Babbly stuff

[selenay936]

Yesterday I had to work and it was nasty. Today, thankfully, I have another day off. I am supposed to be going to the hospital this afternoon and I am currently looking out of the window and really wishing that I could just stay home. Blergh

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[hhertzof]

Do you not have gender neutral wrapping paper over there? Here most of the paper is neutral (mostly because we have a tradition of baby showers before the baby is born).

[selenay936]

We tend to have more of a tradition of presents after the birth rather than before, so there is very little gender neutral wrapping paper around. In fact, there is very little gender neutral wrapping paper around no matter what the age, which is just plain daft! I suspect that it's why my sister uses brown paper and pretty ribbons most of the time - looks incredibly stylish and always appropriate

[hhertzof]

I know there's a lot of talk about gender stereotyping in this country, but that sounds worse. We do get the Barbies/Super heroes divide, but there always seems to be neutral stuff and/or solid colour or striped paper available.

I think the last time I bought wrapping paper for a child, I took the geeky route and went with Star Wars. Hey, it's what I would have wanted.

[selenay936]

but there always seems to be neutral stuff and/or solid colour or striped paper available.

*sigh* There was only solid colour or striped if you wanted pink or blue. Most depressing. I really had thought that things weren't that bad in this country but then I rarely have call to need wrapping paper other than Christmas stuff. Most of my friends want gift vouchers for birthdays and I can steal brown paper and ribbons ala my sister for family!

I took the geeky route and went with Star Wars

Ooh, I totally would have wanted that paper :-) Except I've never seen any here :-( And this is for the child of my hairdresser so I'm not sure whether she'd get the geek thing.