AIBU to think there are right & wrong times for birthdays?

[BramStoker]

Light hearted - I obviously realise that individuals have zero control over their date of birth!

BUT hear me out

Jan - mid Feb WRONG (too soon after xmas, we're all too skint and knackered)

Late Feb - mid June RIGHT (birthday season #2)

Mid June - end of first week in Sept WRONG (summer holiday season, birthdays are superfluous)

7th Sept - 20th Dec RIGHT (birthday season #1 AKA the best time to have a birthday)

21st-31st Dec WRONG (gets lost amongst all the Xmas shit)

AIBU?

This this this (late Dec b'day here)

YABU. All of December and the beginning of January are bad times to have a birthday. Any other time is fine. I can't imagine why birthdays would be 'superfluous' in the summer holidays!

Mid June - end of first week in Sept WRONG (summer holiday season, birthdays are superfluous)

I’d disagree. My birthday is July and was always the last day of term or first day of holidays. Tends to be good weather; everyone is around and wants to do things, you can’t go wrong!

Actually I think July is a really good birthday to have. In the middle of the year so something to spread the year out.
And hopefully good weather!

I have 4 nieces and nephews. All four of them have birthdays between 12th Jan and 14th Feb. It feels like I've just sent their Christmas presents when I have to start looking at birthday presents.

Hmmmm, well. Ds1 is 9th March. Fairly rubbish. Weather still crap and nothing yet open for summer season. But, far enough after Christmas to be acceptable!
Ds2 is 23rd November. Not great. He always gets a raw deal as I invariably can't afford a big party for him, and I struggle with what to get when I'm also buying for Christmas just 1 month later. Term time, winter, plus everything closed. Rubbish!

Ds3. 1st June. AMAZING! I love his birthday. It is is in May half term near enough every year (due to the timing of the may Bank hol). Only once has it not been. We have had blazing hot weather every year, and garden parties galore. In lockdown we had a household pool party, bbq and cinema outdoors so even that was a fab day despite restrictions! Everywhere is open, so all plans are possible. Only downside is it is mid exam season when older. But that is only a couple of years of his lifetime! So... seems worth it to me!

My birthday is 4th November and I actually love mine! Loads on in the week of my birthday.

So to conclude. Mid Nov-1st Apr - crap. Everything else pretty good! Except maybe late summer hol birthdays as everyone has forgotten birthday parties then! Although when older, back to good as nice weather, stuff to do etc.

If I was ever going to have another baby (I'm not!) then it would have to be May or June. I'd really like to replicate my youngests birthday quite frankly!

Nope. This is stupid. 90% of the present-buying birthdays in my calendar are Feb/March and May/June, and by the time my bank balance recovers its time to start saving for Xmas.

Birthdays should be evenly spaced out among friends/family, with a max of 1 per month.

@lazylinguist plenty of fun things plus holidays in the summer so lots going on and having to remember to post cards/prezzies etc in and amongst everything just seems a bit of an inconvenience

In our household we have three December birthdays, and aside from needing a Kardashian style budget, it's all good.
One is in Xmas Market season, one in Xmas Party territory, and one in the Xmas T'inter Season where most people are off work and blood type Cheese and Wine.

YANBU. I always felt hard done by as a child, with my birthday in early January.

Depends. My sis is the 20th of December, we never used to decorate the house for Christmas 'till the 21st. As an adult, she chose a job where she was always off work over Christmas and could celebrate!

Mine's in July- always hot and everything is expensive if you go away.

Worst has to be Dec 24th- early Jan.

Nope, my birthday is in the first week of December and it is an awful date for all of the reasons mentioned above I always fancied June-August when I was younger (I just wanted a garden party with a bouncy castle)

Now I would settle for anything from 1st Feb- Halloween

My DH and I are both December babies. We both hate it! Though since we got together as a couple, we've enjoyed it more because at least we're not alone.

We're also interfaith ao as well as two birthdays, there are also two celebrations! Very busy time.

Mine's February and growing up with siblings bdays Sept and Nov, mine was always the one forgotten by family

Dd's is summer so nice and warm for nice days out.

March to July perfect time I reckon. Got two of mine in there, youngest is an August baby.

I like the concept but the December date is far too late. December 5th cut off.

Late Jan means the whole Xmas and birthday season for DD is over in a couple of months. I like it. Less stress until it all comes around again. I was a summer baby and was always happy to guarantee having birthdays off school!

I agree about July/august birthdays. July is end of academic year, so filled with sports days and leaving assemblies and I'm too tired to celebrate anyone's July birthday. August, half your friends/family would be on holiday, so would be rubbish.

December 20th far too late, though. I don't think there's any December dates that are acceptable birthdays. Maybe 1st-5th, but probably have to do panto or something. Actually, my son had a friend with a late Dec birthday that coincides with new Star Wars films in the cinema. Sorted. That was an ok date.

My birthday is June and DH's is July.

I've always thought they were good birthday months. Nice weather, summer spirits are up etc.

August here and I absolutely LOVE it because I’m off work and normally living it up on the continent somewhere for three weeks or so!

DH is start of Jan
I'm start of Feb
Both kids in August
Uncle is Boxing Day

We really didn't get the memo

Ds birthday is 16th December and I hate it being so close to Christmas. It makes it stressful, not helped by the fact we have 6 family birthdays in November and December anyway. I never know what to get him, he gets a pile of presents and nothing for ages and then I struggle to divvy them up.

1st Jan, because nobody wants to celebrate whilst hungover and doing it the day before is naff.

On the contrary, it's excellent - if you're not into getting plastered on NYE anyway - because you never have to work on it and everyone remembers it. And the whole year is in sync with your age.

Mine's at the end of May, so nicely spaced. But I did once have friend that complained I always organised birthday celebrations over a bank holiday weekend
strangely enough, I've lost touch with them

Holiday season I’m a late July baby so wished I’d been born October like I was supposed too, but every time my birthday came around we were either going, on holiday or it was just after the holiday always got crap.today I pick and buy my own stuff I want.