I am a middle-aged adult and live 600 miles away from my parents. I haven’t seen them since last spring due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. I am busy and mad at them so I don’t want to see them anyway.
My mother keeps sending me gifts that I don’t want: chocolate squares with fruit filling (which I just take to the office and leave for my coworkers to take), bric-a-brac that I don’t want (such as mugs with cute sayings on them), and homemade food that is stale by the time it arrives.
I assume that I need to just thank her each time I get one of these unwanted gifts and just throw them away? There’s no way to politely get the gifts to stop?
Thanks.