to be really annoyed with people that send birthday presents from amazon that you then need to wrap up ?

[mousemole]

Just that really. Both my DC have birthdays in the next 10 days. So far both sets of grandparetns and 1 friend have sent them presents via amzon that aren't wrapped. In total I now have 8 extra presents to wrap.
Obviously very grateful to receive the presents but there is a gift wrap option on amazon so not sure why I should be expected to do it ?
AIBU ?

Er, yes YABU. You don't need to wrap it, it comes in a box, the DC can't see what it is.

Be grateful they bothered to go the time/effort/expense of sending anything.

YABU

My sister lives abroad and her and I do this all the time, for our DC's.

Amazon charge you about £2.50 to wrap EACH present which is extortionate!!!!

Is it really that bigger deal?! How many b'days does your LO have each year?

YABVU

What Wingandprayer said.

yabu, its nice to send a present, you are being a bit ungrateful. perhaps they didnt realise can be giftwrapped on amazon? just put in a gift bag if you're that bothered about extra wrapping

YABU

A gift is a gift...wrapping is an unecessary extra...children don't care -just use old wrapping if you feel they really need stuff wrapped.

IABU. Ignore me.
Just having a hormonal moment !!

Mariah Carey....

YANBU.

Paying Amazon the £2.50 to wrap a present on your behalf is still cheaper than having to buy something in a shop, perhaps take it home, wrap it and send it yourself. Partic. if they have free delivery.

OTOH if I were you, OP, I wouldn't worry too much and just let the DCs open the brown packaging.

TBWASMX3 Where do you buy your wrapping paper?

I think what I dont like about amazon is that it is so impersonal. Presents come in brown cardboard with a white sheet of paper with a barely ledgible message and the price !
I think I am in the minority but I like chosing presents, wrapping them and then sending them in the post. I think its much nicer for LO's to open a wrapped present rather than something in a gift bag.
Cupcake -not Mariah, just 37 weeks pregnant, hence the hormones !
TheBoy, I am going to do what you say - just leave them in the brown cardboard. At 3 and 5 I don't think they'll care !

yabu. what's wrong with brown paper or card as a wrapping? We use it lots ("brown paper packages tied up with strings...") and newspaper too (I'm not a fan of bought wrapping paper). dc don't mind in the slightest.

I just dont like brown cardboard with Amazon stamped all over it and an address label.
Brown paper is fine.

To be fair though mousemole. If I can find the time I do go and have a look for pressies for my nephews in the shops and then I buy it cheaper on Amazon.

I lead a busy life like most mums and do not always have the time/organisational skills to go shopping, bring it home and wrap it, then take it to the post ofice to arrive abroad on time for a birthday, Amazon is quicker and easier and normally cheaper and I know my nephews still love what I buy them.

If I oder two or three things in one package that would be £7.50 on wrapping alone and tbh, I would rather buy them another gift that spend that on wrapping paper, which is just going to go in the bin!

YABU and ungrateful

Lady, even if you used 10p a sheet wrapping paper, you have to cost in the bus fare/petrol into town and maybe parking (well I would - unless I was buying a bottle of White Lightening or 20 Lambert & Butler), the cost of the packaging (unless you had some handy to recycle) and the postage. A lot of Amazon purchases have free delivery, too, whereas Parcelforce doesn't come cheap.

So I reckon that if you did want to send a present wrapped, it would make sense to pay Amazon to do the wrapping for you.

But like I said, I really wouldn't worry about little DCs (or bigger ones for that matter) suffering through lack of decorative paper - brown is fine.

Boy Not if posting abroad as they rarely offer free postage, and not if sending more than one gift....

Fair enough. LOL at us arguing over wrapping paper though...

Of course I wrap all my gifts in gold leaf

I love a good wrapping session me

yabu

cant they just open the amazon packaging , such a waste od paper

very ungrateful!

Amazon wrapping is minging and impersonal anyway. I think the brown card is preferable to sludge green paper and a printed card

Those parcels should carry an extra label that says - "wrapped by someone who doesn't care".

I would rather my friends didn't waste their money TBH

Arrgh, just keep them in a cupboard and whip them out at the appropriate time "and this is from Auntie Jean ..." etc.

Kids don't care about wrapping, or at least not after they see what's in the box. Saves the environment too. Win Win.

I'm going against the trend here, I think YANBU. I get Amazon to deliver gifts to me, then wrap them and send them on (unless I'm REALLY late in which case I'd pay for gift wrap).

But then I do try to match gift wrapping to the party theme or gift.

And I do themed wrapping at Christmas.

I make my own decoupage gift tags.

I probably need to join Gift Wrappers Anonymous.

Lady - agree for presents abroad Amazon is good - I use it for my nieces and nephews in the states. I know its a faff to source and wrap presents but I quite like doing it.
I usually re use wrapping paper for the kids, money saving and waste saving !

My SIL sends present from amazon and we just give them to the kids without wrapping them up. Wrapping paper is no big deal.