- You knew you were getting set up?
- I knew I was set up, I knew.
I knew that there was somebody going to be coming in
because she was systematically making the house look worse.
(audience laughs)
- Hi, do you see my sign?
Home is the nicest place to be, but not for me.
Look at all these boxes.
This is like living in a storage warehouse.
When a VCR dies around here, we just get another one
and put it on top.
Look at all this stuff.
I'm still throwing away junk mail that's 20 years old.
Believe it or not, this is a bathroom.
Here's the sink and toilet to prove it.
Okay, here we have the clearest space in the house:
the inside of the washing machine.
I recently opened a dresser draw,
and found the nylons that belong to his late wife.
And she's been dead for over 20 years.
I gave Rodger an ultimatum:
Its the stuff, or me.
Dr. Phil, I've been surrounded by Rodgers junk
for 18 years.
Please help me.
- All right, we talking about how
to live with your spouse's annoying habits.
Debbie says she's been living
with her pack-rat husband's stuff for 18 years.
She's given him an ultimatum:
Its your junk or me.
Now Debbie arranged a little surprise
for Rodger this morning,
and we have cameras at his house right now.
Hey Rodger, it's Dr. Phil, are you there?
- Yes, I can hear you.
You can hear me okay?
- Yes.
- All right, so you didn't expect us this morning, did you?
- Um, I expected something.
I didn't know exactly what it was, but.
- You knew you were getting set up?
- I knew I was set up.
I knew that there was somebody going to be coming in,
because she was systematically making the house look worse.
(audience laughing)
- But you've got receipts from 1952?
- Probably.
- Right here.
(audience laughs)
- [Dr. Phil] Probably?
- 1950.
- 1950, okay.
Tell me what the interesting sizzle is in that old receipt?
- Um, the reason for keeping things like
that she occasionally finds, is that:
In order to do away with all of those,
it would be necessary to go through
all of those boxes.
And that takes a lot of time,
and I'm allergic to dust,
(audience laughs)
and I don't know what is in a lot of those things.
- Rodger, I understand it would take a lot of time,
but you've had 42 years on that one.
(audience laughs)
- Excuse me, 52 years on.
You said 1950.
Its been 52 years, you couldn't squeeze it in
some Saturday morning?
(audience laughs)
- It was probably hidden in a book somewhere.
- Yeah, tell me about your luggage.
- Um, I did a lot of traveling over the last three years,
traveling back and forth to my father's every two weeks.
(audience laughs)
And um, the airlines have been systematically
destroying my luggage.
I don't consider the stack you see there,
a life time supply yet.
- Oh because of the (audience laughing)
Well now I can't argue much with you there.
Debbie, you're on your own there.
What about this garder and stuff in the draw
from your ex-wife?
- His late wife.
- [Dr. Phil] His late wife.
- Died in 1984,
and I found this in a drawer about a month ago.
- It was buried under some clothes,
I hadn't seen it.
- Well that's 'cause you had so much stuff in the drawer,
you couldn't get to it.
- [Rodger] Probably.
- Do you have empty Coke cans at home?
- Um, those came form Oregon,
and have to go back to Oregon
to collect the deposit on my next trip up there
(audience roars with laughter)
to see my daughter.
- Do you think this is at all unnatural or abnormal
to save all of this stuff?
- Um, unnatural, abnormal?
Probably not that strong, but unnecessary.
- Would you go with a little quirky?
(audience laughs)