Swingers!
Used feminine products on the floor, cat poop galore, filthy mattress and three feet of food garbage in the bedroom.
Oh yeah, I want some of that. barfing smilie
Looks less like hoarding and more like a full blown garbage house. I realize its sometimes a fine line but this one doesn’t really seem like hoarding. Good god is it gross.
“Your place or ours?”
I saw a real “garbage house” up close and personal a few years ago, when a realtor - who to this day I think was put up to it as some kind of prank or initiation ritual - actually showed it (as in, showed it with the intention of someone renting it) to my friends and I when we were looking for a place to live. I was amazed. The garbage actually flowed through the doorways from one room to the next, as if it was a living mass or something. I can’t believe they expected anyone to envision the place without the garbage, and want to rent it.
Which episode? Is that show back on now? I know A&E’s Hoarding is back on, but is the other one on too now?
My sister is a housing inspector supervisor and gets to deal with hoarders and garbage houses on a semi-regular basis. I couldn’t do it myself.
Usually the people have some serious mental illness issues and are on some kind of disability.
I think that’s more “squalor”. Hoarding is when you keep a bunch of crap piled up everywhere. Squalor is when the crap is garbage, pet /human filth, etc.
I think there’s considerable overlap between the two. But it’s possible to live in squalor without being a hoarder.
I wonder if there’s a term for what my grandparents are: they saved decades worth of useless junk, but it’s all impeccably organized in shelves and drawers.
They are hoarders.
Possibly with a side of OCD.
Yeah, it’s been back on for several weeks, now. It’ll be repeated on Wednesday on TLC. The episode’s title is “It’s Just Sex.”
Having watched that episode, it wasn’t swinging so much as “husband has affair, husband presents ‘take it or leave it’ situation to wife when she finds out, wife has too little self-esteem to DTMFA.” The only thing I can’t figure out is how that hygenically-challenged, twerpish husband managed to score two at the same time–I mean, they were lowering their standards for HIM.
Weird. I see very little info. on it. Do these shows stream online anywhere?
I find it odd that Hoarders on A&E and Buried Alive on TLC are mid-season at the same time. I thought they staggered to avoid each other.
The “other woman” said on camera that she had “sexually pleasured” both parties, and the wife also said on camera something to the effect of she felt he (meaning her husband) wanted her to be bisexual, admitted that she took part in certain activities and alluded to her husband being bisexual with the comments about his freestyle sexual urges.
The “other woman” was the only one of those three I was rooting for. She seemed sincere when she said she considered them both good friends, and not only were they both staying at her home in their time of need, she was there pitching in to clean up the mess. I don’t think there is anyone on earth I love enough to help out with a mess like that. It was vomit inducing.
I can see how the wife was feeling that her relationship with her husband was threatened, but in reality, I don’t think the boinking buddy wanted anything but sex from him.
I felt sorry for the son. If that had been my parents, after the show aired I would have shot myself in my little tent out back.
Hoarders often have both. Especially animal hoarders. In fact, on the one I’m watching right now, this woman’s electricity and plumbing went out…so she just started using diapers. And she kept them.
(She just told the people on the show if she came back and all of her stuff was gone, she’d kill herself)
What info do you need? My cable program guide says this episode is on Wednesday night, February 1, on TLC at 10:00 PM EST. It’ll be repeated early Thursday morning at 3:00 AM.
I know you can buy full episodes from Amazon and iTunes. I don’t think it streams on Discovery’s website, however.
The son and his friend reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro.
I still can’t believe they lived in that filth for 20 years. They must have iron-clad immune systems. How depressing to come home to that every night. And to have to shower in that mold-encrusted pit? That’s all that that kid has ever known! He’ll be hard-pressed ever to lead a normal life, plus he’s probably repressed gigantic, guilty resentment over the way his parents neglected him all his life over his dead brother.
The whole swinging thing was just sad in this case. What can the “friend” possibly be thinking? She knows by now that the wife doesn’t want to do this, but she keeps sleeping with the husband, and she has them both come live with her, and she comes over to the house to be part of the project as if they’re all best friends. I found myself wondering if the friend had Asperger’s or some other social adjustment disorder.
They both went to live with her on their own accord. She didn’t force or coerce them. The husband and wife were free to say no thanks and stay elsewhere, but they didn’t. They moved in with her. To me, that’s not how you say “we don’t want you in our life”.
As far as I can tell, the only difference between Hoarders and Hoarding: Buried Alive is that one of them uses text screens to give exposition, i.e. “If Jim-Bob doesn’t get rid of his collection of discarded toilets, the county will seize his house” while the other uses a narrator to convey the same information.
I think Hoarders uses the text screens, and has Robin Zasio… arooo…
I’m just watching this episode now, and when the narrator talks about “the elephant in the room” in reference to the husband’s girlfriend, I chuckled.
She’s a bit heavy.