A few months ago, my mums uncle died. The man was a bit of a hermit and so when the family went to sort his possessions out, they found hundreds, perhaps thousands of pounds worth of books and art materials amongst other stuff such as samurai swords etc.
It was suggested that as I am a big fan of art, my mum should buy some of the stuff for me. The money was to pay for his funeral and go to charity so this of course was nice.
My mum asked me what I wanted and I said "please don't get me too much as I don't have the room (I'd just got rid of loads of stuff myself at the time).
Anyway, she came away with 3 huge bagfulls of stuff. Art books, drawing/painting books, pencils, paints, chinese art stuff, artist stuff, full art sets...you name it. It was really good stuff and I was grateful but in all honesty, I just don't have the room for so much stuff and I'll probably never use most of it.
I like a bit of art yes, but the ammount of stuff here, you would have thought I was a proffesional artist. I'm really not and its once a blue moon that I actually practice art.
But I thanked her and said they were lovely. Anyway, today she said she had a suprise for me, a late christmas present....another huge bag of art stuff! There is so much here, I could open up an art class for 15 people and still wouldn't use all the stuff for at least 3 years. More books, full pencil sets, paint sets, brush sets...all lovely but I just do not have the space or the time (or the skill and knowledge!) to use most of it.
Apart from this, last christmas she bought me a huge easal, 2 paint sets, 2 water colour books, a pencil set etc etc... I'm over-run with art stuff.
Do I sound really ungrateful? I feel it but I'm wondering what the hell I'm going to do with it all. At the same time I feel bad because my mum is really pleased with herself and thinks she's done me a massive favour.
Am I really awful?