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.

Jesus Christ the charity mob 🙄

This thread really does bring out the best.

I usually spend between £25-30

I think it's part of the gift. £2.50 extra per person (ish) to make the gift look extra special under the tree.

Plus, buying from Not On The High Street will mean it's gone to an independent business owner so smiles all around 😀

£2 a sheet isn't that expensive.

Yes, normally speaking I would make my own from brown paper or tissue paper but I hadn't got any.

@Winterwoollies If you've got a problem with my suggestion, I would say it's entirely your problem.

I don’t think it goes unnoticed. My friends and family always appreciate a beautifully wrapped gift. I also like looking at them under the tree in the days before Christmas.

It's not "making your own" when you have to buy the brown paper/tissue paper

@iamthewombat No, I leave the kinky stuff to weird people who make 'clever' comments on Mumsnet.

I reuse the brown paper and tissue paper that I've got when buying things like china that are wrapped in them.

I do love buying wrapping paper & I usually buy in the Jan sales. It's hard to curb my urges and not have a major blow out on luxurious paper. I do succumb occasionally & then justify it by buying in the sales. I'm glad it's not just me with a wrapping paper fetish.

Why not? I adore wrapping gifts and often spend quite a lot of money on the materials.
In my mind, I am spending money to indulge myself rather than the recipient , the same way some people buy expensive yarn for knitting a scarf when a perfectly practical scarf can be bought in any supermarket for a song...
Or people buying expensive flowers they will throw out after a week.

Mine (about £50 give or take) arrived on Friday. Been dying for it to come so I can begin the best part of Christmas- the wrapping.
Growing up my Mum would not hesitate to unwrap a present she'd wrapped and start again if she wasn't satisfied, and I'm the same.
It's a soothing ritual and I'll spend as much money and time on it as I want.
I haven't been to the hairdresser since 2005 though so that pays for my sinful paper excesses.

@Iamthewombat

I resented the £2.50, but at least it was recyclable. You could have spent a fiver on paper and given the rest of the money to charity.

Do you wear a hair shirt daily? Flagellate?

all that virtue signalling must have their arms waving about that much they'd never reach behind for a bit of flagellation.

It's not virtue signalling just because YOU don't do it, love.

You may as well just chuck 45 quid in the bin, that's where the paper will end up.

It's not virtue signalling just because YOU don't do it, love

@thesilentstars I may have unwrapped everything and started again a few years ago 🙊 but don't worry everyone, it was shit - I mean cheap - paper 😅

I think me and your mum would get on

Yes, people, please do not buy anything nice and well made for yourselves but donate the money for a charity, preferably an international one - their directors are human too, don't they deserve the nice salaries and wrapping papers? Or some nice "local women" to play with?

I too probably spend about that every christmas on wrapping paper (I have three, they co-ordinate), tissue paper, tags and ribbons. And bags for them to go in. That probably brings it to more than £45 actually. And I’ve bought two small boxes.

I had some left over from last year (white company, £10 a roll for 10 metres) so I bought John Lewis rolls this year and co-ordinating John Lewis tissue paper, with extra tags, and several ribbons on spools from Simply Ribbons.

I love wrapping. I long for the day when I can put all the presents I’ve wrapped for other people under the tree, sure in the knowledge that Ds won’t open them all!

My theme has been red and white this year, but I am think something more dramatic next year. But I agree, the choice hasn’t been great this year. I chose John Lewis cherry blossom and plain red, by the way.

I assume all the people saying that they wouldn’t spend that money on something that would end up in the bin don’t spend extra money on food and drink they like the taste of either, because that will end up somewhere at the end of the day too...

If you can afford it OP, then go for it. You’re getting enjoyment out of it (hopefully the recipients are too) and you’re supporting a small business. Nothing to worry about!

@FangsForTheMemory

It's not virtue signalling just because YOU don't do it, love.

How do you know I don't do it "love"? I think you'll find, like with men who say they love you, that the people who don't feel the need to tell anybody else what they do for charity, do a lot more for charity than those who do.

I wouldn’t care how much money I had, £45 on a bit of paper that will be ripped apart and binned within minutes is a complete wast of money. I don’t care how nice it looks, you can buys lots of nice wrapping paper for a couple of pounds.

Maybe you would have been far better pulling a couple of names off the tescos gift tree and buying children in need of gifts something. Even filling a collection bin with toys or food.

This is very very entitled!

AliceMcK - I'm afraid I don't shop in tescos 🤷‍♀️

This is very very entitled!

Christ you must have an embolism reading some of the other threads currently running

@AliceMcK

I wouldn’t care how much money I had, £45 on a bit of paper that will be ripped apart and binned within minutes is a complete wast of money. I don’t care how nice it looks, you can buys lots of nice wrapping paper for a couple of pounds.

Maybe you would have been far better pulling a couple of names off the tescos gift tree and buying children in need of gifts something. Even filling a collection bin with toys or food.

This is very very entitled!

How is it ‘entitled’? OP bought nice paper from an independent seller on NOTHS, thus contributing to the economy and propping up a small business in some economically fucked times.

It is so laughable how whenever people confess to buying something nice on this place, you get all these posters haranguing them for not giving the money and a kidney to a charitable cause instead. And then bleat about how they wrap their presents in the newspapers they read to blinded war veterans, before using it to line the bird cage AND filter the coffee and then explain how it will in fact not be used to wrap presents because they haven’t bought any presents because their children aren’t spoilt and they have all given all of their money to charity instead. 😆

Big assumptions are also being made that the OP doesn’t give to charity in any other way.