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

am amazed at how rude some of these posts are! then again, it's a full moon

amazed anyone gives a flying fuck how a present is wrapped

get over it

southeastastra - I'm amazed that anyone would be rude enough to accept a present for their child and then complain about the wrapping paper on the internet.

So I guess we're all surprised.

I thought you ssaid yyou wrapped presents in potatoes, now that is good.

3yo wont notice/care about paper.shame mum so riled

I once wrapped my christmas presents in birthday paper but that was reverse psychology

I wrapped my dgs birthday presents in xmas paper ..don't think he minded

i wrapped a friends hat and glove set in grease proof paper [eek] very bad, looked rather pretty though

She came, she brought a present, she cares. Seems to me you don't like her therefore you just want a reason to bash her, got nothing else so pick on the paper. I bet if she had bought birthday paper, you'd just have found something else to find fault with.

Be nice. If your mum had recycled paper would you have been as cross? would you have venomous thoughts about your mum?

And if the answer to that is yes - really? You care that much about wrapping paper? It is that important to you that someone buys fresh wrapping paper? If that's the case then you need to take a good long look at yourself. and I am not saying this to be horrible, I am trying to help you to see things differently!

SEA - come on, the op accepted a gift for her son and is moaning about what it was wrapped in. By any standards that's what's rude around here!

This has to be a wind up - can't believe anyone old enough to be a mother is this ridiculous

My mum used to re-use Xmas paper over and over again. she'd write the name of the new recipient on the paper with (non-festive) biro.

So you'd get Merry Xmas Fred Barney Wilma Betty Pebbles TheOtherOne (there being 6 kids in our family, you understand)

I'm Scarred, I tell you, Scarred.

Not to mention being unable to show my face around my old town because of Extreme Social Embarrassment.

you are a loon

be nice folks, I'd bet my last rolo that this isn't about wrapping paper at all.

OP just needs to step back and really examine her feelings, I think.

My lovely MIL wraps pressies in newspaper. You'd probably have a stroke fordy - she wrapped our wedding present in newspaper- it was a composting bin complete with worms so it was fitting.

OP=YABU= you are a loon, as previous poster said. get a life.

Be very grateful she turned up, never mind brought a present. We invited my inlaws to DD3 3rd birthday party and got told that they probably wouldnt come because if all the other grandchildren would be at our house, they would enjoy the peace in their own house. BTW, DD3 got nothing not even a card from them. I would have been grateful for any present even if it was wrapped in xmas paper

I'm notorious in my family for my completely shit wrapping. One year everyone's christmas presents got wrapped in newspaper as I realised late on Christmas eve I'd forgotten to buy any.

Do you really care? I wouldn't. Be grateful you've got a MIL who bothered to come to the party and buy a present. DD went to a party today and of course I'd forgotten wrapping paper and a card so he got his present in a Next bag with love .... scribbled on the bag. Shit happens. Jog on.

glad general consensus is yabu as I am a prime culprit for spending ages choosing a present but forgetting card til last minute and paper til we are practically in the car, have used Xmas paper, brown paper, rolled up drawings and foil on occasion
My sisters on the other hand are fantastic wrappers and i do feel guilty when I receive a co-ordinated be-ribboned package - have to say last Xmas presetn was a maggie thatcher nutcraker so waht I say is don't judge a book by its cover!

One day, you will have a dil.

Think on...

YABU - no need to repeat the reasons why as they have all been said on here.

Try to focus on the positives, not the negatives.

YABVVVU get over yourself.

Oh SO glad to see all the posters telling the OP she is being sooooo unreasonable. Think her opening words say it all "she pitched up" - this is NOT about wrapping paper it is because the OP dislikes her MIL and will probably find fault with anything she does. Love the post that reminds the OP that she will be a MIL one day - hope she has a nicer dil than she is!

Right, I'm going against the grain here. Although I wouldn't be angry blah blah and it may well be about more than presents, I have just done a quick search and there are countless threads from people moaning that others give their dc joint pressies at Christmas/birthday or wrap a Boxing day birthday pressie in Christmas paper etc.

So either you are a whole new set of MNetters and none of you have ever posted before, or some of you are not being entirely honest. Because absent/crap grandparents etc aside, I suspect that more of you than would admit would do a bit of a at a bday pressie wrapped in Christmas paper. It might only be a passing thought but it's there and I think you're giving the OP too much of a hard time over this.

So there