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.
#1 - Christine
Season 16 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2024
Christine is an intelligent, articulate, mother of two teenage girls. Both of her daughters are autistic and function best in a controlled, calm environment - but Christine can't let go of anything. She is drowning in items from her past, and constantly collecting things for a future that has never arrived. With the help of the Hoarders team, Christine wants to get her hoarding disorder under control and live a healthier life with her daughters.
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#2 - Hoarders: Live
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2015
The critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated franchise Hoarders, premieres an all-new season on Lifetime. Titled "Hoarders: Family Secrets," the program features original stories of people who obsessively hoard to the point that collecting overwhelms their families and their lives. The series kicks-off with a one-hour special focusing on a Massachusetts family and will feature live segments culminating in an all-live intervention. The episode will also feature the story of a second hoarder who faces jail time if he doesn’t pass a final city inspection.
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#3 - Terry & Adelle
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2012
Terry's fridge is packed with dead cats, and she has another 50 live ones. Her son thinks her problems stem from the time her father died of a heart attack right in front of her when she was just a small child, and she's felt guilty ever since that she couldn't save him. Meanwhile, decades of hoarding has left Adelle's house in such shambles that she's using a bucket for a bathroom and doing laundry in a kiddie pool in her backyard. But Adelle can't see the filth or the damage her hoarding has done to her family.
#4 - Linda
Season 16 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2024
Linda grew up in luxury, her parents' Miami mansion meticulously maintained by staff. As a young woman, she worked in high-end real estate and enjoyed the Miami social scene. Yet, after suffering traumatic losses--including the heartbreak of losing her firstborn child--Linda's life took a drastic turn. Now, at 70, her once-elegant lifestyle has evolved into an existence surrounded by trash and decay. Determined to reclaim her home and pass it on to her son and his family, Linda must confront her hoarding and clean up her life before it's too late.
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#5 - David & Odette
Season 15 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/2024
The only way David and Odette can enter or exit their 3,000 square foot home is by climbing a six-foot ladder into the kitchen. The couple live in what should be a dream home - an architecturally designed masterpiece with sweeping views of the Blue Mountains but instead, the house has become a nightmare. David has crammed it to the brim with stuff and Odette continues to add to the hoard with purchases from online auctions. The couple is on the brink of disaster and Odette is threatening to leave him if he can't clean up their home. With the help of the Hoarders team, can David and Odette unclutter their lives and get her hoarding disorder under control?
#6 - Flora
Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/24/2020
Flora's daughter and grandchildren recently moved in with her, but due to the massive hoard, the entire family must eat, sleep and live in a single bedroom. If Flora doesn't clean her home, CPS may have to intervene.
#7 - Linda & Steven
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/24/2009
An Everett, Washington woman's compulsive shopping has depleted her family's finances to the point where her marriage has become strained. She must clean out and sell the family home as part of the divorce settlement. An Olympia, Washington man is at risk of eviction from his government subsidized housing as his apartment is filled with garbage, human feces, bottles, and cans.
#8 - Bruce and Cathy
Season 16 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2024
Bruce is very thoughtful and always keeps things with the idea that he'll give it to someone he knows because they could use that item. Good intentions have led Bruce to collect a massive amount of tools and clutter over the years.
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#9 - Hunger Pains
Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/14/2021
A retrospective special featuring some of the series' most extreme food hoards. Hosted by resident clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio, and extreme cleanup specialist, Corey Chalmers, viewers revisit individuals that struggled to get relief from the mounting hoards of food they've accumulated.
#10 - Lee and BG & Chris
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/2012
BG and Lee have filled their million-dollar Victorian home with hoards of stuff--and now are even competing to see who can bring in the most stuff. The two are locked in emotional combat--a real-life "War of the Roses." Chris has filled his house and eight storage units with worthless junk that he gets for free. His situation is so dire that he's gone without water and other basics just so he can continue to afford storage space for his garbage.
#11 - Susan & Michael
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/2012
Susan`s addicted to buying and selling cars and electronics, but she never manages to sell much. Recently, when Susan was out prowling for more stuff, someone broke into the house, bound and gagged her wheelchair-bound mother at gunpoint, and stole some of Susan's hoard. Michael's father was a Nazi SS member in Germany's Third Reich who ruled his son with an iron fist, even forcing him to eat his own pet rabbit to "toughen him up." Now Michael is a hoarder and he and his dog live like sardines packed in a can of clutter.
#12 - Susan
Season 16 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2024
Susan is a single mother with six children. She's been a mom since she was 16, and it's what she likes to do best. But it's taking a toll on her house--and her mental health. She spends her days in bed, avoiding the mountains of dirty laundry and heaps of garbage on the floor. With the help of the Hoarders team, she intends to unclutter her life and get her hoarding disorder under control.
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#14 - Sherry
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/27/2020
Sherry's justification for her massive hoard is that it protects her from the outside world; now, she must now clean up her hoard to start getting her life on track.
#15 - Michelle & Yama
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/11/2015
22-year-old Yama keeps shopping and hoarding to preserve the memory of her deceased mother. Michelle's obsession with shopping is putting her home in such a catastrophic condition that she faces losing her little boys to child protective services.
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#16 - Show and Tell
Season 12 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/19/2021
A retrospective special featuring some of the series' most unique collectibles. Hosted by resident clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio, and extreme cleanup specialist, Corey Chalmers, viewers follow individuals on their journeys to alleviate themselves of their unconventional collections.
#17 - Traffic Jam
Season 12 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/7/2021
A retrospective special featuring some of the series' most intense collections of vehicles. Hosted by resident clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio, and extreme cleanup specialist, Corey Chalmers, viewers follow individuals on their journeys to relieve themselves of their massive vehicle hoards.
#18 - Kerrylea & Lauren
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/14/2009
A Seattle, Washington couple are facing imminent foreclosure on two houses as a result of a decision to buy a second home to solve the wife's lifelong hoarding problem. A Charlottesville, Virginia woman's relationship with her boyfriend is in danger as a result of her hoard, which has taken over their entire townhouse.
#19 - Kathleen & Margree
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/4/2010
A hoarding woman may lose her daughter; a groom never moved in to his wife's cluttered house.
#20 - Jake & Shirley
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/7/2009
A young man in Novato, CA, who also suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoards garbage (snack wrappers, empty bottles, and rotting food) in a two-bedroom townhouse he shares with his alcoholic father. A New Mexico elderly woman's animal hoard is so bad that every room of her home is cluttered with over 75 living and dead cats, cat feces, and urine soaked carpets and furniture.
#21 - Debra & Patty
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2012
Debra has filled her house with an avalanche of clothes and run up a $50,000 credit card debt. Fed up, her husband and children are threatening to leave her to wallow in the hoard by herself. Meanwhile, Patty has stuffed her house with so many floor-to-ceiling cardboard boxes that she's had to move to her son's apartment. But now she's filling up that place too, and the situation has already forced her son's partner to say, "Keep the heap - I'm leaving!"
#22 - Gordon and Gaye & Sir Patrick
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/2010
A hoarding couple is given 72 hours to vacate their house if it isn't cleaned; and a man collects goblets, dolls, fountains and artwork.
#23 - Judy
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/2016
Judy’s life is a dangerous one of severe contradictions. She is an extreme germaphobe who spends her entire day engaged in sanitization rituals, yet she lives in a severe and extremely filthy hoard overridden with mice whom she considers her friends. The situation is so hazardous to her health the fire department and health department have mandated a clean up.
#24 - Angel
Season 16 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2024
Angel's life has spiraled as unchecked shopping habits have taken over her finances and her home. With reduced work hours but persistent spending, her home is now dangerously overcrowded. A burst water pipe above her living room threatens to worsen conditions, with water soaking into piles of clothes and other items, creating a breeding ground for mold. If the house isn't cleaned soon, Angel will find herself drowning in debt and trapped in an increasingly hazardous environment. Now, with the help of Hoarders experts Dr. Tolin and Brandon Bronaugh, Angel must act quickly to reclaim her home--or risk losing everything.
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#25 - Margie
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/10/2021
Margie and Bethel's house is an extreme fire hazard, filled with 500 tons of clutter and contaminated with rodent waste. The experts give Margie a chance to clean up and create a safe environment.