If you have a relative who has piles of stuff accumulating in their house, then its quite possible you have a compulsive hoarder on your hands. We wrote this post to share things you may not know about this condition, and how to go about helping a relative hoarding to … [Read more...]
Hoarding Squalor and House Clearances
A hoarding house clearance is not something to tackle lightly. This is because the behaviour is the outer sign of a deep-seated obsession. Therefore we need to understand the dynamics of hoarding squalor and house clearances first, before embarking on the project so … [Read more...]
How To Discuss Hoarding With Hoarders
Conversations with new clients often provoke an exasperated comment, ‘I don't know how to discuss hoarding with them’. This is often because the two parties are not on the same page. Our decades of experience has taught us that hoarders take a firm stance, and don’t … [Read more...]
Cleaning a Hoarder’s Home
If you know of a friend or a family member who is a hoarder, then the time may come when their place needs a thorough good clean. This situation may develop after moving them to a place of safety, or after someone cleared their accumulation of junk. Cleaning a hoarder’s … [Read more...]
The Mind of a Hoarder – What Makes Them Tick?
Just what makes people hoard in London, or Oxford, or Manchester, or any other place that takes your fancy? They all have an affinity to accumulate things until they fill a room, or an entire house for that matter. We enter the mind of a hoarder in this review. We may … [Read more...]
Containing Clutter in Hoarders’ Homes
We all accumulate a few outdated possessions along life’s journey, which we no longer require but hang on to anyway. Payment receipts from an old lease agreement, unused postcards that WhatsApp superseded, the possibilities are almost endless. There’s no need to worry … [Read more...]
The Five Steps of Compulsive Hoarding
Compulsive hoarding is a mental condition that influences the quality of life. Its impact may affect the hoarder themselves, and the people sharing their space. Compulsive hoarding develops over time. Today we discuss the five steps of compulsive hoarding, in order to … [Read more...]
4 Famous Hoarders in History
The words we choose make a great difference to people's impressions who hear them. Great wars have ensued to settle subtle differences in religion. There is little evidence of hoarding per se in history until quite recently. But it existed, and to prove it we review … [Read more...]
How to Help a Hoarder Cope
Helping a Hoarder Cope People with hoarding disorder have a lifetime attachment to their belongings, which makes it difficult for them to discard these things. As a result, they collect more and more things, until their living conditions become cluttered, unsafe, and … [Read more...]
A Clutterer or a Hoarder: Which Are You?
We’re unsure where the boundary lies between cluttering and hoarding. Is the one deliberate, and the other compulsive, we wondered? We found some useful ideas when we visited Cleveland Clinic, and decided to share them in case you are fretting over a clutterer, or a … [Read more...]
