Anyone watch this show?


They are cleaning this woman's house right now and so far they have found 2 rotting cat corpses...rotted until only bone and fur is left

11/30/2009 10:39:06 PM

bmel Samwise16 and i are


OMG
two dead and petrified cats under her rotting garbage and she didnt even KNOW!!!!!!!!!
and she is STILL trying to keep some of the shit
crazy

11/30/2009 10:40:28 PM

WTF? How do you forget two cats? I mean sure, buy some shoes and they get pushed to the back of the closet and you forget those ... but pets? Damn. I hate people.

11/30/2009 10:41:23 PM

I watch this show all the time, and this is the first episode that has made me cry

11/30/2009 10:42:41 PM

11/30/2009 10:47:45 PM

It makes me want to throw some shit away.....like during the commercial breaks.

11/30/2009 10:48:48 PM

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"WTF? How do you forget two cats? I mean sure, buy some shoes and they get pushed to the back of the closet and you forget those ... but pets? Damn. I hate people."

11/30/2009 10:49:35 PM

oh definitely


i just can't imagine not noticing molly or maddie is gone, and then (they estimated TEN YEARS) ten years later finding the body.....yuck

11/30/2009 10:50:19 PM

I guess the smell goes away after ten years, no?

11/30/2009 10:52:13 PM

well she has a lot of cats I think, but yeah that's ridiculous.

I cleaned out my mini fridge.

11/30/2009 10:52:21 PM

Well it's not like a normal person not realizing their pet is missing I guess. I'm sure this lady has deep-seated issues that are responsible, and she's either oblivious to things or apathetic.

11/30/2009 10:52:48 PM

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"CATEGORY FIVE HOARDER"

11/30/2009 10:53:43 PM

she claims to be an animal lover!



god, this woman is so ungrateful!

[Edited on November 30, 2009 at 10:58 PM. Reason : ok, now she is being good]

11/30/2009 10:57:25 PM

I am an animal lover and a pack rat. Oh noes.

11/30/2009 10:58:30 PM

^marry me(only for the tax benefits)

11/30/2009 10:59:08 PM

8 THOUSAND pounds of debris removed from her home

11/30/2009 11:00:17 PM

lol yeah everything you posted elise I said out loud during the show

11/30/2009 11:01:05 PM

WHOA workers on the next episode start yackin while cleaing

thats how you know its good...

11/30/2009 11:01:17 PM

lol, the one airing now or next week?

11/30/2009 11:02:16 PM

All these people are fat. Big surprise!

11/30/2009 11:04:17 PM

during this show they start throwing up.

11/30/2009 11:04:25 PM

^^haha

11/30/2009 11:05:04 PM

in on page 1 of this gay shit

11/30/2009 11:05:14 PM

HOW CAN PEOPLE RAISE CHILDREN IN THESE SHITHOLES???????

11/30/2009 11:05:19 PM

Yeah, that guy annoyed me the first time I watched that episode. Some of the shit he says when he might lose his fucking kids! really? really? the government is gonna take your kids, shut your gosh darn mouth and clean that shit hole up!

11/30/2009 11:09:30 PM

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"HOW CAN PEOPLE RAISE CHILDREN IN THESE SHITHOLES??????"

With as little as 40 cents a day.....

11/30/2009 11:45:45 PM

Haha. That refrigerator drawer was epic.

11/30/2009 11:49:27 PM

perhaps reality tv will be our death. passing judgment on people in the guise of helping them seems to be catching on.
when the lawyers have their way and nobody is held responsible for anything anymore i guess the food and shopping channels will be sued off the air and replaced with 24hr "You gonna TOTALLY hate these people" channels

11/30/2009 11:52:57 PM

What channel is this on?

11/30/2009 11:56:57 PM

11/30/2009 11:57:22 PM

what channel dangit

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 12:13 AM. Reason : thank you ]

12/1/2009 12:09:18 AM

settle down, beavis.

A and E.

12/1/2009 12:12:59 AM

A and E

12/1/2009 12:13:40 AM

12/1/2009 12:15:37 AM

Did they get the lady cleaned out and settled at the end? My roommate kept changing the channel.

I don't watch it routinely but somewhere around dead cat #2 I admit it drew me in.

Also, this got my attention:

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"CATEGORY FIVE HOARDER"

12/1/2009 12:49:27 AM

yeah they got her place all cleaned up. it still looked like a dirty old shithole, but at least it wasn't piled full of garbage.

the level 5 hoarder thing must be referring to how gross the person/house is. this lady was pretty willing to be filthy, but she didn't seem incredibly emotionally attached to stuff. the only stuff she was visibly upset about losing was her crocheting books because she makes money doing that stuff.

i watched an episode this morning about a guy who was somewhat organized, but just piled random stuff up everywhere, including like multiple rental properties he owns (doesn't rent them out). he wasn't willing to give anything up and they eventually stopped trying. they said the rental properties would rent for $4k/month..... and he's had them full of his shit for 20+ years. think of how much money that is............. insane.

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 2:55 AM. Reason : ]

12/1/2009 2:54:46 AM

show was stupid and boring. took too long to get going, they kept trying to push the story, that doesn't even matter, into the show which bored me...it sucked having to wait to get to see what type of shit was in the houses and they wasted my time by not just showing the cleanup. and it's fucking stupid because they're not even pushing the hoarders... tell the hoarders to shut the fuck up and throw their shit out.

12/1/2009 8:21:41 AM

Honestly, I think they could do more with this show.

Based on the episode with categorey 5 hoarder (the lady with 2 dead cats), the show basically seems to be about "look how much pain she causes her family and neighborhood from hoarding." No one seemed interested at all in figuring out why she continues to hoard in the face of so much pressure and to the detrement of her entire life (her second child was taken away because of her unsanitary living conditions). Normal, healthy people do not do this.

Heck, they did not even show anyone asking her *why* she is doing this to herself and her family.

If you are actually concerned with helping the person, diagnosing her underlying issues should be the first step. Otherwise she will simply fall back into the same old behavior.

Thankfully it looks like she is getting therapy now. But this show really seems to be more about "look how nasty this person is" than "lets help someone with a serious problem". Hopefully subsequent episodes will be better.

12/1/2009 8:36:05 AM

Have you never watched the show? Because they normally do ask why they do it, etc. One lady kept everything because her family was constantly moving and all she could ever get attached to is her stuff, then one day her dad burned all her things (in the 7th grade). So now she's super crazy and about keeping everything.

And last night they did address this lady's issues. She was talking about her mom constantly saying she shouldn't have had her and that she hated her. Seemed to me like the lady thought she wasn't worth anything and was like "why bother?" They also mentioned at the end how she is getting therapy by one of the main ladies helping on the show soooo I don't see how they weren't helping her out...

12/1/2009 9:48:59 AM

I watched last night at bed time.

This woman hoarded food. She had lived through times of poverty and at times didn't have a choice in what she ate or didn't eat. So she buys food when it is on sale. Lots and lots of food. An insane amount of food. The entire house was full of rotting food. And she was becoming upset that they were throwing out her food -- food that had expired years ago. She actually argued with them over throwing out organic chicken broth that had expired two years ago.

These poor people.

12/1/2009 10:14:39 AM

^^ Samwise16

no, i have never seen the show before.

And I don't see a clear logical chain between "my mom hates me" and "i must live in filth after decades of living a normal life". And the actual therapist they had on camera was never asked to connect the dots (or even to hazard a guess).

Now, I guess we (the untrained viewers) could make wild speculations about what was driving this woman's self-destructive behavior. The impression I got was that the woman actually lived a normal life until her second child's father left her. Maybe she entered some sort of cycle of depression that left her unable or just unwilling to care fore herself and her kid?

Like I said, I hope other episodes of the show gets better. If this was a rare miss, that's good to know.

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM. Reason : ``]

12/1/2009 10:18:16 AM

these folks are mentally ill. it'd be like asking a retard why he shits himself.

12/1/2009 10:22:06 AM

^ Yes, all mental illnesses are similar to a chromosomal disorder like down syndrome.

12/1/2009 10:26:17 AM

now you're getting it

12/1/2009 10:30:39 AM

I say these producers should take the hoarders out of the house, say go shopping for the day, and while they're out, burn the fucking house down, and bring the hoarder back to witness the last pieces go up in flames

12/1/2009 10:34:25 AM

watch some original hoarders...Grey Gardens (the documentary)

12/1/2009 10:37:17 AM

^4 Way to make a generalization and suggest all kids with Down's do things like shit themselves. I have met a girl with Down's who graduated on high school on time. Way to go.

Back to the topic, this lady was different than the ones I've seen before. But after hearing her talk about her mom it seemed just like you said, she had crazy depression and just couldn't care for herself. I thought it was sad when she didn't even know how to react to people doing nice things for her (like getting her the new recliner).

I was surprised she wasn't flipping out when they took her stuff though... The people I've seen before have panic attacks and shit because they can't handle the cleaners throwing out anything.

12/1/2009 10:40:30 AM

surely you don't think i was serious

12/1/2009 10:42:28 AM

the carat wasn't pointing to your post.

12/1/2009 10:42:52 AM

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"8 THOUSAND pounds of debris removed from her home"

And just a week after the producers of the show got their crew to stuff 9 thousand pounds of debris, including animal remains, into her home.

I don't believe/trust reality TV. People will do/say anything to get attention. That said I have seen homes that had garbage stacked to the windowsill.

12/1/2009 12:10:53 PM