I spent a good portion of yesterday cleaning up my kid's room. It had gotten to a point where it was pretty much intolerable. The junk basically went up to your knees. Clothes, CDs, toys, pillows, wrappers, drink boxes, and old discarded food.

Turns out that she has been sneaking out in the middle of the night and taking everything from candy to cake mix. I found sunflower seeds and M&Ms. I found collectable Pez containers out of the packages making them less collectable. Worst of all I found bugs. All this was stuffed behind her bed.

The room is tidied now, but I really don't know what to do about the stealing, hoarding, and unwillingness to keep her room tidy. I don't mind a little bit of clutter, but when you are afraid to enter a room for fear of twisting an ankle, that's a problem.

What have others done to try and deal with a) Stealing and Hoarding b) A total hot mess of a room that just gets worse every day?