My birthday is on Halloween. It’s always been a real hoot.
In Boston, March 17th is Evacuation Day, celebrating the day during the Revolutionary War that the British evacuated from Boston. It’s a city holiday (only celebrated in a few other close by cities) and it’s completely coincidental that it falls on St Patrick’s Day. ![]()
My birthday falls on or around Columbus Day, which means I often have a long weekend for my birthday but since it’s not a present giving holiday it works great for me.
One of my sisters was born on July 4th. To the best of my knowledge, it’s basically been a non-issue for her.
A brother in law was has a birthday during the last week of December and he was always very slightly bummed by it.
For a while, my birthday fell on Easter Sunday every 11 years; no big deal.
Checks User Name Yeah, An Xmas B-day is the pits.
Everyone opens gifts on YOUR Birthday
People avoid you on your birthday to regift their Xmas presents.
You get wished a Merry Christmas. And, oh yeah, Happy Birthday.
You don’t get a special Birthday meal and your Birthday cake is always red and green.
I tell people I don’t celebrate Channukah (which starts this year on the 22th) or Christmas. If they ask me “Well, what do your celebrate” I say very loudly “MY BIRFDAY!”
My youngest brother was born in December 23rd. Often his birthday party consists of just me (since I usually go home for Christmas) and my mother. It’s always an annual ritual for my mother to tell the story of how she had to spend Christmas in the hospital because of his arrival, and my father brought me and their other four kids to stand in the snow outside and wave to her in the window.
Another brother’s birthday occasionally falls on Thanksgiving, and even when it doesn’t we usually celebrate it then because we’re all together.
I would certainly think the best holidays to have a birthday would be Fourth of July, St. Patrick’s Day, and Halloween.
My mother was born on December 24th. She hated having it that day. Her siblings always got birthday and Christmas gifts, she generally only received Christmas gifts and one would be called her birthday present. As us kids grew older, Christmas Eve was always Mom’s birthday, not Christmas Eve.
As a child, those with summer birthday never get school birthday parties and all their friends are away for the summer. My husband’s half birthday is on the Fourth of July, so neither his actual birthday or his half birthday were good for school-related parties plus everyone was partied out after Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
October 31st is really good birthday here as November 1st is a holiday.
My birthday is close to St. Patrick’s Day, but late enough it is never on Ash Wednesday.
Another bad day for a birthday? A day that is too close to a sibling’s birthday. They will be combined, even if there’s a large difference in age.
Back when I went to elementary school, there was a kid whose birthday was December 24th. His family decided to celebrate his half-birthday instead, so he got a birthday party at the end of June. I always thought that was a nice idea for handling it.
Mine’s April 4 so it tends to fall right around Easter. Normally it was good because I got presents and a cake and heaps of candy! Unless it fell on Good Friday because my parents were really strict about the whole being miserable on Good Friday thing and it meant I’d have to wait until Saturday to have any of the good stuff.
One of my brothers’ birthday is May 29 so our parents would always tease him that he wasn’t getting any presents because having a day off from school was enough of a present. It worked for a few years until he got wise to them. Yes, he got presents and a party anyway.
Christopher on The Sopranos was shot and had a near-death experience. He dreamed Hell was an Irish bar and every day was St. Paddy’s Day. ![]()
NSFW:
[SPOILER][Jesus: Tomorrow is my birthday, and all is not right.
Stan Marsh: Your birthday’s on Christmas? That sucks, dude!](https://youtu.be/qyyeRnDCG3I)[/SPOILER]
Side note… I was wondering the longest amount of “every 11 years” for Easter would be.
The most I could find was four. April 12th was Easter on 1903, 1914, 1925 and 1936. Three is more common. For example:
April 10: 1955, 1966, 1977
April 11: 1971, 1982, 1993
And I’m not interested enough to find others.
My nephew’s four kids (10, 5, and a pair of 2 year old twins) have birthdays within two weeks of one another. They each get their own family birthday party, and also a big birthday party with extended family and friends for all of them together on a weekend somewhere within those two weeks. Each of them, including each of the twins, gets their own individual different cake at the combined birthday.
My brother’s wife and her twin sister, who lives next door to them, have their birthday on July 5. So they often celebrate a joint birthday on the Fourth.
(One of my cousins has seven kids, including three pairs of twins. What a way to economize on birthday parties!)
You missed Easter 2004 for April 11, then it skips to 2066. Wake me when it gets here, would you, please? Thanks.
My birthday is in late August just before school started. On the minus side: many of my friends were off with their parents for one last vacation. It also made me the youngest person in my class which kind of sucked back then (not now!). Plus side: the county fair was always scheduled the week of my birthday and it was just across the street.
My birthday is September 3rd. I like having a long weekend right next to my birthday (Labor Day).
Mine occasionally falls on MLK day. Regardless, I always celebrate it over that three day weekend. Admittedly, January birthdays suck, it’s often the coldest day of the year in Chicago
I would think Christmas and New Years both kinda suck; I know people with both and none of them have really good feelings for it.
On the good side a friend is July 4th. Imagine any time your birthday comes around there are cook-outs, fireworks, relatives maybe visiting who can get guilted into presents. He really seemed to dog it all.
Mine’s very close to, though not quite on, Valentine’s day. Irrelevant as a kid, annoying as an adult; want to go out for dinner with a group of friends? Oh, sorry, we’re doing our special couples’ menu only and fully booked…
My cousin’s husband shares a birthday with his sister- Jan 1st. Efficient partying.