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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Find a salvation army, goodwill, etc. that is easy to get to (near work, near the dry cleaner, whatever) and make it a regular part of your routine.  Honestly, it's a good habit to have anyway with youn kids--donating regularly keeps toys/clothes/books/kid gear moving out of the house rather than just in.  Accept what you can reasonably drop off in one visit to a donation center, refuse what you can't, and let her deal with it.[/quote]

Thanks... but this sort of makes me want to cry, because it adds a visit to goodwill to every trip to MIL's (or visit from MIL). That is time I don't have.

I realize that our time and space problems are a separate issue that isn't my MIL's fault, but they provide an important context for why this stuff is affecting me and my life more than it otherwise would.  Accepting stuff that we have to process takes headspace and energy.  If it ends up taking net less head energy to placate my MIL and just give everything to goodwill, that's fine as long as giving it away isn't going to offend her - which I'm not sure whether it will.

The weight of the responses seems to be that MIL's need to give us stuff trumps my need to stop the influx.  That's fine and I will try to deal with it, but it also leads to a situation where I absolutely dread being around MIL.  Doesn't anyone just communicate anymore?

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Put everything in black trash bags and go to the website good donor dot org.  You can schedule a pick up to have them swing by your house. As a bonus, they keep track of all the places you donate through out the year in case you lose the receipt.[/quote]

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