Andrea, congratulations!! Now, you will find just the right home to move to and I can't wait for pix!:-)

SRS, I thought THIS was the saddest thing I've ever read about hoarders.

I have a friend whose mother is a hoarder. Not to the extreme that she would be buried under it all, but she and her husband did buy a second house to put all of her stuff in, plus she has started storing some at the church where he is the pastor. My friend and her siblings talked to social services about an intervention, but were told by them AND a lawyer, there was nothing they could really force as she is not considered to be a danger to herself or others. They were successful in getting her to let them take some of the cats to be spayed/neutered and adopted out, but they've given up on anything else. It is really sad.