The curse of homemade gifts

[Alex]

See, you don't need your mom to guilt you into keeping them.

SHE'S GOING TO DIE SOMEDAY!!!! KEEP EVERYTHING!!!!

If that is a motivation, I say* pick one item, throw the rest away and when your mom kicks it you can build a shrine around the one thing.

Or, tell your mom you are throwing away everything you've received from her to date, but that the next item she gives you will be the one item you keep forever and enshrine after she kicks it. So she better put a lot of thought into that next handmade gift. With luck it will be decades before you get anything more than a giftcard to Barnes & Noble from her.

* WARNING: Advise from me on topics of sentimentality is heartfelt but generally considered broken by the larger population. Example: There is no photographic evidence of my first wedding since we never actually got around to buying any of the photos. Example, the second: I do not possess anything that would give evidence that my father ever existed and that doesn't bother me.