My mom hids food leftover from her meal to feed to the dog. She also always has tissues or toilet paper stashed in her purse and pockets and her nightstand. We go through a lot of tissues. And after a mess in the washing machine, I have learned to check her pockets.
My theory is that she is worried that she will not have tissues when she goes to the bathroom. I reassure her there is plenty but that does not help.
I have to clean out her nightstand top drawer daily of food ... the ants have found her food stash. The dogs have learned her routine too. She knows I don't want her to feed them scraps at the table... sneaky. 😃You have to laugh.

John hides things allover the house.He says people will steal them.He has hid things that we never found.

You are exactly correct if we don't laugh I would be a sobbing mess. I don't if it just me but some days I just start sobbing and can't stop

you do have to laugh, other wise you would slit your wrist lol my husband loves a tissue, toilet paper and kitchen roll! takes them all out and folds them up! love it.

Oh my goodness, My mother was the worst hoarding. That seems to be a part of the disease. it took me one day to empty her bedroom and man i worked hard. That was approx 3 years ago. We brought her home from an overnight stay in the hospital on Friday evening, My sister and niece cleaned her room again, mostly the closet, she had 9 trash bags full and we didn't even address the top of the closet. Hang in there and I hate to say enjoy the hoarding stage, but I wish we had that back.