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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The scariest show on TV

Last weekend I was at home flipping through the stations. I saw that Hoarders was on. It is a show on A&E about people who can't throw things away and the stuff/junk/food/animals that collects in their house. We had been talking about it at work and I decided to watch. I made a huge mistake. The episode I watched featured a lady whose house had been "cluttered" (that's putting it mildly) for over 20 years.


This wasn't her house (I couldn't find a pic), but it was worse than this. Much worse.

They hauled 8000 lbs of trash from her house.

They found 3 flattened, dead cats in her house-at the bottom of some of the piles.

There were open cans of rotten food.

I can't even begin to describe the bathroom...

They found packages/junk/trash at the bottom of the piles from 25 years ago.


I felt sick to my stomach watching it. Physically ill. I know that extreme hoarding is a psychological disorder and that people need treatment for it. But it was still really hard to watch. And because I was still a little curious, I had to wait to see what happened at the end. My house is not cluttered, but watching it made me feel like I had too much stuff. I wanted to go home and throw everything in my apartment away and then drench my apartment in bleach. Luckily I was in Medina and couldn't go right then or my house would be barren now. I'm shuddering just thinking about it. Don't watch this show unless you want to feel ill.

Not Hoarders. Horror-ders.

4 comments:

Heather said...

I'm obsessed with this show! I DVR it every week and want to vomit every time I watch it! lol And it makes me feel the same way...I know I'm not cluttered but I feel like doing a mass cleaning after every show!

Christa said...

Oh I saw that epidsode. Completely disturbing and so sad. I saw another one where the woman not only hoarded junk but also animals.

Mallory said...

This show really freaks me out. I can only watch a few minutes at a time. It also think "Toddlers and Tiaras" and "16 and pregnant" are equally distebing... ok, maybe not equally, but they are all on a different level.

LKC said...

Paul and I bought and episode of this on itunes and watched it before bed last night. We both felt sick afterward and couldn't sleep.