So when is the best birthday?

[midjd]

There was some grumbling in the other thread about Thanksgiving and Christmas birthdays and having to share with a holiday. I have a February birthday and, as a kid, was always jealous of the summer birthdays (pool party!) Now I like it OK since it kind of breaks up the post-Christmas/pre-spring rut.

My friends with summer birthdays were almost always the youngest in the class. Again, worked against them as kids, is now OK.

So what's the best birthday to have? What's the worst? Do you like yours?

(Side note - My third nephew is due Dec 26 )

[zibazinski]

Mine is in June and to me, that is perfect. Halfway between Christmas so as a kid, if I didn't get what I wanted on my list for Christmas, I had birthday coming 6 months later. DS has July so he is set as well. DD has just after New Years so she is and always has been screwed. Everything at once and nothing the rest of the year. Or she gets a present meant for both Christmas and her birthday. As a kid she would get other kids rejected Christmas presents so we started celebrating her birthday at the end of January in hopes that she would get no more leftovers.

[whoami]

We have 3 birthdays in 5 days in my house which can be hard on the wallet but good on the calories since we only get one cake for all of us. The other birthday falls on Thankgiving depending on the year.

[Peace Of Mind]

May!! Every 7 years it fell on Mother's Day and it was always fun when we celebrated it together (regardless of what day it fell on). I found it ironic that right after she passed this last Mother's Day fell on my birthday. That was the worst.

I also had a step brother (he also recently passed) that was a May baby and our birthdays were celebrated the same weekend when we were young (like twins would even though we were 2 years apart) and my favorite uncle (only 1 year older) is also a May baby and we get along really well. It's also one of my favorite times of the year along with March and October (in Florida).

[hockeygrl]

My DS has the best birthday: 1/1/11. Mine is pretty awesome, it's 11/11 - veterans day - so it's always a holiday. Score!

[giramomma]

Two of my kids have April birthdays, late enough that we've lucked out with good weather. My oldest is neither the youngest or oldest in school. They can also celebrate their birthday at school ( and we can actually bring in homemade treats.)

The new b-day gifts (we don't do many gifts) tend to get old around Halloween, but the kids forget in the excitement of Halloween. We also do St. Nicks, which also helps get us through Christmas.

I have a late summer birthday. For me it wasn't the birth month that was the issue, but rather how my birthday was treated. When I was in HS, I was allowed to bring along one friend to the birthday activities. Previous to high school, birthdays were nuclear family only.

[chiver78]

Jun 14, 2012 23:09:46 GMT -5 @lonewolf said:

Mine's 9/11 and that sucks.

a friend's dad shares your birthday. he celebrates it on November 9th now.

I'm a Labor Day baby, and that always sucked when I was a kid for a couple reasons - there was never anyone around for my birthday, and I always got school clothes for presents. um....what?

now it's cool because I take vacation time to extend the holiday weekend, in whichever direction my birthday falls. I totally admit to being a spoiled brat who refuses to work on my birthday.

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Birthdays are good ?

[zibazinski]

Better than the alternative.

[swamp]

Mine is in March. As a kid, it kinda sucked because it was too late in the winter for winter activity parties like sledding or skating, but too early for outdoor stuff.

In HS, it was pretty cool because I was one of the older ones in the class, and I was one of the few 10th graders that had a driver's license.

In college is was always during spring break and it's 2 days before St. Patty's Day, so it was awesome.

Now, eh, whatever.

[Deleted]

mine is at the end of November so it usually gets lumped in with Thanksgiving. This year is a landmark birthday, so I'm hoping we can do something fun and semi-exciting.

[Deleted]

I'm a March Birthday and ever so often it lands on Easter.
DD is July and DS is September -- so she saves me $$ because I don't have to have a big party with classmates and he saves me $$ because it's so early in the school year he hasn't made friends yet! ;D

[teen persuasion]

Another March birthday here!

In ES, I remember there were 3 girls w/ a birthday one day before mine, then mine, then another in the next day or so (out of a class of 17). At the time I kind of wondered about the odds; now I wonder how many of us were first born after a June wedding. This was Catholic school, after all. ;D

[midjd]

LOL! I remember in HS, my brother's class had about 190 students - my sister's class (one year younger) had 330. The lightbulb clicked when my mom said something about the weeklong power outage of 1991...

[movingforward]

Seems there are a lot of us March people. Mine is at the end of the March. I guess I have never really thought about this question before but pretty much what swamp said about being able to drive in the 10th grade. That was pretty cool. My present employer gives us a day for our b-day. We don't have to use it on that day, it just needs to be used within 30 days of your b-day so it works out pretty well for me because I can typically combine it with our Good Friday holiday.

[shanendoah]

As I've said before, my birthday is 12/21- which means this year, my brithday is the end of the world. We're so having a major party, even though it isn't a milestone birthday for me.
It really sucked as a kid. My birthday was generally during Christmas break, so very few people were around. My class also had a birthday every day from Dec 16-23, so even if I wanted to bring treats to class for my birthday, there was a good chance someone else was bringing treats that day, too. (When I say "my class" I mean my grade- there were two classrooms for each grade at my school.)
It really does suck to get all your presents at the same time of year. You never get any cool summer gifts.
DH and I have solved this issue by not doing birthday gifts. He gets a Christmas gift each year and I get an anniversary gift. Our anniversary is at the end of August, so it's nice and far away from winter.
In the last few years, I have taken to having my birthday dinner at our favorite Indian restaurant and inviting all of our friends. I don't worry so much about having it on my actual birthday, but instead to find an evening before everyone heads out to visit family for Christmas. It's not so much about my birthday as giving us all a chance to celebrate as friends.

[zibazinski]

In my family, there are tons of September birthdays. I always figured a lot of partying between Christmas and new years!

[Firebird]

My birthday is 2/24... it's fine but I kind of wish it was 2/19 instead... that's my lucky number

For those of you with holiday birthdays, didn't you celebrate half-birthdays instead? All the kids with birthdays near major holidays did that when I was growing up.

[Abby Normal]

Best birthday- obviously Feburary 29th. You only have a birthday every four years. Think of all the advantages. You get to act like a child, with good reason... you're only 10.

Which makes me younger than my child....wait....

[Firebird]

Oh yeah, 2/29 would have been cool also. And I was even born on a leap year. Missed it by five days.

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Jun 15, 2012 7:14:04 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Jun 14, 2012 23:09:46 GMT -5 @lonewolf said:

Mine's 9/11 and that sucks.

a friend's dad shares your birthday. he celebrates it on November 9th now.

I'm a Labor Day baby, and that always sucked when I was a kid for a couple reasons - there was never anyone around for my birthday, and I always got school clothes for presents. um....what?

now it's cool because I take vacation time to extend the holiday weekend, in whichever direction my birthday falls. I totally admit to being a spoiled brat who refuses to work on my birthday.

My birthday is around then as well. Frequently the first week or two of school. As a kid, I always found it stressful because no one had set the precedent on birthday cupcakes yet. Had we outgrown those or should I be bringing treats in for the class? Too much pressure.

But now, the long weekend is pretty awesome.

[973beachbum]

Mine is 1/29. I could care less as long as I am not dead. ;D

My kids are Sept 19 and April 15. (cue the accountants ) My Dd who is the Sept baby always hated trying to have parties since it is the begining of the school year it is a little hard to get people to come. DS semed to be better with April. It often ends up right around Easter though. So it also can be hard to have a party during Easter vacation or just after it.

Now I just pick a convenient time to hold the party if we are doing one that is close enough to the date. It is much easier that way than trying to make the outside world conform to that date. ;D

[cronewitch]

April 29 is perfect, the mother doesn't have to be pregnant in summer. Child will start school at the correct age not too young or too old. Already 18 when you finish high school. It isn't holiday or vacation time and it is spring so you could get summer gifts. I usually get a outdoor plant or hanging basket. I am 64 and don't really celebrate birthdays but my mom and brother usually get me something in the $25-$50 range if they happen to see me.

[Sum Dum Gai]

I stuck my poor daughter with a birthday a couple days from Christmas just like I have. Misery loves company I guess. The younger one is a March birthday and that seems like a pretty good spot. My youngest brother has the worst birthday ever, in my opinion. April 15th. Friggin tax day. Every adult in the country is kind of broke, angry, or stressed out around his birthday. Of course, when we were kids you didn't have the refundable credits and stuff. Now it might work out better since people are getting fat refund checks while shopping for you.

[teen persuasion]

We tend to celebrate birthdays w/ my parents, my sibs, and all our kids. We've got at least one birthday each month except December. We usually all get together about once a month and celebrate joint holidays/birthdays/family traditions.

It seems like there is a holiday nearly every other week, anyway. Not all of them are big ones, like Xmas, and some move around, like Easter. We've got family birthdays on Groundhog's day, Lincoln's birthday, St Patty's day, Flag day, ...

[thyme4change]

Summer birthdays SUCK. Everyone is on vacation.

And my kid is the very youngest one in his class.

[zibazinski]

Not in Florida they don't. For kids living there it's a permanent vacation. DS is in July and we had pool parties and pirate boat parties and miniature golf parties galore.

[thyme4change]

Maybe your friends are poorer than mine and can't afford vacations. {{ }} There are plenty of parties to have - but we have yet to find a date when school is out where 25%++ of the invitees are out of town.

[midjd]

I'm surprised at the February and later birthdays that make someone among the oldest in their class. I suppose a lot depends on when the birthdays in a specific year fall (e.g. in my sister's "blackout baby" class, half the class was born in March), but I'm an early February baby and all but a few of my classmates were older than me. My brother is also in February and was also among the younger ones in his class.

I'd like to be the oldest when it came time for driver's licenses, etc. but OTOH it'd be nice to graduate college at 21...

[thyme4change]

I have a January birthday and the cut-off for my school was Dec 31, so I was one of the first to get my license. I was also 18 when I graduated. I would think February or March would be an awesome time to have a birthday. After Christmas, but not too close.