To spend £45 on wrapping paper?

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OH thinks I'm a nutcase 😂

But in my defence...It's so pretty! It's from not on the high street.

Normally I'd buy from a normal shop but all the sets have been a bit rubbish this year and i have this weird thing where there has to be a colour scheme (I know I'm a lunatic)

This isn't for DD present by the way. She wouldn't give a shit if I wrapped them in tin foil 😅

This is for family presents.

Ironically there is another thread discussing the cost of cheese and it seems to people have been spending between £30-60 on cheese, but it’s lacking in negative comments unlike this one?

It’s the posters money 🤷‍♀️

It’s pretty.

I buy clairefontaine rolls that can be expensive but are 50+m. I did my mum’s wrapping with normal paper last year when she was ill and it’s hard work going back to that 😂. I kept ripping it on corners.

Ironically there is another thread discussing the cost of cheese and it seems to people have been spending between £30-60 on cheese, but it’s lacking in negative comments unlike this one?

I suppose the difference is that you can actually eat/cook with/use cheese, whereas wrapping paper is a decorative thing that just gets ripped off and binned/recycled.

I think that's possibly why it's a divisive thing, opinion-wise.

I think I saw that myself and managed to resist (although it wouldn't go with my colour scheme anyway).

I'm the same as you - has to coordinate and love wrapping presents but the wrapping paper on offer this year is absolute crap. I've resorted to digging out the last few year's leftovers as I can't find anything I like.

I know it's great from an environmental POV but the lack of foil and glitter this year is so bloody depressing - as if 2020 hasn't crap enough, we've now lost the sparkle for Christmas...harrumph.

@mintycedric I completely agree. You could always rely on Next to have nice coordinating wrapping paper sets but there's only 2 online and I don't like either of them.

Tried amazon, m and s, John Lewis, Debenhams, clintons (although they love red and gold a bit too much for my taste), paperchase and lots of other places I can't remember now.

Like you Its a job I love doing but if the paper isn't nice and coordinating then it would just put me in a bad mood.

I did get a cheap set of 4 rolls of more traditional paper for kids from Amazon, to do DD presents.

DD has to have different paper that's not coordinating otherwise it gives it away that I've wrapped them.

That's how I worked out Santa wasn't real, the presents from Santa were wrapped in the same paper as the ones to my mum and dad from each other. Parenting fail! 🙈😅

Ooo...maybe that's where my obsession comes from?!

My DD is 16 so that's not a concern for me.

Fortunately I don't have many people to buy for so had plenty of surplus.

Paperchase is normally my 'go to' but wasn't at all impressed with theirs this year. I looked in all the places you mention too :(

I bought 200metres for a shilling in Woolies, it will last for years, we have a family tradition of just using spit and then once we have opened gifts, I carefully collect it, iron it and reuse it. Only problem is the space hopper imprint from '72 made a bit of a dent in some sheets.

I like nice things but there isn't a chance I'd spend that much money on something that's going straight in the bin/recycling.

I'm with your DH

Isn't it the moral imperative to actually spend shit-loads of money if you are able at the moment?

Surely hoarding cash under the auspices of 'appropriateness and sensitivity' is more detrimental to people in lower paid jobs and helps nobody but yourself?

Spend away!

Loads of cheap, cheerful and styling ideas in the internet using paper bags, brown paper, tartan paper........loads more ideas on there, much cheaper and more stylish than expensive wrap.

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StoneofDestiny those wrappings are lovely. I do the plain brown paper and string/candy cane/pine sort of thing - I think it looks so nice.

I much prefer a bit of eclectic wrapping to glitzy themed stuff. A friend wraps presents in fabrics, with crocheted ribbons (I know other posters have suggested this) and I reuse whatever I can when I receive it. It's also great that some (all?) supermarkets have stopped with the glitter and plastic in crackers/wrapping this year.

Actually, a thread somewhere on more eco-friendly, creative wrapping options might be a nice idea - I'd love to see what other people come up with.

Sometimes I like to splash out on naice wrapping paper for a special birthday or wedding gift, but we're talking like the £2 per sheet heavy duty stuff from the Clintons vs a roll from Poundland.

But £40something!?! 😲 Wow!

@MrsMariaReynolds what the op is looking at is £2 a sheet, she's just buying lots of sheets

Rolls are much better than sheets - a lot less waste.

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Ironically there is another thread discussing the cost of cheese and it seems to people have been spending between £30-60 on cheese, but it’s lacking in negative comments unlike this one?

I suppose the difference is that you can actually eat/cook with/use cheese, whereas wrapping paper is a decorative thing that just gets ripped off and binned/recycled.

I think that's possibly why it's a divisive thing, opinion-wise.

Yes you can cook/eat the cheese, but there will be the same amount of cheese that you can get for considerably less in the supermarket, it will be just 'nicer'.

Likewise the £45 meal out, which is likely to buy something like a meal for two with drinks in a mid range restaurant. The sort of thing that you could do for under a tenner at home.

Many of us spend money on things that are more extravagant than 'necessary' and of course we could choose the cheap option and donate the different to charity but then the people who supply these things wouldn't have a market and couldn't make a living.

But if its £2 a sheet OP you must be buying an awful lot of presents and hence the wrapping paper is a small percentage of your Christmas gift spend.

Hopefully your wrapping paper stands out as nice paper than can be carefully unwrapped and reused, as it sounds like a shame that it just goes in the bin. Because it's reduce, reuse, recycle, so if all wrapping paper is used just once, that halfs the amount that needs to be used.

Why?????
It literally gets ripped off and goes straight in the bin! (or recycling if able to)
Seems like throwing good money away (literally) but if you can afford it then fair enough I suppose.

I’m one for thinking it’s your money spend it on what you want.
But FFS you have got to be trolling on this.

Ironically there is another thread discussing the cost of cheese and it seems to people have been spending between £30-60 on cheese, but it’s lacking in negative comments unlike this one?

I think there's a difference between good food and wrapping paper - you actually cook with and eat cheese, and expensive ones are probably very nice and worth it.
Wrapping paper is just bin fodder though that gets ripped straight off and thrown away.

no way would I spend £45 on wrapping paper but I'm a cheapskate our wrapping paper cost 10p a roll in Sainsbury's last year I got 15 rolls and have only used 6 so still have some for next year too.

Haven't read all the comments but, I'm with @StoneofDestiny - a great fan of simple, brown paper, tied with string and then tarted up with embelishments snipped from the garden.

I did a gift wrapping course, several years ago, and it was an eye opener.

As well as brown paper, she used newspaper, old scarves, pages torn from old books dyed with cold tea etc etc

Spend your £45 on a course OP - lovely day out and you get to learn a new skill, once you learn to master the art of using the dreaded double sided sticky tape.

That's how I worked out Santa wasn't real, the presents from Santa were wrapped in the same paper as the ones to my mum and dad from each other. Parenting fail!

The parenting fail is pretending all the presents come from Santa. A stocking comes from Santa, the big presents come from the people who have paid for them. Our kids knew who to thank for their presents.

I think it's lovely paper and educational. I love they way all the presents look under the tree beautifully wrapped.

It’s beautiful paper but educational how?!

Absolute waste of money in my view but it's not my money so 🤷🏽‍♀️
I spend a pound total from card factory in the Boxing Day sales.
My fave type of wrapping paper was the sheets from a local market- it was sort of matt texture and had a very specific smell that reminds me of Christmas !

That's how I worked out Santa wasn't real, the presents from Santa were wrapped in the same paper as the ones to my mum and dad from each other. Parenting fail!

Ha, see, rookie mistake
That's why the stocking presents are always wrapped in a different wrapping paper to the main presents in case they "twig" lol