A & E New Hoarding Episodes!

[19Sandy]

So, A & E has new hoarding episodes beginning on Dec. 18! Just in time for holiday purging. Now, if someone would start a Marie Kondo show, then everyone would be happy!

[Tybee]

These shows kind of creep me out, I have to admit. I went to an estate sale where the guy had been kind of a hoarder and the feeling of stuck energy and grief in the house was literally disturbing--I had to get out of there and I didn't even buy anything because I didn't want that energy.

[sweetana3]

We just had an emergency animal rescue/trapping request for a 3 story house "full of junk" that was to be demolished this coming Saturday. Now I do not believe most of the story and waiting until the last minute is a disaster. But I told the rescuer (not the pet owner) asking for help to find out if haz mat suits and respirators were involved. "Full of junk" with at least 4 animals in it can be quite horrible or just messy. But the fact the house was being demolished means in our area that it is not safe. Wonder what they will find?

[19Sandy]

Starts Sunday night and they have been showing commercials. It will inspire me to do the Marie Kondo thing to help me prepare more for moving.

[goldensmom]

The title of the show is misleading. Hoarding as defined is 'over accumulation of stuff for the purpose of future use' but many of the homes featured on the show are filled with trash, garbage, decomposed food items, human and animal feces, dead animals, etc.. True hoarding can be a fire hazard with chance of entrapment in that one cannot get out of the house in the event of a fire but not a necessarily a health hazard as exhibited in many of the trash filled homes featured in the show. I am intrigued by the psychological aspect (why would a person do that?) of hoarding but cannot watch much of the show or I want to vomit. I am just the opposite. For example, mail rarely even makes it to the table top....it is either useful and goes to the appropriate spot, goes into recycle or in the trash.

[19Sandy]

There are different levels of hoarding and the individuals on this show are usually at the top levels. I like watching how people start to recognize their problem which stems from other issues or multiple issues. What is really amazing is how many people do this because it is so hidden from view.

[19Sandy]

This should be two episodes - not one and the guy's stuff is more like American Pickers to me than hoarding.

[19Sandy]

Second episode was sad. Now I know who is keeping Bath and BodyWorks in business.

[Chicken lady]

Sandy, not all hoarders live in squalor. I think the defining difference between to two shows is basically how the owner of the stuff would react to an offer to buy some of it. A hoarder can't really weigh the offer rationally. The very idea makes them panic.

[Float On]

. Now, if someone would start a Marie Kondo show, then everyone would be happy!

Just the other day I was flipping channels and caught an commercial for a Japanese Cleaning Method book (Marie Kondo knock-off). "You can buy the book for $10 but wait there's more! Order by Dec whatever and we'll send a second copy free (just pay separate shipping and handling)". I nearly died laughing - clutter you have a problem , here is a book, no 2 books of the same thing!!

[19Sandy]

Back-to-back episodes with the first episode about people with serious health problems. I am sorting through more genealogy notes to toss while I watch. I only had one dresser drawer full but am getting it reduced down to a short stack.

[Teacher Terry]

While not all hoarders live in filth it is really hard to do a good job cleaning when you have too much crap. Realistically how many people are going to take the time to move all that stuff etc to do a really good job cleaning and keep up with it on a regular basis?

[19Sandy]

It is obvious that there are people who don't now how to clean or discard. I know some people don't know how to cook either so they live on frozen meals or fast food. Sometimes the parents are shocked by their adult child's home so it isn't always a learned thing either.

There was a repeat today of one of the most depressed women I have ever seen. She simply couldn't cope and things got out of hand. It was sad to watch. Part of the problem is that people don't have the money for therapy and meds when they have a problem like this. The only thing keeping her alive was her two sons.

[19Sandy]

Last weeks Hoarders was two total different outcomes.

A woman would not get rid of anything at all and they gave up on her. (her entire farm was littered with stuff)

The man changed his home, appearance and was able to remarry his ex-wife who left him because of the hoard.

Today, I caught a repeat of one with rats all over the house - and he lost the home too because of financial reasons.

[19Sandy]

Yike - tonight's is the worst I have seen.

Two older men who have hoarded and squalored a 3 story home and a young woman and daughter, the mom has had a serious brain trauma, and it has changed her thinking patterns.

[19Sandy]

Marathon today - repeat of older women with tons of stuff and one has 16 storage units filled to the brim.

[boss mare]

I worked with a dentist whom married later in life to a hoarder , They where featured on Hoarders on it's first season . I really liked working with him. He was working for the same organization as me . He should have been retired and enjoying his love of books and model trains, but was working at an extremely fast past non-profit dental office with screaming kids and non compliant parents, just because of his wife's hoard

[Ultralight]

Hoarding is such a horrible fate, for the hoarder and those closest to them -- spouses, children, etc.