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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t stand it either. My MIL just wants to give the most amount of cheap gifts. Example- I've shared with her a line of crafts that are made by a small company that we love. Well, instead she found a Chinese counterfeit version of this woman’s products for less on Amazon and bought many instead of just one from the legitimate company’s website.

I can’t bear getting gifted cheap polyester bedding or clothing, especially when I carefully select more sustainable options for us. I don’t expect anyone to buy specific organic clothing, I just wish they would respect that we DON’T want or need any polyester pajamas etc. [/quote]

I'm the wooden toy and organic clothing poster. Maybe I'm a little autistic and weird, but there are many types of polyester I cannot bear on my skin. I buy as little of it as we can get away with and I am not afraid of telling people not to buy them as gifts. Kids are now adults and teens, and my relatives and friends have mostly complied over the years :-)

Stuff that you can get on the internet from China and other countries with poor regulatory practices just isn't safe. We come from a western European country, where just before Christmas, some government agency pulled tons of Chinese crap out of the postal sorting service because they did not comply with EU safety regulations. The US is also a little lax on safety regulations.

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