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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s hard to make old people declutter. Maybe easier to just haul all the junk eventually [/quote]

It will take months because there is some valuable stuff socked away. I am so good about selling or giving away things we no longer need meanwhile his parents have old toys in the attic and I don’t know what they’re saving it for because they refused to let us bring them down for our children to play with when they were younger. It’s so bizarre. Why wouldn’t you let your son bring down his childhood legos? Or let the kids read my sister in law’s old Nancy Drew books?[/quote]

Older people often cannot do the mental work of sorting items, and their physical health might preclude getting the stuff from the attic and standing for long hours to manipulate it. They probably have cataracts and can't see very well either. The other component is anxiety, in which they believe their stuff has sufficient emotional or financial value to justify storing it, or at least, to bar other people, especially strangers, from pawing through it.

Younger hoarders often have ADHD or autism and their brains can't sort either. But at its core, hoarding/accumulating/inability to sort is a cognitive issue associated with fear of loss.

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