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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP. I replied in a similar thread. Years later and I still have some resentment towards my MIL but the kids are teens now and she’s lost interest. She spends all of our money ( we financially support her) on a younger grandchild in the family. The way I dealt with it was to know I would donate 90 percent. The boxes wouldn’t even get opened, I would rewrap them nicely, and donate the following year. It helped knowing that we were giving to a family that would truly appreciate them. I tried my best to turn her shopaholic extravagance into something closer to the true meaning of Christmas and that helped a lot. I even started to include the kids so they knew their unused toys were going to good use. We continue this tradition today except now we buy all of the toys since Grandma has a new target. [/quote]

This is exactly what we did.  I stored 90% in the attic and donated the next year to my church.  There were times it would take 2 carloads to get them all to the church, that's how crazy she was.  My kids never noticed what was missing (so much stuff just becomes noise) and she never noticed they weren't there, either.  I had tried to get her to stop and realized it was a losing battle.  [/quote]

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