Mother-In-Law's Hideous, Unwanted Gifts

"BarelyWorkingMom" tells us that her Mother-In-Law "keeps buying us hideous gifts. Most of the really awful stuff goes right to the salvation army, but she just bought the kids an ugly gigantic brown plastic indoor playhouse thingy. I know I'm an ungrateful beyotch, but, I can't get rid of this without her noticing. I hate the way it makes my house look!" We have a similar problem at our house. Our solution for small things is to let the kids wear/play with it and take a photo to send to Grammy. Then the ugly item can be donated to someone who might need/use it. But I really don't know what to tell you about the big stuff -- I hope you have a big garage!