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[quote=Anonymous]No connection to hoarding, but my FIL was a smoker. When we had our oldest, I said that we would no longer visit their home for the holidays. We could stay in a hotel near them and celebrate there. Or, they could come to us. The first three years, we lived in a tiny condo, so we rented a suite at a hotel in their city. They came over every day. We either hung out there or made day trips in the area. When we had #2 and moved into a SFH, they came to us.
Hotel christmases are actually very nice. You could never replicate that level of decoration at home and I didn't have to cook or clean up brunch.
After my FIL died, DH and I paid to have all of the carpets and upholstery in his parent's home cleaned. The smell of smoke still lingered. It was not until my MIL moved into senior living that we were able to visit without worrying about residual second hand smoke. By then, everyone was already used to us hosting so we just paid for her plane tickets until she too passed away.[/quote]

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