Mom was a hoarder

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My mom, bless her heart wanted to save everything. The first I'll talk about is her magazines. She saved True Story, Woman's Day, Prevention, Crime Detective and other magazine. She had a table, book case type of thing chock full of magazines. In the 1960s she had a hoard as far back as 1960. You couldn't touch them. She was always going to read them or do the crosswords in them or copy the recipes onto index cards. It looked a mess because the magazines spilled out on top of the table. So...when mom and dad went to Florida on vacation I tossed out about 100 magazines which were mostly the 1960s decade of mags. I tally didn't think she would notice, but she did. She raised holey moley! I told her they just sit there and collect dust. She says she has not had the time to read them yet. So on it went. Another thing she hoarded was Tupperware bowels of leftovers in the refrigerators. They would sit in the fridge until what was inside the bowls looked like science experiments. I'm serious. She was growing I don't know how many strains of mold. When she was sleeping I would toss out the bowls without cleaning them out. I didn't want to eat anythinh stored in a moldy container. She would get so mad. I asked her why she had to save it when she is never going to eat it? I asked if there was a rule to save 3 months in the fridge before tossing it? I think mom really needed counselling for her hoarding. Like what side she miss in her life that she had to save useless things. The only thing I ever got out of her was living during the depression. Not a very good excuse mom. You grew up in a prominent family. Maybe she felt powerless over something and her hoards satisfied a need. I don't know but I could not live in a trash heap and I didnt.