How do you celebrate your birthday?

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Since my birthday is in a few days, I had this question on my brain.

How do you guys celebrate your birthday? Do you celebrate it differently than you did when you were a child? Do you celebrate it the same way every year, or do you do something different?

I buy a sixpack and throw a party with all my friends!
Nobody wants to celebrate with me except family.

I don't celebrate birthdays, being born hardly counts as an achievement on my part.

I usually just have family over for a meal. A couple of times I have had birthday parties with friends.

Since I've moved out on my own, I really don't, I might buy myself something nice or see a movie, but it's not really that much different than any other day.

Congrats on making the big 2-0, Goofy!

I enjoy having a birthday--but I don't really celebrate it much. I might have a cake or something, which my wife brings home.

I don't do or ever expect anything special for my birthday but for my birthday this year I went to see Jurassic world with my family and last year I went to a Japanese hibachi grill, those are cool.

Sometime along the day I open my presents, if that’s applicable. Sometimes there are wrapped in presents waiting for me, other times I order books/ DVDs/ games on my wish list and my family pays for it and that’s my presents. I never touch them before the day is there, even though I know what they are and they aren’t wrapped. I still get excited about gifts.
Sometimes they’re all opened at the same time, other times I save some for later in the day.
We always eat something I really like. It’s usually rather warm at the time, so it’s often chicken with potato wedges and salad, or taco. And we always have cake. We’ll watch a DVD if we have something new.
Sometimes, when my mother works on my b-day, we postpone the celebration until she’s off again.
“We” are me and my parents. “We” used to be me, my parents, my maternal grandparents and our pets, but my pets and my grandparents have all passed the rainbow bridge.
I’ve never been used to or wanted anyone else there.

Not really. I was more excited about the gifts when I was a child, but it still excites me. As a child I would have been devastated if I had to postpone the celebration, now it doesn’t matter to me. But it’s always been basically the same idea: me and my loved ones, tasty food and cake, presents.
When I was in daycare, my mother invited the girls in my daycare to come. My last birthday with other kids there was when I turned 7. Then I started school and my mother thought I wanted to invite classmates, but I wasn’t interested, and so the last 30 years it’s just been those I actually want there.

Basically the same way every year. We never go anywhere to celebrate. I’m not interested in eating out, and neither do my parents. All celebrations have always been at home with ourselves there eating food we’ve cooked ourselves.

It's usually only my parents and maybe my grandmother celebrating my birthday, but that's just fine because I enjoy that they spoil me on my special day. My birthday is just over a month after Christmas when I get stressed out from trying to figure out what other gifts family members want, trying to find a store that sells what they want, crowds, crowds, and more crowds, and then when I come to my parent's house to open gifts only one family member at a time is supposed to open their gifts so everyone can see what they got, and they make me wait until and everyone else takes a hundred years to open their gifts and I know I'm selfish and materialistic but I don't care what you got just open the @#&! ! gift already!!

But on my birthday I don't have to deal with all that. I get a couple nice gifts and maybe some birthday money, a cake and a trip to a favorite restaurant. But now I'm already feeling stressed about Christmas and it's still September when all I can think about is Halloween, which I like thinking about.

ITS ALWAYS CAKE AND ICE CREAM FOR ME!

I love balloons. My birthday is the only day I try to make it about me, me , me! Mine is April 8th. Some times I go out to dinner. I don't like big big parties- no. But I like a small gathering with my family and have cake and ice cream. I don't even care about presents. But I must have my cake!! !

I use my birthday as an excuse to pig out on food, but otherwise I never do much. I usually just have a meal with family and we'll hang around at home. I find my own birthday depressing for some reason, and I don't like the attention.

I loved my birthday when I was a child, but it was mainly because of the presents I would get. I still like gifts to some extent, but I feel a bit guilty receiving them now.

i buy fried chicken and a fresh strawberry pie (i'm a spring baby), take them to my mom's to share with my sisters and open cards. my husband usually buys me an inexpensive gift.

I never was into celebrating my bDay much besides getting cake & prezies as a kid. I kind of quit getting prezies as an adult cuz I'm difficult to shop for sense most everything I want I'd have to get myself. I don't really celebrate it much at all now that I'm living with my girlfriend. She buys me something I tell her I want & we go out to eat but it's not always on the day of my birthday; it's whenever it's convenient.

I don't really.
It has happened several times that my friends just out of the blue congratulated me, leaving with a blank stare before i realised that it was my birthday.

As someone before me stated: the fact that it is X years ago to the day isn't really worthy of a celebration.

some special birthdays might be worth paying attention to, mainly the ones which bring you over some legal age (drinking, driving, getting married, no longer obligated to attend school...), but the others; meh.

Happy Birthday!

Mine is spent with my family. My Mom bakes a cake. My family gathers at either, my home, my sister's house, or, we will all meet at my parent's for brunch or lunch, have cake and ice cream, my parents share memories of me as a child, then we usually end up spending the afternoon, hiking or at the beach.

I usually celebrate at home with family members. Sometimes we would go out for lunch or dinner, but otherwise, nothing else special, although on my "milestone" birthdays (25th birthday, for example), my family would through me a surprise party.

I would definitely say my birthdays now are different as they are as a child. I don't ask for presents as much as I used to because I didn't feel there is anything much that I really needed, so I would be pleasantly surprised with and pretty much grateful with whatever is given to me.