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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I feel you - completely. My MIL is same. MIL wants to give the biggest and best gifts so that our gifts and Santa’s gifts always paled in comparison. She never asks what to get (doesn’t want suggestions either) or what others are getting DD because we celebrate Christmas Eve with her and she knows that she will be giving gifts before anyone else. It is SO selfish, and it is absolutely her attempt at buying love.

The worst was a $800 item from American Girl that DD mentioned to MIL when I wasn’t around. MIL didn’t ask if we were getting it or if Santa was bringing it. Just went out and bought it. It was extravagant, and DD was actually too old for it, so we ended up selling it. But we were so pissed.

The sad thing is that my DD sees right through it and doesn’t particularly enjoy her grandmother for this and various other reasons.[/quote]

My MIL made countless Christmas gatherings unnecessarily stressful because of her insistence on bringing carloads ( literally) of gifts every year. Kids were overwhelmed and didn’t appreciate any of it because it was just too much. We kindly asked her to stop and for years she ignored us. The kicker is that we were financially supporting her so it was like watching her spend our hard-earned money on a bunch of useless stuff that got donated anyway.  Several years in a row she’d repeat the same toys she gave the year before.  I don’t think my kids remember a single gift from Santa because they were buried in Grandma’s toys. [/quote]

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