Hoarding

Okay...my mom's theory on hoarding is...that you can still see her floor, therefore she isn't a hoarder. Uh huh? I personally don't care how neat and clean the place is. If you have boxes of crap you have bought stuffed into every empty space and you cannot walk in the garage because it is packed with more boxes of sh*t, also let's not forget the storage building she's had for the last ten years. To which she has absolutely no clue what's in there at this point...that is a HOARDER. Plain and simple. She has so many boxes of stuff she has bought and put in the garage, she doesn't know what's where. Duplicates of stuff because she didn't remember buying them before because she can't find them...sigh :( Her bedroom literally is basically a path to her doors because it's crammed packed.

She is a major reason why I started throwing so much sh*t away. I was headed in that direction and it scared me. I didn't want to be 60+ years old and buried alive under a bunch of worthless stuff. Afraid to have my friends and family over. Now mom has her stuff all nice and pretty, but there's just soooo much of it!!! EVERYWHERE!!! Which is playing Hell on my OCD. I want to go through and pretty much empty this house. But OMG!!! You can't throw nothing away without written consent around here. Grr!!!