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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I have donated the crap that MIL and her sister give us. They love to go garage sale shopping and thrifting. They are the types who will go to garage sale right when it opens, haggle about something that is $2 and then wait to come back at the end of the sale to see if they can get it for free. They then try to constantly give us this crap. We always decline at first but occasionally when they keep pushing we will accept it and say thank you because its not worth the battle. We promptly take this stuff to Goodwill because its junk, broken, not age appropriate for the kids or no one has any interest in it. DH's aunt has been asking for one of the items back if we aren't using it. If we are honest and say we gave it to Goodwill she will freak out and go on and on about how valuable it was and now we owe her money. We didn't originally realize that she takes things to this level and have just been avoiding her. She is now trying to get MIL to go through our garage to get it because we are not responding to her. MIL has never noticed that the surprise gifts that she brings are also gone but she will probably catch on once she doesn't see any of them.

I don't want to store their junk. I don't want to engage in stupid drama over junk. I 100% do not want to give the aunt $100 for something that was a piece of broken junk that she bought for $1. DH thinks that we should say we had a flood and many things were damaged. I'm not sure this will work. [/quote]

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