Originally Posted By DaveW
Hoarding gets much worse as you get older. Funnily enough, we've just spent two days at my Mothers trying to resolve this very thing.
First day was the kitchen. Half the food was time expired. Some of it three years over the best before date. She had three fabric conditioner bottles opened. When we tipped it all into one she complained that she couldn't find the other two. I threw out four bin liners of rubbish, but always made sure that when she came in there was a half full bin liner on the floor, so she thinks we only filled one.
Yesterday it was the rubbish room, formerly my bedroom of forty years ago. You name it, she's saved it. And far too many clothes. And a hundred plastic bags.........



I can relate to that. My in laws lived in Tenerife for maybe 20 years. We went over there before Xmas to start the clear out of the house. My M-I-L had kept every Xmas card, birthday card and anniversary card she had received from all her contacts for every one of those 20 odd years. They were stashed in bundles in every drawer we came across. More than 60 bundles of them, and since she sent a card to every person she knew, they were big bundles.