Not to buy new wrapping paper for SC?

I agreed about your intent being correct before I read this from you OP

I may be a step mum but I am a mum to my kids before that, my two children deserve more effort from me in life as I am their mother.

Because only boys can like Toy Story 🤣🤣

Haven’t read all the replies, but I’m with you, OP. I’ve always done different wrapping paper for each of my children to identify who’s is whose, to help sort them all quickly into their Santa sacks on Christmas Eve. I do tend to buy them a new, different roll each year as if I were trying to use the leftovers, they’d all be mixed up again. So to save wasting the bits & bobs, I use them on other people’s gifts (which I bundle together with ribbon and label) This would include SCs if they weren’t with us for Christmas. The years they are, they get their ‘own’ wrapping paper 🤷‍♀️ it’s not about any sort of favouritism, it’s purely practical - and as others have said - the kids don’t care! It’s just one less headache…

If you do it because it makes it easier with your DC, but would serve no purpose for SC, then that's fine. If you were doing it because you think your DC deserve nicer paper than SC, that's a bit Cinderella-ish.

How is she? They're also getting the new paper and step children are different

I don’t understand what you mean by ‘new paper’. Surely all wrapping paper that isn’t being reused is ‘new’. Even if you bought it last year and didn’t get round to using it- is that what you mean? And subsequently I don’t get what is ‘not new’ about step child’s wrapping. Unless you are obviously wrapping your children’s presents in bright shiny crisp expensive looking paper adorned with bows and whistles and step child is getting theirs wrapped in a bin bag or newspaper or old scabby wrapping paper that’s been reused five times, I don’t really see the issue. If stepchild was with you on Christmas morning it might be different and they should be part of the whole everyone gets different paper thing.

God imagine having a step mother who only helps to chose the presents, buy the presents, wrap the presents, and place them ready under the tress for when her step child arrives. What a witch!

Its paper.. if they are not their christmas day they won't know the difference.

Urgh op it's the way your phrasing it to be deliberately contentious. Theres no ned to phrase it old or new or left over

You buy different wrapping so each child on Christmas day can tell presents apart however stepchilds presents you use an assortment of wrapping paper.

If they’re all with you for Christmas Day then each gets their own paper but I can see the situation is different and why you haven’t bought them their own roll. Not every thing a stepmother does is automatically wicked!

Buy some fecking new paper. I hope this is fake because otherwise your stepchild feels your disinterest every time you see her

Doesn't that mean that the SC gets twice as many presents as they get them from their other home as well?

It isn’t something I’ve ever needed to think about, but I would have thought that would be really unfair.

I think some people here doesn't see this as I see it.
In my opinion OP is not giving SC "leftover wrapping paper" OP is wrapping in different paper the presents of two kids to avoid to write the labels.
SC opens them on his own so there is not possibility of those presents to be mixed with other child ones.
This is not about parenting or about step parenting this is about labels avoidance.

OP the intent doesn’t matter here really. It’s how you run the risk of making the SC feel.

Amy gets cute candy cane paper, Ollie gets festive green Santa paper and Maddie gets scraps. - that’s how it’ll eventually feel to your SC.

She Won’t have enough left to wrap each of her children’s gifts in singular paper for identification if she uses it next year. THATS THE WHOLE POINT.

It's wrapping paper and totally ridiculous to get annoyed about but that is the life is a step mum.

Sc gets a mixture so what. I mix the wrapping paper for my 2. I don't see the issue

This is where you lost me OP. I thought your stepchild was just getting one lot of children’s paper, so it wouldn’t matter whether that was the new roll or one you already had. But what your actually doing is wrapping their presents in whatever is left, multiple different types and in adult’s paper. That’s totally different from what your bio kids are getting. It will look exactly as it is - that they are an afterthought.
If your bio kids get their own paper, all one type, then your stepchild should get all one paper too. Not the cast offs mixed up. And to your earlier reply - no, your bio kids don’t deserve more effort from you. You and your husband should be treating all of the kids the same when it comes to things that are joint from both of you.

Keep it for next year?!?!

For the cost of a roll of wrapping paper iI would buy another, because I wouldn't give someone multiple presents not all in the same paper. Whether that's my child my step child or auntie Margo, I just wouldn't do it.

I do think this thread blew up a bit though, not necessarily because of what you are doing but because of throwaway phrases like "whatevers left"- I would imagine to anyone with experience of being "othered" for any reason these phrases hurt.

For the environmentalists- I don't buy any paper with glitter, all is recyclable, all tape removed, no paper is wasted (is used the following year one way or another). I don't think buying 3 rolls rather than 2 is going to do any actual harm.

It’s just paper. She wraps her kids in two
lots of different paper so she can tell them apart
The rest of the paper is not inferior
some people create a drama out of anything.