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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like your husband may be a hoarder.  Have you looked into medical diagnosis and medical treatment? You might be fighting a losing battle...[/quote]

Nah - and I can only imagine the marital repercussions if I tried to get him diagnosed as a hoarder. Seriously, though, he’s a slob with too much stuff but it’s more of a lazy path-of-least-resistance  thing than an unhealthy attachment to things.[/quote]

I help my parents with this stuff sometimes - and I found literally hundreds of plastic bags stuffed with hotel shampoo in their closet. My mom got so angry when I went to throw it away. And she's really not a hoarder - there is just something about this free stuff that people get so WEIRD about. I finally got her to let me throw it away, and I can't imagine her life is ever going to be worse because she doesn't have a 20-year-old half-used bottle of conditioner sitting around.

In any case - this doesn't sound like hoarding to me. But I do think you have to get your husband to just start throwing that stuff out when it comes into the house. Your life is never going to be worse because you don't have ancient packets of ketchup sitting in a drawer. And a lot of this stuff is really about habit - get in the habit of throwing it out (or not bringing it in in the first place) and this will def get easier.[/quote]

When I watched the show Hoarders (which can actually be great motivation TV for cleaning) one of the things that stayed with me is how they often described someone who had a cluttered but functional house until a trauma or series of traumas happened and then they kind of went off the rails. Which is pretty much how my parents are. I think for many people it can kind of be manageable for a long time or forever, OR it can get out of control. Which tracks with all sorts of other mental health issues right? Depression, anxiety, etc etc. [/quote]

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