• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, Today

TV’s obsession with hoarders gets a holiday-season spinoff with a series about people who hoard something very specific -- Christmas decorations.

Many people love Christmas, of course, but the people seen in HGTV’s all-new “Hoarding for the Holidays” -- premiering Tuesday night at 9 Eastern --  take their yule time love to jaw-dropping heights.

Episode One, which HGTV provided for preview, does not even reveal how these people use their ridiculously huge and wide-ranging collections to decorate their homes and yards at holiday time.

The show seems to have been filmed nowhere near the holiday season, which means we are invited to behold these collections in the off-season, when they fill sprawling basements and gigantic storage buildings.

For one of the people profiled on the show, decorating for the holiday is beside the point. The interior of his Pennsylvania home is decorated all year round with artificial Christmas trees and just about every other variety of Christmas-related artifact.

Oh, and by the way, the house is not actually his -- it is his parents.’ The man, Nick, 26, who prefers to be called Saint Nick, is a construction worker and house painter.

But he lives in his parents’ house because he spends most of his money on Christmas décor -- principally products manufactured from the 1950s to the ’70s.

Nick is the one who stores his collection in its own huge, spacious storage facility built on his parents’ property and dedicated entirely to his Christmas assemblage of mechanical Santas, 10,000+ Christmas lights and an estimated 150,000+ Christmas ornaments.

Another Christmas hoarder (photo above) has filled his 2,500-square-foot basement with so many Christmas objects that his husband is pressuring him to sell off some of it.

The man’s collection in their house in Nyack, New York, encompasses every known form of Christmas decorations taking up all of the cellar’s shelves and floor space.

A third Christmas collector profiled in Episode One of “Hoarding for the Holidays” is a Milwaukee woman who we see at an estate sale agreeing to pay $1,200 for a collection of Christmas decorations and memorabilia sight unseen.

These Christmas hoarders differ from the seriously mentally disturbed hoarders of TV’s infamous hoarding docuseries -- “Hoarders” on A&E and “Hoarders: Buried Alive” on TLC.

On “Hoarding for the Holidays,” the Christmas collectors appear to be sane -- or at least sane enough to be aware of what they are doing and what they are buying.

And unlike the other hoarders, their Christmas hoards are at least well-organized and neatly stored.

“Saint Nick” even has his own tool shop in his storage shed in which he lovingly restores the vintage items he purchases.

“Hoarding for the Holidays” answers a question many have had when considering the outlandish (some might say obnoxious) way that some people decorate their houses and yards at holiday time -- namely, where do they store all this stuff?

We now have an answer, and some insight into what makes them tick. One thing I’m happy about, however -- none of them live near me!