The WORST episodes of Hoarding: Buried Alive

#1 - Waste Not, Want Not

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/15/2013

A woman began hoarding after the murder of her daughter, but her habit could jeopardize her marriage; a couple's relationship is in danger because of hoarding.

#2 - It's A Horror Story

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2013

A man's girlfriend's clutter fills up his house after she moves in with him, leaving behind her home that's already been condemned due to 48 years of hoarding.

#3 - This House Killed Her

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/27/2013

Three siblings sift through the clutter in their deceased mother's house with spiritual guidance from a medium.

#4 - This is Garbage Land

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2012

Cary's paralyzing obsession with Elvis memorabilia has left his New York City apartment virtually uninhabitable.

#5 - I'm a Rockstar, Baby!

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/10/2013

A Canadian rock singer faces the possibility of losing his family unless he can declutter the large amount of memorabilia and other items he has accumulated over the years.

#6 - You're Not Taking My Kids

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/13/2013

A woman's custody of her children is at stake unless she can clean up her home in two days.

#7 - Somewhere in My Pile

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2013

Beverly's clutter has filled up her entire home and her three beloved dogs have helped make the space completely unlivable.

#8 - This is Unreal

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/29/2012

Milton has always loved to shop. After losing his mother, it became a compulsion that soon took over his life. Louise has been diagnosed with cancer and the unhealthy living conditions of her home are only making the reality of the prognosis worse.

#9 - Surviving on Trash

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2011

Pregnant with her first child, Traci is desperate to move back into her childhood home. But it's filled floor to ceiling with her mother's stuff. Now the two must work together to clear a decades worth of clutter before it's too late.

#10 - Hoarders: Buried Alive

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/10/2009

Compulsive hoarding is a mental illness that causes people to accumulate an excessive amount of clutter within their homes. Delve into the lives of two women whose houses and families are being overrun by their things. Can they dig out of the mess?

#11 - Beyond Embarrassment

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/2010

A man, 55, plans to abandon his hoard and move in with his mother, who is also a hoarder; a woman risks having her house condemned due to her hoarding.

#12 - Paralyzed by Clutter

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/2010

An extreme hoarder is in denial; a woman who has trouble discarding belongings fears that she's passing down her compulsion to her son.

#13 - A Humongous Secret

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/26/2012

When Dennis quit drinking, a new compulsion took over: hoarding. Now, severe debt and clutter have him moments away from losing it all. Monte has accumulated a massive, couture-clothing hoard, and destroyed a relationship with her son in the process.

#14 - Running Out of Time

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/5/2014

A man who's lost his home has 30 days to remove the clutter from it or he'll lose everything inside—including his two children.

#15 - There Are Mice Everywhere

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2011

Compulsive hoarder Kathleen discovers a hoard of mice living in her kitchen numbering in the thousands. And for extreme hoarder Jaime's future son-in-law, spending the night in a hoard might very well end a marriage before it even begins.

#16 - I Can't Breathe

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/18/2011

A woman is in danger of losing custody of her ten year old daughter unless she can change her hoarding ways.

#17 - Losing Half Myself

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/17/2013

Phyllis and Patty aren't just identical twins, they are identical hoarders as well.

#18 - Leading a Double Life

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2013

A landlord's secret hoard is a threat to a woman and her children, who lives downstairs. The hoarding is to blame for mold, mice and flea infestations.

#19 - Tiny Monsters

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2012

Sherry's hoard has broken up her marriage. Now, authorities are threatening to take away her children and condemn her home. With only weeks to clean it up, Sherry could lose everything she loves.

#20 - It's Just Sex

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/2012

Secret hoarding by a couple is complicated by revelations about their relationship and sex lives, which could threaten their marriage and cost them their home.

#21 - Holding Mom Hostage

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/20/2013

An ill-tempered man fills his 93-year-old mother's house with clutter after moving back in with her.

#22 - They're Crawling

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/20/2013

#23 - One Is Good Two Is Better

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/27/2013

#24 - She's Going to Jail

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/3/2013

A woman's past hoarding has resulted in her going to jail and she faces the same possibility again unless she changes her ways. Home owners come to the startling revelation that the home they have purchased is full of junk left by the previous occupant.

#25 - Full of Rats

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2013

A house's rat infestation has compromised the building's foundation and is due to the current occupant's hoarding.