Is This Recycling or Hoarding? | Scrimpers (Recycling Hoarders Documentary)

Scrimper: To be very frugal and sparing. What's the difference between a scrimper and a hoarder? Follow this series each week meeting extreme recyclers on the edge of hoarding and see how they turn trash into treasure.
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[@pixyrosejes7133]

There's nothing wrong with reusing, recycling, nor secondhand. 😌

[@StephanieJoRountree]

Totally agree!

[@Londonfogey]

True. It's why I prefer this programme to 'Extreme Cheapskates' which makes savers look weird and cheap. This programme is kindly and informative and celebrates the great British eccentrics.

[@martinasikk6162]

The man who sang had a nice and kind voice. 💕

[@GarouLady]

Plastic grocery bags you can cut up and make into Plarn and crochet them into sleeping mats and rugs for the homeless or a rug for your kitchen. They work great. It's only 1 stitch to learn and is a nice way to spend the winters when you can't go out.

[@pixyrosejes7133]

This is kindness.

[@loulou7963]

Seeing hoarders houses stresses me out so much I have to clean my house

[@pixyrosejes7133]

Seeing the opposite is good.

[@PerpetuallyAnnoyed]

Can you come and clean mine too pls 😀

[@ruthadamson4035]

Pound notes and queen mother, this is a few years old!

[@susiefairfield7218]

Coming from a Dutch family, we don't call it scrimping, we call it being thrifty

[@yes-ij1xg]

Stop making us dutch people look bad💀 being born and raised in the Netherlands, this is just a mess

[@susiefairfield7218]

@@yes-ij1xg yes, another ingrained attitude we Hollanders have...being super neat and tidy

[@roserosalie906]

momo danku 😂

[@susiefairfield7218]

Cleanliness is Godliness

[@DeniseHedberg66]

Wow that man sings very good!!

[@Jennifer-rj5bk]

That old lady is so precious 🥺

[@clarkkent1521]

I also have their same ability to turn discarded items into something practical and useful, but it would use a large amount of my time that would not be worth it. I grew up poor with parent who also "collected" things. But I find it better to work a well paying job, and then do your tinkering as a hobby. The justification that you could make a few dollars from this is poor reasoning and it's just an endless circle.

[@cl2nden1st89]

Being a scrimper seems normal and is completely different from obsessive compulsive hoarding (which is essentially a disease that causes the person and his loved ones more harm and grief than any good). *Imelda Marcos, besides being corrupt, is definitely a hoarder. Only difference being that she had lots of space and taste was rather extravagant, to say the least.

[@thatisamazingb5258]

Personally I think it takes a lot of talent to be a scrimped; especially to not become an excessive hoarder. It’s all about technique

[@rosscat1226]

really? do you know the difference between hoarding and collector?

[@thatisamazingb5258]

Roushan Cataps I meant in general, I recycle and yes I know the difference. If I recycle something to give it more life, I have a rule that something has to go. it is my cycle of not hoarding. I collect glass of different varieties, and am very picky of what I add to my COLLECTION. Just saying 🤷‍♀️

[@rosscat1226]

@@thatisamazingb5258 i was replying to the original comment about Imelda Marcos about being a hoarder because she got a lot of shoes. This [person is mixing politics with psychological disorder. And I totally agree with you. I am a scrimper myself, I keep thing i know i might use but after long time and have not used it then that means I dont actually nedd it and must be thrown.

[@annoyedaussie3942]

There is a lot of crossover, one can only be one or the other but scrimpers will usually be hoarders to some extent. I am both I guess but not quite to the extent of these documentary but definitely to the extent it's not healthy for me.

[@wendajones9040]

That first chap sang beautifully!

[@msbo5171]

Must be pre-1988 when the pound note was decommissioned. Love this old telly, reminds me of my younger days

[@fordrscosworth]

1994 google reports

[@StephanieJoRountree]

Love the little old lady at the end. She's clever!

[@sarahbirchall4071]

Love it, my Tribe ..

[@JoshuaOtusanya]

Make it a great day today. The choice is yours. -Josh Otusanya

[@PickingPaul1]

£2 for the scrimpers magazine at the end, what scrimper would pay £2 for a magazine? thats two weeks food budget

[@PickingPaul1]

i draw the line at using old mans pants for dish cloths, sorry

[@caroldurand6803]

This feels so innocent and cute compaired to the madness of today.

[@oddodium3048]

Everyone should live like this seriously.

[@thanksgivingturkey734]

Underpants to dishcloths? Ewwww im never going in her kitchen.

[@jackiewale5206]

I’m sure she gives them a good boil first , and not just takes them off and uses them .

[@GarouLady]

Nuts I live in the USA I wonder if they would send me a copy of that book or not?? Wish there had been more ways to scrimp and save on food.

[@twil2846]

Not likely any more. This episode is definitely something out of the 1990's, if not late 1980's. But hey, plenty of relics still hanging around the BBC offices, could be a giggle to request one.

[@twil2846]

Deciphered the date at the end, 1994!

[@Jibbie49]

In the '90s, Amy Dacynczyn wrote "The Tightwad Gazette" which was published later in 3 volumes still available on Amazon (and maybe at your Library.) She had 6 children (who all have turned out well, in fact her oldest son went to Harvard) and her books were about how she saved money, but then she always said "Do what YOU want." She had the most important thing: a husband who was totally helpful and supportive with her tightwad ways. He was 37 when he married her because he hadn't wanted a woman who'd waste his money. They are still happily married.

[@rutter1ify]

Lol this is 25 years ago😂

[@mrohlfsrohlfs4865]

@GarouLady I 'm also an American and wondered the same thing! I'd love to read that book. I've occasionally had luck requesting through my public library though. They borrow a copy through the InterLibrary Loan Program.

[@nepadron]

interesting but very ahm....dated.

[@syanibibi]

Oh God noo 🙏😅. I don't want to live like this. You can't recycle each and everything. So better not buy it in first place and if then send it to proper recycling center. After some years its just a pile over pile believe me. You don't really can't repair and reuse thing you can't really see.

[@planetarlet]

That show was very interesting with the visuals and sounds, I would like to see something like that in Las Vegas

[@ambeegaming76]

6:12 is that a pile of dogs on the floor?

[@Miss_Kisa94]

I don't mind people calling me a hoarder but I'm a very organized hoarder. Everything is labeled and put away in its proper place to be use for later.

[@Londonfogey]

I don't think there's anything wrong with that kind of hoarding if a. everything is kept labelled, clean and tidy and accessible and b. you are not using up space that could be used for a more profitable use, eg, renting out a spare room to a lodger.

[@Miss_Kisa94]

@@Londonfogey I would never rent a room out because I'm wary of strangers but yes I understand your point and agree =)

[@Londonfogey]

@@Miss_Kisa94 Fair enough. It could be something like a garage though. I know someone in London who has a garage filled with junk. I worked out he could potentially have made £30,000 in rent over the years that he has used it as a junk store! (parking places in London are worth a lot of money).

[@nataliebutler]

This is so charmingly English.

[@msbo5171]

Was the presenter the guy who narrated Mr Ben?

[@susanlansdell863]

Ms Bo Yes, Ray Brooks - one of the nicest voices for narration!xx

[@xxwoman]

What is that instrument that man is playing (the one singing Waste not Want not)???

[@nicolejenkins6074]

A zither possibly it looks like

[@AlanaBananaCanada]

My favorite was making your husbands disgusting stained underwear into dish rags. Just lovely

[@ivanrlynn]

Great for removing makeup too!!

[@tamasue928]

Me at the end of the month 😂😁😁

[@HelenaMikas]

When was this filmed and aired ? *

[@Jibbie49]

Someone says at the end it states 1994.

[@paulosullivan3472]

He was talking about a pound note, that was decommisioned in 1987 so it must be from 1987 or earlier.

[@Ad-Infinitum]

@@paulosullivan3472 It's not uncommon for people to speak in 'old money' for years after it's changed. Instead of 'pound coin' he still says 'pound note' but means the same thing. I've heard people speak in shillings long after there were none, that's how they worked out prices in their heads. I have an Australian friend who's lived in Europe for 5 years and still says dollars instead of Euro!

[@paulosullivan3472]

@@Ad-Infinitum I cannot prove otherwise but the proposed date of 1994 was the best part of a decade after the last note was destroyed, and this was for a TV programme you would think they would correct it. I would suggest Occams razor should be employed here, the simplest explanation is it was made before the pound note was decommissioned.

[@jaggae9]

At 24:12 you can see roman numbers at the bottom: MCMXCIV, which is 1994.

[@xxlukexxthebest5308]

Like ur vids

[@gracemartin4761]

:See title: My brain: i am confushion

[@leelee1749]

Julie? 😄 - Your Highness

[@PS-bs8oe]

With all thos great rusty nails, hope he uses and doesn't hoard his Tetanosshots😊 Have never ever felt the need of reusing rusty nails and bringing rust in my house compound..

[@shanephelan75]

I thought this was a great fascinating show....BTW I'm from Canada and not a scrimper.

[@sweetlilweirdo]

...I feel attacked ;-;

[@RPe-jk6dv]

pennywise and poundfool.

[@martinasikk6162]

The woman seems also very nice.

[@gaynordicksoncooper6108]

feel like this from the 80,s or 90,s looll

[@paulosullivan3472]

He was talking about pound notes so it has to be 1987 or earlier. Pound notes were replaced by coins then.

[@zenexhd5855]

Noice

[@Dedzigs]

#penguinz0

[@foofoowallace]

This was clearly filmed in the 90s

[@paulosullivan3472]

He was talking about a pound note, that was decommisioned in 1987 so it must be from 1987 or earlier.

[@Ad-Infinitum]

1994.

[@RPe-jk6dv]

wombles.

[@Londonfogey]

I don't understand why a bunch of crusties making a 'show' from setting coathangers on fire and exploding old camera bulbs never caught the public's imagination.

[@foppishdandy8621]

This is too fucking British for me.

[@qiannaanabiya2444]

1st one real

[@amymahoney4097]

@Qianna Channel.// Who, on KZbin, REALLY CARES.?*!?*! Please.. don't make remarks like that here; it make u look shallow, self-centered, & LAME!!!

[@xxlukexxthebest5308]

First

[@amymahoney4097]

@XxLukexX.// Who, on KZbin, REALLY CARES.?*!?*! Please.. don't make remarks like that here; it make u look shallow, self-centered, & LAME!!!