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.

Sometimes you have to spend more for a quality item and I can spend a lot on wrapping materials.

HOWEVER, your “theme” sounds really tacky to me. If I received a parcel with pine cone tat and constellation paper I would assume it was very cheap. So I guess I would ask myself whether in this instance the money is effectively spent.

@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady if you can afford it, go for it, people spend that on a take away when it could be done at home for a third of the price, beautiful wrapping and spreading cheer sounds worth it if doable.

As long as @Gribbit987 isn’t one of the recipients 🤣

I would never spend 45 quid on wrapping paper, even if money was no object. I would rather design my own, or use plain brown paper and jazz it up with decoupage and ribbon.

I actually think it's a bit distasteful, posting about hugely expensive wrapping paper, when so many people are struggling to make ends meet at the moment. It's also no wonder Mumsnet gets so many thinly disguised begging threads!

If you were using it for wallpaper, that could be reasonable.

@UglyHoose

This year I think anything that makes people happy is good.

Can you post a link please OP?

How about making some people happy by enabling them to eat?

OP - your money, your choice but honestly...

To pick up on a few points:

It's not £45 a roll, it's £2 a sheet but I needed lots as a couple of big presents to wrap as well (big doesn't always mean expensive before someone jumps down my throat for "showing off" 🙄)

Why is it not ok to post something like this but people post all the time about what holiday destination to go to, or whether they should buy a 5 bedroom house in the countryside or stay in their (worth 5x the amount that my) house is in London?!

I didn't purposefully set our to buy expensive paper, nor would I expect anyone to realise it's expensive. I wanted a paper I really liked and this is the only one I could find after looking in all the usual places.

As someone has said this is money going to a small independent retailer so surely that's a good thing? They've probably had a shit year

The presents will be worth more than the paper (oh no! Showing off again!)

How this is a boast thread when I'm clearly laughing at myself for doing it, realising it's too much money and I've said my OH thinks I'm crazy for doing it?!

I think the people who have said this is basically a present for myself and if it will make me happy why not, have it right. Maybe I should have spent it on that magical thing the mumsnet "spa day"?

I've just spent £75 on gift wrap. But it's fabric. It's going to be sewn into reusable squares and bags so we'll be sorted for years.

Gosh there are some miserable grinches here! And some rather unkind and unnecessary comments about the OP’s taste. If it makes her happy and she’s got the cash, why not? I wrap presents in a way I like, as they will be sitting under my tree until I get to give them to the recipient. So I like them to look nice. I am, according to some of the posters here, tacky too. I always wrap kids’ presents with a little bell and a candy cane or piece of Christmassy chocolate. So what?

A lot of posters on here are assuming NOTHS means unique, handmade products. Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff on there is drop shipped or mass produced, relabelled stuff from Alibaba/AliExpress.

I should have spent it on that magical thing the mumsnet "spa day"?

A donation to the food bank would have been better. It’s completely obscene and particularly tasteless this year when there are families having to choose between eating and heating their homes.

Also for the last 2 years I've done all my wrapping in brown paper and dressed it up with ribbon/raffia. That was cheap as fuck. But I'm bored with that now.

"How about making some people happy by enabling them to eat?" Do you say the same thing to anyone planning a holiday next year, or ordering a take away?

What makes you think I don't donate to food banks?

@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady

What makes you think I don't donate to food banks?

You could have donated £40 more. You might as well have set fire to a handful of fivers.

Arrows, that sounds lovely. I can't sew for shit 😂

Your money, your choice. Personally, I couldn't knowing how many families will be struggling this winter and how many children won't be getting a visit from Santa. But it isn't my money .

I don't mind a splurge but I don't think I could justify it as value for money. That said, value is subjective so each to their own.

I usually buy mine from John Lewis, M&S and WH Smith for around a pound a roll in the sales. But I was in Aldi last week and grabbed one of their rolls to wrap my kids' presents in. Was really surprised at the quality, it was just as thick as my JL paper and cost 99p for a big roll.

I'm with your DH . I mean, spend whatever you like, obviously, but it seems a little ludicrous.

I love nice wrapping, but I prefer brown paper, sometimes stamp it/add eco glitter or something, then tie it with string/wool and pine cones/holly sprigs or something. But then, I don't like too much garishness, and prefer plain things.

Gifts that have a ton of wrapping? Bit wasteful. We've just reached the stage where manmade materials outweigh the entire biomass of the planet, and fine, some of the wrapping is recyclable etc. but generally, I'm not a fan of this kind of indulgent pointlessness.

well I had to go peruse NOTHS to try and find it, came across this and if it is this OP then it's lovely www.notonthehighstreet.com/iamnat/product/watercolour-night-sky-celestial-wrapping-paper?referredBy=search
everyone assuming it's £45 a roll, then yes that would be crazy but buy a few gift bags etc and it all adds up to a similar amount to what the OP is spending

Yabu

@VinylDetective

I should have spent it on that magical thing the mumsnet "spa day"?

A donation to the food bank would have been better. It’s completely obscene and particularly tasteless this year when there are families having to choose between eating and heating their homes.

This ^ But apparently caring about anyone struggling makes you (and me) a grinch. I can live with that.

OP go for it.

Some of the posters on here are nuts.

Ridiculous, frivolous and crazy
I agree with your dh, why spend all that money on something that's going to be ripped apart, if you've got that amount to throw around donate it to a charity for feeding hungry children or something

@Squ1ggle

well I had to go peruse NOTHS to try and find it, came across this and if it is this OP then it's lovely www.notonthehighstreet.com/iamnat/product/watercolour-night-sky-celestial-wrapping-paper?referredBy=search everyone assuming it's £45 a roll, then yes that would be crazy but buy a few gift bags etc and it all adds up to a similar amount to what the OP is spending

Yes, I thought it was 45 a roll and the answers make it clear that’s what folks were thinking, surprised the op hasn’t corrected them,

@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady

Also for the last 2 years I've done all my wrapping in brown paper and dressed it up with ribbon/raffia. That was cheap as fuck. But I'm bored with that now.

"How about making some people happy by enabling them to eat?" Do you say the same thing to anyone planning a holiday next year, or ordering a take away?

It's wrapping paper. One step removed from rubbish. Hardly comparable.