How do you like to spend your birthdays?

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CpT_x_Killsteal

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Kolby Jack said:
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TOO!!! HUZZAH!!!

I've been sick ever since I was 14 (end of 2009) and so I've been unable to much anything active, and physical social life just about ended. I do things with family.

Edit: and Happy Birthday
 

CyanideSandwich

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My 18th is coming up in a couple of months and unlike most people around my age who go out drinking and partying and whatnot, I've opted to simply get a few friends together for a bonfire in the backyard. I usually don't like to celebrate birthdays, but I guess some kind of effort is expected for an 18th, though.

I always beg people not to get me presents, too. Buying people presents for birthdays and other occasions are just more expenses on them and I'd prefer not to add another one for the year.
 

Johnny Impact

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Cake and ice cream with my folks. Also prefer to have the day off so I can sit around and do not very much.

That's it. I don't really have friends, and I dislike alcohol and most social activities.
 

Scarim Coral

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As long it's ain't indoor and my parent saying happy birthday and given me birthday cards with cash inside, I'm all up for alternative ways to spend my birthday (like my last birthday I went out and visit the local attractions over here since it has been ages I had last went)!
 

SadisticFire

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I would usually spend my Birthday staying inside and being on my computer. I don't really see the value in it. Though for the last couple years I've adopted the "Get super sick so you don't want to leave" tradition. And yet my Father insists on me going out to eat, despite me not wanting to. It's not that my Father is a bad person, but just, being sick sucks.
 

KOMega

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I like to go and buy something for myself (usually a game.)
And try to enjoy the day (avoiding anything that could possibly screw up)

I like to get gifts for some of my other friends who have birthdays close to my own.
People like gifts right?
 

hazabaza1

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I've been thinking about that today actually and I have no idea.
The end of next month I'm going to be 19 and I can't think of anything that I'd like to do for it.

When I was younger there was usually a celebration with cake and presents and stuff and that's nice, but as I get older and it comes up to me to decide what to do... nothing happens.
 

MrMisfit

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I personally stopped celebrating my birthday years ago. All I really do is spend the money that I get from my family in place of gifts.
 
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I usually ask for the day off work, and then just spend it doing low-key fun stuff. It's not that I feel like I deserve a day off because it's my birthday or anything. It has a lot to do with not wanting to be wished a happy birthday over and over, or having any kind of a fuss made of me.
 

Gizmo1990

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Happy Birthday :)

As for me. Let me put it this way. Last year I forgot it was my birthday until my mum and dad phoned me to say happy birthday. That how important it is to me.
 

leviathanmisha

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I turned 21 at the tail end of May, so I actually went out of my way to celebrate with dinner with the mom, girlfriend, and best friends, one who happens to share a birthday and the first six letters of his name with me. But my birthdays are usually hit and miss depending on what's going on in my life at the time.

And May is a jam packed month for birthdays among my friends group. I think there's like 15 or 16 of us with May birthdays. It gets kind of ridiculous.
 

krazykidd

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madwarper said:
I don't like to celebrate it, seeing as though it's just another year avoiding death. I'd rather celebrate actual accomplishments.
But, both my mother and father insist on taking me out for dinner at the least, so I guess I can suffer through two free dinners.
But not dying is an accomplishment . Do you know how hard it is to not die ( or better yet, do you know how easy it is to get yourself killed?).

OT: i like to go out drinking . I'm a borderline alcoholic ( and proud of it dammit ). So going out and getting shitfaced is my prefered activity . If i get laid too it's an added bonus.
 

bak00777

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Well i just had my 21st, and it was the first time in a few years that I actually spent the day doing stuff with other people. Usually I like to get myself a cigar and just chill out by myself without anyone else around for most of the day. Then my family usually goes to dinner somewhere. This year since only my mom and myself were at home, the rest of my family was in North Carolina, and because i turned 21 her and I spent the day going to our favorite bookstore (stocked up on the series I'm currently reading "Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan, and then we went to a casino and did my first legal gambling and drinking, It was fun and all, but I prefer solitude on my birthdays.
 

Artina89

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My parents like to go out for dinner when it is a family member's birthday. Other than that, I like to take a day off work for my birthday, and some of my friends from university come and visit me and we do something like go to the cinema, or just spend time playing video games and watch a selection of our favourite movies. I much rather spend time with a select few people as opposed to having a party and having a lot of people over. I'm just not much of a social butterfly.
 

Starik20X6

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Well it's my birthday in two weeks, and I'd hoped to get it off work, but that doesn't look like it'll happen... So I'll be going to work, probably having out with my girlfriend, and I may get a bunch of friends together to go and see Pacific Rim.
 

Me55enger

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We didn't celebrate my 21st this year. Instead we as a family prepared for my grandfathers heart bypass/valve replacement.

I am still living with him after a month.

The official word is that my birthday has been suspended until late July. I'm doubtful it will happen. In honesty I like being alone. I used to like spending them with my girlfriend, but she left me.
 

FoolKiller

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Multiple small events with each friend individually. I hate parties because if the party is in my honour, why do I have to be the one entertaining everyone.
 

Evonisia

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Well I don't like to celebrate it much, though my mindset is that you celebrate it as another year of surviving rather than the anniversary of the day I exited my mother's body.

Usually I'll just spend a bit of time with family members, I visit my Mum if I don't usually do on the day it commences, and I spend the rest of the time either asleep or playing the games I've inevitably gotten. Luckily for me, my birthday is in September so it's just in time for the early Autumn releases as well as giving me an opportunity to grab some summer games.
 

Mrkillhappy

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I tend to enjoy spending them with a group of friends during the afternoon (assuming I don't have class) but during the evening I just spend the time playing video games but I don't tend to make a big deal of it any more since I'm now in my Twenties.

Any way Happy Birthday.