Each episode follows one or two participants, each of whom is a compulsive hoarder. It is an inveterate hoarder, storing food year-round. The cats in the photo had been rescued from an abusive hoarder. She is also a hoarder of discarded objects that should be recycled. The first book, Porter the Hoarder and the Ransacked Room, was a bestseller in 2019. Mackey explains he must have become a hoarder because of Woodsy's tagline about not polluting. Child and elder abuse arise when dependents are living with the hoarder. The Penny Hoarder is an American personal finance website based in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the episode "A Midsummer's Nice Dream", Abernathy is shown to be a hoarder. The Penny Hoarder is completely bootstrapped and brought in $20.8 million in revenue in 2016. This has often been interpreted as evidence that he was listed as a hoarder.