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[brown_betty]

Down-side to helping someone clean out their hoarder-mother's house: everything, despair, you'll never be clean again, removing your skin unfeasible, tightness of breath due to either allergies, chemical poisoning, or the aforementioned crushing despair.

Up-side: opportunity to call yourself the trash queen from atop your trash throne

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[randomdreams]

EEEEEWWWWWW.

I guess it's better that it was someone else's mother.

[brown_betty]

Better than my mother? I mean, I guess, but I'm realizing how much children of hoarders get messed up. She doesn't know how normal people... make purchasing decisions? Which seems like an obvious thing, but she's so bad at it.

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[randomdreams]

When it's someone else's mom, you can always walk if it gets too bad. When it's your mom, you're kind of committed.

And yeah, hoarder kids have no basis for realizing how housekeeping and budgeting is supposed to work. I dated one and man that was difficult.

[vily]

Upside I've discovered from working on my hoarder-light mother's house this week: Younger brother who doesn't give a flip getting the idea to start chucking stuff out the window instead of carrying everything down. It's therapeutic to kick apart a waterbed frame and then toss it down two stories.