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Nothing crazy in parents' houses.

Sadly, it's my husband who's crazy: he has a hoarder mentality and keeps and eats expired foods as much as possible, as well as everything he's acquired even though we don't use it, because "it might come in useful some day".

I have been on a campaign these past few weeks to help him clean up and throw things away, but it's been an uphill battle. Three quarters of what should be thrown away he still wants to keep. The remaining quarter is waiting to be picked up by bulk trash appointment tomorrow!

I wonder where he gets it from??? His parents are not like this.[/quote]

Sorry, PP. I take it he's not interested in professional help? Hoarders rarely get better without it.[/quote]

PP with hoarding husband. UPDATE -

He let me organize the basement. This is a big deal for a person with hoarding tendencies, in the past I had to promise not to touch his stuff! I think half the items got donated, thrown away or recycled. Plenty of mouse droppings and moldy stuff in there.

It sounds really unfair to sane people that one partner should do all the work for the other. However, in cases such as these, it's the best scenario. He can't bear to throw stuff away, and doesn't know how to assign varying degrees of importance to different items. Since he accumulates, the sheer amount of stuff then becomes overwhelming and he starts blotting it out of his mind. He even suggested we move to a bigger house at one point!

So we've made progress. With this success in mind, I have to enforce stricter rules for stuff acquisition and regular bouts of clean-up, now that we can actually walk down there and the stuff is arranged in a logical way. And no, he has always refused getting professional help, or reading the books about clutter and hoarding that I got him.

Phew.[/quote]

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