From Hoarders to Housewives !!!

It's Tuesday!!!!! .. and you know what THAT means...

It's the day after watching HOARDERS.... You may remember I said I was going to write about this show..

I mean how I can I NOT write about this show...

it has become my new obsession..

Well that and Housewives of Orange County( Gotta love that show)

Oh....and

Housewives of New York...New Jersey... Atlanta... You get the idea....
The funny thing is.. I really don't watch much T.V. ... No really...
(I know I hate when people say that too.. but it is true )

In fact during the day it's never on.. at all !

The boob tube is usually fired up after Mr R comes home.

Sometimes with the drone of some Detective show in the backdrop... or more often... the mind numbing sound of some Jock related program.

Basketball.. Baseball... Football.. Underwater Polo.. It doesn't matter it all sounds the same to me.

So....as I read or plop down on the computer... The evening air is often peppered with Screams of Joy .. and or... Screams of expletives .. ( Thank goodness Mamma is a bit hard of hearing.. it would ruin her pristine view of him)

Monday nights he and some of his buddy's' meet up at a local Sports related watering hole.

You know.... to scream for joy or swear like Sailors at the jumbo tron like Televisions and do some ....what I can only imagine is male bonding stuff.....

This leaves me and sometimes Maria with the T.V. all to ourselves!
I sit as she shares her love of watching the Bachelor and She puts up with my obsession of watching Hoarders....

What can I say.....It's an acquired taste..

OK.. For those of you who have never watched this show..

OH....

MY....

GOSH !!!

in a Nutshell.. and I do mean NUTshell...

Folks who have an extreme issue with hanging on to EVERYTHING.... are offered help, not only in cleaning up the chaos they have created... but with counseling as well.

Having watched this show for a while now.... and getting over my initial shock .. I have come to understand that it really is a mental issue..

"Compulsive Hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire( and failure to use or discard) a significant amount of possessions, even if the items are worthless, hazardous,or unsanitary. Compulsive Hoarding causes significant clutter and impairment to basic living activities, including mobility, cooking, cleaning, showering, and sleeping. A person who engages in compulsive hoarding is commonly said to be a "Pack Rat". In reference to that animals apparent fondness for material objects."

the hoarding tendencies seem to often start after a traumatic event.. or loss.

So I mean I get it.. It's like

"Oh man.. I've had a BAD day!"...

so I can't say no to JUST ONE Lay's Potato chip..

or

"Oh man... I've had a GREAT day.!"..

so I can't say no to JUST ONE Lay's Potato chip...

or

"Oh man ... I had A day"...

and I can't say no to JUST ONE Lay's Potato chip...

So...I feel their pain..

But ultimately.. I think I have also figured out why I like this show so much..

and the answer is....

When I watch it....I don't feel so bad about myself and Life.

My messes real or imagined ... are nothing when I see the extremes these people live in...

It's the same with the HOUSEWIVES show.. These women lives of extreme of wealth.. and yet are all dysfunctional each in their own way.

So I guess this allows me to sit back and think...

"They have more money glitz and glamour then I could dream of .. and yet their lives are whacked out.... more so than mine. "

See..... Money doesn't buy you Happiness !!

All I know is... I am not in the extreme..

I don't live the life of spoiled pampered coddled housewife ... diverting my attention day to day with Manicures Pedicures.. Shopping sprees or Spa treatments.. looking beautiful on the outside.. and sometimes very Ugly on the inside...

nor do I live in a home of chaos with ... mouse infested furniture... Dead cats under piles of debris.. wearing adult diapers because the bathroom is filled to the rafters with junk making it inaccessible.

No.... I live somewhere very much in the middle... and frankly.. I am OK with that..

but..

For some strange... odd.. twisted reason.. I can't help but watch these shows !

...It's like a train wreck You KNOW... you shouldn't watch.. and yet......you can't take your eyes off. !!