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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 3152572, member: 31533"]Lots of people are. But I have the experience of having to deal with my mom's hoarding at a time where dealing with it meant that 90% of what she had was junked immediately and the stuff that was saved, hoping she would get better, cost more in storage and transport costs than it was worth. In the end, 99% of it was junked also (i.e., hauled to the dump). In retrospect, my sister and I could have saved using thousands of her money by simply going to her home, pulling what photos and important paperwork we could find, and just hiring an outfit to come, grab everything and haul it to the dump. Quite honestly, by the time she needed help, her home was not fit to live in. In fact, the social services in her town came in after she got to the hospital on an emergency basis (yeah, paramedics told on her) and declared the house unfit for human habitation so she could not legally, if she was able to get herself discharged from the hospital they took her to, go back there. But she would not let go of one thing when I offered to help her straighten up, etc. Ownership issues. In the end, she got to basically not take anything with her, so it was for nothing. After three months in a rehab place, we got her moved into a permanent assistant living. By then she had dementia problems so she did not miss much. I don't intend to do that to my kids.[/QUOTE]