So tomorrow I turn 52. I could care less. To me it is just another day and I don’t want presents, friends over, or a party. I haven’t decided yet as weather will dictate, but my plan is to work on my truck as I will have the day off from work since it is President’s Day. If I don’t work on the truck, then I might cook up some tenderloin steaks and invite my mom over; I just visited her yesterday. This would not be a party; just me cooking what I want and sharing with my wife and mom. If I work on the truck, then I will probably just have a sandwich.

Anyone else not really care about your birthday, or is it a big deal? There is no right or wrong. My wife LITERALLY celebrates a birthday month and does something every single week with friends and of course I have to go all out for her for her actual birthday. To me it just doesn’t matter, but we are all different.

I celebrate by taking the day off work so I can't have a shit day at work on my birthday. Additionally I cook either steak or lamb along with other favorite sides. Simple celebration, most years I end up doing errands with my time off work.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
I celebrate by taking the day off work so I can't have a shit day at work on my birthday. Additionally I cook either steak or lamb along with other favorite sides. Simple celebration, most years I end up doing errands with my time off work.

I would like to work on my truck and also have a steak…lol.

My wife and I go out to dinner for my birthday, usually at a steakhouse I like. No presents, if I want something and can afford it, I get it, and she doesn’t know very much about guns. Sometimes she will surprise me with something like friends surprising me, but not often.

My birthday is on the 18th and we don't do anything special. If I'm off, my wife and I may go out to eat. If I'm working, then we'll go out the next day off.

Now next year (2026), I may celebrate my birthday as I'll be 65.....and retiring from my LE job after 27 years!!!

don't do anything special. I turned 50 last summer. It was a normal work day.

Pretty much bluprinted my day. Don’t want no parties or Taco Tuesday type bs. Just leave me alone and GTFO my lawn. I do the same, take off work, real low key fashion, and give myself 4 hours to half a day. Just another day. I put way more into New Years, personally. That means I don’t have the coffin nails around me and I made it to another calendar year of my Lord. I made it, still here got damnit!!! But it’s the same, low key, GTFO my lawn. Just want a calm day on the seas of life, and be left to decide my fate that day. Just no drama please Lord. No getting into a wreck from some phone f’er. No HVAC breaks. No plumbing drama. Just no drama in general and I’m good. Birthdays are for younger folk. I’ve always got shit to do.

My next one will be my 84th! I rejoice and thank G-d for allowing me one more year with my friends and family.

I have, in recent years, lost all of my teachers and role models; more recently my contemporaries from the Vietnam War Era.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
I celebrate by taking the day off work so I can't have a shit day at work on my birthday. Additionally I cook either steak or lamb along with other favorite sides. Simple celebration, most years I end up doing errands with my time off work.

I would like to work on my truck and also have a steak…lol.

I did break tradition last year and spent a few weeks in a tropical paradise for my birthday. That's almost as fun as steak, chores, and a day off work.

Just another day for me. Next month will be my 67th. We usually just go out for dinner. My wife makes me a chocolate cake. No decorations but it's my favorite.

Celebrating a birthday is a little more of a ‘girl thing’, though it can vary some. It’s kinda like Valentine’s Day, a little more geared to women. Of course guys participate, can be other motives at ‘play’.

I usually take the day off and do absolutely fuck all.

Today is my 78th birthday. Taking the dog to the groomer will be the highlight of the day. Maybe look for some Woodford Reserve DOUBLE DOUBLE Oaked. Tomorrow I'll get the stitches in my face taken out.

I'd forgotten that mine was next month (78) until my with asked what I like to do. Dinner at Louisiana Longhorn will probably be it.

I turn 50 this year. Might buy myself a 25th Anniversary Kobra Carry. That's about it, just another day.

I’ve had 73 of them, so the thrill’s worn off.
I have, on occasion, bought myself something I didn’t need, but wanted.

This will be my 78th on Saturday. We usually go back to the restaurant/bar where I turned 21 while in college. They have good pizza and it is the only bar I ever stop at and that is not too often.

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I have, on occasion, bought myself something I didn’t need, but wanted.

Yes, other than occasionally using it as a convenient excuse to buy something stupid, no not once I got out of my teens.

Beside celebrating one's own birth always seemed a bit vain to me.

Being self-employed, I always mandate "Founder's Day" off for the entire staff (me), but that's about it. Mrs. A. tries to make a big thing of it, for me it's just another trip around the sun. I ran out of fingers to count on a long time ago.

My wife and I always celebrate our respective birthdays. I’m 55 and she will catch up to me in a few months.

Dinner out, a small gift, and if weather permits, a good, long hike at a State park.