Originally Posted by
PZMommy
That drives me crazy!!!
Thankfully my parents are really good about buying from an amazon list. Or when in doubt they send gift cards or cash. However my husbands family asks what they want, and instead buy cheap junk from the 99 cents store. For what they get, they could have given my kid $5 and my kid could have used that towards something vs the junk that will go straight in the trash.
This is us, but flipped. DH's parents are on a limited budget. DD gets $25 for Xmas and $20 for birthday since she was 10. I *wish* my mom would send her $20. Instead she buys dollar store crap and then pays $$$ to UPS or FedEx to ship it from Park Ridge to Los Angeles. Cuz that's not a waste of money. She spends more on the shipping than the actual gift. Gah! You're not alone.
Mommy to my One & Only 05.07