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What are the results of each, that are so different? Are you talking about health? I eat food morsels that I discover days after I dropped them on the kitchen floor (like a raw chicken heart the other day), or that I find in the dumpster. I haven't washed dishes with soap in years, I just rinse them in hot running water and air dry them in the drainer. Dishwashing sponge-scrubbers last for a year, if you tie them up in net onion bags. I bake with a jar of sour milk in the fridge that has been working for five years. I've acquired a taste for cheese mold. I eat bananas whole, with peel. I haven't had a sick day in my life that can be associated with anything I ate, because I have a built up immunity to every foodborne pathogen. If "it's bound to catch up with me," it better hurry, I'm 74 now. My depression-era mother lived pretty much the same way, and died peacefully in her sleep in her 99th year and never slept a night in a nursing home..
The results of pathological cleaning? A clean, socially acceptable house. The results of pathological hoarding? Watch the show.
I agree that neither end of the spectrum is "healthy", but If I had my choice of issues, I would rather be too clean than live like the tv hoarders.
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You can stop watching hoarders all you have to do is push the power button on that remote control or television and magically that program disappears. You just do not want to quit watching hoarders.
I haven't watched television for about 15 years now and trust me you will not miss a thing. If I did not have my husband I would not have a television but he loves the television and he works hard so I think he should be able to sit in front of the television with the cable package that I pay so much for each month and sleep to his hearts content.
My question was not literal. I wonder if there is a reason why I choose to watch it? I watch very little TV, and I agree with you that most of it is a total waste of time. My Dish satellite records prime time shows automatically, so that is how I came to watch Hoarders, and now I'm hooked for some reason. Once in awhile, there is a person who really does not seem totally nutty, and I am left with the feeling that he or she might really be cured. Perhaps this is the reason.
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What are the results of each, that are so different? Are you talking about health? I eat food morsels that I discover days after I dropped them on the kitchen floor (like a raw chicken heart the other day), or that I find in the dumpster. I haven't washed dishes with soap in years, I just rinse them in hot running water and air dry them in the drainer. Dishwashing sponge-scrubbers last for a year, if you tie them up in net onion bags. I bake with a jar of sour milk in the fridge that has been working for five years. I've acquired a taste for cheese mold. I eat bananas whole, with peel. I haven't had a sick day in my life that can be associated with anything I ate, because I have a built up immunity to every foodborne pathogen. If "it's bound to catch up with me," it better hurry, I'm 74 now. My depression-era mother lived pretty much the same way, and died peacefully in her sleep in her 99th year and never slept a night in a nursing home..
I watched the show last night, and can easily see how I could get there. I have a tendency to procrastinate, am generally lazy, and can just put overwhelming things on ignore. Add some depression to that, I see how this could happen.
Thus, my retirement from Internet for the season. Time to focus on some stuff, before I star on a show.
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I watched the show last night, and can easily see how I could get there. I have a tendency to procrastinate, am generally lazy, and can just put overwhelming things on ignore. Add some depression to that, I see how this could happen.
Thus, my retirement from Internet for the season. Time to focus on some stuff, before I star on a show.
I notice a common thread to the hoarders seems to be their plumbing was shut off years ago, so unless you are saving your poo in a jar, you're probably still OK.
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