Hoarders Are Just Lazy

You ever watch this show Hoarders on AE?

Here’s how AE describes the show:

“Each 60-minute episode of Hoarders is a fascinating look inside the lives of two different people whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of a personal crisis. Whether they’re facing eviction, the loss of their children, jail time, or divorce, they are all desperately in need of help.”

Some of the people on the show definitely do have a problem parting with their belongings. For example people might collect a bunch of junk like pill bottles because they think that some day someone will need them for something like a bead collection. Or they’ll get as much scrap metal as they can and put it all over their front yard because they think it’s like savings for their grand-kids but for the most part, it’s worthless. Those types of people are truly hoarding. But I think sometimes that show can’t find a real hoarder for the week so they’ll find people who are just really dirty.

For example, there was this family that had like 3 kids and several cats and dogs. Their house was trashed with trash. Not things they were trying to save because they thought it had memories or that it was worth something. It was just trash, like food wrappers and wadded up paper and things like that. But even that didn’t make them not hoarders to me. The key thing for me was that there was dog shit everywhere they wouldn’t attempt to clean. People may hoard animals and stuff, but people do NOT hoard shit. There was one episode where one guy wouldn’t clean up his dogs hairs because he had this superstitious belief that once he did that his dog would die. That’s different. That’s an irrational type of hoarding. These people who would not clean up their animal’s poo were just LAZY. You’re telling me that all 5 people in this family, including the kids, are can’t part with dog poo? Just scoop it up and throw it outside or something! You’re just lazy!

They’re so lazy in fact that the kid started sleeping in the shed instead of trying to clear a space in his own room. People who live by themselves are true hoarders. If you live with someone else, there’s at least one person in that house that’s just really really lazy.

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  By Celeste, January 27, 2010 @ 7:57 am

  Purdue University Press has released a new book, Inside Animal Hoarding, which profiles one of the largest and most intriguing cases of animal hoarding in recent history. Dr. Arluke’s discussion follows the Erickson story with current research on animal hoarding and how it ties into the Erickson case. This integration of investigative journalism and scholarship offers a fresh approach with appeal to a broad audience of readers, those new to learning about the phenomenon, and those with first-hand experience in the animal welfare field.

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  By Steve McQueen, February 15, 2010 @ 10:45 pm

  I agree most of these people do have mental issues. But some of these people are just lazy. It was one of the episodes with an obese mom (there are several,which tells you they are too lazy to even move a little) and her daughter was even saying that she was lazy. The daughter said that for as long as she could remember her mom just sat on the couch all day and watched TV. And then there are the ones who just sit there the whole time doing little or nothing to help at all while their families and the crews are bustin their humps to clean and organize the house.

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