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Do you have a birthday tradition that you do every year? What is it?
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Not really but we each have a favorite cake that gets made for our birthday
I buy my age worth of scratchers and I take myself out to see a movie.
i really don’t have any traditions either. except for going out for lunch with my brother and a few friends to celebrate
Although we missed this year (due to illness 😦 ) my sister and I always take each other out for lunch/dinner on our respective birthdays. It is a few hours of just us, no husbands or children to interrupt our catching up.
Nope no special traditions at our house.
Since my birthday is in the summer, we always do a bbq or picnic at the pool or beach.
My favorite birthday tradition was my grandma always making my birthday cakes. I always felt special.
My husband brings me a cup of coffee in bed. I’m not much of a breakfast person when I first wake up so he brings me coffee. Nothing fancy but it makes my day.
We call everyone on the family, some Skype some on phones, and we sing Happy birthday! So we have family from Panama, NC, TX, MO and Va , so much fun.
I always take off my birthday, even if I don’t do anything. The last few years my hubby takes off work too and we go to the casino.
No tradition but I do try to get the day off work if I can
When growing up my mom use to make us our favorite meal for our birthday, but we haven’t done that in over 10 years now
We don’t have any birthday traditions either…
We all go around and say what we love about the birthday boy/girl
No special traditions unless you count trying to forget my birthday
My Brother and I used to go to Disneyland every year
Not really we do order in pizza instead of cake that’s pretty much it lol
Our traditions are pretty tame and normal for our cultural background, but a friend of mine told me it isn’t the norm here. We decorate the house the evening before with balloons and banners, the birthday girl’s chair will be decorated with ribbons and such. In the morning, during breakfast we will sing birthday songs in English and Dutch and depending on school or work we will do presents either then or in the afternoon. Oh, and family will Skype us in the morning, too. Like I said, nothing special, but important to us.
We go to my fave restaurant that serves Szechuan food
The only thing I do every year is take the day off work. So I can have a lazy day if I want.
I do! For breakfast, I always have toast with the egg in the middle of the whole…. It’s a little thing, but ever since I was a kid my mom made it for me on my birthday because it was my favorite and I continue that tradition.
Nothing special, just Chinese for lunch and a cake that evening.
Nothing special. Usually my birthday falls on Thanksgiving and we celebrate then. othervise just a Happybirhday is what I get.
We get a birthday cake.
Go to dinner with my Father and Brother.
I have my moms enchiladas every year
My mom makes me a frozen lemon pie every year. It’s my favorite!
We send roses.. I always send my daughter pink roses and she sends me a mix off all .. like a rainbow she always says. Its something we girls do in my family ..
We go to Red Lobster
Pancake breakfast.
Four-egg cake with orange peel icing.
Occasionally those are combined for breakfast.
Family dinner..if it isn’t my birthday, I will cook my husband’s or son’s favorite meal. If it’s mine we go out to dinner..works for me..lol
Sorry don’t have any real birthday traditions…
We go out to eat at a special place of our choice 😍
We always go out to dinner on our birthdays so no washing up!
I get my favorite ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins
Have hot chocolate and churros for breakfast
don’t have any real birthday traditions that i do every year
My daughter n son brings me breakfast in bed every year it always bring a huge smile in my face
family dinner – every birthday (our family, or mothers side, has a tradition of celebrating a 40th birthday as she’s 1 in 8 children and getting to 40 is a big deal)
Not really, but hubby always makes sure I get a new book on my birthday every year
The birthday person gets to pick what’s for dinner.
Not big into birthdays, but I try to take a day off work on or near my birthday.
Just make my favorite meal and cake. Really don’t get presents anymore.
I’m with Tina I tend to forget my birthday.
No real traditions. Just get to pick where we eat
We don’t usually celebrate our birthdays. I suppose in recent years, we have started to eat out to celebrate but it’s not a given.
The Rocky Mountains are an hours drive from where I live, so long as it is not overly cold (October), my bestfriend and I take a drive and spend the day out there.
since early 2000 when the movie Pay It Forward came out.. i have tried to do something quietly to Pay It Forward on my birthday and now since 2011 i have very publicly done it as part of my FB posts. This year was the best.. had so many wonderful stories that came back to me by FB friends saying they Payed it Forward and told me how. it was wonderful! i am so blessed and this is so much fun.
The closest thing to a tradition in our family is that the birthday person chooses the restaurant that we all to out to for dinner. Yum!
My family always goes out to eat since my dad likes it and we have the same birthday. xD
Go to the Casino with my Mom and ignore everyone else.
Every birthday we have a birthday dinner at my moms & everyone comes.
My birthday tradition is taking the day off and going to used bookstores and eating at Red Lobster.
No special traditions.
Usually I bake my Son’s favourite cake for their birthdays…
they had complained if I they get one that’s store bought…lol
Every year my dad calls me in the morning to wish me a happy birthday and every year I don’t answer the phone because if I don’t answer then he sings me happy birthday on my voicemail and tells me he loves me. I save the voice mail so I can listen to it all year then delete after the new one.
I’m sure he knows I purposely don’t answer but that’s okay.
We always pick what we want for dinner and a treat.
I’m sorry. I’ve never had birthday traditions myself.
Just the one in my family that all first birthdays a small cake is given to the birthday baby to play in it or eat it after playing in it.
Dad use to call me to wish me happy birthday. He is gone now so now I buy myself a book I have been wanting whether or not I can afford it.
I answered the last question the same but it is going to dinner with my sisters.
going out for a meal with family
A meal with family is our tradition.
Each person in our family gets to pick the meals for the day on his/her birthday – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert – whether home cooked or restaurant food.
Just spending time doing anything I want and have a slice of cake.
No traditions here
Sadly no. I’m lucky if my birthday gets remembered. Lol
My entire family gets together eats really good food and birthday cake!!!!
No tradition really, except I greet everyone a happy birthday at 3am(if I remember) and since I’ve learnt to bake about almost 3 years ago, now I have to bake something (either they be sweets or the dreaded lasagna that takes so long to make) for relatives on their birthdays.
My birthday is completely different every year
My daughter’s birthday is two days before mine. We each have a separate party/dinner and then one together. We call it our birthweek.
Since I met my honey we go away every year for our birthdays which are 10 days apart. No kids, no work issues, just us two hiking or going to great lakes for biking.
Birthday tradition: avoid avoid avoid
I go shopping with my mother, just us
Lately it’s been happening in my family but whenever we have a birthday we all go out to eat any buffet that the birthday girl/boy wishes, then we go over to their house and talk about random things.
Not really. I’ve actually forgot it a few times ’til I got a phone call later in the day.
Every year on my birthday I have a meal by myself. Normally somewhere I like to eat that the rest of the family doesn’t.
The only “tradition” I can think of are an abundance of snarky funny greeting cards. My grandson and I like to linger in the card aisle and read cards.
We typically have a meal at whatever restaurant we want for our birthday or their favorite meal at home.
Birthday person chooses kind of dessert they want. Then the family gathers at mom’s house and we all have supper, have dessert and ice cream, and open presents and cards.
Me and my co-workers have a birthday party every week for the whole month of January
It’s not really my tradition, but my sister always calls me really early and sings Happy Birthday REALLY BADLY and REALLY LOUDLY!
Dinner of your choice
Blueberry martinis
Not really but we do allow the birthday celebrant to select any restaurant for us all to go.
My Mom always makes a cake on the weekend closest to my birthday, plus I usually surprise myself with a box of Raffaellos.
I usually bake a cake, and I try to travel!
I get an ice cream cake. I only eat it once a year.
No traditions just a simple day but I do love ambers traditions:)
I celebrate each day of the month since my birthday is the last day of the month.
Not sure how this got started, but going out for Indian food.
I ring my family every year on my birthday (or they ring me). We talk lots of other times, but birthdays is when you make sure you talk.
Not really a tradition, but friends and I get together usually on my birthday weekend to celebrate all our birthdays because mine is Halloween and it’s always fun to see and wear costumes.
It’s not a tradition but during the day I do whatever I feel like but during the night my family always takes me to special dinner and a customized cake
I have 2 autistic kids so my birthday is my one weekend away from them every year. My sister keeps them and my mom and I go on a yard sale road trip, we gamble a little and just enjoy the whole weekend.
Family meal and handing out candy to trick-or-treaters.
I have brownies with powdered sugar. I am not a cake fan
My family and I take each other out to lunch or dinner. We have a lot of birthdays in Nov and Dec so for those months we just have one big pot luck and exchange presents.
Not any more.
Don’t really have any traditions
I get a new tattoo every year on my birthday.
My mother always made me blueberry muffins for my birthday breakfast. After I got married, my husband took over and makes them for me every year.
Don’t have any BD tradition.
Nope not at all. It’s a couple weeks after Christmas and usually headed back to school so very busy.
usually it is just going out to lunch
Normally my family and I will sit down for a quiet dinner, then celebrate with my favorite cheesecake. I don’t know if I would call it an official tradition, but it is a very special celebration to me.
Every year my parents and brother celebrate with cake and candles on my birthday!
Nope no tradition…. well I guess I always go to dinner or lunch with my mom and grandparents each year
Well it started after my babies ( 27,22,& 16) were old enough to do it but they would race against each other and my hubby to be the first to wish me a happy birthday.
No traditions. hmm….maybe its not to late to create one.
Yes! I let my nieces and nephews pick what I should be doing. And since the oldest is 5 – our adventures are interesting;)
Not as an adult. I am more of the I-am-denying-I-am-a-year-older mentality. My husband and I have birthdays two month apart, so we try to go out on a mutual birthday dinner sometime in the two month period. (We don’t eat out a lot). We do have a Valentine’s Day tradition though, which is to buy each other live plants – herbs, planter flowers, etc. since spring planting season where I live is just about that time.
I haven’t had a birthday party since I turned 7 but every year we go to whatever restaurant I want to go to and my aunt (who has the same bday) exchange gifts of some kind. Usually I get a gift card to Amazon, Google or where ever my next years textbooks are cheapest. Sometimes it’s just something I need or could use like a printer, a electric blanket (bday is August, 2nd but winter eventually brings -20 F temps), and a full shodo (Japanese calligraphy) set. I typically make something for her like, a Sunday/church hat, a dress, or a winter coat. That’s pretty much the only thing close to a tradition.
Not since my father died (are birthdays were a day apart).
No just relax
Usually my friends come over to my house to celebrate with me, the special thing about my birthday is that, because it is on May 1st, there’s no transport of any kind and they walk over to my place. I love them for it.
Go out to dinner with family. Birthday person gets to choose the venue
I call my best friend and tell her that I will be older than her for the next 21 days lol
Go to dinner with the family, usually a steakhouse
My sons usually let me know what my favorite food is so I can fix my own birthday dinner and then we have cake which they help pick out. You know so I don’t get a boring one and I end up with a batman or lego birthday cake with icecream. My sons take such good care of me lol 😀
Call each other and sing the birthday song(badly) to each other. Other traditions vary with need
Not really, just being able to picking our favorite meal.
No traditions sadly just sometime that week try to have dinner with everyone.
Not really. Just go to dinner with family.
I have a glamour day, hair, nails waxing, etc
Each year, the person whose birthday it is picks what we will have to eat for dinner and then we open presents from the other memebers of the family that come on the birthday night.
The birthday celebrant gets to choose where they want to go out to eat. That’s about our only birthday tradition.
go out for bacon and eggs breakfast every birthday of mine and make my hubby pay!
No tradition, though we do try for everyone in the immediate family to be there
No specific tradition, except for presents and being able to place custom cake orders with my mom.
I have a me day. I start with breakfast at my favorite restaurant, shopping, lunch then shopping the dinner with my husband
No tradition I just try to not do any dished but that doesn’t work out every year.
Usually we/I get to choose on cake for the “family-birthday” and what’s for dinner. That’s pretty much it.
The only thing I do is take vacation that week. I don’t work on my birthday if I can help it.
Not much of anything….but I treat my grandchildren to pizza parties at Chucky Cheese….they love it.
Just the cake… It is the only thing that never changes
The family gets together and we eat whatever meal the birthday boy or girl wants and drink some wine.
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I go to see the fires of the San Juan’s night every year at 12 o’clock p.m.
I go out to dinner or lunch with my closest female cousin.
Go out to dinner
Not really, our only family tradition is on 25th December.
Decorate the house with streamers!
No special tradition, either.
Every year my mother cooks me Cord on Blue and I spend half the day with my family and the other half everyone lets me be to read in peace unless there is an emergency.
I play Volleyball with a bunch of nice guys and girls. And when someone had birthday we enjoy snacks and drinks in the changing rooms after training.
Just a family dinner at a restaurant chosen by the birthday person. Then we gather to eat cake and ice cream and open gifts. 🙂
Not really, my family (my mother really) don’t celebrate birthdays, so until I started dating my boyfriend birthdays were more or less like any other day.
My mum make me a cake. And now that my dad has had to go in to a nursing home as he can’t walk. We go to him and spend the day. But that’s for all birthdays now not just mine.
It used to be cakes… I guess, now, I just get a nice trickle of milk tea from the fams, and dinner if we can gather enough of us at one time
We get 2 large pizzas and watch a movie together in the evenings… Before we used to get cake and balloons but everone is too old for that now apparently :p
These days, we go out to dinner at the restaurant chosen by the B-Day girl. In the past, the cake was served at Grandma’s with the names of all the cousins for that month.
I get a special dinner for my birthday of my choosing!!