Holidays
Does anyone else have anxiety thinking about the holidays coming up? My mom is addicted to online shopping, she has a package coming to her house nearly daily whether it’s from temu or Amazon or somewhere else.
I was raised by a hoarder single dad that kept EVERYTHING. And I wasn’t allowed to get rid of clothes that didn’t fit me for “just in case” (?). My dad grew up in a group home and had nothing now he clings to everything even when it doesn’t make sense.
My mom though, wasn’t apart of my life til I was 18, I’m 30 now and ever since then she’s still been absent in my life except for holidays. Shes a hoarder as well and way worse than my dad. She buys like 3+ garbage bags of junk for me for birthdays and Christmas usually from temu where the clothes are polyester, the other items are hideous or break easily. Like she bought me a unicorn shirt that was polyester and falling apart and it it was a size 1x. I’m a size small/medium. And I’ve never in my life liked unicorns..?
I literally beg her to stop buying me things and to get me a food gift card or gift card to a grocery store if she absolutely MUST buy me something, but she thinks I’m just being difficult and gets very offended when she brings me stuff or has it sent to my house. I literally don’t keep anything she gives me. It’s so annoying donating junk that I know most people won’t want. I wish she would stop. Does anyone else have family like this??