Mom bought items on my Amazon wish list and gave them to other family members
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Anonymous
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More amused than anything, but I keep a wish list on Amazon. Just things I see throughout the year that I may want to get for myself or family sometimes use it.
My 76-year-old mom bought items from it (which she shipped to herself to wrap) and then gifted them to my daughter and brother for Xmas. Both were mildly confused at the somewhat inappropriate gifts along with her stories of how she chose them for each of them. I didn’t say a word… Gotta love old people. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like early dementia. My mother and MIL both did similar things. |
Anonymous
| What stories did she tell about how she chose them? |
Anonymous
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Yes. I'm sorry, OP. She sounds like she has dementia.
For various reasons, I did my mother's xmas shopping for her for many years. She used to start asking me about it every October, which I dreaded. This year, I decided not to do the shopping (too tired and burned out on her care and health demands) and her dementia is so bad she didn't even say anything about it. She did not seem at all clued into the idea of giving presents. And, if I had given her nothing, she probably would have been fine with that. |
Anonymous
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Oh, I'll also add that I decorated my mother's room for xmas. Later, she told stories about how she bought the items and put them there...She can't even get out of her wheelchair, so you know that did not happen. All of this seemed true to her.
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Anonymous
| We had sort of the opposite issue at Christmas! My mom sent the kids gifts from Amazon and asked me to wrap them for her. I called her to ask what gifts were for which kid. I then wrapped and labeled them according to her instructions. The kids opened them on Xmas morning and were thrilled. She said, "I am glad they liked them, because you labeled them wrong. They got the wrong stuff." |
Anonymous
| My aunt did this too lol we just reshuffled all the gifts after the fact. |
Anonymous
When my mother had dementia, I mentioned I needed a pair of white socks, thinking that would be easy. On Christmas I received 104 pairs of white socks. |
Anonymous
She gave my brother a cookbook I had wanted. Started telling him about how she thought he might enjoy some of the specific recipes. Cooking is not remotely an interest of his. |
Anonymous
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She probably should be screened for Dementia. |
Anonymous
If not dementia, maybe she thinks of your wish list as more of an “Oprah’s favorite things” list that you put together to inspire others? |
Anonymous
I’m really sorry though this is also a little funny. We’ve had some things like the OP’s post and like this sock post with my mom who has dementia. We live in CA (she’s in Georgia). One year in the summer she sent a box that arrived during a busy week and I kind of put aside. When I opened it a day or two later it was pungent. She’d shipped me a large (like maybe 3 shoeboxes worth) box of blueberries ground from Georgia to California mid summer. |
Anonymous
| Give her some grace - she has early dementia and at least she is still able to try. Don’t make fun of people who are doing their best - not very Christmas spirit of you. |
Anonymous
Are you for real? Coming here to vent, in a somewhat light-hearted way, is hardly “making fun”. |
Anonymous
| I’m sorry, but that’s really funny. Maybe she thinks you have really good taste and she used your list for inspiration for what other people would like. Or maybe she doesn’t understand what Amazon wish list are for. |