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After having to deal with the shit my hoarder parents had accumulated after they died, all I can advise is make sure you get that shit sorted out or cleaned out before you pass away if you have any family at all.
Having to manage those hordes of shit was fantastically difficult. It's not "The Sims" you can't just drag everything to a taskbar and exchange it for cash. The time investment alone of trying to auction or yard sale or swap-meet everything makes it almost completely worthless to attempt.
The number of things I managed to recover and sell that weren't improperly stored and had value was probably less than a couple thousand dollars in various antiques, which took me years to sort out and find buyers for. From nearly forty years of accumulated shit that cost more to store than could have ever generated in return.
I know you mean well, and I hate to say it, but this is roughly equivalent to telling a depressed person to "cheer up".
I'm well aware of the burden this would leave someone having to clear out my house, because I'm the one with that same burden right now. This is not the motivation someone in good mental health might think it would be.
Mental illness does not imply stupidity. I mean, I'm plenty stupid a lot of the time, but the two aren't connected. And I can see the problem where a lot of hoarders can't. And yet, if I was capable of fixing the problem, it wouldn't have existed in the first place.
I am well aware of how mental illness works. I am saying don't leave it on people, nothing more and nothing less. Your mental illness may not be your fault but it is your responsibility.
Strange how this is one of those cases where someone who is clearly incompetent to meet a responsibility must nonetheless meet it. I should maybe pick myself up by my bootstraps while I'm at it.