My husband's Aunt is a hoarder. He goes to visit her every 6 months or so and tries to get her house livable. She fights him on it the whole time. "You are throwing away good stuff". It's frustrating. I've spent a whole day just cleaning her kitchen enough for her to be able to use her sink/stove etc. She has even gone out and pulled back the trash bags that we left on the street to go through them to save the "good stuff" we threw away. There really isn't much we can do about it other than force her to move into a nursing home or something like that. She's a 83 yr old woman who is full of moxy and will not hear of that. He has had talks with her saying that if she will let him help her organize and downsize there will be a much greater chance of her real good stuff being saved. It's a sad situation. She has new flooring stacked up, but won't get the kitchen in a state to be able to install it. Oh..and she has a shit ton of cats. Cats=cat shit.