Hoarders on A&E

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Will		#21	[-]
Posts: 35001 (08/17/09 9:43 PM) Not a Registered User anymore Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Every time I see a show like this, I end up having a massive spring cleaning. Am I the only one?
canyon528		#22	[-]
Posts: 4 (08/17/09 10:08 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	your not the only one, I was watching and I made a list of stuff I need to clean tomorrow
Meanpeoplesuck1		#23	[-]
Posts: 3455 (08/17/09 10:16 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Same here!! Watching those nuts will scare anybody straight.
SurvivorArctic		#24	[-]
Posts: 20783 (08/17/09 10:23 PM) Not a team player Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I just tagged a bunch of stuff for the junk pile. I was planning on clearing out some stuff but I think it may happen sooner rather than later.
Frankie G Morris		#25	[-]
Posts: 18640 (08/18/09 4:26 AM) All your ghosts are belong to us Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Will wrote: Every time I see a show like this, I end up having a massive spring cleaning. Am I the only one? Yeah, it made me think it was finally time to get rid of my punkins from the last 16 Halloweens. ;) Hey Will!! <3
Ethel Mae Potter		#26	[-]
Posts: 18764 (08/18/09 6:22 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	SurvivorArctic wrote: The husband and wife hoarders are pissing me off. Do you want the pile of bricks or your fucking CHILDREN? Unreal. Just unreal. After the first 20 minutes I had to turn it off. My Uncle's gf moved into my grandmother's house and did the same thing with one of the rooms (after filling up 2 of her own houses) and she would not let my grandmother throw out her old food. It is a mental illness with a very poor prognosis. Unlike other reality shows, I don't find this entertaining. These people are not going to be able to be helped, really in the long run. It made me realize that the producers of Clean House somehow avoid the true nutcases for that show-- they have hoarders but they must screen them psychologically or something because altho those people are packrats and have turned their homes into shitholes, they look spotless compared to the people on Hoarders.
dragonfly8		#27	[-]
Posts: 261 (08/18/09 7:12 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yeah, the dad looked like he might take out the entire family in their sleep with bits of his broken aquarium collection. I just don't believe that the wife had "no idea" how to organize. She called the floor of the hallway a laundry basket so she knew that such an item existed. She was just fat and lazy. I don't understand how the threat of losing your children doesn't motivate you to, at least, take the shit off the floor! And did anyone notice the walls? Covered in crayon marks, I take it they are lazy parents when it comes to watching their children too. Crazy Cat Lady- dear GOD....she needed medication. I almost vomited when she was cleaning out that disgusting fridge drawer. She never even acted like she smelled anything bad while the organizer was puking outside! WTF? How do you get immune to that?
Will		#28	[-]
Posts: 35006 (08/18/09 9:59 PM) Not a Registered User anymore Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Frankie G Morris wrote: Will wrote: Every time I see a show like this, I end up having a massive spring cleaning. Am I the only one? Yeah, it made me think it was finally time to get rid of my punkins from the last 16 Halloweens. ;) Hey Will!! <3 <3 Hey Frankie!
TimmyTAR		#29	[-]
Posts: 2820 (08/18/09 10:07 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'm echoing earlier comments when saying that the married couple were making me angry. Let's see, if the choice was your own children or the aquarium and bricks, which is the obvious choice? The lady with the rotting food in her house made me sick. No way in hell I would let my house get like that, or in that state. And if it did, I'd be damn sure to clean it. She was content with her smelly-ass house, and I felt sorry for her. She needs some help, and I hope her therapy works out for her. That's not to say that she wasn't inspiring; there was some yogurt in the fridge, so I had some today so they wouldn't be in there for another year.
Kitten Gloves		#30	[-]
Posts: 10001 (08/19/09 12:35 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	*SurvivorArctic wrote:* The husband and wife hoarders are pissing me off. Do you want the pile of bricks or your fucking CHILDREN? Unreal. Just unreal. Same here, and I felt like they weren't hoarders per sey, just too fucking lazy to clean up the house and yard. And all that shit crammed in the attic? What a fire hazard.
Connie Sewer		#31	[-]
Posts: 480 (08/19/09 1:23 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I thought the younger couple about to lose their kids appeared to me that the husband was the real mentally ill one, and that the wife was just a lazy cow that went along with his obssesvive/compulsive disorder to get out of cleaning up the house. I felt super sorry for the kids. The older woman's segment was like nothing I'd ever seen before. The house should have been leveled to the ground, and she should have been sent packing to a looney bin. I felt truly sorry for her son and her sister. Last Edited By: Connie Sewer 08/19/09 5:09 AM. Edited 1 times.
Otch		#32	[-]
Posts: 396 (08/19/09 11:18 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I worked with a woman who I think was a hoarder. I was told her kitchen was so full of stuff she only left herself a 12x12 inch space on the countertop to cook with. In the office she would never throw away those plastic trays deli platters come on from the grocery store, AND she had a closet full of old UPS calendars. I threw them out telling her if 1985 came around again I would buy her a new one. She was REALLY surprised when she came back from medical leave and all I threw away when she wasn't there. He son was taking care of her and he made her go to one of her storage units and he started throwing away his old toys and stuff and she freaked out saying she was saving them for his kids. He told her they were his to do with as he pleased, and he would buy his kids new toys if they wanted them.
Former Angel Gabriel		#33	[-]
Posts: 5856 (08/20/09 9:18 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	They should have made that fat bitch actually eat some of that food she was hoarding. I doubt she would have.
Ethel Mae Potter		#34	[-]
Posts: 18770 (08/20/09 10:18 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	You people seem to be forgetting that this is a serious MENTAL ILLNESS. It's like schizophrenia. Let's make a show where we laugh at schizophrenics for all the fucked up things they do. They choose GARBAGE over children because if they get rid of the garbage they have a massive physical & emotional nervous breakdown..they have tried many, many times before to throw stuff out because before it got so bad they have interventions and services come over and people try to help them throw the crap out. The KNOW their lives are fucked up by the garbage yet they cant let go.. The garbage makes them feel normal. It's like taking heroin away from an addict- but worse because a person doesnt need heroin to exist (once detoxed) but hoarders need the garbage to function normally and once de-cluttered can't breathe unless they surround themselves again with clutter...it has a very poor prognosis.
colby parker		#35	[-]
Posts: 26 (08/23/09 3:19 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I caught this show last night and I was about to puke myself with the food lady. I didn't get the "well it's not puffed out so it's good to eat" What's the puffiness about? They put dates on food a reason you freak. Yes, I know it's an illness but come on.....they really should have made her eat that chesse that expired in 2007. Other lady was just too lazy and obsessed with buying stuff to care about her kids being taken away. I would not even set foot in someone's house that looked like that.
nursie		#36	[-]
Posts: 568 (08/23/09 3:27 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	i thought younger fat woman was just a nasty poorly raised lazy loser. but yogurt from 2007 woman is seriously mentally fucked, and if they had asked her to eat that old food she would have.
Pumpkin37		#37	[-]
Posts: 2376 (08/23/09 4:24 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The food lady disturbed the hell out of me. Had to turn t off.
PAPAYOKE		#38	[-]
Posts: 21403 (08/23/09 4:42 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Food lady was by far the most fucked up of the two cases, everything from the food to the cats to the fly trap that had all those dead bugs (which do stink, btw).
SurvivorArctic		#39	[-]
Posts: 21287 (08/24/09 8:48 PM) Not a team player Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Ethel Mae Potter wrote: You people seem to be forgetting that this is a serious MENTAL ILLNESS. It's like schizophrenia. Let's make a show where we laugh at schizophrenics for all the fucked up things they do. They choose GARBAGE over children because if they get rid of the garbage they have a massive physical & emotional nervous breakdown..they have tried many, many times before to throw stuff out because before it got so bad they have interventions and services come over and people try to help them throw the crap out. The KNOW their lives are fucked up by the garbage yet they cant let go.. The garbage makes them feel normal. It's like taking heroin away from an addict- but worse because a person doesnt need heroin to exist (once detoxed) but hoarders need the garbage to function normally and once de-cluttered can't breathe unless they surround themselves again with clutter...it has a very poor prognosis. I complete, COMPLETELY, agree with you about it being a poorly diagnosed mental illness. What put it into perspective for me was an older episode of Obsession. With that poor man who wouldn't part with his dead mother's belongings and gifts. He had to handle various items before parting with them. And the anxiety written all over his face... The hard thing for us non-hoarders is that it looks like mountains of trash, not desperately needed 'things'. Once that sinks in, it is a bit easier to understand. At least for me. I know when I am getting lost in my head when stuff starts to accumulate. My mom calls me a packrat because I save paper related items, but when it gets too much, I do a big recycle and I am good. It never gets really bad, but I know what could happen if it did. So I hear ya, EMP, I hear ya.
Cammie		#40	[-]
Posts: 872 (08/24/09 9:10 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Just finished watching the new episode. I don't know how that organizer lady cleaned that bathroom. Maybe when the cameras stopped rolling, some cleaning crew dude came in. Just gross. Surprised that she was able to get the guy (steve?) to have pretty much everything thrown away. I guess even the mentally ill can see that it was all TRASH! As for the lady that couldn't finish her house, that was sad for her son who put so much into trying to get things done. I think he just wanted to bulldoze the house which probably wouldn't be such a bad idea at this point.

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