One of my best friends had her fiftieth birthday party

I have never had a birthday party. It used to hurt my feelings growing up as a child because the other kids had birthday partys and I did't. My mother never wanted me. Now as the years pass I'm not much of a party girl and I should be more grateful that I'm still here. I'd like to have a bit of a celebration on my 60 th but we'll see. That was nice of that fellow to give you a ride.

I had a party when I turned 50, because my kids insisted on it. My two sons live a few hours away, and they had to drive here for the party. Mostly family came, and a few friends. My husband cooked things on the grill, and we all had a great time.

Most of my birthdays, I try to do something fun that I like, and it could be as simple as putting on my favorite music and making some of my favorite food.

I'll turn 60 in a few more years, and I don't care if I have a party or not, but I will do whatever I feel like doing that is fun.

I just celebrate it quietly. I do not like to have big parties or be put in the spotlight.

MIne all just passed with out any parties lol

It doesn't sound like you cheated too much. I don't celebrate much with other people except my mom and my husband. We have dinner and cake...we relax.

That's wonderful. Happy birthday to your friend.

My twin and I celebrated out 21st birthday with a big bash at our home and we paid for everything i.e food, booze and whatever else we needed.

Haven't had a big bash since then. My husband turns 40 on New Years day and I don't think we would be celebrating it. I'm not sure if he wants to either lol

I never celebrate. When I was married, my husband never remembered my birthday (not even the month!) although I do think he tried to, and my kids don't remember because an example wasn't set for them. The one exception was my 50th, when he secretly flew my mom and sister in and that was a really nice couple of days! He was always thoughtful when he remembered to be. Now that I'm by myself it's just another day. My mom always made a big deal of it though.

Thanks for bringing this up, I have to get my mom's birthday card in the mail today and you reminded me!

hi suspenseful so far I have not had any big party to celebrate my birthdays. As long as I lived with my mother birthdays were a boring issue there. In my first two school years I had these kids birthdays with a few kids of my class but I did not have many friends anyways and the other birthdays were spent with family ONLY which was boring as I saw the extended family nearly every weekend anyways or at least one or two of them coming unannounced to visit.
I moved out of there when I was 30 and never had a big birthday party. I am just not interested in that and thank God I am too far away from family now to throw such a party for them. Would find it pretty boring and I rather work on that day anyways as its a day like any other for me.