to be peeved that my DSs birthday present has just arrived in CHRISTMAS wrapping paper?

[kittylette]

am I? Its his first birthday tomorrow,

Is he going to care?

Imp, yes! I often use xmas paper,but it's not really obv!

He won't know that so don't worry about it.

No, YANBU. My mother's birthday is just after Christmas and she is still scarred by growing up being given one present 'for Christmas and your birthday' in Christmas wrapping paper. My sister and I are VERY careful about wrapping paper. Even worse in bloody June!

pfb?

I don't know Edam. I think its more important when yourbirthday is close to Christmas that it is made to be a seperate celebration as otherwise it gets overshadowed by the Christmas stuff. No chance of that happening in June.

i could understand if it were DS1s birthday (Dec 13th) but june??

Why would anyone even have xmas paper in june??

If it is gloves and a scarf, then fairly inappropriate, as would be a Christmas bauble. But wrapping paper...not worth getting too excited about imo.

YABU.
He won't even know.
And at least he's got a present to open.

Its just weird

I could never do it, so I guess its just unreasonable to me!

Wouldn't bother me - I'd just assume that the person realised at the last minute that s/he didn't have any gift wrap, and so had wrapped it in Christmas paper rather than just give it to you in a plastic bag. Which would presumably have been even more irritating!

Chill ... not worth getting het up over, imo.

I wouldn't use obvious Christmas paper, just seems to indicate a lack of care over it...

I know it won't matter too much to a tiny boy but I know what you mean...and some people are just very disorganised, so I'd take that into account...it probably wasn't important to them, which makes a difference.

In other words just different standards but not meant to insult.

yes

Yes you are a bit. He won't care. And better than not getting a present, or one that wasn't wrapped. Babies just like coloured paper. They don't care if is has snowmen on it, or balloons.

My mum was always disorganised about this stuff when we were kids and often resorted to using tin foil

and its winnie the pooh to add insult to injury! lol

Are you peeved?

I've used xmas wrapping paper for birthdays all day round - the kids don't care. The reason is generally that we've got loads left over from xmas and I forget to get any birthday in time, or think we've got some and we don't. Figure it's more important to get the present wrapped and delivered.

yabu. He won't notice. At least they made the effort to get him a present on time.

Yeah I am,

but maybe Im judging others by my standards, i like bows & ribbons and pretty paper - paper appropriate to the occasion!

oh yes would be annoyed at winnie the poo wrapping paper

But even if he did notice, he wouldn't be peeved would he? You'd just think "oh look it's Christmas paper" and open the present.

Your son won't give two hoots about paper and bows and pretty ribbons. He'll only tear it to pieces, when all said and done.

At least they bought him a present ... if they hadn't bothered, maybe there would have been cause for complaint.

I wouldn't mind if someone sent my dd's a birthday present in xmas paper, but I would never use xmas paper to wrap up someone's birthday present.

I wouldn't mind if someone gave me a present wrapped in Christmas paper.