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

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Lighthearted post really , but I really feel we get a rough deal. My birthday is on the 23rd December. Interested in hearing other stories or even those born on the 25th itself!
Or if you can think of any positives to this I would be very surprised.
Along side the ... I got you this for you birthday and Christmas presents , the cancelling of not making your birthday due to other Christmas events happening or just being too skint as it's Christmas there's more of a chance people forget you over this period. I dread mine every year.
Tell me I'm wrong?

My BFF has a Jan 1st birthday. She says its the shit because when she was a child everyone just did one gift and told her it was for her birthday as well (sucks when the GPs did it every year) and now she is an adult everyone is skint, hungover, and doing Dry January.

Bonus is that you almost always get the day off work though. But she tends to ignore it completely.

My birthday is Christmas Day and I have an ‘official birthday’ in June. I often get cards addressed to the Queen!
I love knowing my birthday is Christmas Day but I really don’t celebrate it until June.

I'm really liking all these posts about changing your birthday to the summer!

Both DS's are Winter babies, both were early so born a few weeks then their due dates.
DS1 gets it worse as the mid Jan one. We have changed it so that the most special gift is for their birthday and Christmas is some stuff from the list but nothing huge. We have found it really helps.

I have a few friends who have "half birthdays" in the summer just to make it more enjoyable or the ability to do something as a winter birthday has to be indoors which comes at a cost!

Mine is 5th January and it's the worst!! At least in December everyone is still in party spirits! By my birthday everyone is tired, hungover, skint, on a diet and doing dry Jan (usually including myself) I very rarely do much to celebrate to be honest!

I'm mid January and it's shite. No one cares. I've not celebrated it since my 30th.

Mine is the 28th and yeah it sucks noone other than family is available to hang out it's really shit I mean not even on my 40th could any of my closest friends just once, once make an effort to celebrate it on the day. Always told to move it.

My best friend's birthday is early Jan. I make an effort for her but wouldn't for anyone else. She is literally the bestest friend ever. But I'm skint and partied out and tired and work is shit and the last thing I want is to have cocktails and go out. Her birthdays are usually either small or very low key for that reason. Half the people she invites don't come. Many who do, don't have a drink, don't buy a present and leave by 9pm. Like I said, I go all out for her sake because she gets a really raw deal in my opinion.

Have to agree with this, we have 2 family birthdays in December - one on Christmas Day itself - and 3 in January, and the January ones are 100% worse.

As PP says, people are busy in December but they're cheerful and up for a party. In January, everyone is skint and just sick of the sight of food 🤣 Plus birthdays gifts are weak because people have used up their ideas on your Christmas gift.

My friend's birthday is Christmas Eve and she's always loved it, and enjoyed that Christmas immediately followed. And when we were young we were always up for going out for the night on Christmas Eve, so she always had a good party.

Mines early Jan. A complete non event.

Yeah this is how it is for my BFF. Last year she actually booked some tables at our local for a girls drinks for her 50th. Expected about 18 to come. Under 10 came. About half way through she suggested that various husbands would be welcome as well, because she'd already put quite a bit of money behind the bar and no-one was apparently coming. A few texts the next day to say that people had forgotten, or hadn't been up to it due to Dry Jan and being hungover from the night before, or whatever. Thing is, it was not because people don't like her- just everyone is partied out. She showed a little bit of upset publicly, but shrugged and said it's always like this and she needs to learn her lesson about it really. I know she was really upset though.

Im 17th January its crap! Nobody has money. December not great either.

DSis’ birthday and my birthday are both in the week before Christmas, so not only did we often get one present for Christmas/birthday combined we also had to share parties when we were young. DBro was born in June so my lovely parents decided we’d all get to celebrate half birthdays.

DH often says he feels like he has to make it up to me for my childhood birthday “trauma”😄

I am 31 December, my next door neighbour was 1st Jan. We used to spend ages commiserating with one another how awful those dates are.
Especially as I don't drink alcohol - I would be quite happy with meal/cinema/theatre but prices are whacked up because it's New Year's Eve. Definitely calling it Old Year's Night this year like my dad did, as this year has been so awful for us. Just want to move on and leave it behind.
You also tend to get people's unwanted Xmas gifts as birthday presents.
Christmas Day not a great time for a birthday either

Across my family we have birthdays on Christmas day, boxing day, new year's eve and new year's day. It's completely normal to us but that week is very busy 😂

Yes you get all the xmas tat ha

Boxing Day baby here. Growing up my parents would give me a joint Xmas / birthday present. So I got roller boots for my Xmas / birthday present. My DB (June birthday) also got roller boots for Xmas. But he also got a birthday present in June.

Have had the Xmas cards that say 'and happy birthday', have had the birthday present in Xmas wrapping paper. Have had the kids not turning up to my party because they are doing family meet ups.

I did the half year birthday as a kid but my parents did half the amount of presents my siblings got on their Summer birthdays, then forgot or were too skint to do the other half of my presents for my actual birthday.

As an adult I tend to get generic presents for my birthday as people are 'thought out' with thinking of Xmas presents for their nearest and dearest.

On my 50th last year I got 3 generic mugs from 3 different people saying 'happy 50th birthday'. Got 2 wine glasses saying the same from another 2 friends.

People don't have the time in the Xmas period to be thinking of a birthday on top of all there is to do.

Mine is early Jan and I hate it. Everyone on a diet/ not drinking/ no money/ being vegan etc. Its cold and wet and grey and everyone else doesn't give a shit. I've never been made a fuss of on my birthday.

I had a friend in school whose birthday was 25 Dec. Worse still, her family owned a restaurant. I remember she spent her 18th birthday / Christmas day working.

Funny you mention wrapping paper, it’s DD’s birthday soon and I have 2 boxes of gifts to wrap. I need birthday wrapping paper, I usually get one that actually has Happy Birthday all over it.

Mines 30th, everything's shut and everyone's saving their money for NYE. I've never liked it but I thank my lucky stars I wasn't born on Christmas Day, I would really not like that as I love Christmas and I'm glad they are at least seperate.

Is everything shut on 30th Dec?! Nothing is round me.

Agree re Christmas Day though, my FIL's birthday is the 25th and it's such a non-event. He has his gifts in the morning of course but then it's forgotten really.

4th Jan - everyone is fed up, partied out & going back to work/school, no money, dry January (although I don't tend to drink so not bothered personally) and diets. I got joint Xmas/birthday presents which actually meant getting nothing on my birthday. Also, most people just completely forget. Weathers rubbish, no nice day trips or lovely weekends. I've always hated it.

@NoahsTortoise when I've tried to go out for a meal on my birthday in the past it's not been easy to find things that are open, if they are open they are very quiet. I gave up a while ago tbh and we just get a takeaway now. I guess it will depend on where you live though a big city centre will likely have things open! Also might depend on what day of the week it falls on.

My stepsons 3 kids are ALL close to Christmas! 11th, 27th of Dec and 5th January!