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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I sympathize. It is totally reasonable to be frustrated. There are of course worse problems in life, but six big new lego sets over the holiday season?  Makes my skin crawl. Of course you can deal with disposing or donating what you don't need, but it makes it a task for you. And if it's for every holiday, birthday, etc., it just wastes everyone's time and money and has a cumulative effect (having to either keep making space in your house or keep making excuses why gifts are not around/being used, etc.). I'm not sure why people don't seem to be able to conceptualize this?[/quote]

Oh, I can conceptualize it. But it doesn't matter if you are frustrated/indisposed by someone giving your child a gift. It's still not polite to dictate what they can give you and/or to complain about the effect on you.

Here on DCUM, venting, okay.

Anything else sounds entitled. [/quote]

I find it odd that it’s entitled to want fewer things. Most frustrated posters on here simply sound like overwhelmed parents who are asking their parents to please respect their limits.

I also find it odd that all the etiquette of gift giving seems to go out the window when it comes to grandparents giving things to grandchildren. I guarantee if your neighbor kept bringing you a bunch of unwanted, excessive items multiple times per year that required continual purging and donating, you’d be pretty darn annoyed. Especially if you explained your limitations on accepting the items. But because it’s a grandparent they are automatically entitled to gift whenever and whatever they’d like so long as it makes them feel good, and if you feel anything less than absolute gratitude you’re an awful parent. Got it.[/quote]

Not toys but the same idea... My mother gifts my kids some of the ugliest, tackiest stuff I have ever seen. Clothing with sequined butterflies, tutu dresses with cartoons and sayings like "cutest pumpkin in the patch" and Disney character shirts galore. I hate, hate, hate that stuff. But I dutifully dress them up and send pictures because it makes my mother happy, it makes the kids happy and it helps them bond. Besides the kids love paw patrol and glitter outfits and I would never buy that stuff ever, so let them enjoy. A few weeks later when they get tired of it I round it all up and put it in the donation bin for another kid to enjoy (and some other mom to roll her eyes lol). There's a donation bin on the way to school and another at the gas station. It's really no big deal.[/quote]

My kids have been playing with a stuffed mechanical dog that sings "La Bamba" for four hours. Thanks, mom.[/quote]

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