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

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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

YABU.
Nothing wrong with recycling paper for wrapping a gift for a 3 year old.
Who cares?
I get gifts sometimes from my family where it's obvious the paper has been recycled from years before ( sometimes even I find it's the one I wrapped gifts in for that person) and I couldn't give a shit.
It's thrifty, enviromentally friendly and it just does not matter.

I once wrapped my Dd's Birthday pressies in xmas paper and her birthday is in August.... I'm hoping she won't end up on Oprah when she is older.

where is bitoffun?

Fwiw I wrapped my mil's birthday present, some extremely lovely earrings, in children's paper with pirates on it. And as she is blind she'll never know.

that's just crazy talk

yabu

[wrestles morloth to the ground to administer forcible hun-hug]

I can offer a manly shoulder punch if you prefer? Or an air-kiss? Which would you prefer?

at chipper.

my sister and I have a couple of really gorgeous gift bags which go back and forth between us every Christmas/birthday.

My favourite is one with a frosted forest scene picked out in kind of crushed glass glitter. I always try to hang on to that one as long as possible.

Definitely "mwah mwah's" here dahling.

yeay, a Sunday afternoon moderately amusing time-wasting sulky-OP AIBU to distract me when I'm meant to be working

Unless the 3YO is so switched on that he knows the difference between Christmas and birthday paper who actually GAF. YABU.

Hilarious thread .

I've done this many a time. Because I'm crap at remembering cards and buying nice wrapping paper. Occasionally I manage to pull it together and score the hat trick of card + present + nice wrapping but good god it takes a fair degree of organisation.

I have in the past grabbed tissue paper (was quite proud of myself for finding that ), Christmas paper, newspaper and good god... this is a shocker... a jiffy bag . How crap is that!!

I am however an absolutely brilliant gift giver. I put in a lot of thought and gain a lot of pleasure when giving presents. I'm just absolutely crap at remembering the trimmings.

Oh, I have also been known to make cards at the last minute and pop them in ill fitting business envelopes. I bet the OP would think I was a right scummer.

By the way you are reacting OP I assume there are other issues with your MIL rather than just the use of 'inappropriate' wrapping paper. Maybe you should think on this - your MIL actually went out and chose and bought a present for your ds and came to his party. There are plenty of people on here whose dcs have no contact with their in law GPs, including my ds. He doesn't get a present from his paternal grandma, ever.

Gosh I have just wrapped both my son and daughter's birthday presents in xmas wrapping paper. I am sure they couldn't care less and neither do I tbh.It's what I had in and couldn't se the point of buying anymore.
YABVU

I'm sure if your MIL had wrapped it in birthday paper it would still be wrong! Yellow instead of blue. Trains instead of dinosaurs. Wrong gift. Too young/old. Not spent enough. Card inappropriate. Etc,etc

Maybe she could really mess with his mind and come round with an Easter Egg on Christmas Day...
Controversially, I don't think you're being that unreasonable to THINK "hm, that's odd" if she turned up with santas and snow on his February birthday wrapping paper, but you're DEFINITELY unreasonable to mention it and/or consider it as a deliberate attempt to piss you off.

Agree MollieO, there is always more than meets the eye on AIBU. A lot of people are too dumb to do a little self-analysis on the situation before posting though.

EVERY SINGLE YEAR my dd & ds get their birthday gifts wrapped in Christmas paper...

For the past 8 years for dd & the past 5 for ds.

But then when one is Christmas Eve & the other Boxing Day, I never expect people to fork out for different paper than what they have in the house!!

My sisters & I swap about gift bags too - we know never to write on the tags!

Difficult to believe you feel so strongly about it.

Shall I tell you how tight-fisted I am? I buy a rollof the most season-neutral paper from Costco, and everything, birthday/xmas/channukah/just because, every present is wrapped in that paper throughout the year, until it runs out.

Am I tight-fisted because I don't fork out for rubbishy seasonal paper, and have endless useless roll-ends all over the place?

Really, woman!

How about kraft paper and raffia? Or tissue and raffia? That's what I wrap most things in now.

methinks this is one for the roundup

She wrapped a present in paper?

Bloody bitch.

You should have her done over.

I'm so glad I saw this thread, I got a right bollocking from my SIL when I wrapped her DS birthday present (which is on 31st Dec) in christmas wrapping paper, I thought she was a bit bonkers/precious, I'm a tad smug to see the MN gavel has backed me up (gotta get your kicks where you can)

tell you what, next birthday party we all go to, we should all wrap our presents in a "novelty" paper of your choice (ie toilet paper, clingfilm, newspaper, used carrier bags, bank statements or whatever takes your fancy).

Small prize to whoever gets the first outraged AIBU thread about it.

horrid woman buying presents,bet she wanted to kiss them too.Poor you that your children suffer so at the hands of this vile woman.