Comments by "Johanna S. L. Brushane" (@johannas.l.brushane2518) on "Hoarders: 12 TONS of Junk Ruining Family’s Dream Home (S12) | Au0026E" video.

@CheyenneCoxen And they often overestimate grossly on the worth of their stuff. A man in another episode had some unused engineparts that he had left outside to rust and he was of the opinion that it should be sold as "brand new" because he had never used it though the cleanerstaff pointed out it's far from the condition an average buyer would expect from a "brand new" item where someobe sell of a purchase of wrong size that they forgot to return or similar.
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@quickchris10 I noticed as well there seem to be some certain amount of anger not really dealt with. And perhaps depression since the kids grown up and left. If she also is a woman with a troublesome menopause and it was around same time it might also have affected her somewhat.
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I saw one of the british shows where an elderly man who let his apartment deteriorate after his wife passed. He chatted with the cleaners on why it happened and gave them free reigns and then he went to stay in a hotel for the weekend.
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Yes, I'm old so my mom was a stay at home mum but my mom went to nursing school about when Istarted first grade because she didn't want to become "a crazy old lady with no purpose" so it was apparantly something she figured she had observed.
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A lot of the time their stuff doesn't seem to have cost that much though (she was in a second hand store) . Add to it that the hoarding seem to have started around the time kids moved out, so they woyld likely paid off a great deal odf their eventual mortgage and kids moved out. There should be money reasonably. Though this episode was special because there is something that she so obviously shuts off. She moves around rigid like a very old person and fends off criticism with quite the snarky remarks. She picks around a bit like someone in dementia. I hope they got that sorted, someone commented once to an episode of the british series that "a hoard often is a symptom of unshed tears", and this epusode seem illustrative of that.
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