Would this annoy you?

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Husband gets you a gift for birthday. Handed in the packaging it came in the post.

No gift wrap / bag.

Just in the wrapping from the courier, not opened yet

Not really, saves on waste, and I couldn't care less how it's given to me. I can remember some very thoughtful presents I've received, couldn't for the life of me tell you how they were presented.

At a bare minimum you surely open it to check the contents are correct?

My DH is the same, used to annoy me but meh, he's never gonna change and he always gets me good stuff so what difference does fancy wrapping make?!

No it wouldn't.
I do love getting things in pretty bags because I reuse them 🤣 but a lot of wrapping is a waste. If it was a well thought-out present, I'd be happy.

It would definitely be disappointing. How hard is it to at lest drop it into a gift bag?

If Amazon, when has it ever been wrong?

Yes it would. Its lazy

No. There’s far too much wasted on silly paper, cards, etc. I give my DP his gifts in the same manner - it’s the gift itself that counts. Just last week he got me a book he thought I would like as a special thank you gift, I was chuffed to bits, never thought to be minded that it was still in the Amazon wrapper, lol.

No, it's just not important in the grand scheme of things.

It's been since before the end of time that men simply cannot 'do' gift wrapping, remember birthdays and Christmas wouldn't happen without women. One or two excepted.

Not at all. I've done it myself a few times!

Yes. Lack of effort.

No why would it?

Shows a disinclination to put any particular effort in and that would grate rather. Guessing this isn't the first time this has happened?

Yes I would be annoyed.

It wouldn't annoy me because I do the same thing..

Obviously we wrap the DC presents, but for each other we tend not to bother.

It's lazy and thoughtless, presentation is part of the effort, much like a meal

Yes. It's lazy and basically says 'you aren't worth making an effort for'.

Yes it would. You gave him a link. He didn't even bother to wrap it. You might as well have just bought it yourself.

It's not a big deal.

So your DH didn't have to think of what to get you because you put together a very short list of things you'd like and emailed it to him. He then bought something from that list and got it delivered to him, and then he carries on and hands you over the item in the same packaging that it was sent to him in?

Yep that is lazy.

It wouldn't bother me. We only really wrap gifts for people outside of the home (except for Christmas) so we often present gifts in an unceremonious carrier bag. I do keep gift bag that I reuse for gifting, but would never buy extra packaging to wrap something in for one of my household. It seems bonkers and wasteful.

So much angst on this forum about birthdays, Xmas, Mother’s Day and it’s always about the bloody gifts.

We love a wrapped present in our household, it's part of the fun, but we also reuse paper

Lamplight, its not about the gifts on mothersday threads, usually meals etc