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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What?  Her friend’s parents called CPS for a dirty room?  [/quote]

It’s a hoarders room.   [b]You have to start by removing almost everything from her room when she’s not home.  She should only have a bed, a bureau with a week’s worth of clothes and that’s it.    Don’t buy any food that she would want to bring into her room.   No snack food. Every night you would need to look around the room. [/b] It would be easy without junk in there.  This type of hoarding can be a type of mental illness which is hard to stop.  [/quote]

The bolded. I don't know if your daughter is a hoarder or not, OP, but the answer here is for you to get very strict. She is not allowed to have food in her room, period. Make that the house rule. And yes, pick a time every day to go in with her and clean up. Literally stand in there and tell her what she has to do and stand in there until she does it. Don't argue or plead. Simply tell her that her behavior is putting the health and well-being of the entire family at risk and that you won't allow it.

Ideally, her father will get on board with you forcing the issue instead of letting her cop out and go to his house (where she will likely do the same thing).

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