Christmas birthdays unite

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To all the people having their birthday between 20th Dec and 2nd Jan. I'm with you, lack of gifts and birthday cards. Any event being automatically a Christmas party. Can we join in for a collective moan?

Umm I am Christmas Day and I love it .
I can accept that a few days either way can be overlooked but Christmas Day itself is lovely .
All my family around and lovely food and my birthday at tea time separate from the hurly burly of the morning .

Trumpton glad you love your day, mine is in the build up so gets forgotten by everyone. We normally do Christmas related things on the day or I'm working like crazy to finish before Christmas

I'm a Christmas Day baby too!

Mine is after and I hate it. Big plus is its first in the year so I know whose birthdays to "forget"

Dec 25th here. I have to grit my teeth every time I have to mention my date of birth for the inevitable reply of "oooh that's Christmas day" (or variant of), like I don't already know. My (now deceased) best friend always used to buy me a gift on her birthday because as she put it " you always get me on on yours".

I’m Christmas Day and have always celebrated it in June. My parents started this tradition over 60 years ago and I’ve always carried on.
It’s the best of both worlds, having your birthday on a very special day but celebrating it on an equally special day.
I feel like the Queen!

That’s a great idea my grandchildren
Mines a feb birthday and I hate it..too cold to go anywhere and the lighter, longer days just make it look more miserable

Hello Christmas people! I’m currently in latent labour with my due-at-Christmas baby, so on behalf of Christmas mothers everywhere I apologise for the poor timing

Happy Birthday to you all!

I have a New Year's Eve baby.
He's about to turn 9 and his birthday is often overlooked by family.
But those who really care never forget
I feel it but he hasn't noticed yet

I think any birthday in December is crap.

I'm a bit earlier and if we go for a birthday meal as a couple we are squeezed in next to the toilets and treated as secondary to the big party tables.
If we go as a group I'm forced to pay a deposit as it's deemed a Christmas party and have the festive menu pushed on us.

I feel sorry for ds, his birthday is tomorrow (23rd). It’s really hard to separate it from the build up to Christmas, his friends are always busy doing stuff with their families or have gone away. He didn’t notice it so much when he was little but he will be 11 tomorrow and this year he has said he wishes his birthday was in the summer.

I should have said we have booked to take ds to the new Star Wars film tomorrow and then for a meal afterwards. We always book to go out and do something.

Can I just put in a vote for those of us who are on 5th & 6th Jan? Ours are definitely worse. At least everyone is in a festive mood for Christmas birthdays. The early Jan birthdays are universally shit - nobody will go out or to a party or anything because they’re partied out, everyone is broke, everyone is doing dry bloody January, it’s the days everyone goes back to school and work, and you STILL get joint presents. Or no birthday presents because everyone assumes you’ll have had lots for Christmas.

I'm another Christmas Day baby! I don't mind it, parents always make a fuss and DP too, and tbh I'm not actually that bothered about counting them now I'm the other side of 40!!

DS1 is 13 today. DH is taking him and his friends to see Star Wars later but normally we have to organise his parties either a free weeks earlier or later as everyone is busy at Xmas.
I’m middle of December and it just gets overlooked as people are busy getting ready for Christmas and going to Christmas parties and events. To be honest though I’m NC with my mum and my sister has the same birthday (not twins) and we agreed a couple of years ago not to get anything for each other as it’s so close to Xmas, DS2 is nov, DS1 is today and my niece is also Dec so it’s such expensive time of year so makes sense not to spend money on each other but I have to admit it does make the day feel shot when you don’t get many presents .

I'm a Christmas Day baby too!! Due on Xmas day too! The older I get the more I'm meh about it. It's just another day! I have kids and my dh is good as we do stockings then breakfast then I do bday presents then we all do the gifts under the tree.

I used to hate it when I was younger and my Ddad tried doing a June birthday but it didn't feel right.

Can I join? I'm Jan 14th but my mother is the 10th which means we can't even so much as breathe about my birthday until the night of the 13th. AND! It's a big birthday this year for her, she wants to celebrate EVERY MONTH!!! She wants to do something different every month, then have a massive party half way through the year.

2020 is gonna be tough 😭😩

My son is a xmas day baby and we make a huge fuss and he loves it. What annoys me is family member saying within earshot of him oh it's just such a shame he has it on xmas day, he misses out etc... DS is 5 and We make a huge deal of having his birthday celebrated and not overlooked and feel when family members say this they are creating a negativity around it.

I love mine, it's Monday. Everyone remembers it, everyone is in the mood to celebrate, no one makes it an early Xmas celebration , Ive never had to work or go to school on it, it's the start of the holiday season for me, and I always get cards and gifts.

I envy Christmas birthdays. Mine is the end of January and everyone is depressed, fat and skint.

My wonderful niece is on the 27th. Her gift is already wrapped in birthday paper in the cupboard, cards written and we are having a family party that evening with cake, birthday banners etc. Her mum is great and takes down all signs of Christmas when they go to bed on Boxing Day!

I'm Jan 3rd and I love it!
lots of stuff in the sales so I have sometimes had twice as many presents
guaranteed poor weather so parties/events always planned for indoors
I receive cards every day for about a week as some people post really early and others forget about the bank hols
my parents were very good about ensuring it was still a proper celebrated birthday, and made me feel as special as my summer-born sibling

• often get gifts in the summer from my mum who feels guilty

My elder child (18) was born ten days later and I am extending all the same considerations to him, and he quite likes his birth date too. We often have a weekend away for him and hotels and flights are quite cheap in January!

@OldAndGreyAndTired that's me! I wholeheartedly agree. People are always "broke" too.

Quite often the first day back at school too

Loving the different opinions, I guess it's all about how it's celebrated. As I'm getting older I try and ignore it now but as I kid I hated it