I know that this will sound ungrateful but it really is a bit overwhelming.
I get on with my mil but she an 'over-gifter' she always asks what my parents have given us for Christmas and birthdays and makes sure she gives more both in quantity of gifts and that she's spent more.
The thing is that my parents usually buy thoughtful gifts whereas hers are usually piles of tat.
I have spoken to her in the past about not buying so much but she always says she wants to spend her money on us now so she can see us enjoy it.
Recently she's been giving us loads of clothes and 2nd hand toys for our newborn, the toys are all obviously well played with and I don't want to give them to my baby, especially as she has so many other new ones from other friends and family and the clothes are really really not to my taste but I feel awful that they'll never get worn. If it was just one or two things I'd smile and put the baby in them when she's around but it's two or three new outfits a week and some are hand made.
My DH thinks we should just give them to a charity shop but I think we should give them back to her and say something along the lines of thank you for these, but we'd prefer to have fewer new toys than lots of 2nd hand and the clothes aren't the sort of thing we like but we can tell you which shops we like baby clothes from if you want to buy outfits.
I should point out that we aren't grabby, we don't want or expect her to buy us anything but we know that she isn't going to stop buying us things because it makes her so happy, on the other hand she won't take gifts from us and doesn't like receiving gifts herself (we still buy her gifts though)
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StripySocks1 · 15/05/2017 09:48
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