What do I say to an overspender who buys too many gifts for my child?

My son is 3 years old. He has more toys than we know what to do with. It’s actually overwhelming because I spend half my life trying to figure out how to organize all of his stuff. His aunt has a real spending problem and much of the time she buys him things that he already has too much of (like stuffed animals) or things he can’t use (like 144 foam airplanes from Oriental Trading). I appreciate her generosity but with everything she buys him and everything that everyone else does too he just has way too much stuff and there is honestly nowhere to put it. She will even buy something for him when we are visiting her and I’ll often purposely leave it at my Mom’s house for him to play with and she’ll say “aren’t you going to take it with you when you go home?” I also live 1500 miles away and she constantly mails him things.I feel like if she wants to do something nice for him, buy him a savings bond, or pay for him to go to gymnastics or something. Is there a nice way to say this?

Next time i talked to her i would just tell her how much i appreciate all of the nice things she does for my child but right now we’re running out of room for all of these things. Make sure you let her know that he loves her even if she didn’t buy him gifts =) Then you can politely imply buying him a membership to a gymastics club or something because he would really enjoy it. My grandmother does the same thing to my little brother’s and cousins.

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