Hi all, new to this site. About hoarding, my mother is one and she only has 'tracks' around her home. Her 'tracks' are 60% nespaper and clothes and 40% carpet you can see. And that's just the tracks, the whole rest of her house is stuffed with belonging she 'might need one day'. My brother and both my sisters have inherited this hoarding to a lesser degree, but they're still pretty messy even compared to a really messy home. I was the lest mess and the lest hoarding...but I still did it up until 2 years ago when I hired a cleaner to come in and clean. The deal was I cleaned with her and I learnt not only how to clean but she started pointing out to me how some of my stuf was a double up or out of date or just cr_p as sh'e call it. A defining moement was tidying the garage and she had me throwing out stuff I just couldn't believe anyone would throw away. Now looking back I see that is was really rubbish and I have no trouble cleaning out stuff and have rule like 'if I haven't worn it for ( how ever long) or used it for (how ever long) it goes to the second had store or into the rubish. Since doing this I have also stopped my 2-4 time a week visits to second hand store to buy more junk I 'may need one day' because it dawned on me I'll just be throwing it out when the cleaner comes around next. The money I save on not going to second hand stores is spent on the cleaner and I am now now embarrassed to have people around because of mess.