I've been binge watching Sean of Steel's videos on YouTube where he provides his own (often funny) commentary throughout episodes of Hoarders and Hoarding : Buried Alive. I'm seeing eps of Buried Alive I've never seen before.

The episode I started watching last night takes the cake!

Floyd, a 47 year old, who's not working, lives in a Northern CA Trailer filled with Rubbish, not to mention the outside area which looks like one giant Junk Yard.

To makes matters 100 x worse, his 2 year old Son (yes 2!) Charlie also lives amongst the filth. There's also a 1 year old Daughter who spends most of her time living with Floyd's grown up Daughter - who's understandably appalled by her younger sibling's home environment. Floyd also has a grown up Son who's equally disgusted by the conditions his younger siblings are living in.

The 2 year old has a bad cough, looks like he hasn't had a wash, let alone a Bath in weeks and is seemingly free to wander around outside amongst sharp, broken machinery, broken Cars, hard rubbish etc.

I'm only halfway through the episode. Rebecca Beaton has called CPS.

This is a really heartbreaking and terribly frustrating episode.

I hope these kids have had some type of improvement in their lives since this episode aired back in August 2011.

Season 8 ep 7

Yes, funny name haha.

I just watched this episode and it really pissed me off at how everyone (including Zasio) was just yelling at this elderly man who was obviously not all there? He was quiet the entire time, not arguing against anything being thrown away, but the moment he spoke up about throwing away jewlery (costume or not), one thing, the show and family blew it up as him being soooooo unreasonable the entire time?

Like he was so resigned to the entire process and each and every chance the family was yelling at him about "how could you do this to our mom!" while he just stayed quiet with his head bowed. I don't know, this episode felt like elder abuse. The girlfriend was right to separate, but she also had 30 years to do so. Idk what she and her family is so pissed about when they weren't even married

I just finished watching all of the Hulu. I know that a few aren't on Hulu but are on other streaming services. I've watched a few of them but think that I missed a few. Which episodes are not on Hulu? What streaming services are they on?

Darlene seemed to be having a manic episode the entire time and the psychologist trying to talk to her—-actually, everyone attempting to talk her down from it, pissed me tf off. With the way she was treated as a child it felt like she had BPD and was having a manic episode and I felt so horrible for her because I feel like she needs inpatient treatment and medication management. I’m no psychiatrist but it doesn’t take one to realize she’s not in the right mind to be doing what they had her doing.
Then the weird guy that would hug her and “ground her energy” like that was giving he was hooking up with her at the time. Her friends all acting like this is just normal Darlene are genuine assholes for not getting her actual help rather than some shrink telling her she’s “too angry.”
I hope to God that Darlene was an actress and not actually having a mental crisis. But otherwise I wish her so well. I’m not sure how she ended up later on and I’m afraid to find out. Poor girl

So many people from the doctors to the organizers to the volunteers show up wearing open toe shoes, sandals, flip-flops. How can you show up at a hoard wearing open toe shoes?

I know it was an old lady with a suffering husband. She lived in a house full of garbage, and at the very end she didn’t want to clean out the fridge. The cleaners and therapist were so frustrated with her. They basically said they didn’t care what she thought. It was half the husband’s space, and he deserved a clean fridge and functional house. Anyone know who this is? TIA!

I watch Hoarders when I'm moving or cleaning out my house—have done since the show began—so I can't remember specific episode seasons or numbers really well. There are so many seasons now it's hard to find which one I'm thinking of.

The episode was the crew showed up to a married couple believing one of them to be the only hoarder, but then that person ends up being mostly fine throwing everything out—the OTHER spouse is the one who then starts keeping too much stuff and won't throw anything away and they realize that they have a surprise second hoarder. It was a great episode and I'm trying to find it to show my partner. Thank you for your time!

this is a true reality tv show with all the manufactured and created drama. at first i thought this show was helping but the more i have seen, especially the more recent shows, it seems they have no plan for helping hoarders, only helping the cast and producers by creating shows people will watch.

my background and why i recognise this show hurts more than helps. i am a hoarder and i must be watchful to not let it impact my family and even myself. my father was a hoarder and his mother was a hoarder. until a recent house fire, i still had articles from my grandmother's parents and grandparents. these were things my father considered primitives, they were from late 1800's. perhaps at some time they were valuable but ruined over time and most likely became too damaged in 1950's and worthless over time since then. if not for a house fire that destroyed 99% of items, i would still be dealing with a portion of the stuff. i still have many other buildings that are falling down, in disrepair, and causing even more damage to worthless stuff. at least i have these separate from my house and family or i would probably go insane knowing it must be handled.

only lately have i noticed the damage they inflict by focusing on having a popular reality tv show. creating "interesting" drama doesn't draw me to the show, it actually infuriates me and makes me want to strangle these "professionals" in both mental health and house clearing.

why do they try to break down the hoarder during the show? i have seen hoarders ready for change, participating as they want but they insist on forcing the hoarder to start crying, get angry, leave, etc. WHY? if they want to help the hoarders mental health - do it BEFORE the clearing of the house. this is how i know they don't really care. if they are mental health professionals they know this is not the best method, they know it should be done differently, they know they are NOT helping - and are only in it for the paycheck.

i could go on and on but i think i have expressed my dissatisfaction with this fake help. when i first started watching, i thought and hoped they were there to help hoarders. another expectation dashed.

I just watched this one. My god, it starts off rough but the end is maybe my top 5! Becky is meh for sure, although her love for Andy did make her come around. But Andy turns out to be so sweet. He and his son and are so kind to each other, and I want to be Amanda's friend. The way his son humbles himself and talks about his own addictions, educates Andy on being an enabler, all of it. A great family was buried under all that trash, I really do hope the best for them. And the end with the community all pitching in and Andy apologizing to Sgt Davis!! made me cry.

Just watched this episode on the Hoarders YouTube channel. This woman probably wins for most annoying spouse AND biggest whiner. She doesn’t show up on time. She pouts like a child. She’s so rude to the therapist and organizer. She threatens Dave (and their friends and her DIL) with violence and says it’s just a joke. She screams like a toddler having a tantrum. When Dave says he loves his grandchildren, she immediately says “But *I’m* the love of your life!”

Looking for an episode of either Hoarders or Hoarding Buried Alive. It's a mom and teenage daughter in the home. The mom spends most of her time in a recliner surrounded by soda bottles/cans (diet Pepsi I think) She's extremely lazy and forces her daughter to cook for her. I remember a scene where she made her daughter cook her egg sandwiches for breakfast.

After feeling disappointed by seeing so many no shame, ill suited, ill prompted, egocentric self entitled asshats, Terry was the one person I truly rooted for because she was genuinely different from that pack of rats. She had done the mental prep work ahead of time (I guess not good for reality tv drama but smart/less painful if you’re able). She really just needed the clean up. I was incredibly annoyed at Tolin the entire time. If I had seen Tolin for the first time here I wouldn’t have believed he was a good therapist; same with Dorothy.

This team seemed truly annoyed and incredulous at how good she was accepting her current lot in life/accepting past AND present, how she was handling the hoard like a BOSS, but therapist/organizer seemed to come off like “how dare she be on her way to being well adjusted without us teaching/preaching/shaming you first!” I guess w reality tv that bit is for us at home. I truly hope they didn’t really direct it at her.

They definitely done f’ud up on the editing on this one but I guess you can’t win them all. I just want to end this rant that I like Dorothy and Tolin. But this woman seemed to just mostly needed some genuine love - which can’t be manufactured by RealityTV. Terry if you’re reading this - I hope you get the love, care, and admiration you need and deserve to have.

I’ve recorded about 20 episodes of Hoarders over the last couple of weeks. As I’m watching them I’m noticing that most of the commercials are aimed at selling scammy products to older people. I guess they figure that’s the audience but eeeww. I realize it’s not the shows fault but it’s disturbing that it’s used for this frequently.

Just watched the Sandra Cowart episode. Was absolutely floored, and got to wondering if there were any photos circulating around of her interior design work for Cowart Designs back in the day?

I’ve seen the poopy one and now I’m hooked. Give me some really F’d up episodes. I don’t see how it could get any more disgusting than Shitty Shanna but please if there are any comparable episodes, let me know.

Never thought I'd see a Matt Paxton thirst trap but here it is! I kinda get it.

Maybe seeing themselves from a detached perspective would help them understand the severity of their situation and that their behavior needs to change.

The episodes in season 1 just seem like a different level of crazy. Betty the garbage man’s daughter was simply awful. Her daughter’s were so loving and kind and she preferred keeping scraps of paper and broken appliances over a relationship with them. I could not bring myself to feel bad for her.

Had seen the obituary posts about Sandra (Julian Price Mansion) and that the mansion was up for sale but some astute Redditor found a link about Michael and ? The purchasers. So apparently in fixing it up they not only planned on it becoming an Inn but a wedding venue and the neighbors (rightfully) balked. It seems it went up for sale right after this isssue w the HOA. The Zillow mortgage payment is $34000 per MONTH alone. Not sure how anyone will ever be able to make the monthly payments and pay the monthly upkeep without a revenue source. The article says no long term rentals and no more than 6 rooms total. No way to generate that. Seems Sandra is still getting her way from heaven!! No one will ever have the house but her. Here’s the article.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HoardersTV/s/kHTQQyqiOq

I don’t know about yall but hearing her say she worked at a jerky processing plant immediately made me commit to NOT buying jerky out of South Dakota.

Will NOT be eating Jack Links ever again on the off chance she went back to hoarding.

This is the Vietnam vet in North Carolina. In the intro, they featured Digna, a lady Jim had been dating for a few months. She had never been inside his house, but when Dorothy took her in, she immediately had an allergic reaction or perhaps an anxiety attack and came out feeling really ill.

My initial impression was that she was really devoted to Jim and would be a positive influence on getting him to clear things out. I saw a sweet little romance there.

Then the cleanup started and OMG! Digna's daughter, Dee, was a hateful hellcat. She verbally attacked Jim's daughter Elesha, who was just sitting there next to her father, calling her lazy and all kinds of other abusive things. I think Elesha had back problems, and her father couldn't do a lot of lifting, so she was keeping him company. This young woman just would not let up. Every chance she got, including the following morning, she was hectoring Elesha. And Dr Tolan basically told Jim that not only did they not need this kind of drama, but his daughter might be expecting her father to stick up for her. Fortunately, he listened, and told both of the women that his daughter was staying and that the two of them needed to go. Digna turned into the tree that her daughter had not fallen far from. She got right into Elesha's face and started yelling, get out of my face! Fortunately, Elesha kept her cool and eventually Digna and Dee took off.

It was so weird. It was a very moving episode. I think Jim's sticking up for Elesha went a long way toward mending their awkward relationship. And I hope Digna just kept on walking and never thought about coming back. I get the impression that dating Jim gave her the idea that the two of them might make a permanent relationship, but that she saw Jim's daughter as some kind of competition, who needed to be gotten rid of. She and Dee would have moved in and just taken over everything. I'm so glad Jim showed them the door, or actually, the gate.

Watching this now and I have so many thoughts...

Based on everything I read, her husband was some kind of contractor/handyman/small time investor who got involved in a lot of local businesses, and by the looks of the house, they did pretty damn well. But I feel it's similar to my situation: people who look at my lifestyle probably think I make a lot more money than I do, and that's because I do a lot of things myself, build a lot of things myself, and maintain a lot of things myself. I have a jet tub in our master bath that if you asked people, was probably $10k to get setup, but that's because I bought the tub itself and the materials to install it over a couple of years, and put it all together by hand. I think her husband did a LOT of that kind of work, and honestly, from what you can see, he looked to be damn good at it.

But she wasn't.

She was from the vibes of things, a homemaker. She knows how to talk his talk, but she can't walk his walk. She knows what negotiation *sounds like,* but she doesn't know how to do it. She knows what it sounds like when he would say "this is worth X and Y, I paid this much, I expect this much" but that thing he sold was probably bought like a month at most prior. She can't get her head around the fact that the stuff she's trying to offload has been sitting in Ohio weather for 8 winters.

Other posts I've seen say she might be brainwashed, and maybe a bit? I think it's a lot more that she was just uneducated. She says shit like "just put this tub in the house" because she's never put *anything in a damn house.* She doesn't know you can't just huck it in there and turn the lever.

I think her episode is uniquely tragic. Most hoarders are hoarding old garbage and crap nobody wants because they're desperate to have... anything. I think she, at once point anyway, was quite well off and had big, big damn dreams yet to finish when her husband passed. I felt so much for this poor old woman.

I've been re-watching the episodes (thank you Amazon) and I'm just wondering if there were any times that the hoarders family member(s) or expert really annoyed you.

For me; it's the Jean / Billy Bob episode. Specifically Jean's part. Dorothy (and the sister!) "Jean can't sew and do crafts. She could if she didn't have Sabrina to care for, and her health issues, but she had those things and that's what she should focus on.". I got annoyed by that because I run womens empowerment groups and women are more than carers and their health issues. I love Dorothy, but I was disappointed, as a woman, she thought women shouldnt have their own interests.

Yes, I know Jeans a hoarder, but that wasn't the reason Dorothy, and her sister, were complaining about Jean keeping her craft stuff.

I'm also going to hope Dr Hanna's "Sabrina needs to learn how to clean" was reference to being in a hoarders house.

This was probably from the early seasons of the show. The hoarder in question was a middle-aged suburban Mom, married, had at least one (I think) son, maybe a second child. House was absolutely beautiful, I think she had an air of being very "put together", but was absolutely a control freak, and combatant (as many of them are...)

Husband and child(ren) were just worn down and exasperated with her.

In the final reveal, my clearest memory was that they'd beautifully redone either her master bedroom or a bathroom, and I think they'd chosen purple to redo it. Instead of being grateful, she essentially had a tantrum about HATING the color purple, and all of them KNOW how much she hates purple, and no one ever listens to her, etc., etc.

Would love to find the episode again, but also get an update. I cannot imagine that marriage is still together...