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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the "mayonnaise jar lid" PP above.  Problem is I live 750 miles away and no siblings..  I go there about every 6 weeks and toss what I can out of their apartment, but their house is in a gated community, and they cancelled the garbage service, so I'd have to either take it myself to a dump or hire someone to take it away. Believe me I have done the routine of sneaking a couple hefty bags of trash into dumpsters at a local gas station! Ugh. 
I, too,,have made the vow not to do is to my kids. Sadly it looks like the hoarding has skipped a generation, I see tendencies of it in one of my kids. [/quote]

When the time comes, either when you parents die or you need to sell the house to pay to care for them, there are hoarding clean up companies. [b]It will take some days and several thousand dollars[/b], but you don't have to do it yourself--heck, I would argue there is no reasonable way you could do it yourself. I have been through such a clean up for a relative, and the clean up company was a god send.

Meanwhile, get your kid some help. If you are in DC, the Behavioral Therapy Center of Greater Washington is a place to start.[/quote]

Because everyone has that?  :roll: [/quote]

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