helped a family friend clean her next door neighbors house - a hoarder - it was unreal - friend's daughter was the only one who could fit through the door into the bedroom because the door wouldn't open and once inside the only place the lady had to sleep was a small cleaned circle on the bed hardly big enough for a chld. At the time we had never heard of hoarding or understood that it was a mental disorder - needless to say that when the lady returned from the hospital she was devistated that her things were gone and that it didn't take long for it to return to the previous disorder. Made me appreciate how easy it is to fall into such a trap - have a tendancy to hoard myself so I have to be extra diligent not to keep too much stuff. Thank goodness I have a DH who comes through periodically and makes me get rid of stuff or who knows where we'd be. Bu I do like to think I'd never get this bad. wow.