i'm connie and i am a stay-at-home mom i'm ed and i'm a machinist oh yeah way better ed and i
met because of a halloween party that i was throwing and we are halloween freaks ever since
oh my word we love halloween in the amount of stuff we have i would say
50 is halloween i have a hearse because i'm such a halloween nut
i would say i'm a hoarder i would say i'm a hoarder
i'm vicky i'm connie's sister connie hoard's smaller ticket items add bigger ticket items
it's just total chaos over there i'm fisher i'm 14 and connie and ed are my parents
i've been living like this ever since i was born i'm hunter i'm 17 years old and anna and connie
are my parents oh i'm embarrassed to live in the house i try to escape i try to leave because
fisher is on the spectrum he really needs things tidy and orderly i go into the bathroom because
of all the dust all the smells but most of the time it's to just get away because that's the
only place i'm able to actually have some decent quiet we only have one bathroom in our house
it's fisher's place to escape if he's in there and hunter and i have to tinkle we run outside
and go where the dog goes in the bush you just kind of make do with what you can
we have a huge tent outside i'm always joking about it and we call it the tent of shame
and we call the basement the pit of despair
over the last six years they've found five different types of cancer
in 12 different places i just have my 13th surgery i've come to realization that stuff comes and goes
but time doesn't and it's more important to have a relationship with my boys and my wife
than it is to have stuff and i need connie to get on the same level as i am if things don't change
i will leave and i'll take my brother with me i don't want him to live there anymore knowing that
it breaks my heart but if that's what he chooses to do i'd support him and i'd probably go with
him good morning everyone good morning my name is corey chalmers i'm an extreme cleaner that
specializes in biohazard and hoarding do each one of you want a better house do you want a better
life oh yeah oh yes is there anyone here that says this stuff is more important than their family
no i don't so you guys ready to get a clean house oh yeah yeah all right let's get to it
come on in
it's a lot
is it scary talk to me i don't know what to do
i can see the the panic in you i know this is not going to make your life better this is what's
holding your life back none of this is worth it because if we don't do it the ship's going to
sink think of it though but then watch me do this okay so i'm looking through here and what are you
looking for this why because it fits on the top of my other what if you lost it what if what if
this was gone she's about to lose her family and she's focusing on one lid in her kitchen
this is beyond unbelievable at this point you have just one and a half days to keep
the ship from sinking okay you've tried it this way you guys you've tried it this way let's try
it a different way and it's going to change your relationship you just have to trust us all right
you want this to trash it unneeded donate yeah give it to a kid in need
hunter mew weren't allowed to clean our rooms because my mom wouldn't let us decide what to
throw away because she would think that oh you guys still need this and we really don't honor
should i have this sucker that's been in here for about two years go ahead it won't kill you
this is about the first time me and my brother have actually gotten time to bond oh so hard
and then we even got a lot of work done which i'm really happy for that's funny i actually i'd like
to bring her out here right now so for a day and a half we've literally been filling up boxes and
just taking them to the backyard i needed connie to see how many boxes we have because these are
gonna have to go somewhere or she's gonna have to make very quick decisions at this point to
let him go if you can't make any more decisions like right now this is what's going to get loaded
into the basement that we just cleaned out oh my gosh wow feels like somebody's trying to kill me
we should just vote on it out of the four of us you always do that and i'm odd men out if you
want to talk about it talk about it if you want to start going through boxes go through boxes
yeah i've snapped don't talk to me i don't want to talk to you mom no mom no i was beyond pissed
it's just things you can't make a choice for her well i don't see wine remember it's just
junk i just feel bullied connie did the best she could do she couldn't make statements like get
rid of everything we don't want to leave you with a nervous breakdown when we leave that is not the
goal
we still have a full basement we still have a full circus tent and we still have a full
master bedroom the upside is the living room kitchen and the boys room are clean functional
and safe now they can come together as a family in those areas and hopefully make some new memories
all right you guys we made it so the goal is that you guys learned enough to continue
on with this process until it's done so are you guys ready to see the house yeah
yeah okay well let's go inside keep going that's amazing
brings back a lot of good memories and i'm still struggling but i'm grateful wow
wow yeah this looks great
where are we at with our family crisis the reason we were
called people wanting to leave is that better yeah yeah definitely hoarding is an illness it is and
i'm going to be there to take care of her and i'll do what it takes to get her through this process
she didn't take baby steps she took leaps so that makes me really happy i shouldn't be mad
i'm excited and i'm excited for our relationship
i'm falling in love again with the girl that i first met hi thanks for being a fan of hoarders
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