The Worst Reason For Not Cleaning Up A Hoard....

@SweetMae and now it comes out from his family that left him that he was neglecting them when he was still married.....

@cherokeepatti That is a very sad thing to happen to any family.

@SweetMae I believe that hoarding is a lot more common than it was a few decades ago, a reflection of society and family values perhaps plus more ways to accumulate things....garage sales were non-existent when I was young. People didn’t buy as much and if they wanted to part with things they usually passed them onto people who could use them or they might have an estate sale when they decided to move to a smaller place.

@SweetMae Charley cleaned up his home and has hundreds of pictures he’s painted. Now he has room to paint again and is teaching painting classes. I imagine that is much more beneficial to his soul than accumulating things that he can’t properly care for.

@cherokeepatti I agree. Cleaning out things we no longer need leads to a more peaceful place to live.