To be cheesed of about wrapping paper?

[LuckyLopez]

Yes yes I'm very ungrateful blah blah blah....

Relative has given a birthday present (via someone else) to ds1 fir tomorrow.

It's wrapped in Christmas paper. I think that's so rude and lazy.

Of course I won't say anything but I'm sure it wouldn't happen to anyone's birthday in another month of the year so I'm peeved on behalf of ds.

It's a fairly clear split:

a) those who have a December birthday say it's horrible and a slight they remember for years.

b) those who say YABU and it's a trivial matter, and who don't say when their birthday is (sorry if I've overlooked a post that contradicts that).

YABU. Massively.

You are anticipating a problem that has not yet occurred. It really doesn't matter. At all. I say that as a Jan birthday. Doesn't matter.

" If anyone moaned at me for using Christmas paper it would be wrapped in newspaper next time!"

I hope I would not be as rude as to moan, but frankly, I'd prefer newspaper to Xmas paper.

YANBU.

I'm already annoyed that Christmas takes over bloody everything in December, and feel for anyone whose birthday is affected. I always make sure the paper is appropriate and also not to buy gifts which are obviously only in the shops for Christmas.

I've done this to my brother this year. Didnt realise till the last minute I'd run out of birthday paper and no time to go to town and get some. I'm sure he'll live.

It's nothing to do with being materialistic. It's simply wanting people to be able to realise that birthdays are a seperate entity to Christmas and shouldn't be treated as one and the same.

It's too easy for people with late December/early January birthdays to have their birthdays forgotton about or just merged into part of Christmas. Most adults who have experinced that simply want to try to make sure children with birthdays at that time don't feel the same

Yabu. I use xmas wrapping paper for all pressies (just one colour ones or with stars on so nothing to suggest its xmas paper). Reason its cheaper and better quality. Ikea selling beautiful red paper for 50p per roll at mo. Only time i dont use xmas wrapping paper is wedding pressies. Just be grateful someone cared enough to give present x

"(just one colour ones or with stars on so nothing to suggest its xmas paper)"

That's paper with transferable skills, not Xmas paper.

Exactly meditrina

YANBU, but I know how hard it is to buy birthday wrapping paper in December - I always buy it early so there is good choice. There is still some though so she is being silly.

My DD1s birthday is next Saturday most of her presents will be wrapped in birthday paper, I get it from Home Bargains each year 79p a roll and they have lots of choice. However, she does get presents from other relatives wrapped in Christmas paper. She is not bothered at all, and is more interested in the gift. If she moaned I would tell her not to be so ungrateful, a gift is a gift at the end of the day.

Med its sold as xmas paper. I just carefully choose paper that can be used for all occasions (cheap skate here). Birthday paper isnt sold in rolls and seems to rip so after xmas i stock up for all presents. I also have a pressie wrapping drawer. In ikea on sat dh find the 50 p ikea stunning red paper in the xmas section and put roll in trolley. I went back for two more. Put either xmas tags or birthday tags with it. Must be catching!!!

I buy cards in packs of 10 or 15 so I don't go to the shops every time a child has a birthday. I work full time in a very busy job and I shop in lidl that doesn't sell birthday wrapping paper or cards. Once in a while I stock up on paper but at Christmas time I will definitely have Christmas paper in and may have run out of birthday paper. Am I going to make a special effort to trek to the shops for birthday paper? No.

As it happens I have wrapped up a ton of Christmas presents yesterday and 3 birthday presents, in their very own non Christmas paper, so I make the effort when I can, but I'm not going to waste time and petrol going out just to buy birthday paper. So ner.

Yabu a bit. There's someone on thread who said they had no money and that's all they had. Plus they did put thought into it.

My dd has a December birthday and Christmas doesn't get recognised until it has gone (I.e. no tree and decorations). Hut if someone wrapped her presents in Christmas paper I'd be happy enough that they got her a gift tbh.

My Mum is 60-something.
I have never dared to wrap her Jan birthday present in Christmas paper with an obvious Christmas design. She has had red and gold stripes, and red foil sort of stuff, but nothing with santa/snowflakes on.

So, I'd never do it for anyone else.

Its next door I feel sorry for. 25 Dec B'day, and she gets "PS Happy Birthday" scrawled in the Christmas card for the whole family.

YANBU.

Do 11 year old boys really notice what their presents are wrapped in?

It's a little bit thoughtless but at least he got a gift.
My mum rarely remembered / remembers my birthday and if the times I've got gifts (birthday / Christmas) they are 'wrapped' in the plastic bag with the price sticker still on or if I'm lucky a tea towel/ blanket.
Tbh the wrapping usually matches the inappropriateness of the gift.
6yo DS got a tea towel for his birthday.
When she manages to remember she seems to infuse gift giving occasions with a strong 'don't give a stuff' vibe.
In reaction to this I wrap beautifully like my dad.

YANBU

Why should you have to have your birthday (a celebration of the day you were born) overshadowed by a commercialised over long all-encompassing over hyped orgy of indulgence celebrating the alleged birth of the son of god?

My mil has her birthday near Xmas and she gets very annoyed if people use Xmas wrapping paper. I think she was so used to getting less gifts as a child because people are all spent out with Xmas and she always felt her birthday as a child was never celebrated very well.

I have a dd who was born on the 20th and I make sure to buy her birthday wrapping paper. I admit that come the 20th I am sick of wrapping presents and sometimes the last thing I want to do is have a party for her right near Xmas but people do make less of a fuss about her birthday because the main focus is Xmas and her birthday if often an afterthought.

So for that reason I would never wrap a birthday present in Xmas wrapping. It might seem trivial to some but for children to get less thought on their birthday just because their birthday is near Xmas can be really annoying.

YANBU

Feel really sorry for those with December birthdays. My mum's birthday is 3 days before Christmas and she grew up with it often getting forgotten or yes, merged with Christmas. A lot of relatives thought buying one gift for both was acceptable. It wouldn't be acceptable any other month of the year so why should it be in December? My cousins birthday is two days after Christmas so my mums always made an extra effort to ensure it doesn't get forgotten like hers was. It's really quite sad.

The wrapping paper gives off the vibe you can't be arsed with the birthday IMO.

Another reuser here. Don't give a monkeys what presents are wrapped in. My birthday is in August and I've had stuff in christmas paper. If someone is generous enough to give me a gift theres no way I'd be ungrateful enough to moan about what it is wrapped in.

People do like to second guess what other's motives are and are usually a million miles away