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post #31 of 42
7/26/11 at 10:37pm
I'm the same as Momto3boys and others, I throw away too much lol. Besides my books (which takes about 7 big boxes) all my things can fit in a duffel bag My husband wouldn't go as far as hoarding but he does tend to over save. He hid an empty soy sauce bottle from me last week so I wouldn't throw it away. He claims it'll come in handy someday, I say we'll have another empty soy sauce bottle then to use it for whatever it ends up being needed for.
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post #32 of 42
7/27/11 at 2:46am
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Originally Posted by CarolPetunia View Post
I don't know how to convince you... but for what it's worth, when I was hoarding, I was also stepping out of my apartment every morning well-groomed and well-dressed, going to work in a highly professional job at a great company, and earning a very good living. I was a responsible, upstanding citizen, despite my secret problem. I don't think I was trashy.
She didn't say all, just that some are, which I agree with. I believe the technical term is "chronic disorganization", but basically there are a few that appear to be hoarders and are misclassified as such by the show, but are really just complete slobs. Certainly you weren't among them from your description.

My only hoarding is that I have a bunch of clothes that aren't close to fitting me and that I haven't worn in years, some of them with the tags still on them and they are very nice. But I need to keep it there as a reminder that my fat ass needs to get back into the routine of running everyday, with the goal to get back into those!!!
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post #33 of 42
7/27/11 at 2:49am
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Originally Posted by Ducman69 View Post
She didn't say all, just that some are, which I agree with. I believe the technical term is "chronic disorganization", but basically there are a few that appear to be hoarders and are misclassified as such by the show, but are really just complete slobs. Certainly you weren't among them from your description.

My only hoarding is that I have a bunch of clothes that aren't close to fitting me and that I haven't worn in years, some of them with the tags still on them and they are very nice. But I need to keep it there as a reminder that my fat ass needs to get on the treadmill more often, with the goal to get back into those!!!
Me too!! I'll take them out and try to get them on whenever the brownies or chips are calling me!
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post #34 of 42
7/27/11 at 2:54am
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Originally Posted by CarolPetunia View Post
I don't know how to convince you... but for what it's worth, when I was hoarding, I was also stepping out of my apartment every morning well-groomed and well-dressed, going to work in a highly professional job at a great company, and earning a very good living. I was a responsible, upstanding citizen, despite my secret problem. I don't think I was trashy.
They had a woman on one episode that sounds like you were. She got up very early every morning to put together a nice outfit, do her hair and makeup. She looked very professional and put together every day. She was a compulsive shopper. Along with her house she had five storage units filled with multiples of everything like TVs and vacumn cleaners. She had the display boxes like a store filled with rings to choose from many of which had been bought from the home shopping networks. Of couse she was in trouble with her finances because of the compulsive shopping. Her home wasn't filled with trash, it was actually as clean as is possible with all the stuff she had bought. That's why I think they are actually combining different types of problems on these shows.
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post #35 of 42
7/27/11 at 6:09am
I lived next door to a hoarder for 5 years. No one knew it. She was a business woman, well dressed, well spoken and educated, went to work every day. While she was at work one day the landlord went in to fix something. There were piles of clothes up to the ceiling, garbage everywhere. One very small path from the living room to the bedroom. Just walls of debris. Piles of trash covering her windows and blocking the bathroom. How did she bathe?
She was eventually evicted and a few of us volunteered to help clean out the apartment. We just got one of those huge industrial dumpster and parked in under her window. We began tossing junk out.
She hadn't thrown out a newspaper or magazine for over 20 years!! I was very gun-ho about the cleaning until I began to find the skeletons of her deceased pets--yes, cats. I had to stop and walk away at that point.
I can't watch any of the shows. There always seem to be animals involved and that make me sick. There are plenty of resources available for hoarders, but what happens to these sick, neglected pets? They're not pets, they just more possessions people seem to collect to fill a void in their lives.
I guess I'm a hard-ass. If people want to live in filth and squalor go for it, mental condition, laziness, whatever, but when they start bringing innocent animals into the mix then I have issues with that abuse.
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post #36 of 42
7/27/11 at 2:37pm
Im really shocked and saddened at how many people here are dismissing the people on this show as "trashy" and "lazy". How can those of you who feel this way look at their homes/listen to their friends and family and not see the pathology? Someone who is lazy has a sink full of dishes - not a house full of feces/rodents/purchased items. I wonder if all those of you who are calling them "just lazy" also feel that people with germ/cleanliness related OCD are just "extra neat".

This show is clearly needed to educate those who dismiss this mental illness as laziness. This is a real issue where people and their families suffer. Im happy to see there is a TV show about it: at least it has people talking about the issue.

IMO, this thread should be in IMO.
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post #37 of 42
7/28/11 at 12:39am
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The Ron/Carol episode was just uploaded.

So per usual, another hoarder has a cat (what is up with almost all hoarders on this show having cats), but this one really rubs me the wrong way.

She can't stay in her house, so for six months she has been living in a compact pickup truck. Well, get this, while I usually support indoor cats, she has restricted her cat to living in the truck as well. And when she's not there, she puts the poor cat in a little cat carrier and its meowing all pathetically to be let out.

As I've said before, almost any home is better than no home for a cat so I'm not too picky, but this is definitely one of the homes where I would say they have a moral obligation to rescue her cat. I've seen far too many shows already where the hoarder didn't even realize there were cat skeletons found under the garbage.
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post #38 of 42
7/28/11 at 6:05am
I heard one of the clean-up guys, Matt, explain what he thought was going on with the cats. He called it easy love. They have pets there to love and feel as though they are loved by the pets but the pets make no emotional demands on them. He also said that they only recognize a few of the cats as theirs, the rest either belong to someone else or they are strays.
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post #39 of 42
8/3/11 at 11:22am
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With all of the hoarders having cats...

Here is a little switch on that, where this time its the cat hoarding! Be fun if they brought that psychiatrist from the show in to talk to the cat, and make Dusty start throwing away his prized junk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDX7t...rec_grec_index
"Dusty has apparently stolen more than 600 items from his San Mateo neighbors over the years."
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post #40 of 42
8/3/11 at 12:56pm
After consuming like 12 or 13 episodes in a 3-day period, I had to stop watching. Some of those stories really stayed with me and showed up in my dreams, lol. I want to watch some more, but I'll have to do it in moderation and follow it up with something warm & fuzzy.
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post #41 of 42
8/3/11 at 1:18pm
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Originally Posted by parsleysage View Post
After consuming like 12 or 13 episodes in a 3-day period, I had to stop watching. Some of those stories really stayed with me and showed up in my dreams, lol. I want to watch some more, but I'll have to do it in moderation and follow it up with something warm & fuzzy.
OMG! I watched about that many in the same amount of time! I also had Hoarder dreams. In one of them, there was a kitten crying and I was trying to find it in the mountains of garbage. That was probably caused by Thai doing his usual middle of the night Siamese yodeling! In another I was trying to find jewelry that I had lost, my wedding rings,etc. Strange!
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post #42 of 42
8/3/11 at 5:22pm
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Originally Posted by Februa View Post
Im really shocked and saddened at how many people here are dismissing the people on this show as "trashy" and "lazy". How can those of you who feel this way look at their homes/listen to their friends and family and not see the pathology? Someone who is lazy has a sink full of dishes - not a house full of feces/rodents/purchased items. I wonder if all those of you who are calling them "just lazy" also feel that people with germ/cleanliness related OCD are just "extra neat".

This show is clearly needed to educate those who dismiss this mental illness as laziness. This is a real issue where people and their families suffer. Im happy to see there is a TV show about it: at least it has people talking about the issue.

IMO, this thread should be in IMO.
Oh, thank you! It took me awhile to come back to the site after reading some of the comments in this thread. I only confessed to my former problem because I thought it might help inform people and ease the stigma, just as you said... but it doesn't seem to have worked. Your post means a lot to me.
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