As a girl who plays games, I can tell you that *none* of us are under the impression that you need to show skin to get attention. Talk on voice chat for more than 10 seconds, and you’ll be inundated with more attention that you ever asked for.

She will have the final laugh if she’s properly investing her income instead of blowing it like some folks. After all, she can only do this for so long before someone newer comes along, so here’s hoping she’s smart about her money.

There’s a simple solution to that dilemma: Mind your business. And if you don’t feel comfortable in their home, meet with them in public spaces for get-togethers. I don’t have a hoarding family; I have a filthy family. Their homes are disgusting. I wouldn’t eat a meal there, much less sleep. They know it cause I tell…

My mother is an epic hoarder and has been for most of her adult life. She doesn’t even have shame about it - she’ll let anyone in without batting an eye - and buying a new home is nothing but a new place to clutter up at warp speed. She overshops, has insane entitlement issues and does not feel she should ever have to…

My aunt is a hoarder and has been for as long as she has had her own house. So many times friends and family have gone in and cleaned things up only to have it back to a disaster after a few months. It doesn’t help that she has an adult daughter who is in her 40's and has never left home or ever helped with cleaning…

I work at a law firm that is 50% landlord tenant practice. I have dealt with my fair share of hoarders. While I understand that it is sad to evict a senior for the squalor in which he or she lives, it is drastically outweighed by the risk to everyone else in the building. Beyond smell or rodent infestation, we’ve had…

I do not watch reality shows because they all sell human misery for entertainment. This hoarder show sounds absolutely awful and exploits an extremely painful part of many peoples lives.

I quit it a year ago. I was a slightly worried that I would miss out on a lot of social information/gatherings by doing so. I think in that time, I’ve only missed one party (that I wouldn’t have been able to attend anyway) and social circle announcements that had no impact on me anyway.

I quit Facebook when people in…

You need to get them a craptop PC instead.

I knew a guy whose grandfather always kept a full closet of “emergency underwear” in the basement that nobody was allowed to use. He had lived through WW2 and was in Russia where he obviously couldn’t change his clothes/underwear. During the end he was coated in urine and feces that were frozen onto him. It caused…

Is there any way you can get custody of your sister because that’s not healthy or safe.

I’m in exactly the same boat and I don’t know what to do. The house is decaying too because of the hoarding. It’s worth a couple million dollars because of it’s in a really desirable neighbourhood with crazy high housing prices (even with needing a gut job Reno) but they could never sell because they won’t get rid of…

I’m with you, my mom could be your parents too. Our house was never clean growing up, but she was a single mom with two very active kids so there wasn’t a lot of time to clean between soccer games and drum lessons. Now though, her house is a total shit show. I actually haven’t been over there in probably about 5 years…

I quit Facebook a month ago. None of my friends were really bad. It was the “friends of friends” that were killing me.

It’s sad that the people I know who would benefit from reading this story both have giant walls of crap blocking access to their computers.

My grandmother was a Hoarder and I could have seen this happening at her house. The reality is the smell at her house was always so bad it may have been able to mask the smell of a dead human- it wasn’t uncommon to find decaying vermin which - even though its small- is very pungent- if you top that with the smells of…

being from Florida, I remember a number of years back a case on the news about a hoarder being ordered to clean out a storage unit that happened to contain her dead mother’s coffin (specially built because the mother had a sever hunchback, and the mother was inside0, which she couldn’t bear to bury.

As someone who occasionally works with dead human bodies, yes. Decaying human flesh has a very distinct smell even apart from meat and animals. But who knows maybe the sum total of bad smells was enough to mask it.

You guys...this scares me in a special way because my parents are hoarders. They are not up to the garbage stage yet, but I see it only getting worse as they get older. My dad is 73 and my mom is 68. They shut any discussion about the state of their home down. When I tried to bring up the possibility of professional…

Is it too early to be done with the internet?