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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [/quote]

The question is, will she let OP throw old car repair receipts out?  I get overwhelmed myself, but I'd be THRILLED if someone would step in and help me declutter.

There's no rational reason to hang on to 25 year old car repair receipts for a car you no longer even own. If OP's mom won't let her throw out obvious garbage ... she's a hoarder. She might not yet be at the advanced stages. But it's coming.[/quote]

When I tried to help out an acquaintance who is a hoarder who had thousands of receipts, she refused to let me throw them out because they had the last four digits of her credit card on them and they had to be "shredded." So I meticulously sorted bags and bags of trash into trash piles and shred piles, and of course 80% of it was "shred" and was never going to be shredded. It was just a manipulative way of not throwing any of the receipts out. Many of which were basically for a few items at the grocery store purchased a decade ago. It was awful. Probably my worst experience of 2024. [/quote]

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