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

[kittylette]

am I? Its his first birthday tomorrow,

I gave a present at the weekend... wrapped in brown parcel paper and decorated with felt tips by DD. Very disorgansied and thought I had some paper but no... It was that or christmas paper....

My FIL gave us our wedding gift in farmyard paper IIRC

At least he's got a pressie, was it from a man? Sorry any men out there but usually women are quite precious about things like using the 'right' paper

It is not worth the slightest moment of upset.
Just be gracious and appreciate the present, and the thought behind the present.

Why are you peeved by the way?

I wouldn't say anything to someone who did it, but i could never do it myself!

YABTU.
(and you sound a little ungrateful too.)

If they're like me, they probably thought they had birthday type wrapping paper at home so didn't buy any, then discovered they didn't have any and only had Xmas paper so wrapped it up in that so they could get it in the post/to you in time. I wouldn't worry about it, personally. It's the thought that counts.

I wouldn't be peeved at all - infact I'll be the first (I think) to admit that I've done it myself. It was actually an August birthday, we had (literally) no money, but I'd got a few 'spare' presents around the house so was thankful that DS1 could take a present to his friends birthday party. However, we had no birthday wrapping paper at all, but plenty of Christmas paper left over (I tend to buy the rolls and keep left over for folliwng years) rather than spend money we didn't have I wrapped it in the Christmas paper - nothing was said - apart from thankyou for the present.

She could have used Christmas paper for any number of reasons. Businesess, environmental consciousness, temporary blindness due to lost contact lenses. Anything. But surely the least likely reason would be a desire to make you cross.

I think it is a bit horrible of you to be thinking this way, tbh.

I can understand it more for children who have b'days v close to christmas, and it's important to give them a b'day celebration distinct from Xmas, But it's just wrapping paper. you are being mean minded criticising.

That was meant to read busyness. And even that spelling looks wrong.
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Feck me, I thought it was the thought that counted (oh and the present inside)..

I have been known to send cards and presents a few days late! I have wrapped presents up in DD drawings! and used pritstick!

So I am crap at present giving - doesn't mean I don't care or haven't made an effort, just means that I have no idea where my wrapping paper that I bought 2 months ago is, or that I can't find any selotape..

So shot me!

dear god you ARE being TOTALLY unreasonable.
and unreasonable. and meanminded
my mum never used to use wrapping paper for the very good reason that it is a total rip off and I am not all that scarred tbh.

Yes - kids just rip the paper off. At least he's got a gift to unwrap.

You are being completely and utterly unreasonable.

As if the wrapping matters!

He's turning one, he'll probably be most interested in the box anyway!

At least he HAS a present, as others have said it's the thought that counts, not the wrapping paper.

Totally unreasonable. Still if you cant moan on here it would be difficult to moan about that in rl!

Unreasonable.

What next? I got a prezzie over the weekend, and the bow didn't match!

Best mate forgot my b'day, phoned instead and we spent 30 minutes crying with laughter on the phone. Much better than a card IMHO. It is the people that matter.

I would rather someone reused some paper or used up what they had than use new paper.

Just think of it as more eco-friendly

YABU. He's one.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest, and this is something I am probably guilty of doing myself! I often have several rolls of Christmas paper lying around months after Christmas, which I would use to wrap a childs present if I forgot to buy birthday paper!
I'm sure it didn't bother your DS at all, and it is the thought of the actual present that counts, surely!

I'd be grateful he got a present.

I guess it was sent by someone very hot on recycling

I have also done the brown paper with kid drawn decoration line when pressed.

Dare I say this? Oh go on, I will, when you have more than one child it can be hard to find the time to colour co-ordinate, loveingly handwrap stuff. Or at any rate it is for me.

I spend half my life in the car, rushing kids from A to B , only to be told at the last minute that 'There is a party tomorrow, Mum' TBH the kids are lucky to get a gift, in our house. And it isn't for the want of affection or trying, it is due to the chronic lack of time that afflicts us.

Don't have the time to co-ordinate, or get wound up about it

it depends who sent it i guess, i sometimes use pritt stick and string if i cant find sellotape but usually thats for kids birthdays i have a very strict gift bag policy for adults, i usually recycle those though