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

People shouldn't really be wrapping kid's presents at all. How will they be inspected first to ensure their appropriateness/worthiness?

What if the child is given a present they don't like? What then?!

I'm with SOH.

You lot are all bitches ganging up on the OP.

OP - divorce your dh and have your MIL shot.That'll learn 'er.

I bet the stupid cow says 'Good morning' after 12noon too. It's inattention to details like these that is sending this country to the dogs.

My birthday's December 31st. I'm just pleased if people remember tbh. Although, as a child I was always cross that I got joint Christmas/birthday presents so my parents made a lot of effort to make the two wholly separate. They didn't impose the same rules on others though.

Insist your DH has his mum shot for her insolence.

it would pee me off too - it's not hard to buy birthday wrapping paper is it.

Actually as the party was at one of those softplay activity places, according to the OP, I think the most appropriate punishment would have been to lock her in the ball pit with the under 5s and only let her out when she acknowledged her transgression and begged for mercy.

More than 40 minutes in a ball pit is usually fatal to an adult. They're overcome by the effort of keeping their head above ball-level and avoiding stray poos.

I did this the other day.. bought wrapping paper for b/day present and promptly left it at the till

Went to b/day party with present wrapped in xmas paper..

in my defence it didnt have santa or anything on it.. was just red with silver stars

tight fisted .. no ..

extremely disorganised.. yes!!

Let it go as your DS is only 3 and wouldn't have known or cared

SOH, I just had an elective cesarean and was able to choose which date DD2 was born on and we chose 31st Dec, we thought she'd have more fun on her birthday when she got older cos everyone will be more up for a good sesh down the pub on the 31st than the 4th of Jan when everyone's skint/still hungover.

Hope she doesn't curse us if christmas, new years eve and her birthday all get rolled into one

It's thread like these that make me very glad to have only girls myself. The chances of ending up with a little madam like the op as dil are significantly reduced...

It was my dd's 4th birthday yesterday, I wrapped her present from us in Christmas paper, and as I'd also bought presents for my Mum and Gran to give as well I also wrapped them in Christmas paper!

This has to be a wind up. Surely no-one would seriously think it was remiss to wrap a present for a 3yo boy in anything except blue paper with dinosaurs or space rockets on it?

Think yourself lucky she a) came along b) brought presents. You'll be the envy of some people here.

You're just stoopid, lady.

AgentZigZag, I don't curse my parents at all. A birthday is a birthday is a birthday.

What you might find though is that everybody's already made plans to go to an NYE party, if you try and book something for her 18th or 21st, everything will have been booked years in advance (venues, music, caterers etc) and if it hasn't then it's uber expensive, because it's NYE don't you know, there's a big demand. Bitter, moi?

Nah, I don't care actually and it's an easy date to remember. But it presents its own unique difficulties.

My nan always used to use old wall paper to wrap presents and Easter eggs in when we were little. Whats wrong with re-using x-mas paper?

Can't be bothered to read all 141 posts. Are we still piling on the OP with hobnail boots or have we moved off on a tangent?

Ahh, but Northernlurker..one day you may be that MIL!

Back to the OP. I think it embarrassed the hell out of you in front of your friends, nothing to do with anything else.

Oh come on.....

Pmsl at this!

Hilarious .

we always recycle wrapping paper in my family. The only problem is that it gets a bit confusing at Christmas when several of the presents are labelled several times from the previous years' birthdays/Christmasses

I never seem to get it quite right - previous children's birthday gift had beautiful card and paper, but I couldn't find my sellotape or even glue when wrapping (as always, last minute), so ended up sticking it together with horrible masking tape! (I do realise that is quite bad, my friend had the grace to pretend she didn't notice!) This time I got the tape right, but used, wait for it, Christmas paper...

I take ages picking the right gift, but in my mind the paper is just to add to the surprise when you're a child. Can anyone really remember the paper designs from childhood gifts?

Actually, with adults I take more care with the wrapping (ribbons, tissue paper etc), but they get smaller gifts.

YABU x 10000000000000000000000
Geez louise.

FGS get over yourself - she was right in using the xmas paper - it's only wrapping paper.

I wish more people would recycle paper rather than buying more - and don't mean sticking it in your recycling box after one use.