This actually happened many years ago but I still think about it.
I had just told my parents I was pregnant, I hadn't yet had the 12 week scan so it was very early. First pregnancy.
We travelled down to where they live to tell them in person. Everything was great, everyone was very happy.
Next time we visited, a couple of weeks later (still hadn't had scan), my mum presented me with a huge bag of clothes, blankets etc, and proudly said "there, that's everything you need, so you won't need to buy anything at all".
I found it bizarre that she would assume I/we wouldn't want to buy anything for our own child. I can understand she was excited (although she already had 3 other grandkids), but it did feel as though she'd stolen my thunder, and taken away the special feeling of buying our baby's first outfit, blanket, etc.
We were not at all short of money so it wasn't as though she thought she was doing us a favour; it was purely for her own excitement and pleasure.
Add to this all the items were hideous, mostly beige, not my taste at all (as a child she dressed me in awful clothes), and my DH said he felt as though it was jinxing the pregnancy to be buying everything so early. (Luckily our baby was born healthy, but I had a very difficult pregnancy with a few scares along the way).
In the end I thanked her, but said we would prefer to choose things ourselves, and asked if she would like to buy baby's first soft toy to put in the cot when he was born (she did this, and he actually still has the teddy she bought, 14 years later).
Was I being unreasonable to refuse the bag of beige?