'Grandma is a hoarder': Grandkid told to clean something of his from grandmother's fridge, maliciously complies and cleans the whole thing

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 25, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

Talk about an American Hoarder Story! This grandkid is a saint for finding just the right way to clean his grandmother's refrigerator, which was filled with expired food, without getting her frustrated. By planting one food item she despised in the fridge, she texted him to clean the fridge. She meant to just clean out the one item, but this Redditor took it upon himself to clean out the whole fridge and then some. He shared his story via this thread on Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit. 

A friend of mine had to deal with a family that hoarded cats. It was a full Grey Gardens situation and the older woman would freely let in stray cats without taking them to the vet (because that would, of course, require cleaning the house). It got to the point that my friend rallied other family friends together and called professional help to catch these stray cats and get them properly looked after. Hoarding is no joke, so while you read this full story, let's take a moment and acknowledge all the people who have to look after and clean after hoarders. For more stories like this, check out this post about another tale about an entitled kid, her grandmother, and a water park!

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    Font - resh "Clean the fridge."
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    Font - Sabertooth-koala. My ex was a hoarder. It was horrible living with her. When we separated and she moved out I told her to take everything she wanted to keep, not that she could take much. After she said she was done I got a huge dumpster, the one that takes up a driveway, not the little alley ones. Then my brother and I had a field day clearing out the house. Not that it was fun fun, but it was very cathartic! We didn't throw out anything sentimental, just the "but I might have a use for
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    Font - raindragon92 My gramma was a borderline hoarder but she and grampa cared for a couple elderly ladies that were wards of the state so they were regulated by the state and their house had to comply with a certain standard to continue to care for the women and receive that minimal income.
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    Font - She loved yard sales and would hit good sales for stuff and just stock up on Stuff because someone someday might need it and any time anyone got close to convincing her to let go of a couple things out of the thousands, she would have something that someone needed or something that would help someone, and it would justify her keeping everything in her mind.
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    Font - Unfortunately she died a few years ago and grampa ended up having to clean out the house before he eventually sold it and moved in with my aunt and her family. He(along with help from the family) filled like 3 of those construction site sizes dumpsters with garbage. There were a few treasures mixed in, she had a collection of sewing stuff that mom and I took, some musical instruments, a bag of doll heads(they feature in Halloween decorations now), and other odds and ends that we decided t
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    Font - Artor50 My mom is a hoarder too, but she lives in a cabin with acreage, so the piles of junk got to truly massive proportions. I visited her and was able to make one clean spot in the mess, and my sister has been using that as a foothold to move things around and clean other things as possible. She's getting a new bathroom installed this week, and it's the first time in years you can walk from the front door to the back without having to climb over piles of ...things. 118 Reply Share
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    Font - erichwanh My mom was a hoarder. It was tough cleaning the house after she passed. She's honestly one of the reasons I try to stick to minimal physical possessions. Yeah, I got my collections of stuff, but I refuse to be so bad that I only have 5% of my bed uncovered to sleep. Ma was like that. Ah well, that tough. Anyway, great MC. I know what it's like to clean fridges like that first hand.
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    Font - designgoddess. A friend's mom is a hoarder. He decided to take out one buried piece of trash every time he left her house. She'd called him the first time and yelled at him how he had no right. I was an empty yogurt cup. He thought she'd never miss it. I think she must have seen him take it. He's taken random things since with no phone call but it's not enough to help. She will not get professional help.
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    Font - Blekanly Hoarders, mother and brother are both so. So little space. I don't think they are the worst, but they collect so much and never get rid.
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    Font - Teknikal Domain. And it's hoarding stories like this that mildly scare me. My room is filled (by "mom" definition) with hobby paraphernalia, and I'd rather not toss anything or haul it off to storage because I'm so ADHD that my hobbies rotate. I'll be with A and B for a few weeks before those are put into a box for a month because C, D, And E took over. At least just about all of it is actually useful, just that due to ADHD interest, actually using any portion is rare in totality.
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    Font - Maliciously complied when cleaning the fridge for grandma S OC My grandma is a hoarder. She honestly keeps a wide mix of things she can never throw out, has not been through in years, and has no interest in going through any of it to get rid of anything. This also applies to food and there's no acknowledgement that normal people's houses don't look like that. I say this not to embarrass my grandma or anyone else who hoards, it just sets up my story.
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    Font - For the most part hoard was not that bad. I was able to walk down most hallways. I lived with her to care for her some since she was over 80 and the chances of her breaking a hip or going unnoticed under a pile of hoard was possible for her as it is for many of her age.
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    Font - I was used to not being able to throw anything out, the packages that came out of catalogs went directly into her room, occasionally I'd find something new in the 1/4 of a bedroom I got to keep but not often. The inside fridge, which she used, was full of expired things she wouldn't throw away. I often used the garage fridge since it was emptier.
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    Font - One day I got my favorite command from her: clean the fridge. I got it through text so neither of us can pretend she didn't ask me to clean the fridge. Since this is my "deserves her own season of American horror story without the hoarding" grandma she meant I needed to toss the one thing of mine she uncovered in the hoard she didn't want there.
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    Font - Knowing full well I couldn't get any backlash from an aunt for following the vague instructions I'd actually gotten I spent the next 2 hours filling 4 separate 13 gallon trash bags out to the trash, tossing it all out, and actually cleaning the fridge.
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    Font - This was one of a few reasons I was inevitably kicked out (I also made her comply with doctors orders as her caregiver, the absolute horror that is) but this was a great day for me.
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