Us born close to Christmas or on Christmas day have it the worst!

funny you’ve made this thread. my dd is 21st. planned her 2nd birthday party months ahead for this saturday and every single one of her little friends have dropped out. i’m so pissed off for her :(

Mine is 3rd Jan. Its pants. I've never had a good/special birthday. Everyone is miserable and skint.

My teen daughter is 22nd and she says she likes it. Everything is festive around her birthday,most years she is off school, and as a family it sort of marks the start of Xmas. We havent usually found it difficult to find people free to celebrate either. I guess it's a happy medium of not so close to Xmas that most people are already away, but equally things like school events, works Xmas do etc usually over by then. We just adjust date of party with friends if let people are booked up on her actual birthday.

I don't find many people give joint presents or Xmas wrapping. Most people are very thoughtful about it (although thinking about it it's only immediate family who would give for both anyway and they know that's what we want). It has probably meant I go less overboard with presents but that's a good thing! She gets plenty. In fact I think some people are more likely to remember her birthday because they associate it with Christmas.

I think she would feel very differently if it was Christmas day or Christmas eve though!

Mines Christmas Eve, my nephews Christmas Day. Love a festive birthday in my family!

I hated it when I was younger, was always jealous of people who got a “proper birthday” that wasn’t caught up in all the festive fuss. If we went for food I’d refuse to order off the Christmas menu, because it’s not Christmas it’s my birthday. Proper diva 😂

I’m less bothered now, but then I’m not really bothered about my birthday at all anymore!

We have a 3rd January here, it really is the worst day other than 1st or 2nd! At least people are positive in December, there is no joy left for the first week in January!

I raise you January 4th… 10 days after Xmas, 4 days after NYE. No one wants to go out 😵‍💫

People write 'and happy birthday' in a Christmas card? How awful

Exactly the same way I feel about having my birthday on that date.

I know we all think differently but I could never wrap my head around those that feel upset about having their birthday close to Christmas.

My son's is the shortest day of the year. He loves it (he's a winter, dark cosy nights kind of person like me). He loves having double the money to spend after Christmas too so he can get something really good with it, plus everything's been discounted then too! We used to do parties earlier in December but the last few years he's just wanted a day out with me and his brother, and there's always something fun on to do.

YANBU, it’s definitely the worst!

I’d pick a day in November to celebrate instead, and hopefully people will make more effort.

Like OP, 17 was particularly bad as Nan got buried and so clearly birthday forgotten.... but to add insult to injury, it was all about my DB and random were giving him cash etc

My birthday is 23rd and I like it. People are always in a party mood, there's lots of buzz, I'm often off work and was almost always off school when I was younger. Good times.

DS1 is the 23rd, he's 17 this year. I don't know if he minds that much. My DM is 29/12 so she has always been very sensitive not to do the joint present or present wrapped in Xmas paper thing as that happened to her.
DH is 11th January and hates it - everyone is skint, partied out and doing dry January!

He did well to get discharged so soon given how early he was! My prem baby is still the shortest boy in his class (and second shortest overall). But towards the top academically so that’s fine by me 🙂 can’t win at everything!

they’re amazing these tiny babies!

I'll raise you 13th January.

The weather's shit, the decorations and lights are down, everybody's skint, the first set of bills are rolling in and there's still another fortnight until payday.

Add to that people who don't get you anything at Christmas because it's your birthday soon (and then not getting you anything for your birthday because 'It's only three weeks since Christmas) or outright never, ever marking it with even a card because 'It's greedy, you've just had your Christmas present', no parties as a kid - and therefore not being invited to anybody else's in return/revenge - and I think it's possibly the worst week of the year to be born.

It's my birthday today. And I hate it. Would happily just ignore it.

Too many Christmas parties and people are just busy.

How funny. I think I might need that on a birthday card!

Try a birthday in the month that doesn't exist.... at least you get a comment....
Close enough to Christmas that everyone is still broke, especially following the longest month of the year (January).... it's cold, wet, miserable and dark.... people have Valentines to take their minds off things, even if it's just to complain about what a non event it is....
February birthdays don't exist... or realistically are forgotten about /non events.... not even the present for birthday and Christmas, or a comment 🙄
The same forgotten can remember everyone else's birthday and expect every minor anniversary remembered....
Can you tell i get annoyed about it? 🤔

Same!

Weather is pants, everyone is skint, payday was too long ago/too far away, on a post-Christmas diet, doing dry January, all partied out from Christmas and New Year.

DH’s is 23rd December - he says it sucked as a child, but he enjoys in now - everyone’s feeling festive, most of friends have broken up from work by then so are up for a night out.