Mom Reaches Breaking Point Over Mother-in-Law's Excessive Gifts for Her Kids

A female who is "drowning successful well-intentioned gifts from family" and has "really deed a breaking point" wonders really champion to group boundaries pinch her mother-in-law, she shares successful a viral Reddit post.

In her post, she writes that she goes "all out" to make nan holidays magical for her children, ages 7, 4 and 2, but her mother-in-law took it a measurement further past Christmas by sending "six immense boxes pinch doubly nan number of gifts I’d already given."

"Our location is overflowing pinch toys, and it’s go measurement excessively much," she writes. "She sends gifts for each azygous holiday—every month. I asked her to standard backmost and moreover suggested a sensory container subscription instead. She agreed… and past kept sending gifts anyway."

At Easter, it was a akin situation.

"I put together elemental baskets, and she follows pinch a 2nd 1 packed pinch candy and toys I’d ne'er bargain (giant Nerf guns, makeup, etc.)," she writes. "I’ve asked my hubby to talk to her. He says he does, but thing changes. Not to sound melodramatic but it made maine ace upset this Easter — I put successful truthful overmuch effort and her sending a 2nd handbasket (filled pinch TONS of candy and toys, thing applicable astatine all) really irritated me!!!"

For her son's caller birthday, she made a very circumstantial petition of her mother-in-law: nary toys, conscionable an experience.

"She gave him nan acquisition and different heap of toys," she writes.

She continues: "I cognize it’s each coming from a spot of love, but it’s overwhelming. Not conscionable for me, but for nan kids. It creates clutter, overstimulation, and honestly, guilt—especially erstwhile different kids sojourn and spot nan excess."

"I’m astatine my wits end. There’s a mini model of holidays that consciousness other magical pinch my kids truthful young and I dislike emotion this measurement each azygous vacation pinch my kids. Has anyone other navigated this? How tin I group boundaries that really stick?" she adds.

Others connected Reddit person been successful akin boats, and are coming pinch constructive advice.

"You said she’s sending them truthful I presume she’s not local?" writes one. "If she isn’t handing them straight to nan kids I’d conscionable make them disappear. Give them 1-2 things from grandma truthful they cognize she thought astir them and for nan remainder donate them, return them, waste them, put them up connected mom group connected Facebook, immoderate you person to do. Your kids won’t miss thing they ne'er had."

Adds another, "Donate, Donate, Donate! And if it’s junk past trash it."