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  • #1

    Hoarders on A&E

    Anyone else watching this?

    I can't turn it off.

    http://www.aetv.com/hoarders/

    http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...for_keeps.html

    More than one of these episodes has had a person literally choose his/her stuff over family after an ultimatum. It's sad, but compelling.

    My grandmother was a hoarder, no doubt springing in part from her roots in the Great Depression in rural Utah. When I was a kid I always thought there were treasures under all that stuff. But mostly it was just garbage (except for a 1st edition of Arrington's Great Basin Kingdom that I claimed one day).
    "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
    -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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    A lady in my ward growing up suffered from the mentality (disease?). She had so much stuff that she couldn't close her garage, and the pile just continued to grow. It became a real problem in the ward, as it was a definite eye-sore, and significantly affected the value of the surrounding homes.

    The YM/YW volunteered many times to dedicate service time to clean it up, but she wouldn't hear of it. I drove by there a couple weeks ago while visiting my parents, and the situation is worse than ever.
    Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss

    There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock

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    • #3
      My grandpa was this way. He filled the garage attached to his house, then built a seperate 1500 sq ft garage and filled that. When he died it took 4 full dumpsters to get rid of everything.
      *Banned*

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      • #4
        I'm acquainted with a guy who wrote a book called "Clutter Busters" and goes into people houses to try to save relationships from these sorts of things. He's got some crazy stories. I've seen quite a bit of this myself and I have to think that it's pathological and not just a quirk. I'm probably too far in the opposite direction so some might disagree.

        I know a lady who wants to get divorced but can't because she would have to move and it would cost tens of thousands to move all the carefully labeled boxes of garbage that dominate her house.

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        • #5
          Oh my wife and I are so hooked on this show! I have found this behavior fascinating ever since seeing it on an episode of Oprah (for real) a few years ago. I find the different psychologists and organizational specialists just as interesting in their methods to help these people change their way of thinking.

          I watched one where a lady could not bear to throw away food, even when it was rotting on the counter or months past its expiration date. Finally the psychologist pulled out this box of chicken broth that was a year past its expiration and said "how much bacteria do you think would have to be in here to make this box puff out? Enough to kill you?"
          Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

          None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

          I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

          --Portland Ute

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Solon View Post
            Anyone else watching this?

            I can't turn it off.

            http://www.aetv.com/hoarders/

            http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...for_keeps.html

            More than one of these episodes has had a person literally choose his/her stuff over family after an ultimatum. It's sad, but compelling.

            My grandmother was a hoarder, no doubt springing in part from her roots in the Great Depression in rural Utah. When I was a kid I always thought there were treasures under all that stuff. But mostly it was just garbage (except for a 1st edition of Arrington's Great Basin Kingdom that I claimed one day).
            My mom and my father in law are hoarders.

            I was helping my father in law resod his front yard a couple of years ago and he brought out what he paid for sod in 1981 to do a comparison. Who the hell would keep a receipt for sod that they bought 25 year ago??
            "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

            "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Green Lantern View Post
              Oh my wife and I are so hooked on this show! I have found this behavior fascinating ever since seeing it on an episode of Oprah (for real) a few years ago. I find the different psychologists and organizational specialists just as interesting in their methods to help these people change their way of thinking.

              I watched one where a lady could not bear to throw away food, even when it was rotting on the counter or months past its expiration date. Finally the psychologist pulled out this box of chicken broth that was a year past its expiration and said "how much bacteria do you think would have to be in here to make this box puff out? Enough to kill you?"
              I must be weird weird. I hate to waste food, but have no problem getting rid of clutter. The fewer things we have in our house the better.

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              • #8
                MY wifes grandmother is exatcly like this. She actually went so far as to hire an attorney who supposedly will sue any family member that tries to clean the place up. A while back she had a stroke and the EMTs could barely get her out of there because of the small isles in between mountains of old newspapers/books/etc. It is so bad that that house is so full now, she lives in an aparentment and is filling that up while she still house the house packed to the brim. I have no idea how that floor is holding that weight. The last time I went in the house, some of the top newspapers in some rows were 15 years old and the stacks are 5 feet tall and 3 rows deep.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by ewth8tr View Post
                  MY wifes grandmother is exatcly like this. She actually went so far as to hire an attorney who supposedly will sue any family member that tries to clean the place up. A while back she had a stroke and the EMTs could barely get her out of there because of the small isles in between mountains of old newspapers/books/etc. It is so bad that that house is so full now, she lives in an aparentment and is filling that up while she still house the house packed to the brim. I have no idea how that floor is holding that weight. The last time I went in the house, some of the top newspapers in some rows were 15 years old and the stacks are 5 feet tall and 3 rows deep.
                  I've heard of people dying in fires because the firemen couldn't get in and they couldn't get out fast enough.

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                  • #10
                    So I am watching this right now. Fascinating.

                    This lady has had her children, her CHILDREN taken away, and has to clean up her house and get help to get them back. They have just entered the garage only and she can barely part with anything.

                    What a weird disease.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Gidget View Post
                      So I am watching this right now. Fascinating.

                      This lady has had her children, her CHILDREN taken away, and has to clean up her house and get help to get them back. They have just entered the garage only and she can barely part with anything.

                      What a weird disease.
                      This really highlights how sad this can be. Clearly there are psychological issues when one's possessions become more important than one's kids. I almost wonder if the people taking away her kids understand the severity of it.
                      Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

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                      • #12
                        When I pull up to my mom's house, I get the theme song to Sanford and Son in my head.
                        "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
                        The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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                        • #13
                          I am Hoarders obsessed! I think it is a good sign that I quickly delete them from the DVR when the show is finished though.

                          This show has become the show HFN Jr. and I watch together, then I must always say "This is what is going to happen if we don't clean the toy room" because he told me this morning that I say that every time we watch it.

                          This morning we watched the one with the farm animals and rabbits. WOW. We have the rat season finale on tap for while we pack this afternoon.
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                          -landpoke

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View Post
                            I am Hoarders obsessed! I think it is a good sign that I quickly delete them from the DVR when the show is finished though.
                            "I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"

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                            • #15
                              http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...ses-ever-seen/

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