To ask what you did for your 30th birthday?

[AllaMova]

Just out of curiosity. I have friends who didn’t celebrate at all, but I also have some friends who are going on special holidays etc.

I was quite pregnant with my first, we went to the Welsh coast and stayed in a converted railway carriage over looking the see. We went to a lovely restaurant and I ate a beautiful rare steak. We sat in front of the sea and looked at the stars. We went for walks and to a red kite sanctuary (we have more red kites at home but it was nice to see them in a really wild place).

There would have been a family meal somewhere I imagine; but I don’t remember.

Went to New York for a mini break, Concorde there and back, was amazing but a long time ago now !!! Next big one will be my 60th !

30th had a meal with all my friends
40th stayed a night at the ned and shopping in London

Nothing that I recall.
Possibly a meal with a friend.

I was pregnant, so not much drinking or madness going on 😁
Think I had one glass of sangria that lasted all night as we went out for a Mexican meal with friends.

I was child free and only been with now DH a few months, none of my school friendship group were married or had babies either so we did a long weekend somewhere close to home and a week away somewhere sunny over the period of us all turning 30.

For my 40th I had 3 kids so I caught a coach and went to Europe for the weekend alone 😂

Got pregnant 🫣🤣

We were on holiday for my actual birthday but met friends after for a drink, pottery painting and dinner.

Gave birth. DD2 was two weeks early so whatever I had planned went out of the window. She is and has alway been in a hurry :-)

What people decide to do or not on their 30th is none of your business. I don’t like celebrating my birthday, I have a good reason but it’s none of anyone else’s business.

No one is forcing you (or anyone else) to share what they did to celebrate their birthdays. If you don’t want to answer this thread, simply scroll along.

I’m so sorry 🥺💐

And no one asked you to start judging other people’s reflections or comments so scroll on past yourself.

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I did a tandem skydive.

Got dumped

Had my first and only baby, by 8.30am.
He was born quickly and spontaneously 4 weeks early, which altered my birthday celebrations that year and for years to come...

Went to Center Parcs with my family - parents, siblings & nephews etc. And a girls weekend in Athens to celebrate a few of our 30ths

Enjoy! I think Japan has been my favourite trip yet x

Went to Marrakech.

Please don’t! Turning 30 actually felt great in the end - much better than my 20s. 40s are even better.

Nothing, as my sister in law was in intensive care and my husband was a bit of a mess that week.

40th it was also my moms 60th so we did a weekend away in Slovenia.
50th I’d been made redundant so just wanted to go to see Harry Potter at the theatre, mooch round a bookshop and then dinner afterwards.

I had mumps, caught from my children

This was pre-kids for us. On my actual birthday DH took me to the Waterside Inn. A couple of weeks later we went on a celebratory long weekend to Paris with some more Michelin stars included. It was pretty nice!

I had been saving a little bit for a while, and for my 30th birthday I was given some cash and M&S vouchers.

On my 30th birthday I dropped off most of my old clothes to a charity shop and spent the day shopping for a smaller amount of new mix-match stuff.

I was in the throes of a divorce, living in a rented room, and I decided my 30th was the time to kick-start a new me, out with the old, in with the new - starting with clothes.

I met my now DH about 6 weeks later.