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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP it’s an awful task. Remember that most hoarders stuff is covered with mold and mildew water damage etc. Dumpster is your friend. An a guy with a truck and two strong assistants. [/quote]

This is simply not true.  Though TV shows broadcast the most extreme of cases , there are plenty of hoarders that have fully operating toilets, no infestations, and no mold.  They just can’t make decisions about what to let go.  Everything has potential.  Everything is full of obligation or memory or opportunity.  It is terrifying to decide.  So they don’t.  But they can throw away food, flush toilets, and wipe up messes.  The vast majority of hoarders are not the extreme examples with foot high fecal matter piled up.  It’s still a terrible affliction.

My parents, for instance, had a hoarder house thanks to my mother’s lack of housekeeping and inability to cope with memories, paper, and potential.  They had a functioning kitchen (as in, you could cook there.  Every surface was still cluttered) and they had a functioning bathroom.  When it came to clean it out after 45 years, it was a week’s worth of work.  But there WAS important stuff like family photos and documents buried amid 20 year old sales circulars.  We really did have to touch everything.  My mother was there for the first half of the week and slowed us down a lot.  Once we got her moved, it went more quickly but was still work.

It’s easy if the house is a rat infested mess like in Hoarders.  Of course you just shovel everything out or bulldoze the place down.  But most hoarding situations are not that extreme.[/quote]

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