What Happens When Two Hoarders Get Married? | Hoarders

[@Shotleythinktank]

I was engaged to a man whose parents moved out of 3 different homes-all still in their ownership-due to severe hoarding. One of those homes had to leave the heat on to prevent a buried waterbed from freezing!!! Yet every Monday morning they were at their locale Salvation Army Thrift-store when the weekly truck arrived bringing statewide donations to that store. I always wondered about the money spent on things they didn’t need nor had space for and could still afford to be retired?

[@CarnabooClarke]

They say married people look alike..😂

[@chrishancock42]

Great job 👏 They worked so hard to clear their home and minds! 😊

[@ros8986]

FYI - compulsive hoarding disorder is a mental disability which actually is often inherited. it functions as an addiction and is hard to manage/overcome but it can be done. Lectures by Dr Randy Frost and books he co-authored "Stuff" and "Buried in Treasures" (which is workbook for overcoming and managing compulcive hoarding disorder) are excellent.

[@simply.clutterfree]

My mother was a hoarder and I became a shopaholic. I thought I was "okay" because I was able to declutter things. But I never stopped shopping. Just buy-declutter- buy cycle for years. It took a lot of inner work to deal with the shopping addiction - and now I'm a minimalist! 😊

[@ros8986]

@@simply.clutterfree please let me express my HUGE respect for your accomplishment. I am also a minimalist. If you haven't read it, I love Fumio Sasaki's "Goodbye Things" (but perhaps it doesn;t have anything to add to your life) I got it as my free intro to Audible.

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[@sherreywurz731]

They'll just fill it up again

[@CraigsOverijse]

Anyone else notice her getting upset at her husband keeping the Bully figure meanwhile hanging onto loads of stuff herself she clearly was applies a rule for his hoarding she does not apply to her own hoarding. Poor woman must be exhuasting living like that your whole life. I hope now thatshe can get help for her mental health and stop the cycle.

[@alanbirkner1958]

Three of us are in a 2BR apartment near Chicago. Every day I toss garbage and recycling. I have a pile of books and magazines for the library and a bag for Goodwill. I'd toss more stuff, but lots of stuff isn't mine. Tina, Al's wife

[@DRventura333]

Interesting, this is the first case we've watched where the spouse took on the hoarding disease from the other spouse. Usually one spouse is the hoarder and the other one is clean. She learned the hoarding from her parents, knew what should be a clean house, but she still became a hoarder. She even says goes on vacation to get away from the mess. She is an interesting case. That house is very dangerous to walk around; definite fire hazard and health hazard. Hope they receive the help they need; mentally and emotionally.

[@Ccamero123]

There are plenty of duo hoarders on the A&E channel. It’s horrendous.

[@annwilliams6438]

No ways were they going to get these two to put stuff in the skip! Why bother getting one to start with?

[@jb6712]

I thought that was two men who were "married." The damage done to the apartment---if I did that here, I'd be evicted and sued, then blacklisted from every rental agency in MIssouri!

[@glenncheatham1320]

You can clean it up/out, but it’s a waste of time & effort. It will be filled up again shortly.

[@Whoever68]

I get what you’re saying and you might be right but don’t you think that it’s worth the effort? It’s like saying to someone with a terminal disease such as cancer, we’ll give you this treatment but the cancer will return regardless. I say it’s worth the effort.

[@Ccamero123]

@@Whoever68I agree. They are still young enough to help.

[@Bonbon-C]

Birds of the same feather make a good feather duster!

[@stefankurlak9556]

It never ends

[@nealdmiller]

a second story shute would save a few steps-yes?

[@jb6712]

No, but maybe a CHUTE would have helped.

[@mariannevontrapp1063]

The did brilliant 👏

[@Cameron-n3b]

Im not sure how hoarding things and destroying hour life and house is bringing comfort to hoarders!??!!? I understand its now a recognised mental illness but how were hoarders dealt with before that???

[@kensiblonde4203]

You don’t see the full effect. You simply know when you pick up one thing, you can find a million reasons why you shouldn’t get rid of it. It’s really insidious.

[@jb6712]

The only reason it's so noticed now is because of such things as "reality" tv and the Internet. Nothing in the world is truly private or kept out of sight, and there are people who are eagerly willing to exploit the things others do just to get views, ratings, "likes," and even a fleeting bit of notoriety and fame. That was my long answer; short answer is, hoarding has been done for centuries, it was just kept out of sight by simply not letting anyone into the hoarded dwelling.

[@Ccamero123]

We just called them pack rats. I think people just left them to their hoard until they died.

[@mattr.1887]

I've wondered that myself. What did hoarders do back in the old days, before they could go out and buy stuff regularly? I would hope that some of them were simply more functional. But I figure some others were still very unstable people. Maybe they didn't hoard, but they may have been violent or seen as very fake and shallow to some people. Some may have even resorted to theft. I am just speculating.

[@MartinsNewTeeth]

Is it really a hoard if it includes Doctor Who stuff?!😂

[@gillianbrookwell1678]

Well what a surprise; ANOTHER REPEAT as always!

[@Ccamero123]

I hate to say it but I’ve seen much, much worse on these shows! Their staircases were clear.

[@minombre5555]

One word .....lazy

[@jannaline9007]

One word :depression 😔

[@CraigsOverijse]

one word.... judgemental ( this means you not them, she clearly has a lot of mental health issues what is your excuse?)

[@kensiblonde4203]

Definitely not that. My great grandparents were hoarders. They worked harder than you ever will.

[@CraigsOverijse]

@@kensiblonde4203 ignore some people have no understanding of mental illness also I think thst people who lived through massive gloabl depressions and world wars were taught to hang onto items