Dear Abby: We’re glad our hoarder sister is getting rid of stuff, but we don’t want her offloaded ‘treasures’
I sense that unloading these items on us gives (her) a feeling of comfort and keeps her from making difficult decisions
Dear Abby: Would it set our hoarding sister back if we tell her we don't want her stuff as 'gifts'?
My sister “Mary Ann” is a hoarder. She refuses all offers of assistance (physically and emotionally) to clear her home of the overwhelming amount of stuff that negatively impacts her life. Our extended family is thrilled that she has finally started to make an effort to sort through some of her “treasures.
Dear Abby: How do we politely tell our hoarder relative we don’t want her junk?
Dear Abby, our relative is a hoarder who is slowly trying to get rid of junk, but rather than make decisions about her things, she just gives them to us as "gifts"
Dear Abby: Hoarding sister now gifts her ‘treasures’
We have now become recipients of birthday and Christmas gifts, some of which are opened, used, dusty and have animal fur on them. We do not want or need these “gifts.”
Dear Abby: We don’t want used, dusty, fur-covered ‘gifts’ from my hoarder sister
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