To spend £45 on wrapping paper?

[Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady]

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.

I’m slightly obsessed with wrapping gifts.

YANBU.

I’ve just bought plain white and brown paper, but have wasted far too much time making tiny Fimo stars and orange slices to finish them off

I couldn't even contemplate spending so much on wrapper paper which will go straight in the bin. But then again I'm mean, most of my clothes come from ebay - I don't think I've spent £45 on an item of clothing for years let alone wrapping paper.

However, if you can afford it, and it makes you happy, then why not?
Maybe I need to rethink my style choices next year.

Just showed the one I think it is to student ds who said it looked like something from Poundland . Seems to be an obscene sum to spend when people are struggling so much this year and cant even afford Christmas. If you can afford it knock yourself out but to me its a ridiculous waste of money.

I too am extremely fussy re wrapping paper. I cannot answer until I see it.

Link please OP.

I've been using the same roll of brown paper for years for all occasions but then I'm cheap. I do buy stamps to make the parcels seasonal though

Maybe you should write the price of the wrapping paper on the present, so that the recipient knows how fancy you are, too, and not just us randoms?

Some of the shops advertising wrapping paper for £10+ a sheet are completely sold out. Someone buys that.

I've managed to almost stop using wrapping paper at all. I got a load of Christmas fabric squares from ALDI and then use them with ribbon to wrap presents. Along with some of those fabric bags from amazon that relatives order present for the kids in.

Since you can afford to spend so much, maybe next year get some lovely cloth and ribbon wraps which can be reused?

Is it the "I believe" one? It's a really boring paper

I'm all for pretty paper but they won't look twice at it. For that YABU

I use the sunday newspaper, started last year cos i couldn't bear seeing the wrapping paper just going in the bin no one cared, it looks remarkably good

Yabu it will go straight in the recycling afterwards, surely better to spend a bit more on the gift instead if you have money to burn.

your dosh

Or it could be the night sky which is worse! Should've gone botanical. That's lovely paper

This year buy wrapping paper in the sales. We always have beautiful wrapping paper but it's last years and half the price of buying it now!

I’m with your OH. It would be utterly bonkers, but the choice is yours.

People will just rip it open so it is akin to throwing £45 in the bin. That is why I don’t buy expensive gift wrap. I’ve got all of mine for around a fiver this.year.

You could ask people to give the paper back to you so that you can iron it and put it away for reuse next year.

I suppose I should admit that I don’t even notice what the gifts people give me are wrapped in.

@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady You’re not being unreasonable 😂 The most satisfying time at Christmas is when all my immaculately wrapped matching gifts are put under my own tree ready to be handed out to family and friends 😂 I love it!!

@HitthatroadJack

And tbh nor would I post about it during a time when so many people are in very straitened circumstances..

Funny how people decide when other people's hardship must be taken into account, and when it doesn't matter and you can ignore them.

No 'must' about it.

But not everyone likes conspicuous consumption (ever) and I think you would have had to have lived under a rock to be unaware that this year is even more polarised than usual.

But each to their own idea of unutterably naff and tactless

How on earth is posting a link to Christmas wrapping paper going to be outing, @Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady?!!!

Well, if that makes you happy, why not?

I'd prefer to spend the extra on presents.

I have bought more expensive Christmas cards this year though because they are produced by a cause I support and directly reference the difficulties caused by coronavirus.

But each to their own idea of unutterably naff and tactless

indeed

and clearly unless it touches some people specifically, it doesn't matter. Posters like you make it very clear.

@BIWI

How on earth is posting a link to Christmas wrapping paper going to be outing, *@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady*?!!!

All depends on what actually exists?

Maybe it's very distinctive

Newspaper and ribbon in this house. The paper goes on the fire afterwards anyway.

*it doesn't matter. Posters like you make it very clear

Yes, that was the general idea of the first line of my first post: "At the end of the day, it's your money to spend how you wish"

Thank you for endorsing what I have been posting!

You can't wrap edges in cheap paper. If you can afford it so what? I'm cheap and get brown paper and the kids can print on it but the ribbons and bows add up to a lot. All recyclable.