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?

Mine is 20th. I don't like it!

28th here, to be honest I barely notice it now as it's usually a day we're travelling!

Christmas day here too, no issues here

My mum's birthday was boxing day and she loathed it. Basicslly for all the reasons mentioned already - forgotten, 1 present, Christmas wrapping. She wasn't a fan of Christmas particularly either. As I got older I tried to make it as 'birthday' as possible.

Dc2 is 28th and I am very conscious of it being a proper birthday. They are only little at the moment, but I am planning for a summer half birthday as they grow up. Late DH's birthday was early January and he said it was always quite depressing. We would always go out for dinner and restaurant would be empty, and no one wanted to go further than the local pub for a 'quick one cos we're skint!'

28th here too. Friends are usually away, family tends to be sick of each other by then, everyone’s off work and has been booked into the spa I want to go to for months, day feels over quickly as it’s dark soon after 3pm...

Saying all that, I’ve never massively minded it. Made the most of office shutdowns and been away the past few years, but as a kid I also had a mini summer celebration near to my sibling’s.

Daughters birthday Christmas Eve and she loves it, always make sure it's about her birthday and not just Christmas. She loves that Santa's comes on her birthday lol.

It's my birthday today, I hate having it so close to Christmas

DD is 2 tomorrow. Really hope when she's old enough to notice we can keep it separate and special for her.

I hate my birthday and my ideal would be for nobody to even know when it is so having it at Christmas so it was easier to hide it would be perfect for me but I'm in bloody June!

it goes on past the 2nd, I have several friends with Jan birthdays + DS and its hard to organize anything.

People are busy with family
Have no money
Exhausted from Xmas
Inevitably everyone's car seems to breakdown (mine just has, DH did last year, a car with 3 guests to DS party broke down last year on route etc...)
Many still do the one combined gift thing because its so close to Xmas and they're 'broke' now
Everyone is busy with new year, new me gym sessions in their spare time
and so on...

I dont think you're free of Xmas curse until at least February.

Also many things are open in December for the Xmas season (santa days etc...) but everything except restaurants, cinemas and soft-plays seem to close in January for the winter season and parties cost more due to lack of options + seasonal party prices.
(no cheap BBQ in the park scavenger hunts for us)

DD1s birthday, if she was born on her due date, should have been tomorrow.

Her actual birthday is October.

I thank her for her impatience every year.

Gatecrashing as mine was Dec 18th, but I feel all your pain ... now I'm 56, I've come to terms with my birthday being a non-event and use this as an excuse to make a fuss of myself all year round instead. Agree about pubs etc. being rammed with loud idiots throughout December, so no point in going out. It's a rubbish time to have a birthday, but you find ways to make up for it by the time you get to my age !

DS1 is 12 tomorrow. He likes it but he does have the feeling that it's then a very long wait until he gets another celebration. I had friends round on Friday and 4/5 of us had children born between the 20th and Hogmanay!

I feel for you all. Dc3 has a birthday on the 29th and he gets considerably less than his siblings do from some family members. I wouldn't care if they all got one gift but to give loads to 3 and hardly anything to one isn't fair.

Also struggle to book party venues because everywhere is booked for Xmas stuff.

Also his siblings get bikes and other outside toys for their birthdays in the summer and can play on them for hours on end. He gets his has a turn then it goes in the shed for months.

He so far seems to enjoy his December birthday though.

@Stabbitha
I have the opposite problem.

My son should have his birthday in February, but it is actually on Christmas Day.

When he’s older and moaning about Christmas Day being a crap birthday I’ll remind him that it is his fault as he chose to arrive 6 weeks early!

Aw this makes me sad☹️ I'm due today, no sign yet so induction booked for 28th, either way they're both not ideal birthdays! Feel so guilty for this little one already especially as his big brothers birthday is mid July! Will just have to make sure he has as much fuss made no matter what time of year! 😳

Christmas day baby over here too! My parents were insistent when I was born and told everyone they had to buy me two presents because they wouldn't give me a joint one if my birthday was in June. It worked out quite well and if I wanted something big or expensive, I'd combine the two and get it for both to make it easier. I actually love my birthday, I think it's unique and I always ended up with a lot of money for the January sales because I was apparently difficult to buy for

30th here and to be honest I usually get caught up in Christmas and totally forget it's coming! Only just realised this morning that my birthday is next week.

29th here. Don’t mind really, everyone is off work and happy to celebrate 💃🏽

It’s DH’s birthday today. He hates his birthday. He tried celebrating in June one year but everyone was a bit so he didn’t bother again.

My birthday is mid January, a couple of years ago it landed on blue Monday aka the most depressing day of the year on what is known as the most depressing week of the year...at least in December everyone is festive and good humoured.
January is doom and gloom, nobody wants to do anything in January!

Mine's the 29th . My parents always just gave me a bigger present than my siblings and said its for both so pretty crap, no party or celebrations on the actual day as everyone was broke.

Yep mid-Jan birthday here too. Everyone’s totally skint, fed up of each other and teetotal/dieting. I end up just telling people to ignore it which I don’t think I’d do if it were in June.

I have a Boxing Day baby. We have always tired to make it a special day for her but it is hard as everyone is busy seeing the family they didn't see on Christmas Day etc etc. It does get lost a bit at times though she never gets presents for both and everything is Birthday and decidedly not Christmas.

My birthday is December too and that also does get lost a bit. It's peak Christmas party season and I have to book my birthday night out with everyone months in advance.

DS is the 27th. It sucks a bit as it’s too cold to do much outside. I’ve contemplated doing an unofficial birthday in the Summer.

Mine is 12th Jan. Still pretty sucky.