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[quote=Anonymous]I am sympathetic, OP, and at the same time, just leave it in his closet for when she visits.  And in a year's time, you can say he outgrew it (not physically, he mentally)

Now for the sympathy part.  I am in complete agreement that one should not give gifts that have to go on display in the house (or on display in someone's bedroom, which is your own space).

A few years back, my brother gave us a painting--a HUGE painting of some wild west gun battle, but they were riding cows.  It was a big joke.  Ok, so where are we to display this?  So not our style! Fortunately we said DH took it to the office.

So I was grousing about this to a neighbor who completely agreed.  Ha, about a month ago, she gives me one of her old paintings--flowers, gold frame, not our taste, but I did hang it up because I love her, she's a regular in our house, and it's in a bit of an out of the way spot.  The whole time she kept saying, "I don't believe in giving gifts that have to be displayed, because I know that's a very personal decision, but…"

My mother has a friend who is an artist and she keeps buying my friend's paintings for me to hang up.  I've begged my mom to stop, but she just keeps doing it.

So I'm sympathetic.[/quote]

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