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Wall Balls posted:this is the saddest thread Andrew_1985 posted:I absolutely love watching Hoarders and revelling in watching their completely demented worldview of hoarding crumble over the hour. 'I need that rock! I NEED IT!' Plus the appeal of seeing tons of stuff hauled out from their stanky houses. this is the  
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Is it hoarding if you never take out the rubbish? Like literally never, so that it is piled ankle to knee-high depending on the room? Is it called hoarding if you kinda just allow your cats to make litters up to the point that you no longer have the heart to put down / later flush the kittens so that you end up with over a dozen pet cats in an apartment? Just asking, looking back at things.
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Aug 1, 2015 14:59
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There was a guy who said over and over he and his wife were antique collectors, and then you'd go in the house and it was just TONS of junk. Like you couldn't move about the house properly because they had a bunch of junk. Antiques is just another word for junk. I bet every person on that Antiques Road Show are horders that are able to function in social situations.
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Aug 1, 2015 15:05
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The therapists on Hoarders have got to be some of the most patient people on earth. The only time I recall the one female therapist getting upset was when this crazy old lady had about two dozen cats and kittens in her freezer and pulled them out to hug sometimes 
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Aug 1, 2015 15:26
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Aug 1, 2015 15:30
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Aug 1, 2015 16:01
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Jastiger posted:There was a guy who said over and over he and his wife were antique collectors, and then you'd go in the house and it was just TONS of junk. Like you couldn't move about the house properly because they had a bunch of junk. I've been through several antique stores piled high with assortments of everything under the sun. I swear these people just raid thrift stores and yard sales to amass their horde of "treasure". They have little pathways throughout the building and rarely have anything priced. They have a false sense of value for each item and greatly overprice things I guess in order to keep them. I doubt they actually make a living off selling antiques. There's a few in Western Massachusetts that's really bad - one where the paths are so narrow that fatties can't get through. There's another west of Cambridge, NY where there's mice droppings loving everywhere and the guy is crazed. He's an outhouse digger and loots them for his horde of bottles and bits of rustly broken things. The best one is in Fair Haven, VT which is in this guy's home. There's stacks in every room including the kitchen and his bedroom. He has over 10,000 corkscrews, over 100,000 postcards, tens of thousands in books and who the gently caress knows how many ceramics, glassware, etc. What makes this guy actually stand out is that his antiques are actually really good - he's sitting on a massive fortune, but has no means nor ability to part with it. My wife did get a nice Weller vase off of him, but most stuff was really overpriced. I believe the guy came from money and/or inherited it and added over the years. He had rows of violins and other music instruments and stacks upon stacks of classic board games as well. Apparently he does sell on eBay, but he needs several lifetimes to move all his wares.
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Aug 1, 2015 16:08
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lol table sleeping
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Aug 1, 2015 16:10
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 I spy a couple hundred dollars in deposits.
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Aug 1, 2015 16:21
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I think this one might just be a slob, not a hoarder.
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Aug 1, 2015 16:38
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Liquid Chicken posted:I've been through several antique stores piled high with assortments of everything under the sun. I swear these people just raid thrift stores and yard sales to amass their horde of "treasure". They have little pathways throughout the building and rarely have anything priced. They have a false sense of value for each item and greatly overprice things I guess in order to keep them. I doubt they actually make a living off selling antiques. There's a few in Western Massachusetts that's really bad - one where the paths are so narrow that fatties can't get through. Dang. I saw one where they kept old newspapers, just crates and crates of newspapers. They had stairs up to the second floor and the entire left side of the staircase, landing and all, was just crates of old newspapers. They weren't ordered so it wasn't like you could say "poo poo! What happened on April 3rd 1974?! Who won the local game!?", nope. You'd just have to hope it was in there. The kitchen was nothing but ceremics piled high. Just tons of glassware and ceramic kitchenware piled on a table about 3 and a half feet high, balanced precariously, but relatively safe because no one really moved around in there and it seemed to have settled into place. The thing was, the place was relatively clean and kept up. The pathways were vacuumed and there wasn't filth everywhere...it was just old and sad. Who knows what was behind/under that stuff, or in the basement.
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Aug 1, 2015 16:50
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This has a happy ending though. The goon clean up the house, got his poo poo together, and got the kid back.
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Aug 1, 2015 19:27
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Orgophlax posted:This has a happy ending though. The goon clean up the house, got his poo poo together, and got the kid back. Why is that the "happy" ending?
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Aug 1, 2015 20:54
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Germstore posted:I could never watch hoarders. I know all reality shows are basically mental illness tourism, but hoarders is just on another level.
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Aug 1, 2015 21:02
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"For the crew's safety, Cory asks Ricky to remove the poop bucket from the house before they begin moving items to the backyard"
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Aug 1, 2015 21:07
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Aug 1, 2015 21:10
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Andrew_1985 posted:I absolutely love watching Hoarders and revelling in watching their completely demented worldview of hoarding crumble over the hour. 'I need that rock! I NEED IT!' Plus the appeal of seeing tons of stuff hauled out from their stanky houses. I saw an episode where the woman was just obsessed with clothes hangers. She had piles and piles of clothes, four feet tall off the ground, and clothes hangers just sort of thrown on top, and she would scream at her daughter if she touched any of the hangers, out of fear she would throw them away,
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Aug 1, 2015 21:49
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Watching this on hoarders, its good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgLxe9dHmw
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Aug 1, 2015 22:07
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corpuscollossus posted:Watching this on hoarders, its good: It's weird, the American version is more openly "let's stare at the freaks", but that somehow makes it seem less exploitative?
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Aug 1, 2015 22:10
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boom boom boom posted:I saw an episode where the woman was just obsessed with clothes hangers. She had piles and piles of clothes, four feet tall off the ground, and clothes hangers just sort of thrown on top, and she would scream at her daughter if she touched any of the hangers, out of fear she would throw them away, lol she actually kicked her daughter out the house at like 16 cuz she threw away some of her hangers
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Aug 1, 2015 22:19
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Angela Christine posted:I think this one might just be a slob, not a hoarder. Don't judge that table; it looks broken by life.
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Aug 1, 2015 23:59
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Aug 2, 2015 00:40
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I spy Hitler catte.
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Aug 2, 2015 01:45
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Aug 2, 2015 02:57
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You guys ever watch American Pickers? Two guys make a living off of hoarding. The show itself is just awful, but these two guys drive around looking for barns and old warehouses and properties just chock full of  antiques and knick-knacks and nostalgic memorabilia that is really just rusty old piece of poo poo junk from yesteryear, but the old people that own it and hoarded it all these decades think it's worth something just because it's old.Some old folks really do have some cool poo poo that is rare and worth something, but 99% of the poo poo they've hoarded in barns and around their property isn't even worth the time and effort to haul it away as scrap, but it's old so MOTHERFUCKING CHA-CHING!
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Aug 2, 2015 05:11
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Aug 2, 2015 05:29
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One hoarder ep was a guy who had filled several ACRES with junk. Like, filled a small house completely, slept in a camper thing, and drove around picking up random junk thinking copper or whatever might be valuable. He was well off and retired and his fam were worried and hadn't been to his place in a while, didn't realize how bad the situation was before the camera crew showed up, and they pulled into this several acre horror maze of stuff piled 6 feet high in all directions. Also he admitted he had no working bathroom and just found a quiet spot in the junk maze
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Aug 2, 2015 06:40
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Honestly I can't
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Aug 2, 2015 07:12
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I like the fact that he's using those things as curtains, so everyone in the neighborhood can see the faint reversed images of anime girls.
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Aug 2, 2015 08:12
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lmao
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Aug 2, 2015 08:22
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also thanks thread I'm going to go clean my garage now and probably make a run to goodwill tomorrow
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Aug 2, 2015 08:24
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Wowzer
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Aug 2, 2015 10:48
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the best hoarder I ever saw was one who wrapped up their turds in newspaper and stacked them in a room they had to keep all their turds
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Aug 2, 2015 11:42
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david... posted:the best hoarder I ever saw was one who wrapped up their turds in newspaper and stacked them in a room they had to keep all their turds stares longingly at turd before wrapping in newspaper and exclaiming "PERFECT IN EVERY WAY!"
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Aug 2, 2015 11:44
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 consider my fond childhood memories of studying I Spy books for hours on end completely ruined. thanks op.
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Aug 2, 2015 12:20
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I like this thread because it makes my wallow look clean by comparison. Thank you OP if you need a character reference chirp me back.
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Aug 2, 2015 12:47
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Hoarders cured me of any desire to get any pet that doesn't live in a tank.
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Aug 2, 2015 13:11
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fyodor posted:stares longingly at turd before wrapping in newspaper and exclaiming "PERFECT IN EVERY WAY!" i wish i could find a video of it there was a whole room stacked floor to ceiling with individually wrapped turds
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Aug 2, 2015 13:43
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Because nothing good I do can last and it's only a matter of time before I get another probation for racism, I'm going to close the thread in the next day or so and compile all of the contributions into a pdf for everyone. Try to get any last submissions in by then!
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My grandfather was a hoarder, luckily he was the organised type. He had piles of stuff in his apartment, everything neatly sorted and labelled - nuts and bolts of various types and sizes, each type and size in its own small box, newspapers arranged by date, toy trains, books nobody ever read, samples of chemical substances (like loving mercury) he had (I assume) stolen from his job at the local power plant. He kept accumulating that stuff in his bedroom until there was no more space and he had to sleep in the living room.
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