Hoarders: Beautiful Home Hidden Under 6 TONS Of Trash (S12) | A&E

[Music] i'm eric i'm a retired journalist flight attendant electronic technician when you drive up to my house you see things are sort of a chaotic condition [Music] a porch is filled with stuff that doesn't need to be filled with it's covered up with a tarp which is unsightly it just means i'm hiding something that i don't want you to see when you walk through the front door you're hit with unopened boxes of things i bought that i haven't even opened yet you're just seeing things that are just misplaced it's just a very helter skelter higgly piggly look to everything it's just all junked up i was starting to suffer from insomnia so i couldn't sleep and i couldn't really read because i i would sort of fall into some semi zombie state once i lay down my body wouldn't sleep so i would spend five to six hours a day online shopping looking for things to buy it just became a habit of mine to see what was out there [Music] sylvie was my wife for 30 years she did have a little different upbringing she was european she came from hungary she in fact she was a war ii refugee because her country had to flee um hungary when the russians came the soviets came in she was the love of my life i'm rita so he's my best friend for 48 years she had a very rare form of cancer tumor on her spine and she had five subsequent surgeries eventually the surgeries caused her to lose the ability to walk you know he can only remove tumors from his spinal cord so much and eventually the damage begins to reveal itself sylvia and i were very close we we spoke just about every day on the telephone and she was very concerned once she was not able to walk she wasn't able to keep the hoarding from getting worse and worse she was confined to one room in a hospital bed eric was then able to bring in more things because she she wouldn't see what was going on i felt a great deal of um anger towards myself and shame that i had allowed myself to fall into this kind of condition of hoarding especially in regards to sylvie that i it caused her anxiety i i just felt terrible that she that she would have to experience that i stressed her out over things it didn't need to be silvie's death was very hard we'd been friends for 48 years so it was very difficult you know we had time to get used to the fact that she wasn't going to make it especially when the cancer metastasized her lungs to his heart hey beautiful it was hard on her friends it was hard on eric but in eric's defense he was wonderful he took care of her and he really loved sylvie if he doesn't get this cleaned up i'm worried about his mental health getting a grasp on the situation i'm worried about his physical health because i know there is a lot of filth in the house i feel like i'm drowning like i can't breathe because it's taking away my oxygen takes away from my quality of life i just feel like i'm chained i'm enslaved to this good morning everybody good morning good morning i'm dorothy brenninger professional organizing expert and i specialize in hoarding good to see you there are 18 of us here today for a very good reason this is about honoring sylvie yes yes and reclaiming your life what you want and that all starts with the stuff and then goes through the doctor because we've got to not just declutter the house but maybe what's in your head a little bit well that's that's difficult stuff that's been collecting for some time what's unusual about this horde is that there are no mice scrambling there are no roaches running everywhere the house isn't deteriorating but what is happening is eric's heart is breaking and it's breaking into little pieces in every single room of this house all right let's set our timers and see how quickly we can deal with that living room let's go see that couch back there that's a thousand dollar couch i just bought that what is that doing in there i have no idea family number do you know y'all got to be a have a little better hold on family yes you gotta ask me you can't throw a brand new piece of furniture like getting ready i mean no no you're gonna have me looking through trash this is not what i wanted to do i wanted to be able to trust people to come here and let me know what's going on and now you decided oh let's throw my my good stuff in i pointed out to uh get rid of some furniture and it got thrown away and it caused a big ruckus the thing is i don't know what else is going to get thrown in here because people are assuming things they shouldn't assume all right well we won't let that happen again eric hang on one second i didn't know it was going in the actual trash i just thought it was going somewhere else and we were gonna deal with it in an auction or get rid of it or something like that i trusted y'all too to be a professional enough to know what's going on out here and i come here looking in a dumpster now i got to go dumpster diving because y'all weren't doing your stuff you got me distracted with all i mean i realize it's a big job but that is unacceptable at this point i'm hoping that he sees that this was a mistake that this wasn't anything that myself or dorothy did and we will get the family to rally revisit the rules and make sure that nothing moving forward goes on the dumpster without his say family members we need to make it clear that nothing gets thrown away i'm so sorry it's all right and yes we will have a dumpster monitor if we need to absolutely you know i'm hoping that tonight he gets a good night's sleep and gets some rest and recognizes that this was simply a mistake that we did rectify however if he doesn't get to that place i'm really worried about what this will mean for moving forward tomorrow i get up in the morning i meditate on what kind of a day we're going to have i'm in a good mood i drive here i walk up the driveway and i'm ready to start the day and pow if i was you i would i would resign for my position right now dorothy i mean for you this works it doesn't work for me there's no reason for me to come here and have my life just upended like this and expect me to be just all happy and excited that my life is going to magically change it's not going to magically change i sat in that house yesterday emptied and i said this is just a shell that's the part i was worried about yes that's a shell of who i was i wanted to get a good meal i couldn't i couldn't find anything in my house to use to make a meal you have to realize when you're walking down what is how is this going to affect the person that we're here you're here to help you weren't helping me last night this goes for you too you say you're here to help me but i don't get it i don't feel it i don't sense it and i just assume just get your all out of here and leave it here out and i'll have a garage sale or something i spoke to him three times last night i offered to come and move the tarps last night i offered to bring him food i think this is probably just one of his defenses coming up to push us all away i i know he's emotionally fragile i've talked about that from the beginning he's validating that well i'm gonna go see if i can talk to him i'd like to talk to him too but i also need to explain a couple of things to him i'm happy to go together okay but i'm not convinced at this part that he has the mental capacity and the emotional capacity to do this and yesterday when he said i just want you to organize all the stuff and bring it back in that may be what we need to do because i'm not willing to risk him having any kind of breakdown and the way he is right now he's he's in that place yeah let's see if we can talk to him okay eric i don't know if you remember some of the conversations we had but i talked about this very thing that this is what i was most worried about was that the stuff was covering up all that pain i'm sorry for your pain and i'm sorry that we are the catalyst for your pain but i also know that this is what has to happen for you to heal and that stuff has been blocking it and i know you think about sylvia and i can't even imagine since her passing how many times you have silently cried or cried out loud in your house by yourself but that stuff will never cover up your pain ever i sat in here and i realized this is an empty place because i could hear my voice echoing around and i said there's no one here but me it was a very lonely feeling and you know how fragile i am with that but the thing is all i ever could think about is that this place without silvie is just a house it's not a home it didn't feel like a home to me anymore especially with all my stuff gone i think my stuff when i was sitting here i was like my stuff made me feel was was my replacement for sylvie and um and you just you just can't buy these people i don't know how to go on from here i just don't i just don't once you empty this house it'll just be one big echo chamber of my memories of her and i just i just miss her so much i i sit here and say where's my sylvie every night where's my this conversation was probably the most powerful conversation he has had since sylvie passed i'm hoping that this will be the first step of his grieving process and build his confidence that even though it's going to be painful he can do it i think this is all sylvie's clothing yeah that's also this do you want to review any of it do you want the girls to review it do you not want to see it i'm seeing it now eric this is a time that you have to tell us if it's too much because i know we're pushing you but if it's too much then it's that's not the goal is is to push you when dr zazio steps in and says this is a time to really consider your well-being all bets are off you you need to do what's best for you hey you know to even talk about memories i mean i i remember all these clothes and how she looked in them and uh what a beautiful woman she was well to tell you the truth if i was to ask sylvia what should i do with this she would probably tell me just get rid of it or you don't need it you don't have to make a decision in this moment we can walk away you've let these clothes go which is super amazing but if you if you need a little bit of time to digest it then i think that's super reasonable i'm on board with whatever you say it's hard to earth it's hard to utter the words to tell you the truth i never really thought it would be but we have to say goodbye sometimes dorothy can ask a question there are lots of women out there who don't have a lot of money that need suits for job interviews things like that if they're in good condition can we donate them absolutely she she'd appreciate that i would too so take it away [Music] crash here all this traffic [Music] here we go ah it's a nice cool house it's a cool house oh my goodness whoa wow oh my god wow yeah mom and dad look at that silly oh my goodness that is that okay yeah that's fine i i was waiting for a place and you as the organizer you are you found the place to put that's beautiful this is under a mother's painting that's a perfect spot the house looks so good just walking into the foyer and seeing how didn't have a lot of things in it it was all organized and seeing all the beautiful things that sylvie had and loved she loved blue delph too the blue delft yeah this is this is her favorite collection of pottery right here just going through the house my mouth just dropped open it was so beautiful oh wow my goodness oh my gosh oh well you're musical music studio fantastic desk over there with your computer or writing station as i like to think of it the whole point here is to be surrounded by sylvie yeah yeah and then for you to try to inside of that love find your way through your own passions of music and writing and books i'm just flabbergasted by what what this room looks like compared to just a week ago at this time it didn't look like this and his remake is remarkable again sylvia would just say you dumb bell why did it take you so long to do this yeah she'd be smacking me upside the head here we are full of success but wait a minute i am really concerned that eric kept a lot of things got rid of six tons worth of stuff thank you very much but you also have the equivalent of 3 000 boxes still in the house they're in the attic they're in the sun room they're in the garage he still has financial bills paperwork taxes that need to be filed his family's going to help him they all know where it's at but it does need to get done even if we have another organizer come back to work with him i think that person also needs to be clued in because we need to take care of any financial obligations that he has i would just like to say sylvie just i love you and and i hope this brings a smile to your face i'm sure it does and i just miss you and i'm i'm glad we had this chance to give your home back and people could remember you in a better way in a fine way hi thanks for being a fan of hoarders and subscribe to a e for more videos and click the links 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Length: 20min 22sec (1222 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 23 2021