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[quote=Anonymous]IDK that she’s actually a hoarder. She’s not acquiring 1000 salt and pepper shakers and having gross food and dead pets squished between layers. Maybe she was overwhelmed with downsizing. My FIL has every paper financial record in his adult life, down to magazine cancellations. For him it is about feeling prepared to dispute something. He also has an enormous house and an abundance of filing cabinets. OP, how would your mother respond to having some of her paper scanned if she’s not ready to part with it? Or taking pictures for non-paper. I had a great aunt who was very attached to her bric-a-brac, which was really about memories. I packed two boxes and she discovered having pictures was enough. So then we donated those. We kept doing this and she got to the point where there was no waiting period necessary.[/quote]
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