some people. The nice thing is that it can get better.

Omg this is the worst hoarder ever! Sherry!

I've bought four stacking units the last few days; I have them in the living room and kitchen and am filling the shelves with all the crap on the floor and the sofa.

My goal is to then tackle each stacking unit's crap and ...what are those three piles? Keep. Donate. Toss?

it's hard to donate these days; a) I'm sure everyone's going through their closets and b) are donation centers even open?

my landlord says he'll spring for a new stove if I clear the place out so I'm doubly motivated.

Hoarders, like alcoholics and drug addicts will battle against your help with their last breath. They really aren't worth the energy they suck out of you. Let them live the life they have chosen and be thankful they aren't dragging you into hell with them.

We simply must face the fact that you can't help someone who didn't ask for help. They will just see you as a nuisance or a downright threat. Relatives trying to help will only create a hostile environment where the hoarder resents the intrusion and sabotage every attempt to clear out the home. I heard of one case where a woman tried to get her sister's house cleared out and was just about to enter when the sister and her helpers saw the hoarder peeing all over the place to keep them all out. A special unit had to deal with the hoarder and the house.

Are there cats 🐈?

I love Suzanne Chabaud and her Louisiana drawl

I took my mother to an antique auction preview. After an hour she had upwards of thirty things marked that she wanted....maybe €10k worth. From furniture to butter dishes, Meissen, Waterford, tables, sideboards, beds...... When I asked her where she intended to put them she said she's store them in various rooms as they might one day be used. Currently 3 bedrooms are packed with antiques and sundries, and an outside shed the size of a 4 bedroom home is similarly loaded. There are 9 pianos, several taxidermy pieces, innumerable mirrors and old paintings, old clocks, masses of old fabric.... She's neither a dealer nor a collector.

She loves gardening-outside are multiple choice roses and shrubs, numbering in the hundreds, which will never see a flowerbed unless one is built. I must say I am tempted to build one, bury her and put the roses on top.

Stark. Raving. Mad.

Mad as a fucking brush.

It's sad and a hard condition to treat. Apparently it's connected to a traumatic loss the need to fill that void. I had a good friend who became a hoarder. Every surface in the apartment was covered with his 'treasures', including two stacks of newspapers about two feet high which he was still 'going to read' and two broken ink dot printers that he fished out of the garbage room. He took the doors off the closets when the would no longer close. He got evicted from his apartment with all that shit in it and wound up in an SRO.

What was the deal with her son? He kept saying they were going to lose the house but I couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t working. He is 27 and seemed very able-bodied but all he did was hoard just like his mother and enable her because he was so attached to he. I felt so sorry for the sister because she took so much abuse from both of them and seeing a picture of her when she was younger she was quite beautiful but obviously had ate all her feelings. She still had a pretty face. I kept hoping she would just walk out and leave them.

I am not a hoarder. My one weakness is books, and I have several micro-libraries as I call them， each on different subjects: English legal history; medieval and Renaissance European history and literature; extensive learning materials of languages I have learned, am learning, or want to learn; fiction and history of the American West; and Chinese literature (untranslated).

My micro-Chinese library is my favorite, because it's taken a couple of trips to China to build. I am slowly learning the language, and the library is mainly aspirational. But like a true bibliophile, I love books, and to me their meaning transcends mere objects to be read. Plus, Chinese books tend to be beautifully packaged.

I consider myself a collector, and not a hoarder. My collections are very well-organized. and I don't hoard any other object. My living space is very clean and neat.

That said ... my mother is slowly dying of Alzheimer's. Whenever I watch Hoarders, I have an intense fear that when she's gone, my collecting will cross over into hoarding.

R12 , are you John/PMBT?? We wondered where you'd been.

I'm bingeing the new season now.

Carol was a trip. Be hangs herself and Carol moves right in and takes control. Takes out a second mortgage, sells the antique car and pockets everything.

Dave is now dead but the damage is done. Carol has moved on and now the family has to sell the home.

Watching Sherry now. The son is a loser and will never amount to anything being such a drama queen.

The son scared me. I see some sort of violent rampage in his future. The sister should keep far away from him.

Becky must keep that lemon!

I'd rather have a relative who binged on paintings, silver and furniture than plastic bins of old cat food, cardboard boxes and aluminum foil.

Anyone else find Cory Chalmers to be really fuckin' sexy?

My mom was a hoarder. Bedroom full of crap, including newspapers. What the fuck? Who needs old newspapers. Maybe she thought they'd make nice shoes for the next Depression.

[I consider myself a collector, and not a hoarder. My collections are very well-organized]

your house is a fucking dusty cluttered mess and you know it.

My mom is a hoarder, I'm cleaning out her house because she is going into a nursing home. Hundreds of pairs of socks, most never worn. Probably 50 pairs of scissors. Every type of clothes pin, pegs, wooden, plastic, glow in the dark. 14 vacuum cleaners which she never used and 16 brooms so far.

She had 14 cats but she's down to three. Fucking selfish people who could care less about anyone else.

OP, how many dead cats did they find when they moved the sofa?

WHERE ARE MY BABIES?!?!?!?!?

Shit, sorry, I'm thinking of Intervention. Sorry. Still, I could see some hoarders literally losing babies in their piles of shit and clutter, couldn't you? Also, Dr. Robin is a fucking fundie bitch. I hate her smarmy, holier-than-thou presence.

I thought this discussion concerned another woman named Sherry. This one is from "Hoarders: Buried Alive".

She is an arrogant, lazy, childish, worthless, delusional fucking cunt, and an absolutely terrible wife and mother. She admits in this episode that she insisted the two kids stay with her in the filthy hovel, so she could continue to claim them as dependents. That way, her monthly government assistance wouldn't be subject to change/adjustment.

If you like to hate watch the worst of the worst people on these shows, you'll LOVE this one.

^was that the one with the cockroaches all over the kitchen? And there was like a very nice 15 year old girl who would have to cook for everyone? And maybe the mom was diabetic and threw her used needles all over the floor?

Many get jumbled up for me, but I remember this lady’s face. And I do remember she was so lazy.

Yes, R26. Her house was also infested with black widow spiders and Diet Pepsi cans.

This lazy bitch crawled into bed and took a nap as they cleaned around her.

There is no other show on television where you hear "you can't keep that, it's got feces all over it."

Yes, that woman, Sherry, at R25, was evil incarnate. She sat on a chair all day, threw her injection needles on the living room floor. Blamed everything on her kids. Her daughter did all the cooking and served Sherry while Sherry sat ... in her chair. IIRC, the kids' (boy and girl) father made an appearance. He's a POS, too, for letting those two kids live like that. They should have been living with him (he lived elsewhere).

Living room floor was also filled with soda cans. That's the part I don't understand. (The trash / recyclables on the floor.) They all refused to take out the trash as well. (Sherry blamed the kids for not taking out the trash and I would have to agree with her there, although she was so nuts, I wouldn't be surprised if she forbade them from getting rid of trash.)

IIRC, kitchen was cockroach infested. Daughter was dealing with cockroaches as she cooked.

At some point, the interventionist asked if they could get rid of a wicker basket. Sherry said: sure, go ahead, my dead mom can weave up another one.

I used to watch this all the time, but grew tired of it, as every episode seemed like the same story, just different people. However, this guy was really handsome and had a very nice ass. Too bad about the mental illness.

Said ass, while climbing over his hoard.

R29 lol great comeback from Sherry on the wicker basket.

Hoarders reminds me of a short story I read a long time ago. A wealthy woman did something to a poor woman or the poor woman's friend, don't remember which. The poor woman went to the wealthy woman and asked her to apologize, and when she would not and said 'what are you going to do about it', the poor woman just asked her for a lock of her hair or a nail clipping or a little bottle of her urine. The wealthy woman refused and sent her on her way.

But the wealthy woman became frightened that the other woman would cast a spell on her, so she started hoarding all her hair and nails and shit and everything she touched, eventually destroying her life.

There should be a separate thread about Hot Hoarder at R30: Is It a Deal Breaker (Hoarding)?

Poster # 1: I definitely would. We can spend all our time at my apartment, not his.

I love Dr. Melva Green, who changes wigs after each segment.

No matter how hot he is (and that guy at r30 doesn’t look hot at all) how clean could he be living in a hoard like that?

He probably would probably smell like the inside of his house, R36.

Thanks for this thread OP. I watched an episode and was motivated to take about half a carload of stuff to a donation station, so I've got that going for me.

Datalounge, making the world better one fat whore at a time.

As I remember it, the guy in R30 had two residences, one was clean and one was completely hoarded. The hoarded place wasn't filled with trash, but with expensive stuff he bought, including lots of designer clothes and suits. His girlfriend had no idea about the hoard and he finally brought her to see it. I can't remember exactly, but I think she called it off with him after she saw it and he wouldn't change.

This is one of the all time Hoarders episodes. Of course, one of them is named Lynda.

I often just SMH at the apparently super robust immune systems of the hoarders who make it onto these TV shows. Living in filth and yet not deathly physically sick. I wonder if less robust hoarders of the filthy sort, do get sick and die from the filth they live in, and we just don't hear about them.

Plumbing hasn't worked in years, they don't bathe and shit in a bucket in the yard. When it gets to this point, they should just be put down like dogs.

New season premieres tonight, bitches!

This show is a guilty pleasure of mine.