January Adult Birthdays - Ideas please?

Saturnalia

Poor you, I know how you feel. My birthday is the 19th and I've given up bothering about it as every time I try to organise a get-together, everyone pulls out at the last minute due to being skint, tired out, full of cold, you name it. Most people (me included!) just want to burrow under the blankets in January!

Saying that, most people with a weekday birthday don't get much going on (or expect to) on the actual date as everyone is working, it's the weekend when the celebrations happen.

If your parents are house-sitting can they mind your daughter for the afternoon, then you can go and have lunch with them then do something in the afternoon by yourself?

Callie22

I have a just-before-Christmas birthday and OH's birthday is January 1st (a rubbish day for a birthday) so we both tend not to do much. Everyone is busy, away, fed up with parties/eating out, skint etc etc, so whenever we try to plan anything it never comes off. So, we just take our birthdays as they come.

However, what we have started to do is have an 'unofficial' birthday day in June/July, where we plan something nice and spend the day together. The weather is nicer and at that time of the year we've both got a bit of spare cash to go out for a meal etc.

January20

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Thanks everyone for your suggestions, i'm i agreement with you Barbiedoll and January 20, quite liking the BBQ summer thing esp if we linked it in the middle with DH and mine we could do a double celebration. Thanks for the idea! Dh thought it quite imaginative too.

Thanks also to January for posting back, didn't want you thinking I was having a snipe, just merely enquiring what other January people do.

You know i think i might just forget the house stuff as suggested, go into town with a book and go to costa, collect DD at 12, see my parents and let DH cook in the eve. See our friends on Saturday and have a lovely time.

My first post was a bit harsh on you. Sorry, I didn't get what you were really asking. This year, I've loved having my birthday in January but some years I can't be bothered for the reasons you stated!

blossomhill_2

January is GREAT! Go to RHS Wisley to see the butterflies in the glasshouse and imagine you are in the tropics. Follow up with cake and hot chocolate.I hope you have a great day whatever you do.

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Thanks January20, your reply is very much appreciated!

pinkclouds

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I'm struggling for ideas as to what to do for my birthday this week. DH will be at work, DS at school and DD at nursery

Well... if you really want to know what I did for my birthday this month... hubby was away so it was just me and the kids. My toddler opened my gifts on my behalf (literally shredded the paper and earnestly asked "do you like it?" after each one) in the morning, as he wasn't at nursery. My 4 year old opened my cards on my behalf after school. They both chose a little birthday cake from the supermarket and we ate loads of cake after tea. Oh, and I put candles on the cakes and they blew them out - on my behalf. I thought it was great fun and so did my kids.

Before I had kids... I suppose hubby would have booked a day off work and we'd have sat in some cheerless restaurant picking at food. Actually, no. The last pre-kid birthday I had, we went to the cinema. But it just wasn't as much fun.

skintchick

I haven't read all the replies, but my birthday is tomorrow so i sympathise! Even before I hd DD, my mates were always skint and not wanting to go out, plus it always rains on my birthday so it is a sucky day to go out. OH's birthday was Friday so we usually end up sharing celebrations.

We went out friday night, got a babysitter, I cooked a roast and made him a cake, then we went out for drinks. My birthday will usually be my usual day with DD, make my own tea, no cake unless I make my own, sit in all night watching TV.

Tomorrow my parents are coming so I will be taken out for lunch, but wwill still have to cook my own tea and make my own cake!

I do think Jan birthdays are rubbish. It's why I planned DD to have a summer birthday.

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I take your point pinkclouds, but i'm currently favouring two and a half hours up at the health suite at the golf course idea!!! LOL

Redouble, isnt that what we are supposed to do for our kids birthdays not our own???? :-)

Redouble

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I take your point pinkclouds, but i'm currently favouring two and a half hours up at the health suite at the golf course idea!!! LOL

Redouble, isnt that what we are supposed to do for our kids birthdays not our own???? :-)

I didn't know where we were going, I just followed my parents car, it was only as we turned off the roundabout and into the McDonald's that I twigged. My kids were thrilled though, and as the 'restaurant' was also next to a petrol station, my father offered to fill my car up for me as my present. :rotfl:
It was only at half a tank so I didn't feel too guilty in allowing him to do so :o
And the price of diesel these days I was very grateful! In fact because I haven't needed to go out too much I haven't filled up since

blossomhill_2

The worst thing about my January birthday is that when I take cakes to work everyone is on a buddy new year diet! I now take Weightwatchers cakes and apples too! ByJuly birthdays they are all back to pouncing on great wodges of chocolate fudge cake LOL!