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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Update from the OP:

My mom asked me to buy Xmas gifts for my kids and wrap them on her behalf.  Ok, fine, shppped the cyber Monday sales and got it done.

Today she called to tell me she did her own shopping and I will be getting a bunch of boxes from Amazon and I can return the stuff I bought from her.  The stuff I bought came from all different stores and won't be easy to return.  I haven't answered her several calls on this issue because I'm too annoyed.  Why?![/quote]

What a hassle!  If she didn't check the Amazon mark as gift box when ordering it is a hideous process. Sad to write it but you need to set a precedent by returning all her amazon junk in 1 trip to UPS or Whole foods.  I have GC and anything we buy for them is prescreened.  We plus another are like the only gifters those parents have any control over.  Adult DC also chooses what/if any consumables are sent to them and enjoys making selections on that stuff for other family households.  [/quote]

There's no gift receipts or even packing slips with anything that has shown up from Amazon so far.  Multiple relatives sent stuff so now I am following up with everyone on what's what. I host every Thanksgiving and Christmas at my house, including multiple nites of houseguests, and I have all my own gifts to buy and wrap.   Everyone needs to be able to take on this gift task alone next year.  I'm out of bandwidth!  [/quote]

Yeah just say "no" next year- this is nuts!![/quote]

+1, are all these gifts to be wrapped by you?  I’d tell anyone that send anything, unwrapped and untagged that it was going to be donated. Next year, I’d put it put in late summer that the wrapping station is closed permanently and things will be put out unwrapped and untagged. Anything not claimed by a kid come 12/26 was headed for goodwill. [/quote]

OP here-  yes, these gifts are to be wrapped by me, after I solve the mystery of who sent what.

Also, I have an update.  My mom arrived today.  After telling me to buy all the gifts to give to my kids from her, then telling me to return her gifts bc she found her own stuff (which has been showing up from Amazon for me to wrap), she finally arrived tonight with additional wrapped gifts that she brought with her, plus bags of kids toys that her neighbor couldn't sell at a garage sale that she also wants to give to my kids.  Also this neighbor sent gifts for my kids besides the garage sale stuff.

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Oh hell no to the garage sale leftovers! Let the rest go through but die on this hill. [/quote]

That's where I ultimately came down.  I died so hard on that hill.  Everyone has a breaking point.[/quote]

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