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[quote=Anonymous]My MIL is a huge gift-giver and goes shopping at least once a week. I just found out from my SIL that MIL has already bought a ton of clothes for our not-yet-born first child. It's thoughtful, but sometimes she goes overboard. When she sends us Christmas or birthday gifts, we get a few nice things and then a bunch of stupid trinkets that we usually end up throwing away, like little candle votives or caviar spoons that were on deep discount at Target or something.

DH is not offended that I want to throw most of the trinkets away (he agrees that a lot of them aren't useful and we should get rid of them). But for some reason, I get really upset when she sends us this junk and I'm not sure why. DH believes I'm being irrational and I do too. It's just some stuff, and it's not like MIL cares if we keep the little trinkets or asks about them after we call to say thank you. This leads me to believe that she just really likes giving gifts, but it drives me crazy sometimes.

On the one hand they're harmless as long as nobody is giving me guilt about not keeping them. OTOH, I'm worried now that we'll get twice the junk (along with good gifts) when the baby comes. MIL and I generally have a good relationship, so I don't feel like she's trying to make any passive-aggressive statement with her trinkets. What does DCUM think?[/quote]

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