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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am immediate PP, and I meant to add that it feels terrible to just toss new things, but with hoarding disorder in the family, it is the price I pay. I hate it, but it is the cost of mental illness. I do not have the ability or time to act as a remote processing center for my mom's hoard.[/quote]

Yes, I think this is part of what is going on, but it's hard to be sure because she has a "business" of selling stuff on ebay (as far as I can tell it is not very successful and nets loss for her) so to the extent her house is full of random stuff no one needs, that's the reason why.  I can try to keep managing myself, subject to the feelings of overwhelm and dread I have... but then my concern is kind of what PP said, that she's going to become horribly offended if I give away the wrong thing.  The food I can just toss (though like I said before I'm nervous about looking mean if my kids want to keep it).  The hideous pajamas and the like I can probably get away with giving away, the furniture not so much.  Luckily, most of the furniture she tries to give us is too big to just bring to us herself so she has to ask us to come get it, and we always say no in that case.  [/quote]

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