Patch, I'm glad she is safe and so glad that you and your little guy are safe too. I hope she can get the help she needs and find her way back to her son, but he is in good hands with you and your mom.
I found so many new clothes in her house, hundreds of dollars of make up, it almost looks like instead of digging into the heaps of clean clothes she had piled up, she just kept getting new ones
My oldest went through that too, and at the time I said I believed she bought new rather than do laundry. It seemed particularly extreme when she was binge drinking and doing coke. She has since spoken about it as another extension of her addictive personality...wanting to buy new things to feel better when she felt depressed, etc. Working her program has made positive changes in this as well. Hugs and prayers