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reply posted on 31-12-2011 @ 12:45 PM by ldyserenity

I don't know if there's any conspiracy here, but I can tell you I love the show Hoarders, it makes me feel better about my house...which is a little untidy, but never anything that is like what you see on those shows.

Lol. However, I can tell you I have seen homes like that. Quite a few times. And Beleive it or not I have cleaned homes like that!!! I used to be a maid for a service.

reply posted on 31-12-2011 @ 12:47 PM by wildtimes

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but I can tell you I love the show Hoarders, it makes me feel better about my house...which is a little untidy,

Yeah, I know! Right? It makes me feel better, too. I just think it's sad that it's at the expense of the people they enlist for the show....

reply posted on 31-12-2011 @ 12:52 PM by ldyserenity

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That's true but I am sure there is some incentive for them doing it. They get all kinds of funds for aftershow care which they probably would not be able to afford treatment so they're exposed, but they also get the help they need. I know it must be embarrassing to have their dirty laundry aired (sometimes literally

) on TV, but there are positives to the whole embarrassment issue. The first step is admitting they have the problem, of course I would not do that to anyone I cared for, I'd try to find a different route to helping them, and sometimes they seem so nonchalant about the whole thing like they don't even acknowledge they should be embarrassed. At least to me it seems.

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reply posted on 31-12-2011 @ 07:25 PM by theRiverGoddess

Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by ldyserenity

but I can tell you I love the show Hoarders, it makes me feel better about my house...which is a little untidy,

Yeah, I know! Right? It makes me feel better, too. I just think it's sad that it's at the expense of the people they enlist for the show....

OMG me to!! lol....no joke.......my place gets cluttered up with tossing clothes around but I am a clean person. So there may be things strewn around on the floor but that is a darn CLEAN floor those things are on........
Hoarders show makes me feel TONS better about my life and my apartment...... I am so glad we can talk about this behind avatars...I feel like we are really bonding over this love of hoarders show, in the light of it making us feel better about ourselves. What cute dorks we are......lol

Ldyserenity, I have tried so MANY different approaches in trying to 'help' my mother with her issues, but its all a dead end. She has paranoid issues so no matter what kind of cleaning help is offered she thinks people are 'trying to get at her goods'........I am VERY READY to get the hoarders show to come and make her issues public. Thats the worst thing my mother can think of is having her house on TV for all to see, so i think it would be the best thing for her.

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reply posted on 31-12-2011 @ 09:20 PM by wildtimes

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OMG me to!! lol....no joke.......my place gets cluttered up with tossing clothes around but I am a clean person. So there may be things strewn around on the floor but that is a darn CLEAN floor those things are on........

Ya know, honestly, I think most everyone's house is untidy and cluttered to some degree, except when they are expecting guests, or if they suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (the opposite of Hoarders). And for that, I blame the media...the never-ending advertisements for cleaning products, medications, home improvement warehouse products, etc. etc. etc.

Most of us, especially those who have relatively normal lives and priorities (and heaven forbid, others who live in our homes including humans AND animals), I believe, have a somewhere-in-between state of living.

Cheers! Happy new year!!
(Resolution for second Jan 1 in a row: declutter!)