On Today’s Hoarders Show, This Woman Claims Her House Is Haunted By Demons…

@MrBrownstone trash plus some have let their sinks, toilets and tubs get clogged and then have jugs and bottles of urine collecting in the house and standing water and sewage. Appliances like refrigerators break down, dirty dishes and pans accumulate all over the kitchen….only paths if that much for walking through the house. Vermin and insects invade and take over…yikes.

@cherokeepatti I get hoarding things that mean something to you from a family member or memories. But all you described is gross.

@MrBrownstone Raw sewage, rotting food, pests…yikes. They had a woman who was divorced and was a hoarder. I guess her husband was wealthy, she lived in a very fine home in Tulsa. Her hoarding was a big part of the divorce because she was a shopaholic. She’d go shopping and bring packages home and they were everywhere, a lot of it was new clothing, shoes and accessories with the tags still attached…household decor and furnishings too…piled up everywhere. She even had packages on the stairs going upstairs. I think she ended up selling a lot of those clothing items and not wearing them. The home was relatively clean after getting rid of the excess but most of the homes are in need of expensive repairs after the hoard is cleared out. I had a neighbor around the corner who was a hoarder, her backyard backs up to mine. She had a huge shed and it was piled from top to bottom, packed. Her house was the same way. My neighbor helped her have a garage sale and was selling stuff cheap, it was because she had relatives from Germany that had come for an extended visit. This woman had an obsession with buying good items from yard sales. She had talked of having a yard sale of her own and making a lot of money. But never took the time to organize one other than the one my other neighbor helped her with years before. She ended up dying and her son asked my other neighbor to help organize a garage sale and he would pay her. She worked for months pulling out boxes of things and organizing them by type of item, a box of about 100 pair of scissors for example All kinds of cookware, tools, nicknames etc. She said she was “neat hoarder”, wrapping everything carefully before boxing them up. There was literally no room for anything else and it made it hard to work inside the house. She didn’t even have time to pull things from the shed before the sale. They made $17,000 total. And sold the excess to a professional estate sales person.

@cherokeepatti I think some people learned that from either parents or grandparents who grew up in the Great Depression. People saved everything. My grandpa would clean the spark plugs in his lawnmower rather than buy new ones.

@MrBrownstone yeah you can extend the life of things by cleaning them up but I think this lady’s reason for buying more stuff was to make some money by reselling it. I don’t know how much money she spent on all that stuff but it was wasn’t worth displacing her living space. She was an active little lady, I used to see her working out in her yard cleaning it up and she was in her 70’s. I think maybe she just wanted to keep busy and do things after her husband died. Two of her sons died and the other one lives here but rarely came to visit her, he never married or had children so basically no family to visit her.