A Christmasholic Gets Quizzed on the Amount of Ornaments in His Collection and Gets Every Answer Wrong
He was just being modest!
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Dominick (left) started collecting Christmas decor when he was a child. Matt discovered his husband's "Christmas obsession" the first time he visited Dominick's parents' house.
HGTV's Hoarding for the Holidays follows true fanatics. The kind that make any quirky aunt or uncle's tchotchkes look tame. From blow-mold collections that reach upward of 1,000 figurines to building an operating backyard Ferris wheel for holiday light displays, these holiday decorators mean business. But since Christmas does only come but once a year, these dedicated enthusiasts have a little storage problem. That is, the storage space needed to house all those wreaths, ornaments and Christmas trees requires everything from storage units to literal acres of land.
That's where Dominick and his husband, Matt, come in. Their 2,500-square-foot basement is filled with larger-than-life nutcrackers, miles of Christmas lights and too many ornaments to count.
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Dominick says if you don't like something, then you don't have to count it as part of your collection. Cool!
Or is it? With the cameras rolling, Matt quizzed Dominick to see if he actually knows just how much Christmas decor he really has. The results? He was off by … a lot.
But who hasn't messed up a quiz before in their life? The HGTV audience rallied behind Dominick and his decorations. One commenter lamented, "It's hard to see other people living your dreams." Others agreed that if it's holiday decor, it doesn't count, cue a chorus of comments saying, "I don't see a problem here."
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Dominick (left) has a warehouse he used to run sales out of for his antique business, but now it houses some of his larger decorations and a partial collection of his 121 Christmas trees.
You can trust that it's totally worth the trouble. Dominick, who also collects and sells antiques in his Provincetown, Massachusetts, shop, has a stellar eye for design, and his regal holiday displays belong on the cover of a magazine.
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Worth it.
Dominick spends the months leading up to Christmas executing his decorating vision for the year, working up until his and Matt's annual Christmas party. The party started out as a small gathering and morphed into a 200-person event.
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This vintage-style tree holds more than 10,000 lights and 2,000 ornaments. Matt says he tries not to touch it.
But Dominick says poring over the year's design is like "therapy" to him, and it brings him a lot of joy.
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Some HGTV Instagram followers theorized Matt quizzed Dominick in the bathroom because it was the only space not filled with Christmas decorations, but we'd never leave this bathroom, either.
And that joy is evident from the 4 million views on HGTV's post. If Dominick ever wants to take his holiday decorating skills on the road, he's got thousands of new fans!
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"It's not that bizarre, it's wonderful," Dominick (left) says of a pair of decorative peacocks he named Mama-race and Liberace when he unearthed them in the warehouse.
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