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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also grew up in a hoarder house — like the kind you see on TV.  Fridge with rotten food (we’d store food outside in the winter, I don’t remember what we did in the summer), animal feces, trash, mildew, just filth everywhere.  We were lucky if we had clean clothes.  To this day, I am terrified of bugs because I would wake up with roaches crawling on me.  If I tried to clean, I would get hit and screamed at, so it was like being trapped.  I was eventually able to keep my own room neat, but even that was hard.  The house would be cleaned probably once a year when social services would get a report and check, but we were always too scared to say anything. It was a nightmare.  I am obsessively neat (compulsively), and often host and invite people over because I was never able to have anyone over growing up.  (I was also bullied relentlessly because in middle school people knew.  I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.)[/quote]

I am so sorry. I’m sending so much love to you. [/quote]

Thank you very much. [/quote]

Sorry, OP.  DH grew up similarly (though maybe not as bad) rotten food, no one visiting at the house, huge pressure to conform - why would anyone want to be in a clean environment?  Who needs clean laundry, etc. and fresh food? Eating old food was encouraged. Who do you think you are? if you wanted something fresh or different. It is awful and I sympathize. MIL was a product of the Depression and made to feel guilty for existing or being hungry. So sad. [/quote]

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