Kids gifts to Grandparents

Grammy666 - why do you want your grandchildren to spend money on you which is the alternative to not spending their time to make you something? I've made it clear to my grandchildren that their pocket money is for them to spend on what they like with the exception of me. Be careful what you wish for.

@GrammyGrammy
Your final sentence is absolutely horrible and unacceptable. You’re projecting your bitterness onto a fellow member in a shockingly rude manner.
The OP has a right to her unsentimental thoughts as much as many of you have a right to your overly sentimental feelings.
Calling names, and describing people as “sad” simply because they think differently is also nasty and childish.
You can disagree without pathetic insults surely?

Love the things my grandchildren make, have still got things my children made. They can all have a laugh clearing it out when I'm gone. As we did when clearing my mum and dad's house.xxxxmemories

There are many people here who would like what others have.
It still doesn't make one section of people right, and the others wrong.

They make you things to make you feel special and in doing so they feel special. There are many, many people here who would love a little hand made gift from their grandchildren or even get to see their grandchildren regularly

We'll have to agree to disagree, Grammygrammy

Not just odd, but a bit sad too.

I have a small trinket box with a lid lovingly made by one of my GC out of Fimo, I wouldn't part with it for the world! My GC like to visit me and make things for their other GP and we always ensure it is something useful too, all they need is a little guidance.
My GC are now past the stage of dubious paintings and creations from dried pasta. The two youngest did make two beautiful Get Well cards recently when I was poorly too.
I agree with some comments, we do reach a stage where we have to be selective on what we keep but a gift is a gift and should be accepted with grace regardless of whether it's wanted or liked.

MissAdventure

Everyone is different.
There is no right or wrong way to feel about things.
We are as we are.

Feelings arrive and leave and they are as they are. However taking a stance, an attitude, based on those feelings is different and there is a right or wrong to this.

Yes I think you are odd.
I don't get anything from my stepsons DD, i suppose they think that as my hubby is no longer alive and she was born 15 years after he died that i'm not a 'Granny', even though i love her to bits. I would love anything made by her for me, but i just don't come into the equation.
Doesn't help that my stepsons mom has never liked me so i am never considered, and as a lad, it never enters his head that i feel left out.
I will just have to wait to my DS or DD have kids.

If storage is an issue, you could keep the latest 2 - 3 items, and take photographs of the things you have no space to store.
Cards and little drawings can be stored flat in a box under the bed.

Having neither children or grandchildren, it means the world to me when a child from the school with which I am associated gives me a picture they have drawn for me.

These things are made from the heart and given with unconditional love. What is there not to like, I love handmade presents and cards, they mean so much more.

Everyone is different.
There is no right or wrong way to feel about things.
We are as we are.

My daughter died three years ago, just after becoming a grandma. I am so glad I kept everything she sent, made me in her 47years, at least I will be able to give her grandchild an onsite into who her grandmother was as she gets older. So cherish everything.

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My younger son, when aged 7, handpainted a mug with the wobbly words “for the best cook in the world” and proudly gave it to my MIL.
You can imagine my rage when I found it in a box of items she was chucking out.

I do think you can have too much of a good thing.
Some paintings are masterpieces, others, not so much.

Sorry nursery nurse.

I’m. A Ute Serb nurse and yes it’s odd as most grandparents would give anything for the drawings and art that’s been done from their little ones. We spend lots of time nurturing these little minds and it means a lot for them to be received well. And yes I have four grandchildren too.

Awwwww, but the wonky gifts and indescribable painting are a masterpiece to our GC, made with all their effort and love.

I appreciate all wonky indescribable gifts.

My daughter handed me a painting she had done, which I threw in the bin, when she was about 5.
I can still remember her little face looking at me all reroachfully as she said "But it's only a little painting..."
Lesson learned.

It is absolutely not the same.

Your job is to give them presents that they really want but can't afford, or just give them money.

They are under no illusions about your promise as an extraordinary artist or crafts-person or inventor.

You are their Granny so do what Grannies are supposed to do - give them love, encouragement and, if you can afford it, money.

. Also I wonder if the kids would be pleased if I gave them a knitted scarf complete with holes and dropped stitches ....

Good point, I am not sentimental over children's things they have made nor elderly relatives that knit hideous items.

My three children are in their 30s and 40s. I have a cabinet in the garage which has any number of cards, embroidered items, poems, Christmas decorations etc. I have now started saving my granddaughter’s offerings!

I’ve never been brought such things by my DGC , maybe the odd painting or handmade card. The cards go into a keepsake box and once the child has left the paintings go in the bin .
I’ve hardly kept anything from MY DC never mind anything else . I’m really not sentimental over stuff . 4 of mine are teenagers and last DGD is ten so it doesn’t happen anymore anyway.