The last birthday party I had was in Gr. 11, when I was 17 years old. I stopped celebrating after that....don't see the big hype about birthdays. I mean, sure, my family is really nice to me on my b-day, gets me stuff, etc. and my friends say happy birthday, but I never felt like celebrating too much.

I know some ppl like to go out with friends, etc., but I just find it more and more pointless as I get older.

nope.
my fambam usually 4get's my b-day..
my b-day is like in a few hrs..ughh...
i don't reelie c what's the big deal with b-days tho..
unless imma spoil bratt den a-list me plz.. ;]

My bday's coming up soon... it's a 'milestone' birthday but probably nothing's going to happen. My family will take me out to dinner, I'll get a few emails and IMs and that'll be that.

In a way, it's fine but on the other hand, I do think from time to time it'd be nice to have a birthday celebration that's a big deal at least once.

I used to celebrate my birthday every year with many people coming over but ever since I turned 21, I lose the interest and just feel like having a simple celebration with family and friends. Since I am studying in NY, I dont celebrate at all.

How do I celebrate my birthdays?

Pretty much the same way as the very day I was born: Someplace naked, crying, and utterly confused.

I don't know
i never really like
birthday parties but
i always end up with one
this past july was my
21st birthday
and all my friends got excited and
was telling me stories of how
they're gonna get me drunk
...it didnt happen
instead they threw a surpise
party seven times that weekend...
it was fun ...i wasnt planning on getting drunk either way...
hahaha

i use to think birthdays were whatever.

but as i get older, i share it with family!!

i LOVE LOVE family time.
so... a big meal and family get together!!

Parties stopped at, like, 5, so not "celebrating" isn't new, but my mom will buy or make a cake, and we'll go out for lunch or dinner where my dad always threatens to tell the waiter it's my birthday.. Definitely a family day. Even if we don't do anything special.

erm, well...more n more alcohol as i get older? lol, at least last week on my bday i was pretty well, until i got totally wasted n ended up saying hi again to the drinks i've had before...
i even got some drink form total unknown american men in the pub, since it was my 21st they got all hyped up...though in europe i'm allowed to drink since i past 18, lol...anyway i was thankful XDD

For the past 22 years, this day has been treated like any other day. I don't plan to change this trend any time soon.

I actually get kind of irritated when people say "Happy Birthday" to me. Puts me in an awkward situation so I'll either respond with, "Umm thanks...." or " Yeah, whatever."

Birthdays do seem to become less and less important as you get older (and I can see why...lol)
But...I usually just meet up with a few close friends and go out for dinner or something...
Nothing extravagant! Although, I would love to have a "bigger deal" b-day bash for my next birthday, seeing as it's one of those milestone ages!!!

Ya...I'm the same way...too
should i say "thank you"?
or what? hahaa

Since I'm living away from family & studying in university.
I guess I celebrate with my friends up here, things tend to get wild xD

Dinner with family and friends at a decent restaurant. Possibly clubbing and/or karaoke with friends.

Sometimes a cruise.

It really depends on whats available at the time.

I stopped celebrating my birthday in high school. I don't care about it. I see nothing great about knowing that I've aged on that particular day.

i usually take the day off. shopping on a weekday is fun.

A lot of my friends still celebrate birthdays... but I think some of them use it as an excuse to still go clubbing.

I celebrated my 23rd this year by organising a go karting race! It was super fun!!! There was a trophy presentation and everything! XD Doing the same for my 24th.

usually people don't find my birthday special... don't know why... T __ T

i just take a shopping dayout, buy lottery tix see if i get lucky then buy foods for our maids & for dinner.

I just had my 20th bday 2 days ago. Originally I wasn't planning on doing anything (I've never celebrated birthdays) , but my friend called me out and we had a dinner.
It was really sweet of them.

with friends usually a big get together like karaoke (in high school) or a party/lounge (college). and with family we usually go out for dinner or stay in and have a big homecooked meal. this coming birthday (as I turn 23..sigh) I'd really like to just go to the spa or on a shopping spree. and then go home and sleep in my warm fluffy sheets.

Nice family dinner.

That's about it.
I even stayed at home on my 21st birthday.


Sounds boring huh.

after passing 25 now I usually just eating dinner with familly and friends

I never really cared too much about my birthday either. After I met a friend that had a birthday a year before mine, we celebrated it together for the last couple of years except last year. I wanted to have my own for some reason, and when I did I realized that isn't what I wanted. We celebrated it together once again this year. I realized I don't like the attention and enjoy sharing a birthday with a friend. Dinner and/or a chill night of drinking, no more getting piss drunk!

usually at the bar having a drink by myself

Ummm karaoke the whole night & get drunk, or just stay at home and sleep. Nothing special abt it..

same here, i don't wanna celebrate anymore. it only reminds me i'm a day older, lol!
but if i get a surprised one like i did this year, i'd enjoy it. it's once in a blue moon someone remembers my birthday.

never really actually had a big hoopla or anything
but the past several years just a couple close friends and I will go out for dinner then to a bar or few ^^
being the birthday girl and all, i have the excuse to be the "DD" (designated drunk )

i never liked parties much I had maybe like 3 or 4 my entire life and usually now a days I go and have dinner with my family or something

but this year my bff wants me to get drunk and whatnot since its my 21st but I really don't care...I'd rather just stay home or do something quiet

I eat pasta every year....
My favorite food and enjoyed it with my family!
OF course, I made it!

Parents take me out for dinner.

With friends, I usually have a dinner and maybe some sort of clubbing/lounge event. I turned 21 this year, so I had a week of birthday festivities. Multiple dinners with different groups of friends, and then a big party at a club where I had the VIP area and champagne.

Have dinner with my friends and have dinner with my family. I never seem to do much.

The older I get I don't have bday parties anymore. I usually go out and have dinner with families and/or friends. I'll be 30 next summer. OMG! YIKES!

You would think that as you get older...the more FUN it will be....
Somehow...I find for myself that as I am one year older every year...
I tend to not celebrate it anymore...It's not as exciting...Maybe my mind is just elsewhere...?
No more anticipation for presents...cards...
But of course I can always accept a YUMMY cake...
Birthdays have turned into a BIG food grubbing feast.

I used to share it with a bunch of friends at a party/club/bar.
Now I share it with my family.
I just spent my recent birthday in Hawaii with the boyfriend and his close friends.

Dinner with friends when I feel up to it, else its just like any other days. Some years I even forget its my birthday until the day have passed :/

Well, yesterday was my birthday and I spent the day with my friends. We are all down in Florida working for Disney World so we first started the day off at Disney-MGM Studios since we rarely go there. We took lots of pictures and got on the rides then we all dressed up nicely and went to Grand Floridian and ate at Narcoosee's. The food was good but expensive - though we don't regret since we had a good time. =) Today is the day after my birthday and we are going to EPCOT and plan to eat at Chef de France.

since you stopped celebrating at age 17. No big deal... but once you're aging... you would want to do a lot more things! dress up and just party and chill........... i never celebrated my birthday til i turned 21! that was just something BIG now i love it. And i want to make a bigger event for my birthday next year. Good luck with that! have fun Its once a year!

My birthdays have never been terribly exciting except for the fact that I am happy to have them to celebrate the opportunity to live.

I think birthdays are special because we should celebrate the time we are alive and can be here with others. I think you should do it all the time but this one day just to stop everything and only celebrate this happiness.

Every day isn't peaches and cream but I am preferring to try to see the good things and ignore the bad things.

when i was young i have this birthday parties with balloons and games.. but as I got older its usually go and eat out stuff like that... but this year I got to spend it in Hong Kong.

I usually have a family dinner on the day, and have dinner with friends the day after or before.

eh... a nice dinner is js fine for me. before, i used to plan a kick back w/ friends. now i get lazy and dont plan anything since its such a hassle.. lol . ahh... signs of aging.

I don't know. Usually I remember all my friends' birthdays but mine, so my family and friends always have something to surprise me. Every year, my mother cooks sticky rice for me (my favorite), my sisters cooks one new food (I love to tried their new food, they're very good), my father spends a whole day to play game with me, and my best friends send me cards. It's happened for more than 20 years now.

i don't celebrate my birtdhay anymore.. the last celebration I had was when I was 21.. after that I didn't do anything. No one really remembers my birthday.

i don't think birthdays are a big thing anymore. well they were when i was young. i only had one large-scale birthday party when i was 9 and 15. but after that, it's just dinner and a cake that's all.
but for the last two birthdays i had them outside home, so it's just dinner with friends and we'll just do whatever we usually do after.
birthdays has lost its significance as we grow older, even the milestones don't mean anything except the harsh reality of me growing older but not yet achieving anything worth mentioning.

When I turned 20, I just chatted online with my friends no one was home so I did not have much of a birthday party on my birthday.
Because I had it a few days before my birthday on the day I was supposed to be born June 12.
So, for that day I dresed up and then I had a cake and my friends came over and at night time I went to prom.
So it was good.

My birthday was yesterday.
I just went out to have a nice dinner with my friends and then headed out for some drinks at a lounge afterward.
It was fun and I got drunk but it just wasn't the same anymore lol. Though I do want to have a good time on my birthday I could have cared less if I stayed home or went out yesterday.

I don't celebrate my birthdays anymore...a happy birthday from close family and friends is enough for me

Well when I was younger it was at Chuck E Cheese but now that I'm older my parents celebrate it the same every year going out to eat at Old Country Buffet..

I don't even celebrate my birthday anymore since I'm away in college. I used to go to Chuck E Cheese too when I was younger Those were the days, now I think I'm getting to be a very boring person. Dinner with friends and families is good enough for me

My mom always cook pasta for my birthday!. It's an excuse to eat a lil expensive dishes imo.