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[quote=Anonymous]Every year, my mother asks me what to get the kids for the holidays. My mother tends to WAY overbuy so it's not a matter of giving her 1-2 ideas as she buys them at least 8-10 gifts each. The kids rarely make a list and when they do, they have maybe 5 things on it so not nearly enough to give an idea to everyone and still have things under the tree. Plus, their birthdays are in the fall so when it's list making time, they are just getting past a deluge of birthday gifts.

Anyway, I always keep a separate running list of things that I see throughout the year that I think they will like/want/need. When my mother asks me for the 10th time since August what she should get them, I try to give her ideas--some that they have requested and others that I just think they would enjoy (because I, you know, live with them). She rejects about half of the ides for various reasons (too "dangerous", too practical, whatever) and when she does use one of the ideas, I expect that she will get it. And every year, she will tell me days before Christmas (i.e. today) or sometimes right after we open presents that she didn't get XYZ because she wasn't sure if they'd really want it or need it or use it. EVERY YEAR! And then she makes snide comments about how she bought this or that because she wasn't sure what else to get.

The snide comments make me crazy but it makes me crazier that now, after I've already finished buying and wrapping, they now won't get something that I know they need. Or I have to now scramble to get it 10 days out even though I told her about it two months ago. My MIL is not like this at all--I give her 2-3 ideas, she buys them, the end.

I know, first world problem and I'm just venting. I'm still salty about the gift from last year for me that I told her to buy in September (sent her the exact link where she could order it from) and she didn't buy it because she couldn't figure out the internet. And then they sold out and discontinued the item. Had she told me she didn't buy it, I would have ordered it for myself but now it's too late![/quote]

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