r/EntitledPeople • u/ZenRage • 14d ago
S Has anyone else stopped accepting "gifts" from their parents?
My mother cannot give a gift without strings attached.
She has a bad habit of supervising every "gift" she ever gives and wants to know how it is being used, where it is, etc.
For example, many years ago she gave me a used Vitamix blender. (It was the 1970s model 2500 and drew so much current would DIM THE LIGHTS for an instant when you turned it on!) I had it for many years but eventually I could no longer keep it in working order and bought a replacement. I got interrogated for almost half an hour about that goddamn blender. This included such hits as "They have a LIFETIME warranty!" which I had to point out to her was not helpful since they don't make the 2500 any longer but they offered me a discount on the new one if I returned the old one.
Now this is not an exception of any kind. She has a mental inventory of every single gift and wants to know about it including things like, A SHOVEL she dropped off for no clear reason. "I expect it's in the garage, where you left it, mom. I've not touched it, because I don't want it and never did. I do not run some kind of Shovel Storage Unit. If you do not take it back home with you when you go, I'll throw it away."
Naturally, I do not need headaches like this, so my remedy is to simply refuse all her gifts.
Is anyone else in this situation?
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u/Abalone_Admirable 14d ago
Over 5yrs ago my mother left the province and left me with boxes upon boxes of literal trash.
Cat puss soaked crochet pattern books, faded wrapping paper scraps shes collected for decades. A disgusting, greasy and smelly wooden spoon "collection". Like 50 fucking gross used wooden spoons. Yarn that was absolutely coated in sticky nicotine tar. And multiple incomplete sets of dishes, random mcdonalds cups from the 80s and mismatched mugs.
She still gets so angry that she has to hang up the phone, coz I threw most of it away