Hoarders

[CaptainCrunch]

Its the same with the show intervention, you'd think these people would see it coming.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Its the same with the show intervention, you'd think these people would see it coming.

Aren't intervention people told that they're going to be on a documentary about drugs or something similar? Not specifically "Intervention" or they obviously wouldn't want to be a part of it.

Maybe the do the same for Hoarders? "We would like to feature you on a show about people who collect lots of neat stuff!!! Here's $100. Sign here."

[tete]

My aunt is a hoarder. I haven't been to her place in almost 10 years, but it was a mess the last time I was there. My uncle died a year and a half ago and my parents went to help clean up/out the house - they took four or five large chest freezers out of the basement, filled with unedible food because it'd been there so long. They filled up dumpsters full of crap, the whole time my aunt protesting. According to my parents, in just over a year, she managed to fill up the house again and there's just pathways through the piled crap. The place is falling apart and she won't clean it up or fix anything. Some of her in-law's won't talk to her anymore because she refuses to get help and we think she's ticked off at my dad (her brother) because he constantly tells her to clean up the crap.

Her one daughter isn't any better. I lived with her for a summer and when it came time for her to move out, there were stacks of newspapers and other junk almost to the ceiling of the storage room. She'd lived there one year. It's pretty sad.

[Cowperson]

Coincidentally, something on feeling better about yourself after watching Hoarders:

http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/12/22/ho...betsy-bedbugs/

Cowperson

8 years ago I had collected (drank) around 450 assorted beer/liquor bottles over a period of 2 and a half months... it took a cube van to take them all to recycle.

I can't even imagine 40,000!

[Pastiche]

Nothing is more satisfying than purging. I've done a good thorough purge every year now for the past 3 years. I am ruthless. If I haven't used it in a year, then it's gone. That includes clothes, kitchen things etc. What most people don't realize is that you really do not need alot of things to be happy or to do whatever you want to in life.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by Deegee

It kind of amazes me that there are people like on the show in the world.

I only watched the one episode, but she (the hoarder) had so much junk in her house it was going to be condemned and people will shovelling out garbage from her house and she was just oblivious. It was so bad they found a couple of dead cats under all the garbage. I'm not calling her stuff garbage, either, I mean it was under layers of actual garbage.

I think I happen to see the same one and I turned it off after like 20 minutes. My breaking point was when she found her false teeth in a pile of garbage and wanted to use them right away. I almost threw up!

[Thor]

I watched my first episode yesterday, maybe I was unlucky but it was utterly brutal. An old woman had collected 5 feet high in her bathroom feces and used TP.

Its a really hard show to watch, not sure I want to sit through another one.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Pastiche

Nothing is more satisfying than purging. I've done a good thorough purge every year now for the past 3 years. I am ruthless. If I haven't used it in a year, then it's gone. That includes clothes, kitchen things etc. What most people don't realize is that you really do not need alot of things to be happy or to do whatever you want to in life.

Especially if you think you're getting fat. Nothing like a good purge to keep those pounds down. Just make sure to scope up after so your breath doesnt smell like barf.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by tete

My aunt is a hoarder. I haven't been to her place in almost 10 years, but it was a mess the last time I was there. My uncle died a year and a half ago and my parents went to help clean up/out the house - they took four or five large chest freezers out of the basement, filled with unedible food because it'd been there so long. They filled up dumpsters full of crap, the whole time my aunt protesting. According to my parents, in just over a year, she managed to fill up the house again and there's just pathways through the piled crap. The place is falling apart and she won't clean it up or fix anything. Some of her in-law's won't talk to her anymore because she refuses to get help and we think she's ticked off at my dad (her brother) because he constantly tells her to clean up the crap.

Her one daughter isn't any better. I lived with her for a summer and when it came time for her to move out, there were stacks of newspapers and other junk almost to the ceiling of the storage room. She'd lived there one year. It's pretty sad.

Get her on the show! You can help out and every once in a while flash a sign saying hi to CP for the camera.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Is it me, but other than cleaning up their crap, I don't see the show doing much to actually give these people some mental health care? The show seems kind of predatory without this care being given.

With out it they'll just pile up crap within 6 months again.

[troutman]

Why would a hoarder agree to go on these tv shows?

[yads]

Originally Posted by troutman

Why would a hoarder agree to go on these tv shows?

I'm guessing some of them realize they need help and the show provides a junk removal crew and an organizer for them.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

I wonder what you're thinking when you sign a contract to be the subject of a nationally syndicated television show called "Hoarders" which could also be re-titled "Humiliation Central."

No warning bells going off in your head?

On one level is squirmingly embarrassing to watch some obviously mentally ill people being paraded . . . . . but I can see the value of this show in helping family members decide an intervention is in the best interests of people whom we'll never hear about.

In Calgary, I'm pretty sure there is one individual who has had a court-ordered clean-up not once but twice, spread out over several years after he re-accumulated his crap.

Cowperson

Free help.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

8 years ago I had collected (drank) around 450 assorted beer/liquor bottles over a period of 2 and a half months... it took a cube van to take them all to recycle.

I can't even imagine 40,000!

I thought 'Dr. Dickie's' beer can collection, once displayed properly, was actually pretty cool. What amazes me about this show is the wide variety of manifestations and triggers hoarding has. Definitely not a once you've seen one hoarder you've seen them all scenario.

[JiriHrdina]

My grandma was a hoarder, though not as bad as people on this show. But when we put her in a home it was a huge task to clean up her house. The basement was full of stuff - cake boxes, bread bags, and every sort of container you could think of.

She lived through the depression and I know that was a big part of the mindset - not wanting to waste anything or throw anything out that you might need later.

[Sainters7]

I watch Intervention sometimes, but I just can't do Hoarders. It just creeps me out too much. The people really, really freak me out. I've never seen a full one but I've watched parts of a few, and afterwards I had to do some cleaning. I'm not even close to a hoarder but for some reason I can't bring myself to throw out any SI's I've gotten over the years(I think I figure they'll be worth something some day), but after watching the show I threw out a bunch of old ones. What a creepy, freaky disorder.

[Displaced Flames fan]

I try to get my kids to watch intervention. I think it's important they know what bad life choices coupled with low self-esteem can lead to. I find that they take the program seriously and it helps them think about consequences.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

I try to get my kids to watch intervention. I think it's important they know what bad life choices coupled with low self-esteem can lead to. I find that they take the program seriously and it helps them think about consequences.

I was on that show once, I appreciated the kindness and love that my family showed me by holding my intervention in a pub during a Flames game, it made things go a lot smoother. Eventually, everyone just abandoned the whole 'intervention' business and got down to having some fun...