Carolyn and Jo
Carolyn's daughter is so unhappy about the cluttered condition of the home that she has been leaving notes for her mother intimating that she is threatening suicide.
More from Season 3
Episode 1
Adella / Teri
Daughters help their mom in an effort to clean her home to keep it from being condemned; and a mother of two is threatened with divorce if she doesn't stop hoarding.
Episode 2
Gordon & Gaye and Sir Patrick
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.
Episode 3
Robin / Ken
Robin's home is so full of garbage that people in the street can smell the stench. With the city condemning the property and threatening to tear it down at their expense, Robin and her father must clean up their house to save it.
Episode 5
Laura and Penny
Laura has terminal cancer and is in fragile health, but sleeping or resting is nearly impossible. The only open spot she can lay her head on is two-thirds of the living room couch. It's a couch surrounded by plastic bins, toys, boxes, scrap-book and crafts supplies, rotting furniture, magazines, and a carpet stained by cat urine. Laura's hoarding has greatly strained her relationship with her husband and daughters. She knows this is her last chance to unburden her family and give them back a home free of her clutter and misery. Penny is a 44-year-old single mom of two. Her three-bedroom home is so hoarded that her toddler son has been forced to sleep with her on the living room couch. Her refrigerator doesn't work and there's a terrible smell in her older
Episode 6
Vula and Lisa
Vula is hoarding more than 30 sickly cats that have completely destroyed her home. Lisa, a 30-year-old fifth grade teacher, has already lost one job by bringing her hoard from home to the classroom.
Episode 7
Kathleen / Margree
A hoarding woman may lose her daughter; a groom never moved in to his wife's cluttered house.