I had some friends that there house was a mess due to illness I thought. It was a 4000 sq ft home and i was still working f.t. So I went a bunch of weekends to work on it and only got a few rooms done. Guess what within 6 months you would have never known I was there. Neither wanted to throw away their stuff. She even had a note taped to a lamp that her parents had given to her 40 years before. Really? Ugh! I knew then that i had wasted my time. When he was sick we would have to babysit her and then go over and help get rid of stuff. Then we couldn't leave it at their house or even with dementia she would pull out of garbage. In the end the family hired a firm to take everything and clean the house.