I've been watching this series on A&E and I hate television... but I thought I'd share this evening's episode as one of the people on the season finale is a hoarder that many of us can relate to... a hoarder with cars and car parts. He's already been put in jail and faces more jail time unless he cleans his place up. Not a lot of HAMB stuff... but we can all relate as I have been to plenty of places over the years that isn't a junkyard... but to many it is. I've learned a lot... and been grossed out a lot watching this series. It's a bigger and stronger compulsion than I had realized in some people. I've heard people here on the HAMB over the years say thing like effin' hoarders and many things of that nature... mostly from jealousy in my opinion... but most likely now I understand it's a sickness. http://www.aetv.com/hoarders/episod...k=true&dlepisodeid=483604&dlseason=Season%201 The guy would've made a killing if scrap was still high...
In regards to what is done with our paid for and owned land........ If it is rural land, get the hell out of my yard and mind your own business. If it is suburban America, you have a responsibility to your neighbors to keep their property values up.
I watched the lead in of the show to see if i saw any '50s chrome peeking out from his piles, but then my wife stole the remote...
It's hard to watch that series without thinking "am I sick too?" I got a lota junk I wonder WTF about but I DO throw out my pumpkins when they start gettin' moldy...yuchK... Anyways car stuff and tools and stuff don't count towards hoarding do they?
exactly, makes me happy in in the country, 45 miles from the nearist city, anyone stepping on my land thats not a friend and dosent have a warrent gets shot. that's legal here. HAHAHAHA.
I feel real bad for that old dude counting on scrap prices for his retirement , probably hasn't been moved to tears in 60 years ...
For many of us we drive by places like this searching like Coronado did for a city of gold when it comes to car stuff... but most of us probably don't have to live it in or see it everyday which I guess means we have our own blinders. I'd love to have a barn full of old tin... or a back 40 with all kinds of gems stashed away. I've been to many places like this over the years and I always treat the people that own it with respect, sometimes pity but always with sincere appreciation. At other times I've never understood why people would be so unwilling to part with things they'd obviously never use or finish... even when a more than generous offer (from my standpoint at least) was given. I guess we all have our own stories to tell or that we can relate to in regards to this matter... but this series has made me understand the affliction at the least a little bit better.
There's a "hoarder" in my neighborhood. He owns a gigantic metal warehouse, about 100ft x 200ft x 50 feet tall. It is JAMMED to the rafters with antique/vintage cars and trucks and parts. He has them stacked one atop the other, probably at least 50 vehicles stuffed in there. I kid you not. I made him an offer for one of his 46 Ford F-1's, but he refuses to sell ANYTHING. I offered him stupid money too, just to see if he's for real or what. No dice, he's "attached" to them all, a real live hoarder. So I told him "it's OK, I understand, I'll make a deal with your widow after you kick the bucket"! He chuckled.
I catch the show when I can, should have caught it tonight apparantly, finally a car episode. I had an uncle die in August of 2008. He left us with 25 years of newspapers. Every single daily from 2 cities for 25 years. He also left us with MANY car and car part treasures, tools, rare coins, guns, antiques, etc. While it seemed like a huge burden at the time, not to mention a physical and mental challenge in the beginning, sitting here over a year later, I can't help but think how awfully alone that man really was. The only "things" that he cared for were "things" he kept. Worldly "things". But those "things" made him happier than anything else in the world. Happier than people ever could. Yeah, he died alone, but happy, among his "things". A sad commentary on a man's life, but I think of him every time I drive his prized Cutlass, or use one of his tools, or fire one of his guns. Here's to you Uncle Al.......
Nuttin wrong with that. Only thing it matters to is you while you are here. At least the cars and tools can't break your heart....... unless some a-holes try to take them from you like in this show.
hi,my name is Mark and i am a hoarder! 1.we admitted we are powerless over cars....... 10.continue to take inventory... probably should stop before i piss someone off HEHEHE
Hey I watched this show tonight also. I spotted a late 40's/early 50's dodge in the yard a couple of times. I also caught a glimpse of a 60's two door car with slot mags on it underneath a bunch of junk at one point in the show also in the background. I love looking for "old junk" while watching shows like this.
My great grandfather was a hoarder. My father owned the farm since 1957 never sold anything. I have about 300 cars on three acres and another 10 acre parcel littered with cars trucks bulldozers tractors and sawmills. Now that my parents are in the nursing home and i have to deal with their assetts a strange thing has happened. I have came to realize that they never really owned the farm and all of this stuff. The stuff owned them. I will be at retirement age in 4 years. I dont want to owned by a bunch of junk antique or classic stuff anymore. Im working towards having it reduced to a reasonable amount in a short time. I really dont have a lot of dollars tied up in it so if it goes for scrap price we still will make money. Not any cash buyers in the area where we live anyway. I can feel for the guy in the video. Even when you live out in the country time passes quickly and you can soon be in a rual or urban setting. Things change you must be able to change also. Hrer are just a few pictures of the copious amount of treasures that my father hoarded on the farm. Now i have to reduce it to cash to pay the nursing home. Their is a point when you cross the line and its just nuts not to face the reality that you aint gonna ever get around to it OldWolf
I knew a girl once who saved quarters, cause everyone said she was a 2 bit hoard. I don't know anything about that, all I remember about her was that she sure did like to f#@*k!
It sounds like another victomless crime. No one gets hurt but the government makes money from the poor guy doing what brings him happiness. I thought the prusuit of happiness was not a crime. Well that must have been in the olden days.
I have a friend that collects old cars and trucks. Nothing really valuable, most don't run. He sees them as diamonds in the rough and has sincere visions of rebuilding and restoration... Then the next day he finds another and the cycle starts over. Oh yeh, he also collects old stereo speakers, typewriters, coffee pots, vacuum cleaners. He's used ALL of his money buying this junk.
I can relate, but I'm cutting myself off after one more. Watching that show has told me two things. 1: I'm not that bad, and 2: It's only a matter of time before the sheriff shows up. Even living in a rural area, the county ordinance limits nonregistered vehicles to 3. I've got 13, but at least they're hidden from the road, lol.
In the town i live in there is a man who for 40+ years has been hoarding cars. I say hoarding and not collecting because they are untouched by him, and covered in vines and shrubbery, most of them are rusted horribly. Almost everyone i know has pleaded with the man at one point or another to part with just one to no avail. I would estimate the number of cars based on what i can see from the road to be upwards of 150 cars. I'm not talking about saturn station wagons, either. probably 75 percent of these cars are HAMB-worthy. The other quarter are mostly muscle cars, probably nothing newer than '75. I keep saying i'm gonna go take some pictures and post them but never do. one day.
I hoard, too, but I put a price tag on everything. If I sell something, I can go out and buy more crap!
Hoarder is a derogatory term applied to others who find joy in having items that remind them of better times and loved ones. If you can't look at something or hold it in your hand and remember the person you got it from or the history that took place in the era it came from then I feel very sorry of that empty shell of a person.
Im watching it right now! it is sad the old guy crying and stuff but to me his is more of a way to make some money atleats he gets rid of things. I was thinking couldnt he just build a huge 6 foot wall or fence around his own yard and get rid of the so called "eye sore"?
But that wouldn't make for good "reality" TV. Besides what would the expert therapists do then.... dig post holes
things get pretty heated here when someone call my things a "eyesore" i have 2.75 acres filled with vehicles and stuff and after 30 years the fucking reason its being emptied is because they are paying me handsomely to do so. so far some of my fellow hambers have reaped the benefits as i have allowed them to "see what they needed" as long as i didn't have to remove it. i will scale most of whats left over because i don't want my current home filled with anything. i'm keeping "just enough".
In Florida where I live, if code enforcement can't see it from eye level, it isn't a violation. Exactly why you can't see any of my property, whats not fenced in, is woods, and plenty of NoTrespassing signs. My dad left plenty for me to take care of, plus I keep adding to it myself, I think a better term is Caretakers!!!LOL!!! But I will pass things along if I truly know I won't use it, but I can find uses for lots of the stuff. Hell I think most of us, it just makes us feel good to be able to look at the stuff!!!LOL!!!
My uncle is a hoarder. Has several buildings full of every vehicle, tractor, motorcycle, etc he's ever owned. One of them is a 55 Chev with an in-line 6. It was my great-grandmother's car. Now it sits...
I have the same sentiment. Pull out a tape measure to 80 and when your 60 you can get a visual on how much is gone han how little time is left. OldWolf
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