My boyfriend and I have been dating about 3 years, both in our late 40's. He is extremely thrifty - hates throwing anything away, and rarely buys anything new (clothes, furniture, you name it). One of his points of pride is recycling wrapping paper from past gift exchanges. He said he hasn't bought wrapping paper in years; he just keeps it when someone gives him a gift, and recycles it. When he gives a gift, he often asks for the paper back to be used again. So, gifts from him always come wrapped in paper that has tons of creases and folds, and it just is what it is. I generally don't mind, and it is kind of a running joke at this point.

Cut to Valentine's Day this year, and he gave me two gifts wrapped in paper with hearts and the word "love" all over it. As per usual, the paper had lots of creases and folds and was obviously re-used (I recognize basically all the wrapping paper he has used in the past 3 years, but had never seen this particular paper before). I asked if this had been given to him on a gift by a past girlfriend, and he said yes it had. He said he couldn't remember which girlfriend had given it to him (which I doubt; he remembers everything). I didn't make a HUGE huge deal, but I did point out that it doesn't exactly make me feel special to be given something wrapped in paper from a past love relationship. He didn't understand why I would care, and that he thought this paper would be perfect and romantic. So, I was mildly annoyed and then he reacted by being mildly annoyed. He said I shouldn't have even said anything, and to pick my battles.

AITA?

tl;dr: Thrifty boyfriend recycled "love" wrapping paper from a past girlfriend's gift and wrapped my VD gift in it. I was mildly annoyed.