Hoarders: 12 TONS of Junk Ruining Family’s Dream Home (S12) | A&E

[Music] [Music] i'm dolores i love to shop but i'm out of control my problem is that i like too many things and it's hard for me to let go [Music] i think i'm a shopper and a hoarder i'm arthur and i'm dolores husband the current condition of our home is that every room is full i mean if you come into the entrance and you look to your left is the living room it's full you look to the right and the dining room is full you go straight ahead to the kitchen it's full you go to the family room it's full you go up the stairs if you can there's stuff on the stairs the three bedrooms up there are full so every room is full and the garage she doesn't like to stay in the house because of the condition of the house where have you been no we have the elbow how are you how are you stephanie i love love love to shop what are you looking for today we got tons of jewelry over there well you know me i'm first with the jewelry i know you like the jewelry but here look pearl cliffs pearls are big again look at these my favorite thing to buy is jewelry that's my weakness these are good okay keep your pile over here like always i love my clothes orange is 25 off and green is hair full oh yellow you love yellow i love my shoes i get a high when i go shopping especially if it's on sale and this is what here yeah 75 90 75 wolf i get very excited this is nice oh that's nice and i buy it whether i need it or not i want no no shopping there oh really author's gonna see it tell me you went to the grocery store you got some uh toiletries that's what i say i have spent several hundred thousand dollars over the years on my stuff it made me happy i don't regret it she'll go into stores see something she likes and she'll buy it and bring it home arthur are you home and hide it and it's led to this current condition i'm jenny and dolores is my mom i think my mom is a hoarder i feel like she's caused the situation but she doesn't want to be around it it's like she loves these possessions but she's also resents them as well we've lived in this house for 41 years this is my dream house it was always picture perfect i would always entertain have my friends over and had beautiful dinners for christmas i was always a perfectionist i put my house before myself early on dolores didn't have any of those tendencies as far as collecting things and you know over-buying and purchasing she was pristine i mean her house she could eat off the floors you know everything was in order i'm artie and i'm dolores oldest child my house growing up my mom was like a neat freak so she would just always want everything in order and she was all about keeping her house nice and neat i remember my mom like picking up lint from the carpet like everything had to be perfect picture perfect the problem that we currently have didn't start until probably 25 years being in the current house in other words she's probably been doing it for the last 10 to 12 years arthur would like me to get rid of everything arthur would get very mean with me and tell me he's going to leave if the house is not in order he can't live like this anymore he would say i'm going to texas i'm going to move in with artie i said fine do that if that's what you want the more author would get angry with me i would go shopping more and i knew that would upset him by me not having the house in order all this stuff in the house is payback as far as i'm concerned you can go into that house and throw everything out everything everything nothing in there is mine nothing i feel like my dad's been put through a lot she's the one who did it and the victim's my dad it's been torture for him i think that my dad really doesn't know how to handle her and i think it's hurting their marriage tremendously if my mom's not willing to clean up the house i think that my dad is gonna have no other choice but to leave the problem of the hoarding has to be addressed it has to be fixed and if dolores doesn't change her habits i really don't know what our future will be good morning everybody good morning we're here big team because we've got a big job inside this house we are going to spend the entire day today earning your trust and we want you feeling good about this and feeling comfortable about it we have enough people to help that we can actually get this done guys ready to go ready all right let's do it so we just had a really good morning meeting i've set the plan and we're all very clear on what our roles are going to be today dolores in the house with the organizers and me and artie and the cleaners in the garage and we're going to bang out the whole first floor and we're gonna bang out the garage and everybody's gonna be happy no just leave that there that did not happen five minutes in dolores gets distracted with the garage hey dolores no you see what happened hold up no no dolores immediately leaned down put her hand on something and had to touch it so what do you what is your theory right here what are we doing this is yesterday's keys um that's a bag of sand yeah and from the very first minute we're just watching dolores pick see this this is christmas okay we're gonna sort all of that for you over the tables go bars what huh you're supposed to be inside yes i know i just you can't look at all this stuff we're gonna pull it out for you and we're gonna let you sort it we saw immediately what arthur and the family was telling us about she is unable to stay focused even for 60 seconds i need you inside telling the girls yes what to do i'll go out so i need you to trust me to get this empty this is not gonna go in the dumpster okay this is exactly what happens anytime you anytime you try to get rid of stuff she starts looking in every bag and tries to keep everything there it's the same damn thing i see look the same thing just leave these two boxes there i got it i'll pull them to the side yeah no cause i only need anything it's unbelievable so we got to interrupt this process oh yeah yeah this has to stop all right so you the girls are waiting on you at the front door all right and i'll nope don't want to go to the garage i'll get all this i got a bunch of people that can help me with this yeah okay throw it out all right all right if you see this row right here this is from the garage and that's a lot of mouse poop all right and it's really just this row here but it's pretty saturated with both poop and urine okay can i put this on the dolores commandments which is anything covered in you rat poop you agree with that yeah okay what's this in here i don't know but it's trash bag so i think it's gonna be bad so i i would suggest letting it go because it's covered in rat pee and poop now delores you're going with your bare hands through stuff that's covered in mouse proof there you go you've given us the okay i'm gonna let you pick that top corner all right now you're fiddling with things yeah no no this all goes yeah okay if it goes then you can leave it doing great yeah there you go yeah this goes okay [Music] i won't even tell you what this costs these four things dolores i'm going to be really blunt if you want an empty house you're going to lose stuff that is important to you do you hear me mm-hmm do you what do you agree or do you care certain things i will not certain things i will not like these these are very very expensive and i'll use them i'm just going to really question how important is this stuff versus clearing a house out for your grandkids certain things are important what's more important a fake gold plate or making space for your grandkids some is my stuff your stuff is more important than making space for the grandkids probably you mean that the stuff is more important certain things yes i'm dr david tolin i'm a clinical psychologist and a specialist in the study and treatment of hoarding disorder i was shocked jenny is standing right there and that's got to be brutal to hear your mom say that jenny you look like you're feeling something as you're listening to this tell me what's going on with you it's just a lot tell me it's just a lot of stuff like you can't no one can use all this stuff so it's just i understand it's hard to make a decision on every single one but we can't sit here and make a decision on every single piece we can't or else it's just we're never gonna get this house done right we're only on the garage right now so we need to move a little bit move along a little bit but it's really going to require a tough choice from you dolores i know that you put family first and i think deep in your heart you know that to be true as well but i think right now your thinking has been clouded by this drug that's all around you this clutter i believe that deep in her heart she really wants to get over this at the same time delores has been thrown into the middle of something huge and overwhelming and she's doing what she can to feel a semblance of control you could do it you have her support you don't need this stuff i have to work with dolores to try to understand the reasons why she hoards so that she can get better control over herself so please we're begging you please get rid of this stuff like we're begging you please i'm concerned about the pace that this is going at right now dolores still has to handle and look at every single item how are you making the decision if dolores doesn't fundamentally change her behavior all right we're not really going to accomplish much we can clean out the house but if dolores doesn't change she's just gonna fill it up again if we go at the pace we're going right now we'll be lucky to finish downstairs and that's just not enough for the for everybody i need to get rid of some stuff either trash donate or sell so matt's question is are you willing to let the organizers make some decisions about what stays and what goes without you having to look at every one of them but that's if you do that then we can just move on with the other stuff too because we need to get to these other rooms okay mm-hmm so would that be okay with you dolores to let other people go through some stuff for you instead of you having to do it all yourself yeah okay good you're good to us we need that author yeah yeah thank you kind of surprised how easily dolores is saying okay she's saying yeah go for it and so we did for the last two hours we really cranked it out we got a full team we're going as fast as we can and the reality is we have not put a dent in this house i got 10 feet of white tile that's it i've got to clean four rooms tomorrow and get upstairs if i have any chance of saving this [Applause] house day four is always tough you really hope you're gonna finish but i don't know if we're gonna finish we've been cranking all morning we're making really good progress upstairs and we're about to fill our 10th dumpster which is going to put us over 25 000 pounds of trash in the last three days donate our pace has picked up considerably because dolores got out of the house and let us work donate donate all right i like it got it donate donate dolores is out front going through thousands of pieces of clothing i would estimate probably 10 000 pieces of clothing are coming from upstairs and my goal is to keep her doing that the rest of the day donate but we are gonna be up to the very last second to finish this we did it we cleaned the upstairs and the downstairs it was a slow start but we really pulled it out at the end we're getting ready to take the family in and show them all the work that we did oh boy [Music] oh my goodness oh yeah yeah oh my goodness my house what do you think great oh my god it's just hard to believe i haven't seen this room in probably 10 years you know it's always fun to see a family walk into a house they haven't seen in 20 years and you could see the emotion immediately from everybody jenny how you feel definitely brings back a lot of good memories yeah you got good memories in here too it's just hard to put into words it's just really unbelievable like i never thought that this would happen oh my god it looks brand new yeah go on in somebody oh god wow this is like a rebirth i mean this is just something that i never dreamed could happen never arthur truly believes he's getting his life back that's a really powerful thing to see oh my god oh my god i haven't seen that granite and many moons it was just astounding to see it totally clear the way i remembered it from many years ago now i'm very excited just to live a normal life this is absolutely a win we finished the house we got 25 000 pounds of trash out of here and a family has got a chance of getting their life back oh my goodness oh my god oh my god oh my god just beautiful how do you feel dear jesus now we're gonna keep it this way right that's right all right it's not gonna change absolutely it's really important to recognize that this is not the end of the story this is the beginning of the story that we got him off to a good start but now it's up to them i'll never forget any of you it's just amazing amazing amazing amazing you said something in the garage today you remember you said there's no way to repay what you have done all of you all of you the whole crew you folks did a great job yourselves you worked your butts off this week and it shows open your house and open your hearts and maybe you'll have a new life is dolores cured of hoarding not at all the real work starts next week when dolores has the urges to go shopping the only way this house stays clean is the delores goes to therapy i'm going to make sure that she gets the help that she needs i think this family needs to keep practicing setting limits but if everybody does their part i think we may be able to keep this problem away for good i am not going to hoard anymore absolutely not and i promise to my husband and my children that this will not happen again this is the beginning of rest my life to live happily ever after [Music] hi thanks for 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Length: 20min 15sec (1215 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 06 2021