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

Wrap it in brown paper and put string round it.

Wrap it in aluminium foil.

Can you not see that nobody cares about what presents are wrapped in?

If you have some left over "congratulations" paper or "good luck" paper, use that.

If you dont and if it matters to you, use wedding paper.

The whole point of the responses on this thread is that nobody gives a damn.

It is the thought that counts. Not what the damn thing is wrapped in.

This is the funniest thread I've read for ages! The only people I think it really matters to are gift-wrap manufacurers and you OP. Are you, in fact, a gift-wrap maker and just trying to make us all feel bad for not having the 'appropriate' paper for ever occassion

This reminds me of the mad stories about Aaron Spelling (the bloke who created Dynasty and other fabulous tosh) who's house was so enormous that it had a dedicated gift-wrapping room. I bet he didn't wrap birthday pressies in Christmas giftwrap - although he probabl had gift-wrapping minions TBN

Good grief-did he care!!! If he noticed then you could have given him a valuable lesson in recycling and saving the trees! I hadn't realised that when I gave a present the wrapping had to deemed suitable by whoever saw it!

I feel SO sorry for MILs on MN sometimes.

This MIL

1. gets involved in the dgcs lives
2. came to the party
3. bought a present
4. presumably bought a nice, appropriate present (or the OP would no doubt be bitching about that) - tick

and she STILL doesn't escape the wrath of DIL because - horrors - she wrapped it in the wrong paper.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG! The horror! It's probably scarred little Jimmy for life! Quick, start an AIBU thread!

Can only hope this is a troll thread because god help me if people like this really exist and I get one for a DIL in 30 years time.

Argh! Ruddy keyboard - that should have read 'every occassion', 'probably had' and 'TBH'

You mean the rest of you don't have gift-wrapping rooms? Ours is next to the butler's pantry, by the futility room and below the linen room.

ROFL at futility room.
Actually the loo is next to the butlers pantry as it has a sink so it seemed logical. I could do present washing in there.

janeite

My MIL hasn't bothered with my 9 year old ds for 5 years. I would give anything for him to get a pressie from her (as would dh). Think yourself lucky she cares.

never mind OP. It could have been worse...

Right well sorry for wanting a bit of paper with maybe a random dinosaur or a stray space rocket on it, I will leave you all to it! X

But fordy, you posted on AIBU. Why did you do that if you didn't want opinions? And if you did genuinely want a view, you now have it. YABU.

so not so much an AIBU but more an 'agree with me or I will sulk'....

Only just seen this. FGS find something else to worry about.

This is my favourite sort of thread.

OP: AIBU?
Everyone: Yes
OP: Well you are all wrong and big meanies
Everyone: LOL

A nice Sunday afternoon time waster.

I think the OP was entirely right to be upset.

If shes a pathetic social climber with the IQ of a potato and the social skills of potted plant.

Get. a. fucking. life.

YABU. It's only wrap paper. I often realise I have none. There are much bigger things to worry about, at least she bothered buying a pres and coming to party. Kids don't care what presents are wrapped in and prob don't notice.

DS is scared for life-when an adult, he will still be recounting how his grandmother showed him up by using Christmas paper in February!

morloth - I will see your "lol" and raise you a "lmao"

I have met several extremely charismatic pot plants. They didn't give a flip what their birthday presents were wrapped in though. And potatoes are so pathetically pleased to receive gifts at all, that you could wrap them in a tea towel and they would still be happy.

OP - you are not helping yourself, I'm afraid.

Whoops! Scarred!!not scared!

He could be scared. He may now not want to celebrate his birthday ever in case it happens again.

a good present for a potato is one of those nice bags to store them in. A peeler is offensive and should never be offered.
And never ask if they are feeling chipper. Just not funny.

I think these threads do serve a lovely purpose which is to provide one of the rare ocassions when EVERYONE on MN agrees (well, apart from the OP of course - but hopefully she now sees how wrong she was and is with the MN majority ).

We may have our differences on breastandbottle occasions, but at heart we are just a big loving family, united in our feelings about the unimportance of wrapping paper.

I am not hugging anyone though tyv.