A Shopaholic Who Can't Let Go of Old Things | Hoarders Get Your House In Order | Only Human

26-year-old Amie Ormand is a self-confessed shopaholic whose compulsive consuming is not only taking over her home, but is threatening her relationship with her fiancé Ali. Amie just can't stop spending and buys something new every day - whether it's online or on the high street - spending up to £200 a week. And while over half of the 2,000,000 tonnes of new clothes that the UK buys annually gets thrown away, Amie never lets anything go. Now she and fiancé Ali are literally drowning in heaps of clothes - her hoard takes over most of the upstairs rooms, including Ali's office - and they desperately need to clear their house.

Amie's hoard includes; 106 dresses, 142 handbags, 50 pairs of jeans, 140 pairs of shoes, 7 digital cameras and a rowing machine. And when they are all laid out in a warehouse for Amie to see, it's a tough dose of reality. The huge piles are easy pickings for antiques and artefacts dealer Nick Allen who uses all of his selling know-how to shift Amie's collection, including setting up a pop-up shop so Amie can sell her clothes back to the people of Exeter. But with interiors expert Abigail Ahern needing over £2000 for the redesign of the house, Nick is under pressure to dish out some tough love to help Amie succeed in parting with her fashion hoard and make some much-needed cash. Will Amie finally let her emotional attachments to her clothing go and raise the money needed to transform her house into a home fit for newly-weds?

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From: Hoarders Get Your House In Order

[Kate]

That horrible red chair blocks half the telly!
I feel so sorry for Aimee, she was guilted and bullied into decisions I’m sure she’ll regret.
No therapy to get to the root of the problem and her reward for her efforts….. the worst home makeover we’ve ever seen. 😢

[MoreCoffeePlease.]

The absence of any acknowledgment of the psychological component of compulsive shopping and hoarding, along with the stylist’s utter disregard for Amie’s style has me positively gobsmacked. I feel like Amie was just extorted by this terrible show.

[kassis]

what designer would not collaborate with her clients? You don't just spring your own ideas on people and then say "oh, she's a vegetarian, and i put a cow on her floor"

[wiXXmAus]

Amie was not heard when she didn't like what the makeover was supposed to loom like, only the fiancee liked it. Where should her motivation to sell stuff come from. She literally said she didn't like lilac in her bedroom, the "designer" just pushed that aside. She needed to sell her stuff to finance something she wasn't even allowed to give any input to?

[meg]

The fact that amy said she wanted a colour and the “designer” said no? sorry? not your house love.

[boayoon]

She don’t need an antiques dealer and an interior designer she needs a psychologist!

[wipqueen]

Can you imagine having a designer that says “I don’t care, just tell me how much money I’ve got”. Goodbye. Not to mention that she a), hasn’t asked the home owners what they want or b), shown any initiative to be able to style on a budget. Can’t imagine what happens if they don’t like her style.

[anonymouse]

Instead of spending all the $ on decorating, it should have been spent on therapy.

[happycook]

Um, that's NOT "NY Glam Style". I would be sobbing hysterically at the home's "make-over". Absolutely hideous. 😲😖🤦

[christinerewell]

I feel for her, it must be so traumatic to sell her stuff without the aid of a therapist to help her deal with it. I think she will regret it later. The shock treatment doesn't work with hoarders.

[rebeccarendle]

Tiny house with small rooms and low ceilings and that designer is making it dark, depressing and smaller... Nightmare. The living room looked cheap and tacky. Almost like a brothel. She should make it light airy young and clean looking..

Does she even have a design qualification?.. Horrific..I would go nuts! That is the worst interior design I have ever seen.. I would bring so much in to cover up the new interiors!

[lup]

The designer is just absolutely wrong 🤷‍♀️

[graceaxisa]

I am that cross with the interior decorator. She did not consult Amie about the colour choices at all. It was all about her vision and not about helping Amie transition into her new space.
PS she should have been given more than just one rail to fill. I am not a clothes hoarder but I would need two to three rails (taking into account a coat, jacket and knitwear, let alone dresses, skirts, t-shirts, pants, bags and shoes.

[LLC]

That makeover is soo ghastly. Why would anyone want to work in a dark office?? I dunno how this interior designer qualified but I'm never hiring her

[gabrielfrost]

Who else is not very impressed by the underwhelmed makeover?!! 🙄😂

[laura]

That's the weirdest and ugliest make over I have ever seen. That fireplace, I'm hoping was just a joke. 😳

[emilybusby]

Taking a hoard from its hoarder in this manner is traumatic and will only cause further damage.

She WILL re-hoard and it WILL be worse.

[jaycosgrove]

I wouldn't let Abigail Ahern paint one brush stroke of tester paint on a wall in my home let alone 'decorate' it. She is an awful interior designer. And I just don't like how she comes across. She niggles me to the core.

[Afrikitty]

That makeover for "their" house was dark and dank and abysmal! Just horrible.

[susimuller]

As the so called Designer was done with it, it looked like the most depressing place on earth