Anyone watch that Hoarders show on A&E?

[jekajekalynn]

I thought I was bad because I keep alot of things for sentimental reasons and I suck at organizing. Wow.. that show makes me want to spring clean every time I watch it.

I feel really sorry for those ppl who have that sort of mental disorder and their families.

 

[browneyes106]

I've watched the show a few times. I also save a bit too much stuff for sentimental reasons.

 

[3jsmommy]

I watched it with my DH, I throw everything out, while he saves a lot. (so I give a lot to the thrift shops on the sly)
He was like when he saw what the hoarders homes, as he is a neat freak!
A few days after we watched the show we saw a cab in times square and it had an ad on top of the roof. It was a clear "box" with actual newspapers piled up in it & it said "Hoarders on A&E". Best cab ad ever!

 

[rwdavis2]

After wathcing a couple times I went on a cleaning spree in the basement. Got rid of a ton of stuff I had not used in years. I heard those people saying they may need this or that some day and so anytime I came across an object like that I tossed it.

My mother says I'm not very sentimental but you can't keep everything. I thought my in-laws had been hoarders but they could not even hold a candle to the people on the TV show. It appears to be a really serious mental illness.
BD

 

[minkydog]

I watch Hoarders every week. My own mother is a hoarder as is one of my sisters. Mother lives in a large 4-bedroom home that is packed to the gun'hales with stuff. She can still access her kitchen, though the dining table is stacked high and unusable. She has very little available space on the counters but she is able to make her meals. She lives in her den, which actually isn't too bad, just cluttered. And her bedroom isn't completely awful, though she has piles and piles of stuff in there. The rest of the house is waist deep or higher with various papers, books, 30yo sewing patterns, cheap tourist knicknacks, pictures, bills, clothes, dishes and other unknown stuff. There are little rabbit trails in and out of those rooms.

MOther will not willingly part with ANYTHING. Everything has a story and NOTHING can be thrown out, given away, or recycled in any way. She NEEDS it all. Mother gets mad if I suggest helping her go through her stuff so now I just don't say anything. The situation is not quite a fire trap yet, but its bad enough that I can't take my son Christian over there. He's mentally handicapped and motor-challenged and all that piled up clutter is really a hazard to him. My mother would be mortified if I ever told her that, and perhaps at some point I will be forced to tell her. For now, I just don't take the kids down there more than once or twice a year. Sad. SHe loves her stuff more than her family.

 

[jekajekalynn]

I watch Hoarders every week. My own mother is a hoarder as is one of my sisters. Mother lives in a large 4-bedroom home that is packed to the gun'hales with stuff. She can still access her kitchen, though the dining table is stacked high and unusable. She has very little available space on the counters but she is able to make her meals. She lives in her den, which actually isn't too bad, just cluttered. And her bedroom isn't completely awful, though she has piles and piles of stuff in there. The rest of the house is waist deep or higher with various papers, books, 30yo sewing patterns, cheap tourist knicknacks, pictures, bills, clothes, dishes and other unknown stuff. There are little rabbit trails in and out of those rooms.

MOther will not willingly part with ANYTHING. Everything has a story and NOTHING can be thrown out, given away, or recycled in any way. She NEEDS it all. Mother gets mad if I suggest helping her go through her stuff so now I just don't say anything. The situation is not quite a fire trap yet, but its bad enough that I can't take my son Christian over there. He's mentally handicapped and motor-challenged and all that piled up clutter is really a hazard to him. My mother would be mortified if I ever told her that, and perhaps at some point I will be forced to tell her. For now, I just don't take the kids down there more than once or twice a year. Sad. SHe loves her stuff more than her family.

Wow... Everytime I watch that show , I wonder why psychologists come out for only some of the cases..I think there should be a doctor with ALL of them since these people clearly have some mental disorder and need help with that first I think.

I went on a cleaning spree a lil while ago and organized my dhs closet and the bathroom after I saw the episode who BLATANTLY said to the organizer that she cared more about her trash (which included dead animal carcasses ) then her own relatives.. so sad..

 

[minkydog]

I am NOT a saver. If I haven't used something in 2 years I re-home it. My philosophy is that if I ever need it again it will somehow come back to me. There is no need for me to save stuff. It drives my mother and my sister crazy! I have a lot of family pictures that I somehow came into. I'm going to show them to my 4 siblings and let them take what they want. I don't need them. I will keep a few and put them in a book, but I don't want to be a scrapbooking lady with a dining table full of papers and stickers. Nope. I will not be a slave to possessions.

You give me 3 more years. DH are already downsizing our stuff in anticipation of hitting the road in our RV. We have done 2 months trips before and I think we're up for longer ones. When you live in a 30-ft RV you really have to limit your goods. At this point we ask ourselves before buying anything--"Where will be put this in the camper?" That eliminates a WHOLE LOTTA stuff.