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It's an issue where it's a fire hazard. Like that was definitely a source of disruption in my life in the sense of knowing my parents could, like, go up in flames at any moment.

And nothing I could do could save them unless I wanted to face head on this complete meltdown.

Welcome to how to. I'm journalist Amanda Ripley.

Have you ever stumbled across a room that fills you with dread in your parents or your grandparents or, let's be honest, your own house?

You know the one. A dusty attic just piled with boxes. You know that someday you're going to have to deal with.

Or maybe it's a garage,

just teeming with junk that no one will ever use.

Luckily, most of us can ignore all this stuff until we absolutely have to deal with it later in life.

But our listener this week doesn't have that luxury.

I'm a little bit nervous.

This is the first time of, like, I mean, used a public forum to talk about this.

This is Rachel.

She doesn't want us to disclose where she grew up or any other identifying information

because her family has a dirty secret, literally.

Growing up, there were many people in a fairly small house,

and there were also many, many things.

It wasn't just things, but also garbage,

like what you would objectively look at as garbage.

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