Hoarders: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Hoarders Season 2.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Adella / Teri
Sep 6, 2010 · 60 min
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.
Gordon & Gaye and Sir Patrick
Sep 6, 2010 · 60 min
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.
Robin / Ken
Sep 13, 2010 · 60 min
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
Carolyn and Jo
Sep 13, 2010 · 60 min
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.
Laura and Penny
Sep 20, 2010 · 60 min
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.
Vula and Lisa
Sep 27, 2010 · 60 min
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
Kathleen / Margree
Oct 4, 2010 · 60 min
A hoarding woman may lose her daughter; a groom never moved in to his wife's cluttered house.
Dawn and Linda
Oct 11, 2010 · 60 min
After losing a cousin on 9/11, a woman's hoard grows; a hoarder puts her husband at risk.
Tami / George
Oct 18, 2010 · 60 min
A cancer patient must make her home habitable; a man has hundreds of unfinished projects.
Mary Lynn and Ingrid
Oct 25, 2010 · 60 min
A hoarder's son wants to leave home; a home-shopping addict has a mysterious illness in her home.
Theresa / Karen
Nov 1, 2010 · 60 min
Theresa eats food that has gone past its expiry date for safe consumption. Karen is a former lawyer who is struggling to get her hoarding in order.
Al and Julie
Nov 8, 2010 · 60 min
Al used to take his three-year-old son dumpster diving, but Child Protective Services recently removed the child from his home. Al's hoarding has become such an eye-sore that he's
Lloyd / Carol
Nov 15, 2010 · 60 min
Lloyd's home is so filled that he is forced to sleep in one of the many storage trailers he has on his property. He now faces large fines if he can't clean up his property. Carol'
Arline and Carolyn
Nov 29, 2010 · 60 min
A husband sleeps in his car because his wife's hoarding is so bad that he has no room in the house; and a woman's family is prepared to press charges against her, claiming their mo
Jim / Susan
Dec 6, 2010 · 60 min
On August 6th, the Police, the Fire Department, C.P.S. and Code Enforcement all descended upon Jim's house and told his family it was uninhabitable. Because of decades of hoarding,
Andrew / Shania
Dec 13, 2010 · 60 min
Andrew's home is an eyesore in a neighborhood of million dollar homes. The exterior and interior are completely hoarded, there's no running water, and Andrew has allowed a homeless
Andrew / Lydia
Dec 20, 2010 · 60 min
Andrew finds himself a hoarder like his mother and wants to break free from the habit and lead a normal life. Lydia looks to clear her cluttered home so her son can come home from
Mary & Mary Ann
Dec 27, 2010 · 60 min
Mary has blown through over $200,000 of an inheritance buying items for the consignment shop she owns. But many of the items never make it from her hoarded home into her cluttered
Hannah / Kathy & Gary
Jan 3, 2011 · 60 min
Hanna has hoarded herself and her 200 chickens out of her house and is now living with the chickens in a windowless, unheated trailer. As winter sets in, she and her chickens face
Glen / Lisa
Jan 10, 2011 · 60 min
A collection of 2500 free-roaming rats have hoarded Glen out of his home and into a shed on his property. Originally bred as pets, the rat collection spun out of control upon the d