Not to buy new wrapping paper for SC?

I do this with my kids - but it’s absolutely for my benefit so I know which are for DD1 and which are for DD2. Saves a lot of time compared to labelling them! It’s not “for them” at all. So yes, I’d happily use the leftover paper for the rest of my gifts for anyone else if I was going to label those. I think it’s a big non issue.

Surely just wrap in whatever you have and label the gifts??? I mean Santa doesn't wrap in different papers does he he labels them.

What a weird post

I know what you mean. I only started doing it as I said above in teenage years when stocking presents seem to get smaller but more expensive, so I wrapped some things to pad out the stockings. Made it easier for me on Christmas Eve to shove everything in the right stocking so that I could go to bed ! We still had labelled presents under the tree .

I don't think children really care what paper their presents are wrapped in to be honest. How will the SC even know, since all the Christmas Day paper will be in the recycling bin, presumably?

I agree . I give up !

I find the "different paper for each kid" thing a bit strange... We grew up with name labels on our presents! It was mine and my sisters job to give out the presents from under the tree, and half the fun was finding the gift tag and seeing who got what!
I do the same with my kids now. Everyone gets the same paper, and I keep wrapping gifts until one roll is used, then swap to another roll. Gift tags get made every January but cutting up the Christmas cards!

Yes there is this.

Another option is to buy a big pack of 1,000 sticky labels from a pound shop and put the child's name on each parcel. You could even print them.

Then each child would have a big, colourful, mixed pile of parcels and you would know whose is whose.

I think it’s fine because your SC isn't there on christmas morning. I also use different wrapping paper for each child. If your SC was there on Christmas morning I’m guessing you would also buy them new paper, so you could see who’s presents were who’s.

Aye.

It doesn't sound great but I can see the practicality. I wouldn't broadcast that I was doing it in the way you have to your friend though.

I think it's more sad that the stepchild is never there for Christmas at all.

I can't see why a kid would care if they had different wrapping paper either. Tbh my grandkids have all got presents wrapped in various paper. They've never complained. And how will the SC even know their wrapping aper is different ? They won't be present opening on the same day/ place

I've got wrapping paper from years ago that still use 😂

How would SC even know what paper the other DC had? I guarantee the children aren't saying come look at my fab presents, did you know mum made sure they were all wrapped in matching paper.

YANBU. I can’t stand wastage and excess, and if I have perfectly good paper on hand, then I’m using it and not buying new. If SC is not there on Christmas Day then there doesn’t need to be a way of identifying presents as there is for the other kids.

SC doesn’t even know that theirs is different because they’re not there. And most kids wouldn’t give a shit anyway - they want the presents, not the paper it’s wrapped in.

People really need to get a grip … it’s not really “left overs” it’s still new, unused paper. And for those saying SC is being treated differently, that’s right, SC is being treated differently in that they’ve already had Christmas Day and presumably presents at mum’s house. OP’s kids only get one Christmas Day.

This is the most ridiculous non problem I’ve ever seen on here . What are you all on about!

Kids care. You’re looking at it from the perspective of an adult who is not part of the family. Which is totally pointless. But even I as an adult would probably care about seemingly small things like this because it’s not the paper itself - it’s the fact that it shows someone doesn’t care as much about you.

I genuinely don’t see this as a problem ! It’s not a “tradition “ for goodness sake, it’s practical!
When mine got to teenage years their presents got smaller but more expensive. So I used to wrap some of them up so that their stockings would look more padded out. So I’d wrap each child’s in different paper so that on Christmas Eve I could just put them in their stockings without having to think about it - yes, they still hung up their stockings as teenagers!
So I’d be left with paper, not “ leftovers” , just paper, which I’d use for anyone and everyone. OP’s step child won’t even be there, if they were I’m sure she’d do a different paper for her as well.

Or friend had a stepmother. Really don't think the kid would care.

Also lots of people on MN “don’t see an issue” with lots of horrible stuff that some stepparents seem to think is okay.
-AIBU to do a big Christmas box for my kids but not one for DSC because they’re going to their mums on Christmas Eve afternoon?
-AIBU to say to DP we should only spend half the money on DSC because they’re going to get presents from their mum as well?
-AIBU not to get any gifts for my DSC as they’re not here til Boxing Day?
-AIBU to do a special Christmas breakfast just for my kids but not for DSC?
-AIBU to book a special Christmas family outing for when DSC aren’t with us because I want a trip for just us?

So so so many of these and so many people quick to jump in to say it’s absolutely fine and “practical” and how the stepkids shouldn’t mind because they have another side of the family they can do stuff with (regardless of whether that actually happens). But it all adds up for the stepkids and they will know how they are perceived.

Why would anyone care what bloody wrapping paper a gift was wrapped in

So on that basis the SC gets the better treatment, isn't stuck with boring paper because mum is too lazy to write labels 😉

Does anyone really care about this kind of thing? No wonder women are frazzled at Christmas. Can you imagine any man giving this even a thought...?

I do different paper here too.. infact each of my children get two different wrapping papers for their Father Christmas presents.. that’s 4 rolls every year 🤣

luckily our nursery always needs wrapping paper at Christmas so I donate what I have left to them, and then whatever I have I use the following year for family presents instead of DC.

However, I would want to treat SC the same as I treat my own kids. It’s Christmas.. and they’re kids 🫠

It's just a system. I imagine if the SC was there on Xmas day then they would get their own paper, so their gifts would be clearly delineate from their step siblings.

I honestly don’t see an issue. If the children are still fairly young, all the paper is ripped off in a frenzy anyway.

If you have reasonably nice paper for wrapping, what on earth does it matter if it’s not ‘new’?