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Nina, you've created a hip, inviting space for yourself. Can you please share with me where I might obtain the stacked drawers next to your desk?

The thing that bothers me about these shows is that the producers could be helping viewing hoarders and the show hoarders by putting into the script a systematic de-hoarders and staying organized system, the same one, in every show.

For example, the let the hoarders seem to start just any place, but the viewing audience as well as the hoarder should be talk to pick a corner spot in either the kitchen or bathroom and work in a circular motion around the room. The viewers should always be showed, every week, the same containers, 1-DONATE 2- KEEP 3- TRASH. As each room's items are put into the appropriate new 33 gal. trash can lined with black bag the processes becomes ritualistic for the hoarder and disorganized or hoarding viewers.

When the first room is sorted in this manner, then organizing items (shelves, drawers, etc) are purchased and the KEEP items that belong in that room are organized back into it. KEEP items that do not belong in that room wait in their labeled black bag until the appropriate room is cleared out.

Today I saw a hoarder step putting items in a black bag and ask her husband to take out a broken microwave in the kitchen. Then while he's trying to do that, she starts getting angry at him for inadvertently knocking over items piled high. If the woman had been working in a more systematic method that would have happened.

Understandably, I get real frustrated watching both the shows go in circles both in terms of arugments and organizing techniques or lack thereof.