Do you hate your birthday? UPDATE

[piccolopat]

I really, really do and it's coming up...again.

While I don't like to make a big deal of it, I am grateful for each birthday that comes. I know too many people who left this world too soon and would have loved to have more birthdays.

 

[dvcmom14]

I don't hate it...I just don't care about it any more. I look forward to my kids' birthdays way more than my own. Heck, if I even remember my birthday is coming up it's a miracle!

 

[jrmasm]

Presents and cake, what's not to love?

 

[loves to dive]

It's just another day for me. I stopped celebrating when I turned 50. Now I take a trip, by myself, just to get away and be happy doing what I want when I want. I started asking everyone not to get me gifts for birthday or Christmas a couple of years ago. My son is grown, we are a two income family and if hubby or I want something, we get it so there is really nothing I want or need. I would rather my family (who aren't all as blessed as we are or who just have bad taste) not waste their money or not give me something I'm going to have to turn around and give to charity afterwards. I have asked if they insist at Christmas to donate money to a charity in my name, I'm good with that. Normally when I'm away on my birthday, hubby, son, a couple of my brothers (I have 5) and a couple of nieces will text me happy birthday and I'm good with that. It's more than enough. Hubby doesn't celebrate his either and my son has started not wanting a big deal made out of his. We do get him a gift and take him out to dinner if we are living in the same place (he was Navy but is now home) but otherwise he just doesn't like a big deal made of it.

 

[mercydisney]

I LOVE MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! It is the only day of the year I get to SPOIL MYSELF. I do not celebrate my age but what I have been given. And by this, I do not mean material things but my family and friends. I do not have the most expensive car or the newest kitchen but what I do have I can not replace. And for me that is a reason to Celebrate My Life at least one a year!!!!

Oh and people do not need to know it is your birthday......

 

[elphaba91]

I don't like the date, December 29th....I feel bad that my hubby has to buy me a Christmas and birthday gift so I dont ask for expensive things. I would like to celebrate a half year birthday in June but my family won't let me.

My older sister's birthday was on December 29th. My parents tried celebrating it on that day for a few years but got sick of everyone else giving her combined Christmas and birthday presents or giving her birthday presents at the same time as exchanging Christmas presents. The last straw was when she started kindergarten and said how excited she was to be able to take cakes on her birthday - that was never going to happen with a birthday in the middle of summer. So we moved her birthday to November 29th and everyone celebrated it that day - except for my uncle who said we weren't 'allowed' to, so a card would always turn up from him sometime in the first week of January!

I don't really like my birthday either. It seems to me like some people's birthdays are more important than others and mine is right down the bottom of the totem pole. I guess I've just been hurt a few too many times on my birthday - the year we had a 'party' at the beach with family friends and the other kids asked why we were having cake, the year I was on the worst school camp ever and in an awkward social situation, my 18th when my uncle refused to change his dinner plans so I sat at home and cried while my mum went out and bought fish & chips for dinner. I've certainly had some good birthday memories too, but still dread my birthday each year.

 

[PigletsPal2]

I don't hate my birthday. I like when it falls in the calendar (end of september).

I don't like many I know do a "birthday week" and make it all about me, just something low key. But I don't dread it either. Maybe I will later since I'm only 29. .

Just a week? My DD#1, who will be 49 in September, claims the whole month and prances around the house and work like she's all that and a bag of chips!
Seriously, she has fun with it, and so do we. She gets cake at home, cake at work, cake and girls' night out with her friends, lunch with her daughter, a trip to the casino with her dad and me and if there's one they want to see, a concert with her sister. And because she's the only September birthday, she horns in on DH's, DD#2's and my birthdays in March, saying she's celebrating her half-birthday! She says "eyes on the prize!"

I don't mind the celebration and the gifts, but as I get older and my health deteriorates, I don't enjoy being my age anymore. When my birthday comes up in March, I've decided I'm going to be fifty-nineteen instead of 69. I'm told I only look about thirty-eighteen, so I guess I'm not aging too badly. Anyway, as a PP noted, it beats the alternative!

Queen Colleen

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I've never minded my birthday or my age, but it's all the fuss that people insist upon. I don't need cards or presents or singing to a cake...if you must acknowledge it, just say "Happy Birthday" and move on.

It does bother me that time is going by so fast. Every birthday from now on is going to be a reminder that my little baby is growing up. I'm going to blink and suddenly he'll be in his 20s, I'll be in my 60s...hopefully I'll still be around by the time he makes me a grandmother...

 

[BigAlsGal]

The alternative to birthdays sounds far less appealing.

 

[eliza61]

Presents and cake, what's not to love?

And some one taking you out to dinner??


Ok, guys I know it can be hard but i gotta say getting older does have some perks.

You can go to disneyworld without pushing a stroller or toddler tantrums.
Hopefully you are closing in on retirement and then the fun really begins.
Your dinner selection involves more than pizza and burgers.

happy birthday gang.

I love the fact that friends make the effort to connect with me.

 

[soccerdad72]

Just another day to me as well, but as others have said, it beats the alternative.

 

[Arielle22]

I turn 50 next week. My dad died two months after he turned 50. Mom died at 63. My FIL also died around 50 (prior to meeting DH). So I am fine with my age since the alternative sucks. DH (age 52) and I are just starting to enjoy less responsibilities with our DD mostly grown We are going away for a long weekend to celebrate both my birthday and our anniversary (2 days later).

I lost 30 lbs since March so while I may have more aches as I age, I actually move better than I have in several years.

 

[quandrea]

I enjoy my birthday but as I've aged I just want to be with my husband and kids. I don't need any gifts. This past October 19 we celebrated with a private dessert part at Epcot UK Pubside during illuminations. Best party ever. The kids were in heaven. Unlimited desserts, fireworks and no crowds.

 

[powellrj]

I love my birthday! What's not to love when there is cake involved! I was at Epcot for the food and wine this year for my birthday and as old as I am I wore a birthday button and loved all the happy birthdays I got from people which surprises me because I am usually shy!

 

[Daisy62]

I don't mind birthdays. It could be worse and I have none left. The kids like to come over and we go out to dinner on
My bday. On their bday they get choice of me making a favorite meal or a favorite restaurant.

 

[Squirlz]

I love birthdays. Gives us another excusr to do something fun. This year we were in Key West and we flew over the island and out over the reef in an old biplane.

 

[Boopuff]

I love birthdays, just not my birth-date! I'm Dec. 8. As a kid I always had to have an "indoor" birthday party. In high school and college things were gearing up to exams and finals and no one could celebrate with me I also hated having a birhtday the same month as Christmas. Although my Dad (an athiest) would insist that the tree go up AFTER my birthday to separate the two. I also get "happy birthday/merry Christmas" gifts... really??? Even now it's hard to find a good time to go out for my birthday since December weekends fill up so fast! My family really does make the day special and we go out on my birthday. This year I get to go to WDW!!!

 

[bethy]

Hate my birthday. Not because of getting older but because of the social pressure. Plus my DH sucks at doing anything thoughtful or special for it and so it's much easier to ignore it.

 

[Pumbaa_]

I despise my birthday, if i could wipe it off the face of the earth I would

I don't recall ever having a great birthday. Not sure I can even recall a good birthday

Mine is July 1 - so as a kid, school was out, never got to wear the birthday crown in kindergarten
Right before 4th of July, so travel is always over priced and crowded, so never go away on my birthday (yes yes, I know my choice)
I don't recall ever getting a great gift.

I have no problem being 50 and fabulous, I just prefer to not celebrate my birthday ever. leave it unmarked on the calendar and I am fine with that

 

[bethy]

I despise my birthday, if i could wipe it off the face of the earth I would

I don't recall ever having a great birthday. Not sure I can even recall a good birthday

Mine is July 1 - so as a kid, school was out, never got to wear the birthday crown in kindergarten
Right before 4th of July, so travel is always over priced and crowded, so never go away on my birthday (yes yes, I know my choice)
I don't recall ever getting a great gift.

I have no problem being 50 and fabulous, I just prefer to not celebrate my birthday ever. leave it unmarked on the calendar and I am fine with that

Me too

However I have been fortunate to have 2 good bdays - one at Disneyland and one at Aulani (40th) both of which I engineered myself
So I am grateful for those but never need another bday again!!