The WORST episodes of Hoarders
Every episode of Hoarders ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Hoarders!
Each 60-minute episode of Hoarders is a fascinating look inside the lives of two different people whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of a personal crisis.
#2 - Kathy & Elmira
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/21/2016
Kathy has hoarded out her triplex and a dance studio and is facing financial ruin if she can't clean up and rent out her spaces. Her twelve children, including a daughter who developed split personality disorder to cope with the hoard, will try to get her to face her demons. Elmira's hoard has become so bad that code enforcement is on the verge of condemning her home. Elmira's family will have to resolve their "step vs. blood" dynamics to help her through the process.
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#3 - Ellen & Gloria
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/14/2016
The tragic loss of Ellen's husband in the line of duty triggered hoarding through kleptomania. Her house has become so unsafe with her lifted items, her home owners insurance is threatening to revoke coverage. Gloria's family is on the verge of calling the sheriff and the SPCA due to her out-of-control dog, cat, and stuff hoarding.
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#4 - Sybil & Ron
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/6/2016
Sybil's hoard is so intense that mice have started to live in her tub and her refrigerator. Her home is so jam packed with items and rodents that she has literally been forced outside and is now sleeping in her backyard cat aviary. If she doesn't clean up, her family will call adult protective services and have her removed from her property. Ron, has hoarded out his camera shop to the point where he has lost many of his customers. If he doesn't clean up, he could end up losing his business and livelihood.
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#5 - Sandy & Len
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/13/2016
Sandy's sister, Nona, owns the family home where Sandy has lived her entire life. Nona hasn't been inside the home in 10 years, but when code enforcement issued her a citation, she decided it was time to confront Sandy about how she's been living. Len lives in a home stuffed full of garbage bags where he keeps all his belongings. If he doesn't clean up his family fears his house will kill him.
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#6 - Celia & Nathan
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/20/2016
Celia is in danger of losing her hoarded home of shoplifted items and her illegal hoard of dogs if she doesn't get her compulsion under control. Nathan came out as gay when he was 15. The lack of acceptance he felt from his community led him to hoard items as a way to deal with is pain. Now in his early 30's his hoarding has escalated to the point where he is facing eviction. Nathan must face all his past trauma in order to overcome his hoarding and crisis.
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#7 - Maggie & Ann
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/27/2016
Maggie's home is so packed with her shopping addiction that her granddaughter was forced to sleep on top of piles and shower outside with a garden hose. Things have gotten so bad, that a family member pulled Maggie and her granddaughter out of the house. If things are not cleaned up, they will not be allowed to return. Former spa owner, Ann, is about to lose her partner over her hoard. After a decade of failed promises to clean up the house, her partner has had it. Ann cleans up or he leaves her for good.
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#8 - Sandi & Vivian
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/3/2016
Sandi is known as the town's Mrs. Claus over the holidays. However, she has taken her alter ego to the extreme with her gift hoarding compulsion. Things have gotten so out of control with her Mrs. Claus persona that Sandi is on the verge of going bankrupt and losing her gift-hoarded home! Vivian has custody over her grandsons but is on the verge of losing them to Child Protective Services because of her hoard.
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#9 - Stanks & Anne
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/18/2016
The Stanks have hoarded themselves out of their home and are facing the loss of their property if they cannot get it up to code. Anne is in love with Christmas! Her diabetic husband is at risk for life threatening injuries trying to survive in her enormous collection of seasonal d cor. If Anne doesn't take Christmas down once and for all, her husband will leave her for his own physical safety.
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#10 - Leza & Linda
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2017
A woman's home is red tagged as uninhabitable and she has to clean it up before an imposed deadline or risk losing her property. Also: unsanitary conditions prevent a woman from taking her husband home following a heart transplant.
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#12 - Peggy & Ed and Connie
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/31/2016
Peggy's hoard of filth and dead animal carcasses has led the city to deem her house uninhabitable. If she does not clean up, city officials will not allow Peggy to return to her beloved home. Ed and Connie met over their mutual love over Halloween items. However their love of Halloween ballooned into a much larger hoarding problem. With conditions becoming intolerable, their teenage son has issued an ultimatum: Clean up or he will take himself and his younger autistic brother out of the home--even if that means running away.
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#13 - Where Are They Now?
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/28/2016
In this episode of Hoarders we check in with five hoarders from past seasons: Al lost custody of his son due to his hoarding, Jill is a food hoarder who feels that expiration dates are arbitrary, Dale is at risk of being evicted from the Boston loft apartment where he's lived for over 30 years, Claire and Vance filled every room of their home with hundreds of thousands of books, and Verna was forced to sleep in her attic because her home was so hoarded.
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#14 - Andy & Becky
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/2019
Andy and Becky feel it is their constitutional right to live however they choose, even if that's among 250 tons of hoard. They soon find themselves in a battle with the city government that could end with them going to jail and losing their home.
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#15 - Dale
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/2019
Over the past three decades, Dale fills his Alaskan property with everything from decking from the Yukon River Bridge to more than 100 vehicles. Hoarded out of his home and with a harsh winter approaching, Dale must clean up or face perishing.
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#17 - Three Amigos
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/2/2019
Donald and brothers, Peter and Raymond, are close friends who do everything together, including hoarding. Each of them now face their own personal crisis ranging from loss of property, to destroyed relationships, to potential loss of life due to their hoarding.
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#20 - Althia
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/3/2020
Althia faces heavy fines for multiple vehicles, building materials and a 60-foot semi-trailer on her residential property; her 5,000 square foot unfinished dream home is filled with unsold inventory from a business that ended when her husband died.
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#21 - Becky
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/10/2020
Over the past two decades, Becky has hoarded her home and motel property, including furniture, clothes and appliances.
#23 - Michelle & Mary
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/16/2015
Michelle's husband is a recovering alcoholic and his sobriety is in real danger due to her massive doll hoarding. Mary's house is ground zero for the rat population in the neighborhood because of her hoard and the neighbors are about to report her to authorities due to fear of hantavirus and plague carrying rodents in the region.
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#24 - Jeff & Merlene
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/21/2013
Merlene had it all--an international supermodel married to the son of the inventor of the Lear Jet. But her storybook life fell apart when she got divorced and now her house is crammed to the ceiling with her dumpster dive finds. Jeff once had plenty of cash and women to fill his time. But it all came crashing down when he lost his shoe repair business, and he moved all the contents of the business into his home and started hoarding construction supplies to boot.
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#25 - Diana & Dolores
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/28/2013
A victim of abuse as a child, Diana's hoarding became so extreme that her daughter was forced to sleep in a recliner because the trash had overtaken her room. But now a neighbor has blown the whistle on the heap, and the house could be condemned if Diana doesn't clean up fast. Meanwhile, Dolores was once an antiques dealer with such a great eye for value that she even sold to Sotheby's. But her buying got out of hand, and now she s got a hoard that could catch on fire and burn her house down at any time
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