Your Birthday!

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  • RunIntheMud
    RunIntheMud Posts: 2,645 Member
    My birthday is a week before Christmas, so I consider my celebration to start with Thanksgiving and end with New Years. I love the holiday season. My kids go to FL for Christmas (where my ex lives), which puts a little dent in that, but I've learned to make that a week of "me" time. :)
  • PeachyKeene
    PeachyKeene Posts: 1,645 Member
    "screw it, I'm just a year older and one more step towards the grave" camp

    I am old!! No more celebrating for me.
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    One day
  • Krys_140
    Krys_140 Posts: 648 Member
    I agree with those in the Birthday Month camp. My birthday falls around Labor Day weekend (first Monday in September), and I really enjoy celebrating my birthday all September long. Others enjoy celebrating with me.
  • magj0y
    magj0y Posts: 1,911 Member
    Somewhere in the middle. I do wish people made a bigger deal of it than they do, though. It's the day after Christmas, so it's usually a disappointment.

    I feel your pain! Mine is 6 days before Christmas. Growing up it was always winter break so no in-class party, and then everyone was busy. Anything between dec. 23rd and Jan. 3rd is sooo much harder!
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    i'm not a big deal person. but i enjoy the "day where calories don't matter" aspect of it. and i like hanging out w/ my friends and chilling and having there be cake. but i wouldn't mind if that were like, any other day.

    though, that said, balloons friggin ROCK!
  • TubbsMcGee
    TubbsMcGee Posts: 1,058 Member
    Birthday "week" ?
    Nope, full on month of celebrations!
    My birthday is in March and everyone always seems to forget the exact day, so I have a bunch of belated celebrations to make up for it. It's a very expensive month...in a 30 day span, it's valentines day, our anniversary, the dog's birthday, my birthday and my guy's birthday. Party party party.
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member
    My birthday falls between Christmas and New Year's, so...yeah, people usually forget. If you do happen to remember, just send cash--no need for a big fuss!!:bigsmile:
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    I get a 'birthday week' and so does my fella, for the week you get 6 small presents and a big one on your birthday. You also get whatever you want in the kitchen all week and whatever you want in the bedroom. Birthday week FTW!
    See this is how you do it!
  • magj0y
    magj0y Posts: 1,911 Member
    For all you December babies.. this will make you laugh.. or cry..

    I was referring back to a book I got for my birthday a few years ago and saw what my friend signed on it..
    "Happy Birthday -AND- Merry Christmas!!
    ...as wrong as it mat be to get only one gift"

    It was a $30 book and a few rounds of drinks, so I didn't mind too much
  • rrneal625
    rrneal625 Posts: 69 Member
    My birthday was last weekend....the usual for me, a special dinner, movie, and quality time with family. Whenever my birthday falls on a work day I treat myself by taking the day off and pretty much doing nothing! I have always focused more on other people's birthdays than my own...especially my kids'!
  • HeavyLiftGirl
    HeavyLiftGirl Posts: 1,267 Member
    Just birthday night, and I party like it's 1999.
  • WEB3
    WEB3 Posts: 121 Member
    I will be floating in the Carribean on a cruise for my birthday this January 5th.
    Everybody on that ship is gonna know it's my birthday and I don't care! Paaarty in my cabin 9232! yea!
  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
    Lucky to even remember. Just like Fathers day and Christmas, I am lucky if i get anything that i did not have to pay for.
  • mhaight85
    mhaight85 Posts: 68
    I'd ignore if I could, not in a negative way it's just not really a big deal to me. However, I usually end up celebrating it often throughout the month. My sister's b-day is a week before mine, so we do a combined birthday dinner with the family. My husband's parents are divorced so each of his parents see me separately since they don't get along. And there are 7 November birthdays in my extended family so at Thanksgiving we sing happy birthday to all 7 of us. Too much birthday for me!!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    For all you December babies.. this will make you laugh.. or cry..

    I was referring back to a book I got for my birthday a few years ago and saw what my friend signed on it..
    "Happy Birthday -AND- Merry Christmas!!
    ...as wrong as it mat be to get only one gift"

    It was a $30 book and a few rounds of drinks, so I didn't mind too much
    Ha!

    I don't care so much about the gifts. I'd just like to be able to celebrate the anniversary of my birth a little better!

    I'm an only child, so my parents always made a point to separate the days and I got gifts on both (in birthday paper on my birthday) and cake and stuff. But friends were always out of town if we weren't. It's still like that.
  • lachesissss
    lachesissss Posts: 1,298 Member
    I have a BirthDAY. But I make it a weeks worth of epic.
  • morningmud
    morningmud Posts: 477 Member
    Oh I'm a birthday week (or maybe more) kinda girl. My bf travels for his work so he often isn't here on the actual day so that creates another day that may be a few weeks from the real day.
  • tracypk
    tracypk Posts: 233 Member
    Man I've been doing it all wrong. I love my birthday and I make sure it's a big deal to everyone even strangers. I'm going to do this birthday week for sure. I am going to get a crown to wear too.
  • Kaathmandu
    Kaathmandu Posts: 129
    I reckon the older you are, the more you have to celebrate!
    I'm thinking of having a pirate party for my 50th (in a couple of years). Had Moulin Rouge theme for my 40th, was abulously fabsolute!
    And as for a week ... pfffft!... have you not heard of the twelve days of Kaathmas?!
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    I have had really awful things happen on my birthdays :( I almost feel like they're cursed, so I literally dread them. The only decent one I had in recent years was when I barely left the house on it...

    /DEBBIE DOWNER.
  • Thokiz
    Thokiz Posts: 55 Member
    I don't acknowledge my Birthday anymore. :P

    My age has crept way beyond how old I actually feel & act.. it's depressing
  • ccburn5
    ccburn5 Posts: 473 Member
    Could honestly care less, just another day. Once you get passed 21 do they really even matter anymore? This will be the first year in a LOOOONG time that I have even done anything and its really not even for my B-day, it just so happened to work out that I could incorporate a plane ticket to Denver into a b-day present.

    Wife on the other hand turns them into week long BS... Oh well.
  • Ivy_leaves
    Ivy_leaves Posts: 103 Member
    At least one whole week for my birthday.
    Sometimes the whole month.
  • toomuchbootyindapants
    toomuchbootyindapants Posts: 811 Member
    I want a birthday week *pouts*....but I'm usually just a day. To be fair - my mom ruined my birthday *every year* while growing up...and throughout all of my 20s. She had a knack for ruining it somehow. So I don't look forward to my birthday because it seems something bad always happens. I have all these great expectations in the back of my mind (that I never share) and of course, nothing ever comes to pass. *slinks off to the corner*

    Gosh, I sound really emo. :indifferent:

    One day...one year....I will be celebrated! Even if its just me celebrating myself. Hope that's not the day of my funeral though. :grumble:
  • 2muchsauce
    2muchsauce Posts: 1,078
    I'm somewhere in the middle I guess. I get to celebrate the DAY of my birthday (which is coming soon *wink wink* ;) and that's about it !

    I do like the idea of the birthday week though !!
  • sandrinamsilva
    sandrinamsilva Posts: 651 Member
    My 30th birthday was all month. Every other year is a week. :wink:
  • RobfromLakewood
    RobfromLakewood Posts: 684
    my birthday has lost it's specialness, post-40, but my wife turns 30 in February, that's a milestone to celebrate!
  • know_your_worth
    know_your_worth Posts: 481 Member
    My birthday's in 8 days. But I pretty much ignore it completely, so it's whatever. No birthday month/week/ or day.
  • rsm1972
    rsm1972 Posts: 283
    March 02 :bigsmile:

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