The essential episodes of Hoarders
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Hoarders — each pick states its reason.
- 01
A couple who both suffer from hoarding risk losing their children if they don't comply with numerous citations given to them by the city. A woman's food hoarding is so bad that she places herself at risk for food poisoning.
- 02
A 21-year old man who hoards garbage in a two bedroom town house he shares with his father; and a woman who has over 75 living and dead cats in her home, which is full of cat feces and urine-soaked furniture and carpets.
- 03
A woman who lost custody of her son because of her hoarding also risks losing her two daughters; and a couple with four children live in a home filled with trash and infested with mice.
- 04
A mother risks losing her children because of her hoarding; and a beekeeper manages his business, but his home is unkempt.
- 05
a woman whose home is filled with decorating supplies and more than 20 sets of patio furniture; a former psychologist whose home is filled with clothes for her and her daughter.
- 06
A firefighter whose home overflows with his possessions; and a woman whose home is a hazard to her asthmatic son.
- 07
A 28-year-old woman's mobile home, which she shares with her 13-year-old daughter, is filled with keepsakes; and a single father raising two adopted children who have special needs could lose the children if his house isn't cleaned.
- 08
Dennis & Nadene and Erin & Malinda
Husband-and-wife hoarders blame one another for their habits; and two sisters follow in the footsteps of their parents, who were also hoarders.
- 09
A woman who has filled 16 storage units with items; and a woman who could be homeless is she doesn't clean her home.
- 10
A woman sleeps on the patio because her hoard occupies every room in her house; a heavy smoker lives in danger of setting her hoard on fire.
- 11
Celia is in danger of losing her hoarded home of shoplifted items and her illegal hoard of dogs if she doesn't get her compulsion under control. Nathan came out as gay when he was 15. The lack of acceptance he felt from his community led him to hoard items as a way to deal with is pain. Now in his early 30's his hoarding has escalated to the point where he is facing eviction. Nathan must face all his past trauma in order to overcome his hoarding and crisis.
- 12
A couple who have hoarded themselves out of their home face the loss of their property if they cannot get it up to code; a woman's collection of Christmas decor poses a threat to her diabetic husband.
- 13
A former interior designer hoards out every square inch of a historic mansion, then loses the house to foreclosure; the new owners of the property must determine how to compassionately evict the woman and dispose of her hoard.
- 14
Sherry's justification for her massive hoard is that it protects her from the outside world; now, she must now clean up her hoard to start getting her life on track.
- 15
To be part of his unborn granddaughter's life, Cobra must clean up his hoarded house and turn his 37-acre property into a safer environment. The Hoarders team of experts really have their hands full with a completely unsanitary and unstable house, a trailer home, multiple ruined cars, and ultimately Cobra's stubborn attitude about getting rid of junk.
