Jennifer and Ron suffer from hoarding and are raising their three kids in a junk-filled house. The city has cited them on numerous occasions. Jill is a mother who once lived in poverty. She has a problem hoarding food.
Linda's compulsive shopping has filled her house with piles of bags and boxes. Her husband left her three years ago because he could not cope with her hoarding. Meanwhile Steve's apartment has also been accumulating garbage. His landlord has given him one week to clean it out.
Tara has been reported to her landlord and needs to clean out now or she'll be homeless. She's an obsessive collector, favoring things like McDonald's Happy Meal toys, nativity scenes, snow globes and hundreds of teddy bears. Now Tara must finally get control of her hoarding and part with most of the clutter in her home or face eviction.
While most 21 olds see a world of possibility in front of them, Jake wakes up every morning despondent at the state of his life--a prisoner to his hoarding and OCD. Jake compulsively hoards garbage. Snack wrappers, empty bottles, and rotting food are strewn in every room of the two bedroom town home he shares with his alcoholic father.
Kerrylea and her husband Geoffrey are facing imminent foreclosure on two houses. After her hoarding filled the first home she convinced her husband that the only way to solve her lifelong problem was to buy an additional home, move just what they needed, and sell the original home. But with neither home sold,
Patty and David appear to be living the American dream. But their secret hides behind the manicured yard of their new home. Patty's hoarding has taken over the entire house and their children were removed by authorities. Now, if the family is to have any hope of ever getting their children back, Patty must overcome her compulsive shopping and hoarding and clean out her entire home.
Paul maintains his own private junk yard in his backyard, front yard and side yard. He wants to sell the junk for scarp but also doesn't want to get rid of it. Now he faces jail time on a law passed just for him. Missy's son has ADD and has an emotional attachment to everything in his room like most kids are attached to their blanky. It's no help that Missy is also a hoarder.
