Birthday cake rant

[Westside1]

I've seen a lot of adds for local bakery and something that appears to be getting common is siblings sharing birthday cakes. I think this is so mean of parents to do, it irritates me. I know they can't have parties now but surely for an event that just happens once a year they should have their own birthday cake. Rant over

Thanks for all the replies. Funnily enough it doesn’t bother me now after a good nights sleep 😂

I suppose if the kids don’t mind that’s fine. I’m not suggesting people go out and buy 2 expensive cakes I’d be thinking 2 smaller cheaper ones.

It might be due to Covid and people not having parties etc

I don't see what's wrong with that if their birthdays are close and especially if they have a joint party. Bespoke bakery cakes are bloody expensive!

My kids have less than three weeks between their birthdays. They've never had a joint cake but only because one is a boy and one a girl and they're nearly a decade apart (so their ideas of decor are very different), one is a vegan and one isn't and I make the cakes myself at minimal cost. I think bakery cakes are a bit of a rip off and I'd rather put the money in the present budget instead.

@HectorHalloumi

My twins shared a Colin caterpillar cake last week. I'm not buying 2 as we couldn't invite anyone else around due to Covid. In the past when they could have parties then we have bought 2.

Cuthbert for the other one, I hope?

Colin for the twin you love more, Cuthbert for the annoying one

Why not if the kids are happy with this. Mine have birthdays 3 weeks apart but they are different genders and 5 years apart, so they would never have agreed to this. Hmm Unicorn cake or Fortnite cake🤔, not sure my DS would be to pleased with the unicorn lol

To make it even easier, the BIG meal is takeaway -- usually Chinese, and every birthday boy/girl gets to order what they want

@GeorgiaGirl52 Do the non birthday people have to select at random?

If the children don't mind I don't see the problem at all, but then in our family we didn't really get a birthday cake every time and never had any kind of party either. So getting birthday cake would have been a treat in itself, even if it was shared (three of us had birthdays within three days).

We also had to share - all four of us - an advent calendar. The joy of waiting for days for your turn to open a door again...

Just do what makes the birthday children happy. Each to their own.

My best friend does this. Her daughters are born a day apart so they share. Its no big deal

Sorry OP I found this hilarious. I wouldn't even think of having a whinge over a cake!

How does it have any bearing on your life whatsoever? You could buy everyone's birthday cakes if you feel so strongly about it.

I don't see an issue with it.

2 cakes is potentially a lot of sugar if the family are celebrating at home alone.

What on EARTH is wrong with sharing a cake? Unless it's a very small cake, it would be an awful lot for one child to eat all at once; and it would become less tasty if repeatedly refrigerated and one slice taken out at a time.

In normal times, the child would presumably be sharing the cake with birthday guests in any case.

My DB has his birthday a week after mine. We often had joint parties and a joint cake. There was never an issue with it.