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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. My husband hoards. We have a small house. It's awful. I battle to keep clear boundaries: he can clutter up the basement. He can clutter his office space, which sadly is part of our open floor plan. He CANNOT clutter up the rest of our home. He puts stuff in the sunroom anyway, but I nag him to take it away. He wants to keep expired food in the kitchen and store empty jars there, and I throw them away, which leads to fights. I have to resort to sneak stuff out when he's not looking, even though I know if he catches me we're in for a huge blowout, because otherwise he just WILL NOT take things out of the house. I have 10 bags of trash right now in the basement bathroom - expired shelf-stable pantry items, expired toiletries, expired medication, empty bottles, construction scraps and odds and ends, things that no sane person would ever use - that he refused to put to the curb last week because he wanted to go through it to make sure there wasn't something usable in there. He will find the expired food and probably vow to eat it, then promptly forget about it. Then it's going to sit somewhere until I try to get rid of it again. He is otherwise an intelligent research scientist. You'd think he'd see this about himself. Be very firm, OP, because it's easier to never have space cluttered than to take it back once it is cluttered! Please believe me. I am living this nightmare. You're lucky you have a bigger house. Keep his clutter to the basement, and basement ONLY. [/quote] My dad, while not a hoarder, did grow up poor and has big issues throwing out expired food. The only thing that worked for my mom to get rid of it was to open the containers and dump out the food. She would put what should could down the garbage disposal and the other items got dumped in the trash. For example, he'd come upon a great sale for cereal so he'd buy like 6 boxes. He'd eat 1 or 2 boxes and forget about the rest in the pantry. My mom would find them months expired and open each box to dump the cereal to prevent him from taking the full box out of the trash with the promise of eating it soon. [/quote]
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