A reality-TV show that features compulsive hoarders--people who are addicted to filling their homes with objects--and how that spills out into their lives.
Genre: Documentary, Reality-TV
Cast:Robin Zasio , Matt Paxton , Cory Chalmers , Dorothy Breininger , Suzanne Chabaud , Melva Green , David Tolin , Michael Tompkins , Geralin Thomas , Mark Pfeffer , Standolyn Robertson , Scott Hannan , Renae Reinardy , Elizabeth Moore , Darnita L. Payden , Brenden McDaniel , Sara Bereika , David Cutts
Jill and Richard suffer from hoarding and are raising their three kids in a house filled with junk. They have been cited by the city on numerous occasions. Jill is a mother who once lived in poverty. She has a problem hoarding food.
Linda's compulsive shopping has filled her house with piles of bags and boxes. Her husband left her three years ago because he could not cope with her hoarding. Meanwhile Steve's apartment has also been accumulating garbage. His landlord has given him one week to clean it out.
Tara has been reported to her landlord and needs to clean out now or she'll be homeless. She's an obsessive collector, favoring things like McDonald's Happy Meal toys, nativity scenes, snow globes and hundreds of teddy bears. Now Tara must finally get control of her hoarding and part with most of the clutter in her home or face eviction.
While most 21 olds see a world of possibility in front of them, Jake wakes up every morning despondent at the state of his life--a prisoner to his hoarding and OCD. Jake compulsively hoards garbage. Snack wrappers, empty bottles, and rotting food are strewn in every room of the two bedroom town home he shares with his alcoholic father.
Kerrylea and her husband Geoffrey are facing imminent foreclosure on two houses. After her hoarding filled the first home she convinced her husband that the only way to solve her lifelong problem was to buy an additional home, move just what they needed, and sell the original home. But with neither home sold,
Patty and David appear to be living the American dream. But their secret hides behind the manicured yard of their new home. Patty's hoarding has taken over the entire house and their children were removed by authorities. Now, if the family is to have any hope of ever getting their children back, Patty must overcome her compulsive shopping and hoarding and clean out her entire home.
Paul maintains his own private junk yard in his backyard, front yard and side yard. He wants to sell the junk for scarp but also doesn't want to get rid of it. Now he faces jail time on a law passed just for him. Missy's son has ADD and has an emotional attachment to everything in his room like most kids are attached to their blanky. It's no help that Missy is also a hoarder.
14 years ago Jason was removed from his mother Augustine's home by Child Protective Services because of her hoarding. She was never able to clean up enough to have him return. Now, as an adult living on the other side of the country, he is filled with shame and resentment, but unable to turn his back on her.
When rescue workers were called to Judi's home they found her stuck in massive amounts of clutter and were forced to remove her through the kitchen window. The city condemned her home and she was placed in a rehabilitation facility. But time is running out. Medicare will stop paying in two weeks and Judi has nowhere to go.
After the death of her newborn son, Chris filled the void by surrounding herself with possessions. Attention Deficit Disorder makes it impossible for her to focus long enough to clean up. She's now at risk of losing custody of her daughters who are still living in the house.
Bob and Betsey's home is filled with broken furniture, appliances, food, piles of clothes, mounds of books and toys. An invasion of fleas and bed bugs has forced them and their four children into a tent in the backyard where they have been living for the last two months.
Julie lost custody of her son to her ex-husband due to hoarding and now risks losing two other children. Shannon, her husband Tim, and their four young children live in a house that is filled with garbage and infested with mice.
Deborah fears her hoarding will lead authorities to take her children away again. Jim manages a successful honey business as a bee keeper but at home he is a compulsive hoarder.
Linda's family has been ripped apart by hoarding. She wants nothing more than to have a relationship with her grown children, but they refuse to come near her house which is packed waist and neck high with piles of belongings. Despite Linda's threat to commit suicide her family has made an ultimatum: clean up or her husband Shelton will divorce her and the kids will completely cut her off.
Janet's picture perfect life crumbled when her husband of 32 years died while waiting for a heart transplant. Devastated, her hoarding spun out of control and she has now hit rock bottom. She turned to shopping and began filling her home with decorating supplies, in the vain hope of completing a home remodel her husband had wanted to do.
Gail's house is literally falling in around her. With no heat, cracking walls, a leaking ceiling and bowing floor boards, Gail desperately needs to make repairs but can't because the house is packed full. Gail has to go in for major surgery in two weeks and without a clean up and repairs, she will have no place to recuperate.
Tra is a 40 year-old firefighter living two separate lives. At his firehouse, he is expected to live in a clean and structured world. But in his home, he lives in chaos, surrounded wall-to-wall by hoarded possessions. Now, these two worlds have collided and fellow firefighters are worried that Tra's hoarding is affecting his performance on the job.
28-year-old June lives in a mobile home filled with keepsakes like Care Bears and Cabbage Patch dolls. She's not only facing violations of the city's fire codes, but a strained relationship with her 13-year-old daughter, Tori. There is constant tension between mother and daughter and Tori has threatened to abandon her mom as soon as she turns 18.
Dennis and his wife Nadene are compulsive hoarders who blame one another for the clutter and mess that has completely consumed their home. Dennis, a retired cop with an arsenal of guns and knives, has retreated to his bedroom in declining health.
This family of 14 was the Brady Bunch of the block--until mother Claudie's hoarding tore the family apart and turned them all into the pariahs of the neighborhood. The house is so bad that Claudie is now sleeping in a homeless shelter. Her husband moved away and sent her divorce papers with an ultimatum: clean up or sign.
The small paths in Michelle's house are the only way she can get to her collection of more than 60 birds. Her husband of 30 years has been chased from the home by the animals and the hoarded piles that in some places reach five feet high. Michelle must now put her family's needs ahead of her birds and clean the house so that her husband can come home.
In this special follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Jill, Jake, Betty, Bill and Paul from our first season.
Just weeks before he died, Adella's estranged husband asked their daughter to help her mother clean up one last time. Adella's hoarding has already cost her a previous house, her marriage and relationships with her children.
Gordon and Gaye, along with their two grown children, have been given 72 hours to vacate their house. City Code Enforcement has served them with a condemnation notice if they don't clean up a lifetime of hoarding.
Carolyn's seven-year-old daughter is so distraught about her mother's hoarding that she has been leaving notes around the house saying, "It would be better off if I were killed.
The stench emanating from Robin's home can be smelled from the street. The garbage inside is piled from floor to ceiling and the house is literally caving in around it.
She has terminal cancer and is in fragile health, but sleeping or resting is nearly impossible for Laura. The only open spot she can lay her head on is two-thirds of the living room couch. A couch surrounded by plastic bins, toys, boxes, scrapbooking and crafts supplies, rotting furniture, magazines, and a carpet stained by cat urine.
Vula is hoarding more than 30 sickly cats that have completely destroyed her home. They have used every square inch of the house as a litter box, including the kitchen, which is filled with piles of hoarded food. Animal Control and the city attorney have now stepped in, leaving Vula no choice but to clean up or face eviction and the demolition of her home.
Kathleen's hoard is so bad that her son gave up his college scholarship for fear of leaving his 16-year-old sister home alone with their mother. The kitchen doesn't function and the hoard is being used to support sagging doorways to unusable rooms.
After losing a cousin on 9/11, Dawn's hoarding spiraled out of control, filling much of the house and part of the yard. The city will impose fines of $1000/day if she doesn't clean up.
Tami is battling cancer and her last hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. But the condition of her home is getting in the way of her treatment.
Mary Lynn's 14 year-old-son Jacob would rather be in foster care than live with his own mother in her hoarded house. He recently fabricated a story about his mother beating him as a means of getting Child Protective Services involved.
Not even losing several inches of her intestine to gangrene has stopped Theresa from hoarding and eating expired food. She has also spent the bulk of her husband's retirement funds on thousands of luxury handbags and shoes.
Al used to take his three-year-old son dumpster diving, but Child Protective Services recently removed the child from his home. Al's hoarding has become such an eye-sore that he's also facing $2,500 a day in fines by the county. Julie's hoarding has reached such great heights that no one realized a homeless woman was living among the mounds of stuff in her basement.
Lloyd is facing fines and homelessness unless he cleans up his property. Carol's husband refuses to live at home unless Carol starts throwing stuff out.
Arline's hoard has reached such immense proportions that her six-foot-three husband Richard has been sleeping in his car each night in the oppressive heat of a Hawaii summer. He is trying to recover from heart and prostate surgery in the car because it's a better option for him than the inside of his home.
On August 6th, the Police, the Fire Department, C.P.S. and Code Enforcement all descended upon Jim's house and told his family it was uninhabitable. Because of decades of hoarding, he is estranged from his siblings and his children. If he does not clean up now, Jim and his wife will be homeless and the grandchildren that he has custody of will become wards of the state.
Andrew's home is an eyesore in a neighborhood of million dollar homes. The exterior and interior are completely hoarded, there's no running water, and Andrew has allowed a homeless man to create a makeshift shelter in his front yard. Now Andrew's brother has called Adult Protective Services.
19-year-old Andrew's mother is a hoarder, and after living in the hoard his entire life, he has learned no other way to live. Stuck in a hoarded house, with no job, no motivation and no direction, Andrew says he needs to get his hoarding under control now in order to have a chance at a normal life.
Mary has blown through over $200,000 of an inheritance buying items for the consignment shop she owns. But many of the items never make it from her hoarded home into her cluttered store. Her family says she will go broke by January unless she immediately gets help with her shop and her house.
Hannah has hoarded herself and her 200 chickens out of her house and is now living with the chickens in a windowless, unheated trailer. As winter sets in, she and her chickens face freezing to death if their original home is not cleaned out so they can all move back in.
A collection of 2500 free-roaming rats have hoarded Glen out of his home and into a shed on his property. Originally bred as pets, the rat collection spun out of control upon the death of his wife. Now Glen needs help removing the animals so he can return home, but he has insisted that they be saved and adopted out.
Every room in Phyllis' house is packed with dolls. Her obsession has manifested itself into a floor to ceiling collection of bags stuffed with dolls, and a doll hospital in a spare bedroom where she "amputates" the limbs of one doll to make another complete. Now, her son is threatening to call Adult Protective Services if she doesn't get a handle on her compulsion.
Billy Bob's house is so filled with toys and games, puzzles, cars, dolls and stuffed animals that he can no longer maneuver through the paths. The hoard has strained relationships with his children and his wife. In declining health, Billy Bob must now part with his collections or become a prisoner in his own home.
In this special Hoarders follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Augustine, Deborah, Dennis and Nadene, Bob and Judi from Season Two.
Roy is facing $20 million in fines from the county for hoarding hundreds of vehicles on his property. Loretta and her husband were robbed at gunpoint and later had their home looted by thieves. They started over in a different neighborhood but the trauma and loss triggered Loretta's compulsion to hoard everything in their new home.
Randy's boardwalk memorabilia collection fills a 20,000 sqare foot building and numerous tractor trailers. He's spent millions on his fantasy world known as Randyland--but it's never been open to the public. Vicki's hoarding is breaking up her family. Not only is her husband ready to walk away from their marriage, but their 15-year-old son wants to move out as well.
Ron's home is filled from top to bottom with paper--books, thousands of pages of sheet music, old newspapers, magazines and assorted trash.Ron must clean his home now or quite possibly die in it. Vivian's husband used to commute between his business in Detroit, Michigan and their home in California. But eventually his wife's hoard pushed him out of the home and into a hotel.
Beverly has been obsessively recording thousands and thousands of hours of audio and video for decades. Her home is filled with TV's and recorders, her yard piled high with boxes of tapes and her walls hidden behind floor to ceiling stacks of video cassettes. One of Beverly's daughters is threatening to report her to social services if she doesn't get help. Megan's home is hoarded and mouse-infested. Family Services has made several visits, but so far, Megan has managed to avoid letting them in the house. With the birth of a brand new baby, the house is currently unsafe to live in, so Megan, her husband Steven and their three kids are living in a motel. In order to get back into their home and avoid the risk of losing custody of all three of her children, Megan must now clean up.
Becky's hoard fills 16 separate storage units and the monthly fees have driven her into debt. Currently living with her son and his fiancé, she has also started to hoard in their house. Fed up, they have given her until the end of the month to get rid of her hoard and move out. Because of her hoarding, Clare was forced by the Sheriff's Department to undergo involuntary mental examination and then banned from her own property until it is cleaned. She is staying with a friend while her son and his girlfriend have been living in a storage shed in the backyard with no running water. If Clare doesn't clean up her home, she risks losing her house and leaving her son homeless.
Stacey has two days to get rid of the 47 dogs and cats that have taken over her house. They have ripped everything to shreds and forced her 14-year-old daughter to move into her brother's home. Roi has already been in jail twice due to his hoard. And now the fire department has kicked him out of his house because of a gas leak buried deep in piles and piles of belongings.
Lisa is an active chef, a member of various cooking groups, an expert on historical cooking gadgets--and a compulsive food hoarder. Even though she lives in an affluent DC neighborhood in a million-dollar home, her kitchen mirrors a slum. Bertha delivers newspapers for a living, stopping along the way to pick through her client's trash looking for "treasures" to bring home.
This one hour special updates viewers on what has happened to 5 of our hoarders 1 year after they received crisis assistance from the Hoarders Team. The stories include: Vula who was about to lose her cat hoard and her hoarded home to the city and animal protective services; Dumpster diving Al, whose 3 year old son had been removed from the hoarded home by child protective services; Jim whose exterior and interior hoard was so extreme, the city had condemned the property and his family was no longer allowed to return home without a clean up; Arline whose hoard was so bad her ailing husband was forced to sleep in a car: and Glen, the man with 2500 rat hoard running through his house.
Kevin is the youngest son of renowned political strategist and a silver screen star--both of whom have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He grew up in a huge mansion living a charmed life. But now Kevin has hoarded himself out of this Upper East Side Manhattan apartment and sleeps on a bench in front of the building.
John is a retired corrections officer living in a house with more than 30 cats hiding in the walls and ceilings. They run wild through most of the home and all surfaces are covered with cat feces and urine.
Judy hoarded herself out of her house and used cancer surgery as an excuse to stay with her friend Linda. A few weeks turned into a ten months nightmare of Judy hoarding and squatting in Linda's home. Now Linda and her family are ready to kick Judy out--cancer or no cancer. Judy needs to clean up before she ends up homeless.
Ronald is a fire-fighter who is legally mandated to report hoarded homes. In this case the hoarder is his wife, Eileen, and the house is his own. Eileen has destroyed not only her 3,200 sq. ft. home, but her relationships with her husband and six sons. Her son Steven has threatened to turn Eileen in to the health department if the living conditions are not improved for his four younger brothers.
Wilma's hoard has done so much damage to her home that the city has deemed the structure uninhabitable. Regardless, she is illegally squatting there and if she doesn't clean up, her property will be condemned. She takes no responsibility for her hoarding and the impact it has had on her three grown children
Mike's house is so toxic that a virus she contracted in the home caused her kidneys to fail and almost killed her. Her doctor advised her not to return to the home until it was thoroughly cleaned. Bonnie is a 46-year-old single mother of two teenage daughters, neither of whom can remember ever having a clean house.
Paramedics rushing to save a woman's life lose precious time when they're forced to climb over the hoard they find in Norman's house. Officials on the scene immediately call the Fire Chief and the Fire Marshall because the home presents a huge fire hazard to the neighborhood. Ever since Linda's husband died ten years ago, she has been adding to a hoard that has now spiraled out of control.
Barbara has been a hoarder her entire life. The daughter of a dumpster-diver, Barbara's hoarding spiraled out of control after the deaths of her two sons, one to cancer and the other to a gun accident. Richard used to be the ma tre d' at fancy restaurants, but his life went downhill when he developed a compulsion for the clearance sale items which now fill his entire home.
Mary's obsession includes hoarding cats, and her friends and family have no idea about the horror that awaits them when they walk through her door. Annie cleans houses for a living, but unbelievably is a hoarder in her own home, where she lives with her son, who grew up in the hoard, and her husband, who has Parkinson's disease and cannot get through the clutter.
Carrie's hoarding stems from a long string of abuse at the hands of family members, and she compulsively shops to "protect" herself. James is an ex-Marine whose home is filled with bowling balls and broken workout equipment, but he insists he's not a hoarder, and that hoarding is not a disorder.
The trauma of dealing with Joanne's hoarding was so bad for her daughter that she has developed post-traumatic stress disorder. After two divorces and experiencing the horror of assault, Kristy began shopping to escape her pain, but her hoarding drove her daughter out of the house and forced Child Protective Services to remove her son.
Barbara trolls for stuff in alleyways and dumpsters, and her hoarded home sits in a million-dollar neighborhood where the neighbors look on in disgust. Fred and Mary live in a house filled with cobwebs and cockroaches, but they don't seem to notice. It's gotten so bad that Fred has end-stage COPD, probably caused by all the filth.
Kathleen's hoarding began after her husband was killed in a train accident. Her hoarding not only fills up her own house, it's filling up her daughter's house, too, where Kathleen has been living. Scott has bought hundreds of houses, buildings, barns, and semi's and filled them with things he buys at auctions, including stuff from a computer store, construction store, hotel supply store and more.
Dee blew through a $150,000 legal settlement to fulfill her hoarding obsession, and her daughter, Talia, could write a book about how damaging it is to be a hoarder's child. But now Talia says she will cut her mother out of her life forever if she doesn't get help. Jan admits she's a pushy, belligerent woman who's been living in filth for years.
Verna is a hot-headed ex-cop, ex-drug trafficker, and ex-prison inmate who has cleverly evaded laws against hoarding by arguing that her hoard was her artistic expression. But now Verna, who has diabetes, is hospitalized, and the hospital refuses to let her return home unless it's cleaned up. Joanne's house has gone from immaculate showplace to garbage pit.
Anna tried to hide her hoarding from her family, but when her suspicious daughter snuck into the house to take pictures, Anna's secret was finally exposed. Claire and Vance love to collect books, but they've overdone it--their house contains an astounding half-million books, and they even sleep in little burrows carved out of towers of thier books.
Chickens roam all over Constance's property, where she runs a "fresh egg" operation. But some eggs aren't refrigerated, some are growing into embryos, and some just stink up the air. Constance is a food hoarder, and unless she gets help, her daughter will contact the authorities. Jeri Jo is married to a convicted murderer who's in jail for life, and she claims her loneliness causes her to hoard.
Debra has filled her house with an avalanche of clothes and run up a $50,000 credit card debt. Fed up, her husband and children are threatening to leave her to wallow in the hoard by herself.
Doug, who suffered severe brain trauma and memory loss in an accident, hoards items he feels might trigger his memories. Ruth has turned her beautiful home into a shrine for the three members of her family who died there.
Charles' house is filled with thousands of the nude paintings he has done. His obsession with women and painting is so extreme that it's destroyed his marriages and left his family worried that he may end up hurting himself.
Shanna owns the worst hoard in "Hoarders" history - a house crammed floor to ceiling with bottles filled with human waste. Meanwhile, Lynda is hoarding stuff for the Armageddon. She believes she's going to be raptured, and she wants to leave plenty of stuff behind for those who won't be going to heaven with her.
Joni's hoarding drove her two sons to turn to drugs to cope, and it forced Child Protective Services to take her granddaughter away from her. She has one last chance to stop the vicious cycle of loss she has inflicted on her family.
Manual was living in his hoarded house with his four children, ages 5, 6, 7, and 9. They are the love of his life, but they were removed by Child Protective Services and Manual won't get them back unless he cleans his act up.
Susan `s addicted to buying and selling cars and electronics, but she never manages to sell much. Recently, when Susan was out prowling for more stuff, someone broke into the house, bound and gagged her wheelchair-bound mother at gunpoint.
Terry's fridge is packed with dead cats, and she has another 50 live ones. Her son thinks her problems stem from the time her father died of a heart attack right in front of her she was just a small child.
BG and Lee have filled their million-dollar Victorian home with hoards of stuff--and now are even competing to see who can bring in the most stuff.
Jan is in denial about her hoarding--one of her daughters compares her to a venomous viper ready to strike if you dare talk about throwing anything out. Bebe was raised with servants and boarding schools, and her husband gave her everything she desired.
Merlene had it all--an international supermodel married to the son of the inventor of the Lear Jet. But her storybook life fell apart when she got divorced and now her house is crammed to the ceiling with her dumpster dive finds.
A victim of abuse as a child, Diana's hoarding became so extreme that her daughter was forced to sleep in a recliner because the trash had overtaken her room.
A pair of former punk rockers, Fuzzie and Fred are living like teenagers well into middle age, work at a porn shop, and have stuffed their home with records, toys, comic books, ghoulish masks and mannequins.
Find out what happened to five of our most memorable hoarders years after they faced a crisis due to their hoard. Did the help from the Hoarders Team ultimately change their lives for the better or did they revert back to their old ways? Viewers will get a front row seat as our experts (Dr. Robin Zasio, Matt Paxton, Dr. Suzanne Chabaud, Dorothy Breininger and Standolyn Robertson) embark on a journey to find out the surprising results of Constance-the chicken egg hoarder who received a new house; Shannon-the woman who lost her children to child protective services due to the hoard; Kevin-the son of famous millionaire parents who had hoarded himself out of his Upper East Side NY apartment; Augustine-the woman who consistently chose her hoard over her children; and Ruth-a woman who buried the pain of the tragic losses of her husband and two sons by hoarding herself into the home.
This 1-hour special focuses on a Massachusetts family and will feature live segments culminating in an all-live intervention. The episode will also feature the story of a second hoarder who faces jail time if he doesn't pass a final city inspection.
Two women are at a major crossroads in their lives due to hoarding. Joyce's husband is ready to break up their 38-year marriage if she doesn't clean up; Kimberly is facing eviction if she doesn't address her hoard.
22-year-old Yama keeps shopping and hoarding to preserve the memory of her deceased mother. Michelle's obsession with shopping is putting her home in such a catastrophic condition that she faces losing her little boys to child protective services.
Ruthann promised her cousin that she would turn their historic house into a bed and breakfast when it was sold to her but instead she has destroyed the crown jewel with her cat and antiques hoarding. Ruthann blames the situation on "the other woman" who happens to be her daughter that ran off with her boyfriend and had kids with him.
Two hoarders are living in life threatening conditions. Cynthia has a debilitating auto immune disease and lives in a hoard that could make her illness deadly. Meanwhile, Ricky sleeps in a house packed with paper and other flammables that are one spark away from an inferno.
David's three-acre hoard has been deemed a "blighted property" by the city and he risks losing his home if he doesn't get it cleaned up. Nora has been hoarding to deal with the devastating death of her son and has kept this habit a secret from her sisters for over a decade.
Brian is the president of his condo HOA. He sets the rules of upkeep for tenants but his life contradicts his work as he lives in a hoard that would force any other tenant to be evicted. Coral has to choose between keeping her hoard or rekindling a romance with a long lost love.
Michelle's husband is a recovering alcoholic and his sobriety is in real danger due to her massive doll hoarding. Mary's house is ground zero for the rat population in the neighborhood because of her hoard and the neighbors are about to report her to authorities due to fear of hantavirus and plague carrying rodents in the region.
Doris has nearly hoarded herself out of her own home and resorts to sleeping on the patio due to the fact her hoard occupies every room in her house from floor to ceiling.
Laura's hoarding has taken over so much of her house that her partner has resorted to sleeping in the garage and her teenage daughter is forced to share a bed with Laura. If Laura doesn't clean up, her partner is threatening to leave her and sue her for full custody of their daughter.
Judy's life is a dangerous one of severe contradictions. She is an extreme germaphobe who spends her entire day engaged in sanitization rituals, yet she lives in a severe and extremely filthy hoard overridden with mice whom she considers her friends. The situation is so hazardous to her health the fire department and health department have mandated a clean up.
Roxann is a vibrant, beautiful 32-year old mother and former model who has successfully hidden her hoarding until now. She fears Child Protective Services will intervene if she doesn't clean up her hoarded home. Barbara's extreme hoarding has forced her out of her house. The city is ready to condemn the home and do a forced cleanup if she doesn't take care of the problem.
Jackie has filled her 4,000 square foot San Francisco hillside home with $1 million of teddy bears. Will she clean up the ocean of bears or lose her house? Richard previously agreed to his family's pleas for an emergency cleanup of his home during Hoarders Live. Will Richard take this chance to change his life?
Ruby, aka Big Momma's house, is so hoarded she spends her entire day living in the car, and her grandson has started running the streets of LA. If she doesn't clean up, her daughters will call Adult Protective Services. Mary's historic home in the Napa Valley is filled with so much stuff, her two young children are in danger of being removed from the home by Child Protective Services.
Ailing couple, Ben and Robins's hoarding is so severe that EMT's can no longer access their home for emergencies. Kevin is hiding a hoard of sexual paraphernalia in his home from his family by living in a hotel.
Dorothy and David fell in love with each other over their mutual love of hoarding. Their home is so packed now it has become physically unsafe for Dorothy and doctors have said one more fall in the hoard could paralyze her.
Dick has hoarded out his girlfriend Sandy's house to the point that the two of them can no longer live in it. They face financial ruin if they can't shed their current apartment rental and get back into Sandy's home.
Peggy's hoard of filth and dead animal carcasses has led the city to deem her house uninhabitable. If she does not clean up, city officials will not allow Peggy to return to her beloved home.
The tragic loss of Ellen's husband in the line of duty triggered hoarding through kleptomania
Kathy has hoarded out her triplex and a dance studio and is facing financial ruin if she can't clean up and rent out her spaces.
In this episode of Hoarders we check in with five hoarders from past seasons: Al lost custody of his son due to his hoarding, Jill is a food hoarder who feels that expiration dates are arbitrary, Dale is at risk of being evicted from the Boston loft apartment where he's lived for over 30 years, Claire and Vance filled every room of their home with hundreds of thousands of books and Verna was forced to sleep in her attic because her home was so hoarded.
Sybil's hoard is so intense that mice have started to live in her tub and her refrigerator. Her home is so jam packed with items and rodents that she has literally been forced outside.
Sandy's sister, Nona, owns the family home where Sandy has lived her entire life. Nona hasn't been inside the home in 10 years.
Celia is in danger of losing her hoarded home of shoplifted items and her illegal hoard of dogs if she doesn't get her compulsion under control. Nathan came out as gay when he was 15. The lack of acceptance he felt from his community led him to hoard items as a way to deal with is pain. Now in his early 30's his hoarding has escalated to the point where he is facing eviction. Nathan must face all his past trauma in order to overcome his hoarding and crisis.
Maggie's home is so packed with her shopping addiction that her granddaughter was forced to sleep on top of piles and shower outside with a garden hose. Things have gotten so bad, that a family member pulled Maggie and her granddaughter out of the house. If things are not cleaned up, they will not be allowed to return. Former spa owner, Ann, is about to lose her partner over her hoard. After a decade of failed promises to clean up the house, her partner has had it. Ann cleans up or he leaves her for good.
Sandi is known as the town's Mrs. Claus over the holidays. However, she has taken her alter ego to the extreme with her gift hoarding compulsion.
Lonnie is a famed neurosurgeon and former Lt. Governor of the State of Nevada. He is also a notorious hoarder spending an estimated $10 million on his collections! Lonnie is facing potential bankruptcy and the loss of all assets if he can't auction off some of his hoard to pay off debts. Linda loves Storage Wars. However, she has accrued so many storage units, she can now barely live in her house. Her loved ones are on the verge of calling authorities to have Linda forcibly removed from the home if she doesn't clean up.
The Stanks have hoarded themselves out of their home and are facing the loss of their property if they cannot get it up to code.
Leza's house is so packed, the city has red tagged it as uninhabitable and she is no longer allowed to live in it. If she doesn't clean up before the city imposed deadline, Leza could lose her property and end up homeless. Linda's husband has just undergone a heart transplant and received a second chance at life. However, due to Linda's hoarding and the unsanitary conditions of the home, her husband's medical team will not allow him to move back home.
Linda has hoarded out a 180-acre historic farm in preparation for the end of times.
Shannon is convinced that her hoarding is caused by demons possessing her home. She is so frightened by the entities and the severe clutter that she and her three children are living in a shelter. Ray's historic San Francisco Victorian almost burnt down the block when his hoard caught on fire. He is now facing charges from nearly every city agency to clean up his hoard or potentially lose his house.
Former famed interior designer, Sandra, has hoarded out every square inch of the historic mansion she lost to foreclosure. However, she refuses to leave the manor in spite of the fact the bank has sold it to a new couple. The new owners are now facing a crisis of conscience trying to figure out how to compassionately evict Sandra from the property and dispose of her hoard.
Andy and Becky feel it is their constitutional right to live however they choose, even if that's among 250 tons of hoard; they soon find themselves in a battle with the city government that could end with them going to jail and losing their home.
Over the past three decades, Dale fills his Alaskan property with everything from decking from the Yukon River Bridge to more than 100 vehicles; hoarded out of his home and with a harsh winter approaching, Dale must clean up or face perishing.
Linda does not allow her family into her home for years until a medical emergency exposes the secret she has been hiding; Linda's daughter questions her mother's sanity after she makes a shocking discovery.
A retired nurse makes extra money selling things that other people have discarded, but is fined thousands of dollars a week because her three Florida homes are overflowing with her inventory.
Donald and brothers, Peter and Raymond, are close friends who do everything together, including hoarding. Each of them now face their own personal crisis ranging from loss of property, to destroyed relationships, to potential loss of life due to their hoarding.
Over the past two decades, Carol has hoarded her husband's home; with the mansion threatened to be condemned, the family unites to try to save the house and confront Carol about her behavior.
Sherry's justification for her massive hoard is that it protects her from the outside world; now, she must clean up her hoard to start getting her life on track.
Althia faces heavy fines for multiple vehicles, building materials and a 60-foot semi-trailer on her residential property; her 5,000 square foot unfinished dream home is filled with unsold inventory from a business that ended when her husband died.
Over the past two decades, Becky has hoarded her home and motel property, including furniture, clothes and appliances.
A retired architect has collected a massive amount of clutter over the years; code enforcement officials are concerned about the safety of his property.
Flora's daughter and grandchildren recently moved in with her, but due to the massive hoard, the entire family must eat, sleep and live in a single bedroom.
Code enforcement has been dealing with Cindy in court for years now. Cindy must deal with her hoarding tendencies to save her son's property and her storefront or lose everything.
For 18 years, John refuses to let anyone into his house. He finally asks his daughters for help when his extreme hoard, a rat infestation and mounting citations from the city become too much to handle.
Eric is forced to deal with his emotional grief as the cleanup process uncovers the beautiful interior design left by Eric's late wife Sylvie. Having ten thousand or more articles of clothing and an entire house filled with online purchases, will the cleanup experts even be able to help Eric arrange a manageable life? Being hampered by the weather and Eric's stubbornness to throw away new items, the hoarders crew is pushed to their limits.
Forrest grew up in the projects and would tell his son stories about a pair of shoes he couldn't afford when he was younger. Forrest is facing extreme financial pressure from daily fines from the Homeowners Association.
Dolores is a cancer survivor and was a caregiver for her late mother. As an escape, Dolores turned to excessive shopping, which triggered her hoarding disorder.
To be part of his unborn granddaughter's life, Cobra must clean up his hoarded house and turn his 37-acre property into a safer environment.
The city found out about Meryl's cluttered living condition and is threatening eviction and cleanup. With the help of the team of experts, Meryl must clean up the property or code enforcement will take action and Meryl will lose everything.
Tim sees the value in repurposing and using materials for all types of projects, which has led Tim to collect a massive amount of clutter over the years. Code Enforcement is concerned about the safety of Tim's properties.
Margie and Bethel's house is filled with an estimated 500 tons of clutter and contaminated rodent waste, but Margie sees no danger. Suffering from back pain that will require surgery, her family knows the home is unfit for Margie's recovery.
When lonely single parent Debbie faces the sudden loss of her mother and begins caring for her depressed father, thrift store shopping is a comfort, but it also triggers her hoarding disorder.
A retrospective special featuring some of the series' most intense collections of vehicles. Hosted by resident clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio, and extreme cleanup specialist, Corey Chalmers, viewers follow individuals on their journeys to relieve themselves of their massive vehicle hoards.
A retrospective special featuring some of the series' most extreme food hoards. Hosted by resident clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio, and extreme cleanup specialist, Corey Chalmers, viewers revisit individuals that struggled to get relief from the mounting hoards of food they've accumulated.
Hosted by resident clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio and extreme cleanup specialist Corey Chalmers, viewers revisit women who have struggled with tightening their purse strings.
Hosted by resident clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio and extreme cleanup specialist Corey Chalmers, viewers follow individuals on their journeys to alleviate themselves of their unconventional collections.
Terri has never really been able to live in the home she bought as the house was filled with clutter from her hoarding. Terri and her boyfriend Kraig have always wanted to get married but the hoarding has stood in the way. Terri spends all her time as a live-in caregiver for an elderly gentleman and has hoarded clutter in his house as well. Her entire life hangs in the balance as her relationship and her career are in jeopardy.
Tiffany never lived an independent life growing up as a person with special needs. She now lives with her sister Becky because the family home is dangerous and unlivable. Collecting thousands of discounted books over the years has damaged the family property to the point that it may collapse at any moment. Now Tiffany wants to build a new home and live a better life. With the help of the Hoarders team of experts Tiffany wants to clean up her life and build her dream house.
Paul faced the tragic loss of his partner, Skip, a few years ago. In place of dealing with the grief of his loss, Paul turned to collecting items to use in his interior design business. His massive hoard has now stressed his relationship with his immediate family. Paul has never met his niece and nephew due to the unsafe conditions of his home and the stress his family has endured. If Paul doesn't clean up his hoard, he risks losing the only family support he has left. With the help of the team, Paul wants to clean up his once beautiful home and restore relationships with his family.
Carl and his mom used to have fun looking in trash cans to see what useful things they could find when he was a little kid. Now that Carl lives alone, he treasures his family home and old items as family heirloom. Carl spends a lot of his time still looking for useful and historical things in trash cans. He has literally made his house and yard a trash landfill. Carl faces millions of dollars in city code enforcement fines and possibly more jail time. With the help of the Hoarders team, Carl wants to clean up his life and get code enforcement off his back.
Carmen suffered the loss of her husband, Mike. After a neck injury, Carmen lost her job as a data management specialist. Being alone at home and having no job created anxiety that triggered Carmen's hoarding disorder and online shopping. Carmen's daughter Melissa is worried that Carmen's life is spiraling out of control as she has shut out communications with much of the family. With the help of the Hoarders team, Carmen wants to clean up her home and get her hoarding disorder under control.
Kate collected items from her clients when she worked as a realtor that she would often use to stage homes that she was selling. Kate grew up with an overbearing father and a submissive mother and the recent loss of Kate's husband left her with overwhelming grief to deal with. Kate's home is now in complete chaos, and the city is issuing her daily fines under code enforcement laws. With the help of the Hoarders' crew, Kate wants to clean up her life and save her home.
Peggy's divorce in 1981 left her alone when her daughter decided to live with her father. Finding a job as a live-in caregiver required Peggy to move across the country and start over. Thrift store shopping allowed Peggy to socialize after becoming alone again when her client passed away, but it also triggered her hoarding disorder. For years Peggy desired to clean up her hoard. Now with the help of the Hoarders team, she intends to unclutter her life and get her hoarding disorder under control.
Martha has had a tough life dealing with deception from a married man, frail health, and caring for her parent's last moments in life. Losing the use of water in her house made personal hygiene a challenge to maintain and not wanting to ask friends and family for help has strained family relations and allowed the clutter in the place to spiral out of control. Now Martha intends to reclaim her house and clean up her life. With the help of the Hoarders team, Martha wants to get her hoarding disorder under control and live a healthy life with her family.
When Lia was ten, she became intrigued by her mother's many collectibles and started going to antique stores and estate sales with her and is where Lia suspects her hoarding compulsion originates. Unfortunately, Lia's hoarding went into overdrive when her three sons moved out, and Lia's husband, Ken, worked full time. After a severe blood infection and struggling with the emergency ambulance response, Lia realizes the extreme danger her home presents to her. Now with the help of the Hoarders team of experts, either Lia will clean up her home and have a safe place to live or risk everything.
Andy has worked odd jobs his entire adult life, and he considers himself an entrepreneur specializing in the reselling of scrap and junk. After Andy's father passed away in 2001, Andy's mother, Louise, asked Andy to come live with her. Reselling scrap junk became very hard as the market for scrap metal pays much less and so Andy had talked his mother into getting a reverse mortgage on the property which has led to debt due to interest and fees. If the mortgage company came for an inspection, they could determine an unresolvable fault in payment and then take the house from Andy and his mother, leaving them homeless. Now with the help of the Hoarders team of experts, Andy will clean up the property or lose everything.
Darlene is a dynamic, outspoken, eclectic woman from Vancouver, BC. She believes in New Age energy healing, the fifth dimension, and describes her packed home as a "mystical mess." Darlene has so much stuff that she's hoarded herself outside, leaving her to sleep under a tarp on her porch. With winter coming, Darlene's exposed porch bedroom is about to get a lot colder--so something's got to change. Along with the team of experts, Darlene is going to try to regain control of her life and create positive energy in her home.
Jim has been a collector from a very young age but some of the tragedies in his life have compounded Jim's hoarding behavior. In 2019, Jim's daughter, Elesha, lost her job and needed a place to stay so she moved. Moving in with Jim however, dealing with the hoard has been the most difficult part of her life. Code enforcement has already performed a severe forced cleanup on Jim's house in 2016 which only made matters worse. Now with the help of the Hoarders team of experts, either Jim will clean up the property or code enforcement will take another forced cleanup, and Jim could lose everything.
"Roz" grew up on the east coast of Canada with 13 siblings. The first time she ever had a toy of her own was after a life-threatening hospital stay when she was 9. Nothing went to waste. She grew up to be a public health nurse with a private hoarding disorder. But when her first marriage fell apart and she took up with another hoarder, her house became unmanageable. Now with the help of the Hoarders team, she intends to unclutter her life and get her hoarding disorder under control.
Marjorie has collected items from thrift stores and estate sales over the years for various project which has led to a massive amount of clutter in her home making living in the space very difficult. Marjorie's husband Irv has recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and has already taken two dangerous falls in the house where the EMTs could not get to him. Irv had to crawl with broken bones to the porch for help and if this happens again, the State could put Irv in a home for the elderly. Now with the help of the Hoarders team of experts, either Marjorie will clean up the property, or she will potentially lose her husband.
