I am NOT making headway. we went to my parent's house and mom is just keeping more and more with her alzheimer's .. she doesn't want to get rid of anything... so we took stuff out when she didn't see and filled up our car. alot was just to throw out but ... we got 2 more small flat tvs's, some small cars for xavier, a ski-doo suit and a few more things... that we'll be keeping I guess
we also got more dishes.... so tomorrow I'll figure out what I keep and what I will get rid of.
That's a hard road but I think that was what you had to do.
I told everyone in the family to take anything my dad or stepmom offered Even if they tossed it. Just to get the stuff out of their house. Now Dh is dealing with trying to load up boxes that haven’t been unpacked in 15 years or longer, some are wrapped in newspaper from 1996 from several moves ago. Good luck, it’s worse then pulling teeth when dealing with the hoarding problem
Of course we are the ones who are ending up their clutter.
That also is a tough road you are on, but you had the right idea.
I feel like I had never heard of hoarding until the recent years ... and now, I know so many friends with parents who were, including me, and shows on TV, etc. My mother and I parted ways a long time ago, when she passed in 2007, my brother let me know that she was living in an apartment that you couldn't move around in! And she has three storage sheds in town that us three children had to go through, toss, donate. But really mostly toss! Junk junk junk! Thinking back on my childhood, parents, divorce, etc .... we saw the mental illness. My sister, the nurse, and I have discussed our mother was probably bi-polar. I had thought she was manic depressive after watching the Patti Duke story. Anyway, with my DS17 having severe OCD .... now we also see that our grandmother was probably OCD germs being at least one of her issues. So, hoarding and OCD are like in the same family of mental illness.