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"You never buy the items I actually tell you to get, so now Mom, you're on your own!"

Verbatim. [/quote]

I agree with some version of this.  Stop dancing with her since she won't follow the choreography even though she requested the specific dance.[/quote]

Trust me, I have. I literally just told her that exact same thing. And every year, same thing, over and over. The thing is, I do try to give her some gifts that are practical in nature (i.e. a new sleeping bag) because otherwise, she will buy some stupid toy or gadget thing that they will never play with/use. I'm not asking her to buy underpants or socks but they are not little kids anymore so they don't want toys. But apparently what I give her is not "exciting" so she doesn't want to give them that. I've also asked her to give them experience stuff--Dave and Buster's cards, bowling gift cards, etc--but nope, it has to be an actual gift. But she needs 8-10 ideas like this, I don't know what to tell her. It's like a vicious circle of hell.

Honestly, I'm over the fact that she rejects some of the ideas. I'm more pissed that the few ideas that she did find acceptable two months ago, she tells me 10 days before Christmas that she isn't getting. And now it's on me.  [/quote]

Oh my god this is exactly my MIL. Exactly. Plus a thousand follow up texts about sizes etc and then she always send 10 things and my older kid likes one of them  and one item of clothing. Because we have told her 500 times that she won’t wear anything with lace or anything with tulle or scratchy in any way. It always stinks bemused younger one has a really strong interest that really fits into their stereotypes for little boys  (think like dinosaurs) so they literally buy him 10 of those and he loves them but we have SO many of these items I keep asking to do something else for at least some good you know not give 10 gifts- it’s just a mess. Last year they some what listened and I was so encouraged but this his bonkers. I refuse to give any of the items that my kids really want to them and just ask for art supplies or tickets to something in the spring so I can get the couple things they are really looking forward to. If I don’t end up immediately trashing everything for the older one it’s a win, [/quote]

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