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

[kittylette]

am I? Its his first birthday tomorrow,

My Mum and Dad reuse all wrapping paper after ironing it !!. Sometimes a larger present will have 3 or 4 different bits of paper wrapping it, they just believe that people think the same way they do, why would you want to waste a perfectly good piece of paper when all it needs is ironing. They think people appreciate the fact that they are not wasting more trees.

I see their point but it can be a bit embarrassing sometimes.

I reuse all wrapping paper. Wouldn't iron it first though, that's a waste of energy (electrical energy and my own energy)

good point about the electric, will tell them that.

I buy lots of rolls of plain wrapping paper at Christmas when it's cheap - blue/ silver/ red plain sparkley stuff - no santas, holly, candles or snowmen.

Solves this problem. Silver wrapping paper does for ANY occasion...

And yes, YABU !

Will your baby notice? It doesnt matter, and what is so bad about Winnie the Pooh paper?!

I regularly use whatever wrapping paper I can find whether it be recycled or Christmas or even wallpaper inside out if at all caught short which my kids decorate themselves.

I think you are taking his 1st birthday a little bit too serious.

Of course it's the thought that counts. Isn't the point tho that a present wrapped in Xmas paper in June shows a little less thought?

Would be far more exciting to get something wrapped in brown paper/tin foil/homemade paper ... perhaps complete with funky shoelace bow!

More thought, more caring = better present.

Not very thoughtful!

YABU
In our case, that would happen because we were too skint to buy birthday paper. The alternative was newspaper.

Which would you have chosen?

OMG what a long thread on such a trivial issue. As an unashamed user of inappropriate wrapping paper, I say YES yabu.

Hmm. TBH, I would probably think, "Ooh, Christmas paper, so they're broke or disorganised or really horrendously busy.... so how nice of them to still send a present for DS!!!!!!"

I'm all about the 'have a stash of unadorned paper!' that NormaSnorks (award for best username ever) extols. That and creativity. Some of the concoctions that have accompanied my daughter on present-giving expeditions have been spectacular >_<

Agnes

I only use Christmas paper at Christmas. And if I have no other paper in the house then I wrap in newspaper, brown paper, bag it, but just don't feel right using Christmas paper when it's not Christmas!

I wouldn't be particularly bothered about receiving it from someone else, though I would be a little perplexed if it was from one of the grandies or very close rellies - after all, it's your child's first birthday!

I'd still totally appreciate the thought and be delighted that they had given a present.

My son's birthday is 28th December - and I would have been very upset if he had presents wrapped in xmas paper - it should be marked appropriately and kept separate. My sis has birthday 21st Dec and my parents always kept it separate. I think it's important

Have been known to use xmas paper myself, my son has had pressies in tin foil, & newspaper, he was never bothered and neiter was I.

I'd be miffed if they forgot to get a pressie, but not because of the paper.

wow is this still going on??

I am so puzzled by myself. Tin foil is fine, newspaper is fine, brown paper is fine, obviously recycled birthday paper is fine, supermarket carrier bag turned inside out is fine, no paper at all is fine, the bag the present came home for the shop in is fine, banana leaves is fine, remnant of material is fine, greaseproof paper is fine, sheets of A4 sellotaped together is fine - but Christmas paper for birthdays is not fine!