On the re-aired episode now:

Hoarder Husband talking about how he gets around the house:
"I could walk sideways...but I'm the same size sideways as I am forward...I'm a big man."

Wife: "I can't pick BillyBob up."

:rolleyes: Oh my...I gotta get caught up. Hoarders is good for motivating a whole-house cleaning session, too.

Ditto

I'm watching the A&E marathon. To further confirm that hoarding tends to be rooted in other issues:

1. The firefighter who was talking to his mother and sister as though he was fighting a fire: "put that down and look at me...." Who in the hell does he think he is talking to? Issues.

2. Another episode: The man who adopted a boy and a girl. He is white and the kids are Black. The boy has some SERIOUS ISSUES. Initially I was like "Badass Black Babies...next on Oprah" but that boy needs some serious counseling. Biting, hitting, blowing his nose on people...I just wonder how long this has been going on. He is 8 years old going on 9. They have had a counselor for 6 months and I am glad because a lot of Black families would've just kept beating the hell out of him, among other things.

The man's friend (a Black man who the kids consider their uncle) was absolutely correct that they better stop this now or he will probably become a juvenile delinquent and eventually an adult offender.

This is the nastiest season of A&E Hoarders. Are some of these people trying to be grosser than gross so that they can appear on the show?

I did chuckle during the opening scenes when one of the experts walked into a hoarded room only to find cups of urine on the floor and the hoarder (an old retired woman) on the floor "taking a nap." The expert yelled "OH MY GOSH" and the hoarder chuckled. LOL.

She has no working plumbing and has not had working heat for years. :( She uses the bathroom outside. :( She stays warm in the winter by laying down in the hoard. :( God bless her.

:( Awwwww, the hoarder whose parents were famous in the 1950s. :( He was raised in privilege. All that he can talk about is how famous his parents were and how privileged he was. He has yet to grow up.

He had the most dense hoard that even the experts have ever seen. His whole apartment was a crowded closet. It gave me claustrophobia just by watching the episode. :eek:

I'm watching it right now, Dr. Phil. During the 8 pm episode, I giggled when the man stepped in a squishy bag of his mother's poo. Horrible, I know. The guy in NYC with the crammed apartment needs more help than this show can offer him. I feel like he needs to be hospitalized and completely assessed mentally. He is a harm to himself and his neighbors.

Both episodes are CRAZY. :eek:

The Victorian lady is a nut! She got all dressed up for cleaning, with her earrings and matching saloon girl headpiece. Why is she always carrying that fan?

House > crappy stuff.

But it looks like crappy stuff may result in losing house . . . :(

Kevin: "You can definetly get buried in some piles...a similar televison to this one fell on top of me...dislocated my knee..."

Ten dollars the offending TV broke in the fall, but wasn't thrown out...:rolleyes:

I'm sure I'll be back with more entertaining comments, as I shut off the cable in favor of Netflix and TV channel websites. A&E does a great job of keeping the shows updated :)

I saw an episode on rerun where a guy was going to be evicted from a shelter where he qualified for because he had been homeless. 2 days and they fixed the whole place and he truelly seemed to be ready for change and thankful for the help. I wish there were more episodes like that.

I just saw a commercial for an episode with a man who hordes with cats. The line from the commercial was, "How is it that you lose track of how many dead kittens are in your house?" Ahhhhhhh!

:(

Yeah, that was when it first came out and the people were salvageable. This season, the houses aren't even structurally salvageable. Now it's like a contest to see who can stuff the most stuff, animals, dead animals and literal crap into one house.

I can't fathom what it would be like to live near that New Yorker's apartment. I'd be beyond angry that he was allowed to continue to put all the other tenants at risk. He needs much more help than cleaning out his apartment will provide.

I think the crew is with these hoarders for more than 2 days. I kept noticing on the newer episodes that the family members were talking about how they only had 4 days for this or 4 days for that. But then the counselor or organizer would keep saying how they needed to work because they only had 2 days to complete everything. A&E is getting sloppy with their editing.

"It's the Mount Rushmore of hoarding- the ultimate hoard!" :eek:

Yes, that's Randy. Well, let's start by specifying we mean the human Randy. It's important to differentiate him from the dozens of mannequins he has fashioned after himself- complete with his own hair. To aid in the production of Future Randies, he saves all hair from haircuts, and being a hoarder, always has.

I think at some point he gets into an altercation with Matt Paxton, but I haven't gotten that far yet.

The other woman in this episode is pretty bad. Her 15 year old son has already dropped out of high school and hides in his room all day. :(

Back-to-back episodes.

Everytime I see this episode, I laugh at the same part:

The ex-ventriloquist's daughter walks into her childhood room and says "what the fuck...this was NOT like this...come to find out the puppets are having a party in my room...."

Did you see the news clip where they were filming and an earthquake hit? They had to all evacuate the house in a hurry in case the hoard came crashing down.

lol
Just the way this was worded made me laugh really hard.

Ten years of human fecal matter covered in toilet tissue and bags. Ten damn years.

Absodamnlutely disgusting.

New episode tonight on TLC at 9:00.

The commercials are gross. Thousands upon thousands of cockroaches.

I can see that with hoarding and even compulsive shopping. The people I know who are compulsive shoppers are looking for "stuff" to fill a psychological hole.

I saw an episode the other day that reminded me of my MiL. She's a saint of a woman, but she's a borderline hoarder, my FiL too. They're able to limit it to certain areas of the house though, or the barn. For example, they had an old fridge finally die. Instead of just having it properly disposed of, they moved it out to their barn, and now use it as a paint storage cabinet. WTF? They never stored paint before, but now that they "can," they do. The area around their downstairs desk is overflowing with paperwork, and MiL buys things whenever its on sale and then puts it in a plastic bin in their guest bedroom. There are about 8 bins full of toiletries, medicines, beauty products, etc. I went in there one time this past summer to get a toothbrush, and there was a Crest tooth whitening set. She had to have bought it 10 years ago, because it expired in 2006. Same thing for a bottle of Tums, expired in 2008, and a giant bottle of motrin expired in 2006. They have 3 giant freezers and 2 working fridges on their property. There is food in those freezers that is more than 5 years old. I got a block of colby cheese out of there last summer, only when it thawed and I cut it up, it tasted of something awful. Thankfully the living room and kitchen are mostly clear except for a bit of clutter. But the other stuff, especially old stuff... it's just a hoard.

I already want to vomit! :eek:

A house filled with millions of roaches and black widow spiders. This is one of the most disgusting episodes ever.

I watched that new episode tonight. It was so nasty, I had to cover my eyes at times. The mother's attitude of blame and victimization made me so angry! She treats her daughter like a slave. I was also angry at the father for not advocating for his kids more and trying to get custody. These people were two fine examples of why not everyone should have kids.

New episode on Discovery Fit and Health.

She wants to save every item and her family wants to throw it all away because hundreds of cockroaches have been living in everything. She will need to soak the dishes and coffee makers in alcohol and sanitizer. Gross.

Her son: "You have a spider on you" *wipes off the spider*
The other guy: "Oh...fuhh-uhhhh-uhhh...." (

Not funny^^ but I chuckled. ugh.

If you ever want to feel completely well-adjusted and well-organized, this is the show to watch.

Agreed.

This show just makes me ill. Hoarding can be considered a form of OCD, something I've had a lot of experience with. But the scariest part to me is that while people with OCD are generally fully aware that their compulsions are irrational these hoarders don't seem to be. Or they're in deep, deep denial.

Discovery Health Hoarders:

This is disgusting. Millions of roaches. Roaches in the microwave and refrigerator. The bathroom is disgusting. Mold everywhere.

The mother is a hot mess. The ex-husband feels guilty for leaving his family but he can't save these now grown people. He visited them and cried over the disgusting house. The oldest son looks like crap. He looks so much older than he probably is due to his morbid obesity and balding hair. Hot damn mess.

The youngest son is embarassed. He and his father do not live in the house.

when the oldest put his food in the roachy microwave *vomit*

TLC's Hoarding: Buried Alive

This woman is in denial. Serious denial.

Bump because I'm watching the Discovery Fit & Healthy Hoarding: Buried Alive marathon.

I have never watched some of these episodes. Other episodes have been aired multiple times.

THIS EPISODE. :eek:

Normally, I wouldn't call someone strange or batshit crazy if they most likely have a diagnosable mental illness. But, there's something annoying about this woman that spans beyond mental illness. She claims she was in law school for 10 years (1986-1996) and never took the bar. She is estranged from her 2 ex-husbands and her 2 children. She has been in the USA and lived in the same house for 33 years. She is a linguist and an interpreter (I think she speaks 3 or more languages).

There are some HUGE RATS in this woman's house and all around her lawn. :eek: These rats are no longer hiding. The rats are now starting to reach the rest of the houses.

This woman's family and friends have turned their backs on her. I do NOT blame them.

I'm watching it too right now! This lady is a few fries short of a Happy Meal.