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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you can't do anything, OP, except know that when she dies, it's NOT that hard to clean up.

Both my parents were hoarders (and they were divorced so I've been through this twice). For my dad we got a construction-sized dumpster and filled it 4 times.  For my mom, donated furniture to (something like Goodwill).

It's an endless battle to try and get them to clean up. I once spent a whole summer cleaning out my mom's spare condo, and within 3 months it was a junkyard again.  But it's easy to wait it out.

But don't stay with her. Panic attacks in this situation might be an unconcious form of control over you.  Hoarders often collect people, too.  [/quote]

As someone who is about to be in these shoes, where does one call to rent a dumpster, and does the rental company haul it away once full? [/quote]

You can legit Google this for your area (not trying to be snarky, but it is pretty easy in most places to rent a dumpster). You will need a place to park it, it comes on the back of a flatbed so that also needs room to maneuver the road to drop it off and then pick it up. [/quote]

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