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Jeanne Phillips

Extreme hoarding poses risk to mom’s house, health

DEAR ABBY: My 36-year-old son lives with me, which benefits both of us. I am retired and his income helps. The problem I’m having is he hoards garbage. It’s terrible. There’s garbage on his bed, and it has reached the ceiling in other parts of the room. This has been going on for many years. Two years ago, I filled up two large garbage bags to throw out. It didn’t even make a dent. When he got home, he was furious and deducted $50 from the rent because he felt I needed to have consequences for what I did. I ...

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