To be angry that my MIL arrived at DS 3rd b'day with his presents wrapped in xmas paper!!!

[fordywastaylor]

She pitched up yesterday at my DS 3rd Birthday party (at one of those activity places) with all the other mums and kids, and presented me with her gifts wrapped in last yrs xmas paper! She never lets me down in showing how tight fisted she is....AIBU

PS: we have a whole cupboard full of recycled wrapping paper. It gets recycled at least two or three times.

Eh? blue paper? Why blue?

Ok so the weddding I am going to in the summer....do I wrap it in Xmas, birthday or christening paper....not sure now what's appropriate for this?

YABU
how pathetic
my gifts get wrapped in whatever is lying around! Would usually put xmas paper away for next year but if no bday paper in the house I would use it. Would be very if anyone cared about the friggin paper I used.

That's the present to be wrapped i meant!

It depends. Are the people getting married self absorbed and horribly precious?

The bride won't be 3yrs old though, will she

I like your MILs style

Don't wrap "it" in paper for a wedding, you will just upstage the bride.

Who cares what it was wrapped in?! Good on your MIL for not wasting money and resources and actually using up old paper. I must have wrapped presents in any old paper that came to hand from the cupboard, including once using pink paper for a boy's present!

YABVU. Can you not be gracious and grateful that your son was bought a present, rather than whining about how it was wrapped?

Blue for a boy??? Or if we are being pc here, anything which relates to a birthday whatever f'ing gender!

Hey how come we can now have hot cross buns all year round but christmas pudding is still restricted? I love christmas pudding and want it all the time. (Nobody suggest making one, I am too lazy).

OP you are not seriously comparing a wedding present (i.e. formal occasion) with a 3yo's birthday party? In any case everyone I know now uses registries and I order online and click "wrap".

No it's not tight. Or contraversial. Stand by your OP all you want but you did ask - and everyone thinks you are being unreasonable. But maybe everyone else is wrong

Actually the only difference between the OP's MIL and mine is that mine is frugal in a very organised way, so she gets out the right second-hand paper for the right occasion.

Morloth you can keep xmas pud for ages and they were selling them cheap in tesco after xmas. You missed a trick - you should have bought 52 of them and could have had one a week!

Get over yourself.

She came to the party, with a present. That is a Good Thing.

You are clearly a loon if wrapping paper bothers you.

Hope your son enjoyed his party.

Oh ffs, I only asked what paper should a wedding gift get wrapped in. I am not whining cheers very much, sorry if its not important to the rest of the frigging nation, but it matters to me... just a bit!

In the world where anyone gives a toss about this stuff. Is it also unacceptable to re-use those gift bag thingies? I do that all the time as well.

So you can re-use paper but she can't? It's not contraversial, that would mean differing opinions.

And OP if you are keen to do 'what's right' be grateful that you MIL bought your child a present in the first place. That would be 'right'.

I am not that organised kat.

DH's family never write on the little cards that come with gift bags so it is easier to pass them around

I will say one thing....

your MIL was silly, she hasn;t got it left for next xmas now, she will have to use birthday paper maybe for xmas

good lord you nutter.

Like your DS will have cared. Or any of your friends.