What To Know
- Nicholas Antidormi, a passionate Christmas collector from Pennsylvania, is featured in HGTV’s Hoarding for the Holidays for his intensive classic vacation ornament assortment.
- Antidormi shares that his love for gathering has introduced him pleasure, friendships, and household help, and he enjoys displaying his assortment yearly for the general public to expertise.
- He hopes his story conjures up others to pursue their passions and protect vacation historical past, emphasizing the significance of dedication and sharing his festive spirit with a wider viewers.
Nicholas Antidormi is a real-life “Saint Nick.” Born on Christmas, the twentysomething has a festive obsession that some could say is spinning uncontrolled. The acute Christmas fan from Waymart, Pennsylvania, has a set of greater than 800 blow molds, 400 bushes, 600 garlands, and 10,000 lights. Suffice to say he was an ideal individual to be featured in HGTV’s latest vacation providing Hoarding for the Holidays.
The four-part present, which premieres November 11, spotlights of us throughout America who take their love of the festive season to a different stage. Right here Antidormi received us within the spirit of the season and what it means to share his story.
How did the chance come about?
Nicholas Antidormi: The chance happened for me from my show web page that I run: “Saint Nick’s Show” on Fb. One random April night time, I received a message from somebody asking me if I’d like to use to a brand new vacation present on HGTV, which I gladly accepted.
How is it being featured on this present?
It was a completely superb expertise to be part of the crew, and manufacturing was extraordinarily supportive and useful. I used to be very pleased with how they filmed my decorations and confirmed individuals what somebody who’s captivated with gathering decorations and preserving Christmas historical past is like.
What do you do for a dwelling and wish individuals to learn about your story?
I work within the development trade. I would like individuals to understand how a lot time and dedication I put into my show and buying all of my decorations. It’s what I like to do, and it’s one thing I get pleasure from sharing with individuals. Hopefully I can encourage others to go for his or her passions in life and to by no means hand over.
Chelsea and Bryan posing in Christmas Candyland show holding props from ‘Hoarders for the Holidays.’ (HGTV)
What are a few of your most prized possessions?
A few of my most prized possessions should be my animated window shows from shops previous. They vary in age from the early 50s up till the mid 70s. I really feel as if I’m the caretaker of Christmas historical past, and it makes me extraordinarily joyful I used to be chosen to take care of all these great Christmas issues of the previous. I additionally get pleasure from my blow mildew assortment which I’ve been gathering since I used to be in third grade. I’m now 26 and all these years I’ve by no means stopped loving the joys and hunt of discovering new decorations so as to add to my assortment.
What was it like opening your doorways to HGTV cameras and exhibiting off your assortment?
It was an absolute blast. I felt like I used to be exhibiting a museum of all kinds of Christmas decorations and giving historical past classes on all of it! Hopefully I can encourage a brand new era of individuals to save lots of decorations from the trash and from getting misplaced in time.
How would you say your assortment has impacted your relationships and friendships?
I’d say my assortment has made me into a really social individual. I’ve gained friendships and relationships, and other people have at all times accepted me for me and what I like to do. I wouldn’t change a factor particularly as a result of it’s one thing everybody loves.
Flo Weinstein convinces daughters Laura and Tara to takeover her giant Hanukkah assortment of decorations, clothes, and festivities throughout her “Menorah Insanity” celebration on August 13, 2025 in West Berlin, NJ from ‘Hoarders for the Holidays.’ (HGTV)
What does your loved ones consider you persevering with on gathering for so long as you’ve gotten?
My household has at all times been there for me after I wanted assist or for somebody to assist me get one thing so as to add to my assortment. I do know that it may be a bit a lot to non Christmas collectors, however they perceive it’s one thing I like to do and with that they’ve at all times been as supportive as they are often. I’m ceaselessly grateful for that.
With already such an enormous assortment, what sort of standards does one should fill so as so that you can purchase an merchandise?
With how a lot my show and assortment has grown over time, I’ve positively develop into extra selective in my course of and what kinds of decorations I’ll hold. The previous few years I’ve been in a strictly Nineteen Fifties to Nineteen Seventies classic model. I’d fairly hold the older stuff secure than fashionable issues. I’d say my inside shows are one hundred pc pre-Nineteen Seventies and out of doors is a bit more than half.
Is there an merchandise you’re on the hunt for?
I believe, because the loopy obsessed collector I’m, I’m by no means not on the hunt. I believe the one time I’ll ever not be on the hunt is when I’m not in a position to stroll or discuss. Till then, I’ll try to seek out and save as many issues as I can and repair them and simply hold them beneath a roof.
Do you’ve gotten any plans in your assortment by way of opening it as much as the general public or placing it on show in a public area?
I take advantage of practically all of my decorations yearly for individuals to come back and revel in. I don’t wish to “hoard” issues and by no means let anybody get pleasure from it and expertise the magic it holds. For me, I’ll at all times try to show as a lot as I can however I’m one individual working a two-acre show on my own so I don’t get to place every part out. My show is ceaselessly altering yr after yr, and there’s at all times one thing new to feast your eyes on while you come to Saint Nick’s Show.
What did you’re taking from the expertise of being featured as a “vacation hoarder?”
I discovered that even somebody from a small city can develop into one thing particular with laborious work and years of dedication. I’m joyful to lastly be capable of share a few of my life with a bigger viewers that I by no means would have imagined potential to my youthful self simply beginning out. Being a “vacation hoarder” could very effectively have been one of the best factor in my life, and I’ll always remember the superb time I had working with everybody.
Hoarding for the Holidays, Sequence Premiere, November 11, 9/8c, HGTV
