Hoarding Mother

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So my mother is a hoarder. Maybe not as bad as what you see on tv but she still wont get rid of anything. I recently started cleaning her house cause I need to make some extra cash. It is really hard to clean over there. First of all there's the hoarding so of course every surface is covered with junk. Then she has 3 cats and a dog in a trailer so there's hair everywhere too. I try my best to dust and get all the hair up but it's just too much. She doesn't throw any mail away so it's all piled up on the coffee table or the kitchen table. Mostly they eat in the living room on tv trays cause the kitchen table is always buried. Her main problem is knick knacks, things people have given to her over the years that she has no place for. I tried to help her clean out her bedroom but she still didn't want to get rid of anything. It's hard to clean her house too espcecially for me because I see all these little scraps of paper with random crap written on them that I just want to throw away but I know she will be mad if she can't find it. Doesn't make sense to me why people are like this?