i'm ann and i'm a skincare specialist i do facials i do microdermabrasions
body wraps and scrubs just anything like that but most people don't know that i'm a hoarder
if someone comes in for the first time and seize my house they would be very very shocked
my name is michael and i am anne's boyfriend and we live together it's a disaster oh
god there's so much clutter and items piled up the main entrance to the house is not accessible
trying to get down our hallway is a struggle
it's kind of a battle to get into bed at night what are you doing moving it in fact it creates
an argument sometimes i'll never find it now when you're throwing things around i don't
think you even knew you had it the hoarding has really put a strain on our relationship
i'm austin and ann is my mom when i walk through the house i instantly feel
a rush of anxiety there's stuff everywhere the dogs are trained to use puppy pads they just
layer the floors with puppy pads it's disgusting i hate going in the house
gonna get rid of this whole box i've tried to remove items from the home and if anne catches on
she'll chase after that box of items and bring things back into the home what are you doing
throwing these away what are you doing keeping them i just tossed them out i'm not gonna throw
these away sorry i feel like he just doesn't understand what i'm going through this is just
out of control i feel like he's not supporting me when that happens i love am but at this point
i can no longer take it there's just way too much stuff if anne does not clean this house
and get a control on this horde then i have to leave i'm done
good morning family good morning i'm dorothy brenninger i'm a professional organizing expert
and i specialize in hoarding here i've got one two three four five six able-bodied people
who have not been able to get this stuff out of the house
you're physically able so why am i here with dr green and an entire crew
i think a lot of the items that ann has hoarded over the years they're items from loved ones that
she's lost and it's very emotional for her that's exactly right it's very hard to get rid of those
things because i feel like i'm getting rid of my family well we are here to help you make
decisions so you can stop this hanging on of stuff okay let's do this okay in everybody
remember this my brother this was his one of his medicine bags
um these remember others ties oh no what is that that's
that's not his main one his main one was the cool water take this for now so i want you to try to
stick to bigger items if you can okay so you want you just to put no that stays i'm sitting
here with anna and i'm watching her go through items one by one by one well we're gonna keep this
and she's starting to keep everything this is this can go i don't i don't need this this is a cake
that broken racing wheel that goes to an old computer from the from from windows 95 that's true
and i understand that but just give me a second when i look in the box don't grab a letter and say
yeah this is nobody give me a second let her process it let me ask that's fine all
right so is it generally like this the minute you start helping it's like it's an argument
he's standing over me just give me a second let me look before you start telling me okay
it's very interesting because mom and son are adversarial and we've got to stop this old pattern
and create a new one just keep those for now because we can use this we have a couple of these
already austin okay no no he asked you a really simple question and you're like totally annoyed
by it help me out with that you know you don't even answer it's just austin what is that that
he can't even ask you a pretty simple question i was thinking he's going to argue with me about it
and tell me we don't need this guess what the whole house is full you've got way too much
power over the stuff speak up you have a voice we have to speed this process up a little bit mother
okay but what am i to do just take it all out and say throw it away this is a keep keep keep this
we just spent 45 minutes going through three boxes and the only person working out of 20
is anne we have to make sure she starts letting
the whole team help her at this rate this will never get done
got my room smelling like crap now thanks a lot i have really nice clothes in there
i come back this morning my room is filled already my room smells like dog piss
this this is what i'm trying i am in the trash i don't learn you're not learning 1994 nba draft
racing if he's gonna yell at me today i'm done i'm done i made a mistake to even go
in your room so i'm sorry okay you hug me okay fine thank you
these were my brother's suits it was a club that he was in that was very important in the
nascar world and they had green jackets you're looking at one of the most important pieces
this is the best everything you see you measure against this
now brand new shark that can definitely be donated you go the spin can go she is making great strides
right now she's keeping the green jacket but getting rid of just about everything else that
belonged to tommy in terms of his clothes huge turning points these bins have been haunting you
and yet going through them with ease right now because you got clear on honoring your brother
rather than standing in a whole mess of horde right good job get it out of here confidence i've
made a lot of advancements yesterday and today straight to the trash straight to the trash and
i gave them the green light to just go and throw the teams are revving and going we're up and down
the stairs to the attic we're in and out of all the rooms we're getting this place into tip-top
shape
oh wow
this room is just amazing right now good well let's keep walking wow oh wow
i love it i'm absolutely amazed what do you think do you think that uh you'd want to stay together
i like the changes your old self coming back i think we're going to stay together
i'm very proud of ann for moving on and moving forward and i'm going to stay
it's a home worth staying in now i love you too
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