🤠 How To Make Birthday's Happy Without Expensive Toys

Day 62: The Best Present is Being Present

by Edward Smith

05 Sept 2020

Birthday's Can Be Fun Again

In this article I want to talk about birthday celebrations, and how these things can get completely out of hand if you don't stay true to what a birthday is supposed to be about. 

It's weird.  We celebrate birthday's every year, but for some reason we don't seem to learn from the experience.   

Think about it.   What do you remember?   Do you remember the expensive things your parents did for you, or were you more interested in hanging out with your friends and family?   Birthdays can be exciting.   They're great for bringing people together and having fun.   

That being said, they don't have to be extravagant.  Let's return to the days when kids were kids and kids enjoyed birthdays because birthdays reminded them that they were special.    

My Wife's Birthday

My wife's birthday was last Thursday.   We decided to do something special this year.   She hit the big 4-0.  That doesn't happen every day.

So here is what we did.   Since everyone is in lock down, and trips have been cancelled, we decided to take the money that we had saved ahead of time for the trip and spend it on something she actually has wanted for over a decade.  

Something meaningful, something personal and something she'll really enjoy using every day, whether she is using it or watching others around her use it.

A set of nice new pots for cooking.    I know.   Pots?   Really?

Let's think about it for a second though.  You have to eat every day right?   You have to cook if you're not spending your money at restaurants.   

Pots are both useful at the worst times, and really fun at the best of times.  Pots also teach a valuable lesson.   Eating at home can be fun, and it can bring people together.  

Pots become the glue that holds a healthy family together during meal time.   If you don't own a good set of pots and pans.  You should look into fixing that as soon as you can.   They're extremely valuable.   They even come with a set of great memories.   Bust them out and see what happens.

Choosing Between Pots and Plane Tickets

It turns out plane trips cost more then pot sets.  So if you decide to abstain from the skies, the sky is the limit when you want to go shopping for a good quality set of pots.     

We decided to combine her birthday with our upcoming wedding anniversary.   We figured the lock down would still be going on through October, so why not get something that we can enjoy both now and then.  

Happy Birthaversary?

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