The tumbling piles of Maggie's collections are putting her own son's life at risk while Bob's all consuming passion for swimming pool parts is pushing his family to the brink.

A mother desperately tries to protect her children from their father's hoard, while an artist chooses frogs, penguins and banana peels over her live-in boyfriend.

Extreme Hoarder Jahn struggles to clear her belongings from not one, but two houses before both are condemned.

A former ventriloquist has let her past career become an obsession. A man is having problems being a good father for his daughter as she isn't allowed in his home due to his excessive hoarding.

Cary's paralyzing obsession with Elvis memorabilia has left his New York City apartment virtually uninhabitable.

After over twenty years in the same apartment, compulsive hoarder Randy is being forced to leave by order of his landlord. With only days to accomplish the task, Randy must somehow clear out the eight-foot-high mountains of stuff.

A woman's compulsive hoarding almost cost her husband his life.

Laura’s collecting has spiraled into a compulsion that has left the relationships with her two sons on the brink of collapse. When a potentially devastating house fire ignites during her clean-up effort, it puts everyone’s safety in jeopardy.

Parents of a teenage hoarder hope a visit by an extreme hoarder will change their daughter's ways.

Thirty years of hoarding have filled a man's home to the point that he sleeps outside in a bed he put together.

A hoarder faces losing his children if he does not clean his home.

Decades of extreme hoarding have put Kay's marriage in serious jeopardy while Toni's compulsive shopping has made her own home a danger zone for her two-year-old granddaughter.

While Patti's extreme hoarding has made it virtually impossible for her daughter to live with her, Jonathan's obsession has kept his three-year-old son from even coming in the door.

After decades of hoarding, Debbie has not only lost the comforts of home but the company of her four children as well. Chip's compulsive hoarding has forced his family of six to squeeze into 1600 square feet of living space.

A woman's out of control obsession with bikinis, sweaters and dresses threatens to destroy her relationship with her only daughter.

A woman turned to hoarding after a shocking confession ended her marriage.

Terry and Bill seem to be the perfect couple; the murder of her daughter has led Nancy to hoard.

Phyllis and Patty aren't just identical twins, they are identical hoarders as well.

Pregnant with her first child, Traci is desperate to move back into her childhood home. But it's filled floor to ceiling with her mother's stuff. Now the two must work together to clear a decades worth of clutter before it's too late.

An extreme hoarder is in denial; a woman who has trouble discarding belongings fears that she's passing down her compulsion to her son.

Extreme hoarders face losing their homes and living in isolation.

A wife has transformed one couple's home into a heap of trash; on the verge of foreclosure.

Extreme hoarders' lives spiral out of control as their possessions jeopardize their chances for a happy family life.

A couple's home is packed due to their hoarding and they face the real threat of eviction unless they can clean up and fix all the damage caused by their out of control collecting.

Two women seek help for their compulsive hoarding problems.

A man, 55, plans to abandon his hoard and move in with his mother, who is also a hoarder; a woman risks having her house condemned due to her hoarding.

Beverly's clutter has filled up her entire home and her three beloved dogs have helped make the space completely unlivable.

Frank didn't expect Susan to fill his house with clutter when she moved in; though her home of forty-eight years sits condemned just two blocks away.

Hoarding by parents threatens to rip a family apart unless they can stop their excessive collecting. A man must learn to control his addiction to buying items at auctions and garage sales.

Compulsive hoarder Kathleen discovers a hoard of mice living in her kitchen numbering in the thousands. And for extreme hoarder Jaime's future son-in-law, spending the night in a hoard might very well end a marriage before it even begins.

Hoarding is both a comfort and a curse for two lonely women trying to find the strength to change.

Season 2 opens as two hoarders get help after decades of compulsive behavior that has driven their loved ones away.