To be wound up by this "gift"

[DieAntword]

MIL visits, along with the usual assortment of charity shop toys and t-shirts which have slogans on (which are not my taste but hey, something to wear when doing messy stuff) she always brings she brought her friend's decades old (must be, her kids are adults) mouldy (so lets put this into perspective... it must not have been cleaned in those decades!) potty. A second hand, dirty, potty.

We have a potty. My son is now potty trained and using the toilets. We have no need for a disgusting dirty decades old potty.
I am not sure how I can express how much I don't want this.

I told her we don't need it and she said she had no room for it in the car. This morning I go downstairs and notice she has dumped it in my bottle box. Where the baby bottles live. A decades old mouldy potty.

When I took it to throw it out I made sure she could see what I was doing. She passed no comment whatsoever.

MIL insists on giving us her old dolls. They have lost all the stuffing so are essentially bags of nothing with arms and legs hanging off them and matted 'hair' in clumps. The clothes were falling apart and had been "mended" with pins. Not safety pins - just pins!

Dollymixture you were all right to not use the car seat. Never mind if it passed regulations it coukd have been damaged. Any car seat if it has been dropped or banged can have damage you can't easily spot. Never use a car seat you know nothing about even if it looks good.

Oh. Hoarder. My sympathy. I have a friend who's a bit of a hoarder. I've noticed she does this, rolls up with something I neither want nor need and says "I got this for you". This being something picked up from a charity shop at best or old toot from a friend. She buys unwanted and unnecessary old clothes for nieces and nephews, posts them off and wonders why they don't thank her. I just thank her and bin it later. It's a compulsion, makes her feel useful. Haven't the heart to keep asking her not to do it, it makes no difference.

Marcipex