It’s a relief in a way to read these experiences. My mother has been buying all kinds of stuff for some years, having fallen for the “you have definitely won a big cash prize “ scams operated by a number of wicked companies. That has now eased off, Dad filters the mail quite effectively and the installation of a call screening phone means all the computerised reminder calls don’t come through any more. But she has spent £’000s over the last five or six years. She had mountains of completely unsuitable mail order clothes, a few weeks ago she wanted to go through them all and get rid of all the ones she didn’t like. I did this with her, took loads to the charity shop, she still had a cupboard full of unworn clothes. My parting words on that visit were, “you don’t need to buy any new trousers or jeans, you’ve got enough new pairs in there to wear a new one every day for a week.” What did I find last week? Another new mail order delivery, black trousers because she doesn’t have anything to wear. Apart of course from the four unworn pairs hanging in the cupboard!! Also she stockpiles bath towels, and is constantly complaining that my dad is ‘running down the food stocks’ despite two freezers full of food, a big fridge also usually full (yes I do check it and remove out of date things), and a cupboard groaning with tins of veg, soup etc. It seems this is more common than I thought.