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[quote=Anonymous]My ILs are the hardest people in the world to buy for. My MIL has been almost incapacitated with depression (sporadically diagnosed as bipolar) for at least 25 years; my FIL is in perfect health but spends his life caring for/enabling his wife. They live across the country in a diaspora community (they immigrated here about 30 years ago.) Efforts to encourage activities, travel, volunteer work were abandoned years before I came on the scene a dozen years ago. They spend most of their time watching diaspora TV stations, w/my MIL heavily medicated and speed-dialing her kids at least 10 times a day. My MIL will soon have hip replacement surgery and they both will probably spend weeks living with her nearby daughter while she recovers.

My husband is so fed up after being harassed daily by his mother since the 1980s and honestly wouldn't bother to do a thing for Xmas. (I am forcing him to go out for her surgery.) So it's on me. Every year I send nice sweaters and grandkid photos, whatever. I have put this off as long as humanly possible and am facing down the Amazon delivery timetable. Is there any possible alternative to sending yet another sweater that they don't need or want?[/quote]

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