Carl and his mom used to have fun looking in trash cans to see what useful things they could find when he was a little kid. Now that Carl lives alone, he treasures his family home and old items as family heirloom. Carl spends a lot of his time still looking for useful and historical things in trash cans. He has literally made his house and yard a trash landfill. Carl faces millions of dollars in city code enforcement fines and possibly more jail time. With the help of the Hoarders team, Carl wants to clean up his life and get code enforcement off his back.