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Understanding hoarding: Give hoarders respect, choice in what to discard or keep, say social workers
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Piles of old CDs alongside stacks of fabric reeking of mothballs. Cans of preserved vegetables past their expiry date, and multiple slips of new 4-D lottery tickets on the floor, in drawers, or in bags.
It took years of hoarding for all these and many other items to accumulate in the one-room rental flat in Chin Swee Road occupied by Madam Leong Sow Pheng, 80.
