92 year old nana pushing belongings on me

[Duemarch2021]

Feel a bit harsh here and wanting an AIBU or not check... also some advice... my 92 year old (young at heart) nan keeps trying to give me her things.. she has openly told me that she is preparing her house for when she is gone! Me and DP live in a tiny 1 bed flat with no storage and have a baby on the way we have NO room whatsoever for anything even things we need.. nan tries to give me trinkets and ornaments..and furniture and clothes.. i say no i have no room everytime but she doesn't learn and makes me look through piles of ornaments from the 80s, she says things like they could be expensive but i dont care and they're not anyway as u can tell... What do i do? She gave me flowery mugs from her cupboard for Xmas me and DP dont drink hot drinks and she sent them through a family member and knows id have said no if shed have offered them in person. She is pushing stuff on me and i feel awful cos if I take it id take it to a charity shop.. i dont want it! Lol help mee.. cant even take the mugs to a charity shop cos of covid..

She also has about 4 flowery sofas all mismatched in the garage from 1970s and asks me to help her get rid as it gets her down and depressed. I took a picture and offered to sell them on Facebook... she was disgusted at that and said she wants to keep them in the family!!... nobody wants them and we are all young and have modern houses that have particular decor... she doesnt realise that things arnt like they were in the 1940s where furniture was passed down for generations

I like the suggestion of a storage unit, if it's affordable, for the sofas and things to clear out for the time for her, then you and other family members can sort out from there as you can. There are also a lot of free-to-good home and aid groups to donate things near me, though it may be hard to convince her to use them.

I thought my spouse's parents and grandparents were a little odd for this (literally first time I met his grandmother, I complimented a tapestry she had hung up on the wall. She thanked me and went on about how that one was going to X, but there was one upstairs I could have when she dies...it's now hanging in my hall), but at least it was planning for after they were gone.

None are as bad as SIL - it's worse as it's not even her things! SIL used to keep picking up things up at carboots and stuff she thought people would like, apparently kept a wardrobe of 'great deals' as 'gifts' whenever she felt like. Two years ago, when MIL sadly died, we tried helping with the house clearout, but she refused to let us send anything but literal rubbish away. She kept adding things she didn't want to other people's piles. Last month we got another texts that she found "another box of things we'd like" (how when the house was sold I've no idea) that she wants to bring over. We haven't even gone through all the boxes from last time just before lockdown 1. We've tried to delay with the lockdown and that we're currently clearing so we have less to move, but otherwise she doesn't really listen to us.

I've now got some clear plastic large bin-size bags (to separate possible donatables from black bin bags for rubbish) on hopes of getting through the boxes and piles we've got. I saw elsewhere someone put a table out front their home to place out things for free pick-up or to put things out after 'selling' them on mutual aid parts that I'm considering doing. I think we might just be able to squeeze one in our little front garden, after that it's calling 'round the charity shops once they're open and likely a few tip runs.

@Mummyoflittledragon
What I don’t understand about stuff in the garage like the sofas is presumably at some stage your nan decided she didn’t want to use them anymore and replaced them. And now she’s trying to hoist it into you.

My ILs are like this with naff curtains. If you like them so much then use them! Don’t foist something you replaced onto us!