My mom is a hoarder

>>17899516
hoarding is a type of mental illness

contact your local county health department ask them for advice - they may get involved

firetrap = dangerous etc

taking all the trash out will just start the cycle again, she needs some kind of restrictions

good luck

>>17899563
I don't want to punish her, I just want to help her clean her house up, and then check in on her periodically to make sure she's keeping it in order.

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>>17899516
OP, had this problem myself. Come round one day and say" OP's Mom, this place is getting a bit messy...tell you what, I will come round next Sunday and give you a help for a spring clean" My mother was happy with that, so I spend 3 weekends and in that time loaded up 3 pickup loads of shit which i took to the dump. Treat it low key, fun, and dont judge. Be ruthless.

>>17899719
Yeah see this is more the approach I was interested in.

What do if she wants to look through every piece of junk before I throw it out? Do I just sneak loads out while she's off grabbing something else?

>>17899727
Make three piles. "Must keep". "maybe keep" and "throw away". The good thing about that is you can see how big the middle pile gets and you will know if you are keeping 300 pens. Just sift through it every hour or so. I also found having my girlfriend there really helped, we made sure we brought food, talked and laughed as much as possible.