It seems ungrateful but oh my god we are drowning under stuff. Normally we don't have this much but everyone seems to have been very generous this year. Also we now have two kids...
Dd (one last week) now has six very similar 'my first dolls', two doll's prams, four wooden pull along toys, three shape sorters, three ring stackers, three of the same leapfrog toys, two push along walkers and loads of bath toys.
Ds (7) has several craft type sets which look lovely but I know he will never use, several duplicate books, some games which look too young for him, two electronic animated cuddly pet things which I know will never come out the box and three small duplicated Lego sets.
I didn't have much for Christmas and what I did have I asked for and the same with dh. I did receive a couple of things which, whilst kind, aren't to my taste so I'd probably take those things too.
We have so much stuff. We are drowning in stuff. It's making me feel edgy and the kids can't see what they have. It seems so ungrateful to take it all down to homestart but if I keep it it will only languish in cupboards for a year or so before the same thing happens anyway and during that time it's all stuff that is taking up space. And we don't have much space. Some of the homestart families struggle for toys, books etc and that's where I'd like to take it.
Aibu? It feels wrong in some ways and right in others! We already had a pre Christmas clear out and I took some stuff then and gave some to charity shops but I wasn't anticipating this amount of gifts. When people had asked what we wanted for dd we'd said clothes in the next size up but understandably people like to give children toys don't they? So she's hardly had any clothes but loads and loads and loads of toys.
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To donate a load of our Christmas gifts to homestart?
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Skatingonthinice16 · 27/12/2016 12:20
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