She Wants To Donate Her Baby Items, But Her In-Laws Are Making Her Feel Guilty And Think She Should Give Them To Her Sister-In-Law
This woman and her partner have a 2-year-old daughter together, and they don’t want to have more children.
She has a ton of baby-related items that she is planning to donate.
“When my mother-in-law found out I was donating these things to charities and neighborhood collections, she got very upset and demanded I hand them down to my sister-in-law (her daughter) instead,” she said.
Her mother-in-law explained that her daughter would need these items once she had a child.
In her view, she shouldn’t be expected to do this because her sister-in-law’s family has the money necessary to purchase everything for a baby when she eventually gets pregnant.
“I’ve given her tons of stuff already. She’s taken boxes full of baby clothes, toys, and a walker,” she explained.
She doesn’t even know if her sister-in-law will be expecting a baby anytime soon, and even if she does have a baby in the near future, there is no guarantee that her child will be a girl. A lot of the clothes and other baby items she has are geared towards girls.
Plus, it could be a long time before her sister-in-law does get pregnant. It took her and her husband three years of trying to get pregnant.
While she doesn’t have an issue with giving her sister-in-law any of the baby items that she no longer needs, it’s a bit of a hassle.
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Her sister-in-law’s family lives five hours away, so because of the distance, she and her partner only see them several times a year.
Whenever they travel, they have a lot of luggage in their vehicle, and they bring their two dogs along for the trip, so there isn’t enough room for any boxes of baby stuff for them to bring for her sister-in-law anyway.
“I hate all the clutter, and my growing kid is running out of room for new stuff. I just want to donate a bunch of like-new things to the toy and clothing drive right now,” she shared.
She is sick of holding onto these items that she doesn’t need, and she doesn’t want to keep doing so any longer.
In order to compromise, she told her sister-in-law’s family that she could keep some of the more expensive or sentimental items to give to her and that she would donate the rest.
However, they didn’t like this idea and made her feel like she was a bad person for not giving her sister-in-law every single baby item she didn’t need anymore.
What advice would you give her?
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