my shocking addiction and hoarding shows

[Mattemma]

I clean after watching the hoarding show! I could not watch the addiction show where the girl eats laundry soap,and licks hand soap off her hand.It made me feel sick to my stomach.

I did once catch the show *I used to be fat* which I think is on MTV,and that episode had a girl who went from 250 to 160 over the summer(daily work outs). I thought that was nice.

 

[Kansaseq]

The hoarding shows always make me want to clean my house, too.

I always liked abnormal psych classes in college, so these shows are just fascinating for me to watch. Some of the compulsions are just so bizarre, I'd never even think they could exist. It is a modern-day freak show, of sorts, but if it encourages someone in the audience to get help, well, that's a good thing.

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

I cleaned my entire kitchen (1 1/2 hours!) last night while the tp addiction/thumb sucking/ and that coupon show were on... so i only sort of listened, since my tv is not in the kitchen...

 

[pokey]

I am addicted to the shows about conjoined twins and half bodies. Weird stuff!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Me 2!

 

[Royd]

I no longer have tv, but I remember the Maury Povich show, where he would bring these people on with all kinds of wierd phobias....Some lady is frightened of dill pickles, so they'd bring out someone dressed as a dill pickle, to dance around...It's all too rediculous and funny.

 

[Dunkopf]

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I remember watching a show where they separated two cojoined twins. It showed them a lot playing with each other. They were joined at the head. They did the operation knowing one would probably die. Sure enough it did. It was very pathetic seeing the look on this babies face as it kept looking at where his brother had always been. Made me cry.

 

[drdoolittle]

I have seen the animal hoarding show, but can't watch it-----it makes me sick to my stomach. Why would family members allow things to get that disgusting before doing something about it--------or the County, for goodness sake! Don't they usually condemn houses in those conditions? I think watching these types of shows is detrimental to a person-----they will slowly make you immune to the human condition. I prefer to watch shows that either make me laugh or help me become more informed (For laughter, Two and a Half Men, The Middle, or Modern Family. For the other, American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Myth Busters, or something on the History Channel.) So, I don't buy that people watch the "reality" shows because there is nothing else on T.V. Maybe if people stopped watching these shows, they'd be canceled--------but it's too much of a commodity here in America.

 

[Rammy]

I love the Hoarder shows. I clean like a madman after. The first one I saw was about the lady who hoarded food. I went into my kitchen and threw out everything that was outdated. Ive taken bags of things to Goodwill. No way in heck would I allow a chicken to live in my house, with the exception of once I did bring in a chicken with frozen feet, but once she got better, she went back to the coop. I have alot of animals, but I draw the line otherwise I would be on one of those programs.<who can so no to brown puppy eyes or a cute kitty?> I have learned to say NO!!Course, I would of taken alot of those roosters, built a coop for them next to my neighbors side of the fence. I know how they like to sleep in after one of thier many beer parties<eg>

As far as the other reality programs, they are a bunch of bull. There is nothing decent on anymore, its all reality, which of course, really isnt because most of it is scripted. Nobody can come up with anything original. I mean, the programs on the big networks are either, cops, lawyers, doctors..............is there no other profession you can make a show about? Guess not. People on comedies are either disfunctional in some way and either are alcoholics or some other self-destructive behavior that we glorify and make fun of. Apparently, they cant be funny without using curse words either. Another reason I like to watch channels that show old programs like Leave it to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons............shows like that. No cussing and they are funny!

I also prefer to watch the History Channel, Discovery, Science Channel with thier documentaries and historical content. Books are getting better and better. I refuse to buy a Kindle.


Rammy

 

[Laurajean]

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Me too. I watch them, and as the camera pans around their house, I self consciously glance around my room. I do have some clutter, and a few small piles of things that still haven't gotten unpacked from my move, but I'm not like them. Yet it still freaks me out and I always have to throw a bunch of things away after watching.



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I do love my Kindle, but there's a time and a place for it. My home office is LINED with hundreds of books (if anything, I may hoard books), I'm a book fanatic. But I enjoy putting audiobooks on my Kindle and listening to them at night when I fall asleep. I also like to take the Kindle to an appointment to read while I wait. If there's a book I'm not in the mood to read, there's other ones right there on it, so that's convenient. But I would never replace my beloved books, many of which are antique, with an electronic.