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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP should set a capacity for the clothes, such as one drawer or one section of closet, and then practice the the one item in, one item out policy. No need to discuss with grandma, since grandma has refused to change her behavior when asked. My mom does this, and I just donate items regularly. It's my house, not a warehouse for what grandma buys. I wish my mom would buy piano lessons or 529 contributions instead, but oh well.[/quote]

LOL. Thanks everyone for sharing their stories. I have thought the same! For my kids' birthdays my mother wanted to make a charitable donation in their name. I'm sure one of her friends had been doing something like this, since that's usually where she gets her ideas from. I said, "What about their 529?"[/quote]

Serioulsy!

DH and I definitely don't have the "wealthy boomer parent" problem, but one approach you could take is ask your mom to put the new clothes away in your kid's drawer and choose which clothes to donate (to make space for the new clothes).  I personally wouldn't do that because I'd want to make those choices, but doing something like this might drive home the point that there isn't space.  Or your mom might just stuff things in impossibly tight  which doesn't really solve anybody's problem.

Would your mom feel better if you found a child in your neighborhood who is a year younger than your child that you could pass along everything (or a lot of things) to?  Sometimes its just about feeling like they're making a difference in someone's life. Good luck! [/quote]

I'm not OP. Sorry, I should have noted that. It's interesting that many of us have this issue. Maybe it has something to do with their parents having grown up during the Depression or not having known their own grandparents sometimes, since life expectancy was shorter back then.[/quote]

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