Comments on: Liveblogging Hoarders

By: nora

nora — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:53:40 +0000

this story is not only sad but just an extention of illness and addiction that shows itself in so many ways…………obviously Augustine has issues of when she was a child, some people grow up and eat themselves to death, gamble thier lives away, become drug addicts, sex addicts, alcoholics or hoarders !!!! PICK YOUR POISON………..don’t judge……….have empathy that u got one of the lesser evils my friend.

By: KT

KT — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:34:57 +0000

This woman Augustine has to be suffering from Alzheimer’s. She is clearly the worst case I have seen on “Hoarders”.

I would be surprised if she is not institutionalized soon.

Fortunately, I missed the episode about the cats.

By: Meka Francis

Meka Francis — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:04:42 +0000

I just saw this as a re-run today – and I think this was the worst episode of Hoarders I’ve seen. The thing that bothered me was that they were even CONSIDERING donating some of the stuff from that house to goodwill, knowing that most of it had been under a foot of dirty adult diapers and decomposing cats. If that’s what’s going to goodwill, I sure hope I never have to shop there.

I feel like I have some sort of fascinated disgust for this program. It’s like eating a meal at Jack in the Box – you feel compelled to eat it for some ungodly reason, and you spend the next few days regretting you did. I mean, just looking at the filth on my television makes me want to take a shower.

One good thing that has come from watching this show is that every time I’m finished watching an episode, I clean the house like crazy. I want nothing to do with that sort of life.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:30:50 +0000

I just found this! It was a jar of pickled okra, not pee.

And yes, I do see the inherent contradiction in owning a rabbit. He is disgustin.

By: ergo

ergo — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:58:29 +0000

When they found the upper denture, after digging it out of the rotting garbage/fecal matter/dead cockroaches and handing it to Augustine, did you hear Suzanne interject with “Don’t put those in!”

Imagine what those people must have thought of that woman by this point — they realized she was so far gone that they had to specifically instruct her to NOT put that bacteria-crawling, filth encrusted piece of shit into her mouth ……….

By: Tara Anderson

Tara Anderson — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:13:13 +0000

You had me at the Monster Camp reference. I recently saw that movie and agree with your assessment of Jason as a LARPer. Good call.

And The Road? I felt better after seeing that movie than I did after watching this episode of Hoarders.

Thanks for the live-blog. You typed most of what I was thinking…

By: Andrea (@shutterbitch)

Andrea (@shutterbitch) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:10:07 +0000

I’m glad you liveblogged this. I wanted to watch it, but my nearly-ocd clean freak husband couldn’t stand even the commercials for it, so I decided not to fuck with his head that much. I could have DVR’d it and watched it when he wasn’t around, but I didn’t think of it.

I agree. These people need as much help as those on Intervention. But I had to quit watching that one too because it was so depressing. I doubt I could last through Hoarders much longer than a few eps.

By: a.eye

a.eye — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:21:18 +0000

Nice recap. I always wish they would show the people months/years later and see how it turns out for them. I agree with you — part of me wants to really be disgusted and make fun of these people, but another part of me really hopes for these people to get some help and get their lives to be more like normal people. Another part of me wonders if that is normal… there are so many of the homes on there and on Clean House that look normal on the outside, but are so crappy on the inside. Who knows what is going on with the people out in the world. Maybe they are normal and I need to work on hoarding or on being more messy or on being bigger or on getting on some hard drugs that make my teeth fucked up.