Christmas can be a stressful time of year for many families, but once all the running around in packed shops has been done, there's usually a moment of peace on the big day itself.
But one family will remember Christmas 2022 as a disaster after their dad forgot to buy wrapping paper for the presents and left their mum "trying not to cry" over the blunder.
A 23-year-old woman explained her dad always buys his gifts at the last minute, and leaves her to wrap them all in a rush, long after she's already sorted her own wrapping out.
This year, he came home on Christmas Eve with presents for his daughter to wrap, but had assumed she would have wrapping paper left over so didn't buy any - meaning there wasn't enough left to wrap her mum's gifts.
In a post on Reddit, the woman wrote: "I live at home with my parents. Every year, my dad waits too long to buy his gifts and leaves the last-minute wrapping up to me.
"This year, I got all of my shopping done by December 3rd and bought wrapping paper according to what I needed. My dad did his shopping yesterday and asked me to wrap them.
"When it came around to wrapping the presents he got for my mum, I realised I only had enough paper for two of them, and the other two have been put in gift bags. I told my dad and he said I'm an a**hole for not thinking to buy more paper, and even though my mum laughed, she was in the kitchen trying not to cry."
The woman's dad even told her she was responsible for "ruining" Christmas because she didn't plan ahead and buy enough wrapping paper for her dad's presents as well as her own.
She added: "I felt bad, but it was 4pm on Christmas Eve in the UK. I can't just run out and get anything, and now my dad is saying I've ruined her Christmas gifts by not being more thoughtful."
Commenters on the post defended the woman as they insisted it was her dad that "ruined" Christmas by leaving everything until the last minute - especially when Christmas Day falls on the same day every year.
One person wrote: "I would come back hard on him and say that December 25th is literally the same day each year and as a supposedly fully functional adult, he is now in charge of his gifts and wrapping. Feel free to go into the kitchen and congratulate your mum on being willing to deal with him."
As another added: "Your dad wasn't thoughtful enough to buy her presents earlier than literally one day before Christmas and he has the audacity to have a go at you? You still have them wrapped, a gift bag is still wrapping. Tell your dad to plan better next year, he is a grown adult and needs to act like one."
While a third posted: "He could get paper when he buys the presents even if the technical side of actually wrapping them is way beyond his ability.
"You had enough paper to wrap 2 of them - were you meant to telepathically know how many presents he was going to get plus the sizes of them? He is lucky you had a couple of gift bags available for the others."
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