Going, going, oh no, wait a sec. Picture: TLC
The stars of cult reality TV show 1000lb Sisters are losing weight where they want but that doesn’t mean things are getting out of hand in other parts of their lives.
This time around their home.
Amy Slaton – star of TLC show 1000lb Sisters – who has been documenting her struggles with weight loss for several years now – are tackling a very different issue in an upcoming episode of her hit: her hoarding tendencies.
According to Realtor, Amy, who stars alongside her sister, Tammy Slaton, in the hit series, is seen tackling her household clutter head-on, while opening up about how recent changes in her life have led to her developing a hoarder habit.
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Having overcome her years-long weight struggles with a combination of bariatric surgery, diet, and exercise, Amy has struggled with new challenges of late: divorcing her husband of six years, Michael Halterman, and figuring out how to continue raising their two sons, Gage, 4, and Glenn, 2.
On Tuesday’s episode, titled “Limo Beans,” Amy will attempt to clean up another mess in the form of her Dixon, KY, home, which has fallen into a state of chaos.
In the dining room alone, there’s a high chair buried beneath a pile of bags and boxes, and a pair of shoes stacked on top of a safe that sits on a side table.
Amy enlists Tammy and brother Chris Combs to help with “a good old-fashioned spring-cleaning” to “get rid of all the clutter.”
As anyone with children in the house can understand, Amy explains that her “boys are growing out of clothes and toys faster than [the] speed of light, so it’s time to get rid of some sh-t.”
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Time to take out the trash. Picture: TLC
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‘What the hell’s going on with these mop heads?’
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Combs arrives with several plastic bins for sorting, and Amy gets things going by tossing a box into a large red trailer parked outside that she scored from an old friend.
“Coming from a small community, you have friends in high places,” she says. “So this guy actually went to high school with me, so I called him up. I was like, ‘Hey I heard you’re in the trash dumping business. Can I borrow a trailer?’ And he goes, ‘Girl, I got you. You can have it as long as you want it.’”
The trio heads to the kids’ room, which has teal walls and wood doors adorned with peeling Paw Patrol stickers. There is stuff everywhere — from clothes with tags still attached to toy vehicles, stuffed animals of all kinds, books, balls, and a portable crib packed with items that don’t appear to belong there.
Amy acknowledges all the clutter could indeed be part of a larger problem that runs in the family.
“Our family does have hoarding issues,” she admits. “Grandma hoarded. Mom hoarded. Now, I got hoarding tendencies.”
With the support of her siblings, Amy plans to break the pattern.
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Finally there …
“I’m hoping with Tammy and Chris here, I won’t think about it as much,” she says.
“I’ll just be like, ‘OK, throw it away’ — instead of ‘That was Gage’s first toy’ or ‘Gage got that for his birthday.’ You know, I’ll be like, ‘Throw it away. I haven’t seen it in six months. They haven’t played with it’-type deal.”
Unfortunately, that strategy is short-lived. Just as Tammy picks up a ride-upon horse toy, Amy puts it in the “keep” pile.
“Oh, that we got to keep,” she says.
“That’s what you gave Gage for his first Christmas.”
Right after that, Amy holds up a mop and gives the directive that “this stuff can stay.”
Combs comes across a few cleaning accessories inside the boys’ room and asks, “What the hell’s going on with these mop heads?”
But before he receives an answer, he picks up a sports jersey that Amy promptly grabs from his hands and says she wants to save it.
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Confused, he reminds his sister he “thought the whole point was to get rid of the clutter.”
Ultimately, Combs fills at least one large garbage bag with stuff to dump. He tosses it and the crib into the trailer, which already holds a few discarded boxes. Amy follows suit with a plastic bin full of items she agreed to let go of. However, it’s unclear just how much progress she made cleaning out the clutter in her home — and breaking free from her family’s history of hoarding.
Parts of this article originally appeared on Realtor and are republished here with permission.
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