Do you celebrate your birthday?

BraziliaNZ

I was never a type to do anything for my birthday, let alone even tell anyone it was my birthday. I have friends who organise big nights out weeks in advance etc and make a big deal out of it. I'm 28 today and I really don't even want to think about my age anymore, I wish it had stopped years ago. Anyway no one knows and i'm hoping my flatmates don't find out because they might make a fuss. Do you celebrate it at all? Are there others like me?

AlmightyCushion

I just head out for it. Don't plan anything special for it or anything.

Wurly

I do make a bit of a fuss. I invite all my friends out for dinner, drinks, club and then house party.

Birthday last year lasted 2.5 days. Carnage!:D

Could not imagine not celebrating it.

BraziliaNZ

Tri wrote: »

I do make a bit of a fuss. I invite all my friends out for dinner, drinks, club and then house party.

Birthday last year lasted 2.5 days. Carnage!:D

Could not imagine not celebrating it.

I can understand a 30th, or 21st, but the others are just... insignificant??

Wurly

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I can understand a 30th, or 21st, but the others are just... insignificant??

Not at all. Considering the amount of threats to human life - each year you survive is a miracle in my eyes. And so it should be celebrated. Also, for me, each year is the closing of an old chapter of my life and the start of a new one. New goals and all that jazz.

If nothing else - it's an excuse for a mighty p1ss up, which, lets be honest, is never a bad thing.:D

Aisling(",)

i love birthdays.
always signify it somehow

Davidius

In my household what generally happens is that we order Chinese food and eat cake on somebody's birthday.

Which reminds me that my 17th birthday is at the end of the month.

Every year I insist on having two cakes on account that I have a twin brother but it never works.

Creamy Goodness

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I just head out for it. Don't plan anything special for it or anything.

^^ this

steveone

no

I'd love to have a party.....but I hate this whole present culture.

Gekko

I'm not mad into celebrating it. This year I met up with friends and had drinks and a meal out a while after the actual day.

Then again, I was talking to the nephew of a business acquaintance last week, who was 18, and who said that his friend had a stripper for his 16th birthday and was apparently going to have another one (it might've been more than one - I forget) for his 18th birthday.

Friends were invited but had to contribute money to cover drink and to pay her / them.

Wurly

Moonbaby wrote: »

I'd love to have a party.....but I hate this whole present culture.

Me too. People turning up for my birthday IS the present.:)

rainbow kirby

I just head out with friends, it's nothing special. I was 24 6 weeks ago and just went out for a meal and a few drinks.

monkeyfudge

No celebration here either...

In the past decade and a half I've probably only had my birthday celebrated once, and that was at the insistence of my then girlfriend.

Reached a relatively significant age this year, so I left town for a few days to avoid people trying to organise anything for it.

dcukhunter

I do nothing for it except maybe work. I don't see the point in it it's only a number after all.

metaoblivia

I'm not used to celebrating in a big way, but my birthday is tomorrow and I'm taking off of work.

BraziliaNZ

metaoblivia wrote: »

I'm not used to celebrating in a big way, but my birthday is tomorrow and I'm taking off of work.

Are you the 13th August too? I'm +9 GMT so it's midday here. Other greats born on this day are Fidel Castro, and Alan Shearer (ughhh)

MIN2511

I dunno mixed reaction for this... The ex and i used to go shopping on my birthday(he hated shopping and we would argue all day!) but the folks send flowers and my mates get really really nice gifts

This year was funny though, wasn't gonna do much bar going out with a few people but then a suprised dinner party was arranged for me... I cried!
Everyone in the restaurant sang happy birthday to me....

Friends thought i deserved it especially as i have been through hell and back this year



very very mushy!

MondaysSuck

i like to go out for a meal and then out to the pub and a niteclub

anthony4335

I just take the day off work. I think I only ever worked on one birthday, a couple of years ago, as I kind of forgot about it and forgot to book time off. Other than that I just buy myself something nice.

I took holiday time off on my birthday this year to have a lie-in. That was nice, will probably do the same next year too.

Crumble Froo

nah, no biggy. if anything, it's an excuse for me to force my mates to come out drinking with me (so that they have less excuses than usual, anyway), but now that im in nz, didnt do anything for my 20th, really. mates got me some tickets to UK subs, so we went to that, great gig, great night, but that was the extent of it. for my 21st, almost certainly gonna do nothing. at most, a coupla peeps round to the house for some drinks.

Pompey Magnus

I don't celebrate my birthday, I don't really get the idea of celebrating a birthday. All it is is the one day each year in which the Earth is in the same relative position to the sun as it was as the day you born. What is so great about that?

FlutterinBantam

I like to push out the boat.

Take the day off work, get up late,perhaps go for a massage,or workout.

Later in the evening it's a special meal,with the drinks and to
a night club where I usually get special treatment.

Home then and a ceremonial birthday crap,which kind of brings down the
curtain on the year and you feel a new beginning has started,with all the badness flushed away.

Very therapeutic indeed,and a must for the Flutts birthday every year.

whiskeyman

So, for all yee who no longer really 'celebrate' your birthday... when age were you when it really felt less important and no fuss was made?
Surely you celebrated (or parents helped you celebrate it) when you were 10 or 11... or did you point blank refuse a chocolate cake and candles saying it was all a load of nonsense??

It was past my 21st for me...

JohnCleary

No, I hate drawing attention to myself like that so won't ever organise something to celebrate something to do with me.

I went nuts when I found out the GF was trying to organise a surprise 21st for me, thankfully I found out when it was still an idea in her head (she's great at keeping secrets ) - Much preferred spending the money (OK so you'd prob make it back on presents etc) on a nice weekend away with herself

Carrigart Exile

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I was never a type to do anything for my birthday, let alone even tell anyone it was my birthday. I have friends who organise big nights out weeks in advance etc and make a big deal out of it. I'm 28 today and I really don't even want to think about my age anymore, I wish it had stopped years ago. Anyway no one knows and i'm hoping my flatmates don't find out because they might make a fuss. Do you celebrate it at all? Are there others like me?

would much rather buy myself a good bottle of malt and have no more fuss

Black Swan

Yes. Normally go out with friends, or if near home, family.

stakey

To celebrate another orbit of our sun i try get the hell out of the country so i'm not pestered on the day. Failing that I avoid telling anyone or try make as little a deal of it as possible. I really, really don't get birthday celebrations.

Steve_o

I usually just go to the pub with Friends for my birthday! I made a fuss for my 18th and 21st... what is the fuss with those ages actually?? I guess 18 signifies becoming a legal adult but whats the deal with 21??

Drummerboy2

My birthday today and I will celebrate it with a Chinese takeaway and a bottle of good wine, along with my other half and young lad. However I have decided to take a couple of days off just for the sake of it and chill out.

BaconZombie

No, after your 852'nd birthday you normally stop counting and celebrating....

Steve_o

Drummerboy2 wrote: »

My birthday today and I will celebrate it with a Chinese takeaway and a bottle of good wine, along with my other half and young lad. However I have decided to take a couple of days off just for the sake of it and chill out.

Sounds like a good plan!

mise_me_fein

Haven't done anything really since I was 12 or 13. I'd like to celebrate just to have good memories but I guess the person who said 21 and 30 are special but 26 or 27......well what's another year?

Abi

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I can understand a 30th, or 21st, but the others are just... insignificant??

I agree. I turned 29 this year. But wtf is 29?! Next year might be worth putting in a bit of effort, but its pointless outside of milestone ages. I geddit, people mean well etc. There was 'surprise' cake and candles and presents brought to me.

People mistake you being a bit off colour about getting older, when in fact you are simply embaressed. The last time I felt comfortable with it was when I was ten.


Non-milestone birthday parties are for the mentally unwell.


/flees thread

Steve_o

Abigayle wrote: »

Non-milestone birthday parties are for the mentally unwell.

Whats wrong with celebrating your birthday every year?? I enjoy having friends and family around and having a good night, whats wrong with that??

mise_me_fein

Steve_o wrote: »

Whats wrong with celebrating your birthday every year?? I enjoy having friends and family around and having a good night, whats wrong with that??

I'd love to have this. There's nothing wrong with this at all, but usually in my family and group of friends......I'd have to remind them when my birthday is.

You're lucky that people take the time to do something for you ever year aside from Christmas.

Dudess

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I just head out for it. Don't plan anything special for it or anything.

Same here.

Gekko wrote: »

Then again, I was talking to the nephew of a business acquaintance last week, who was 18, and who said that his friend had a stripper for his 16th birthday and was apparently going to have another one (it might've been more than one - I forget) for his 18th birthday.

LOL
And teenage girls get accused of trying to act older than they are...

biko

Dinner and drinks for the closest peeps. Unless it's a big one.

Jesus Wept

16 year old males probably think about strippers umpteen times than old peoples and hence, it's probably the age where you'd get the optimum thrill from such an endeavor.

:pac:

mkdon05

28 tomorrow, prop just head out on the piss at the weekend.


Nothing different from any other weekend there then!

Magpie!

Hell ya! One day of the year that is all about me ME ME!!!

It's the only consolation for getting older.

admiralofthefleet

yeah, always do. i went on a mad one there for my 27th

monkeyfudge

whiskeyman wrote: »

So, for all yee who no longer really 'celebrate' your birthday... when age were you when it really felt less important and no fuss was made?

It was probably in my early teens when asked by my parents what I wanted for my birthday that I would have started to say that it was okay and that they needn't bother.

Steve_o wrote: »

I guess 18 signifies becoming a legal adult but whats the deal with 21??

Once you reach the age of 21 you're able to be get yourself on the ballot sheet in a general election and become a TD if you get enough votes.

Abi

Steve_o wrote: »

Whats wrong with celebrating your birthday every year??

?? Nothing at all ?? :pac:

I enjoy having friends and family around and having a good night, whats wrong with that??

?? Doesn't have to be your birthday to do that

kevmy

Usually just drinks with mates or dinner with the family.

I do something nearly every year but I don't get the extra significance thing. I'll celebrate turning 23 this year just as much as I celebrated turning 21 or I will for 30.

Don't like the whole presents thing though. Don't really want my broke mates trying to get presents. So no one ever get anyone presents for any birthday/Christmas etc. within my group of friends.

Unless it's beer - that's okay anytime of the year

Hrududu

No, I hates it, hates it! I just don't like being the centre of attention. I remember turning 12 and being p!ssed off that a fuss was being made.

jester77

Over here the b'day boy/girl provides the food/beer. I don't do effort, so no!

KnifeWRENCH

It's my Granny's birthday today - she's 81!

As for me, I do celebrate it because it means I get money/presents/cake.

KTRIC

My 30th coming up this March. Might go away somewhere nice for it with the missus. I'm not really a fan of parties and such to be honest.

unreggd

Im the opposite OP, i make big plans which crash and burn at the last minute and make me feel like crap!