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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hear me out. It may be a millennial parenting trope by now to complain about grandparents over gifting but I REALLY don’t remember this to be a thing when I was growing up at least.

We are so fortunate to have two sets of grandparents who adore our children. We are even lucky that they somewhat adhere to our wishes for gifts for our toddlers - experience gifts, etc. But even with our pleading to keep just to that, or to provide minimal other items so the kids can unwrap something, they inevitably can’t help themselves from buying loads of cheap plastic crap as gifts. I can’t handle the volume and I resent it, because now it’s on me to find room for it and eventually donate it. I’m also annoyed that my MIL gets more presents than we or Santa does for our kids and uncomfortable with how much they are spending. Our kids want for nothing, our planet doesn’t need more crap in a landfill and Bezos doesn’t need more money!

Rant over. [/quote]

You can donate, regift, or return the gifts that you don’t want to keep. Some other suggestions: Ask them to put some of the gift $ into a 529, ask for specific items - larger ticket items or run of the mill items that you would normally buy but are not “must have”. Specific items are easier when kids are older, because they have specific tastes.

I have a specific place where I have wrapping paper, cards, and presents and I put presents that are not a great fit in that spot for easy regifting. If space is an issue then continue to tell that to family members. It may eventually stick. I think the biggest challenge for grandparents is that up until children are a certain age kids get more excited by toys and games than by clothes or money and some grandparents are all about that.[/quote]

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