What do you do for you spouse or partner birthday?

[kally]

I find as I get older that I don't want anything big (and not anything really at all) but a nice lunch out, a card, maybe something fixed around the house and a gift that I would have bought myself that I have told my dh about does the trick.

Now he is a bit trickier. Meal out and some $$$. We do less each year. Your turn.

[rodeosweetheart]

I bought mine two wonderful new pillows for his birthday last month, as he claimed I was always stealing his, They are really dreamy.

We went out for a nice cod dinner and stopped and bought a birthday cake on the way home, along with a candle for each decade. Got out a great tablecloth and set the table with the cake and had cake and coffee, like Ozzie and Harriet.

It was a great birthday.

[Gardenarian]

Oh, I usually just ask him what he wants to do. I bake a cake, do candles, etc.

[iris lilies]

Card plus Lindt candy bar is our standard birthday exchange.

Bonus points if the card has a bulldog on it.

[Gardnr]

Maybe a card but not always. But always an I Love You and hug/kiss:cool: We are so beyond gifts.....we need nothing and want for very little.

[Simplemind]

Travel

[lessisbest]

For hubby's birthday I will send a food treat to work with him to share with the "inmates" :laff:. It might be cake, and might be something else he likes. We don't need/want gifts anymore. We limit Christmas to a $10 limit for the immediate family, AND it was decided last Christmas it needed to be something we could readily consume (nothing that needed displayed, dusted, stored, framed....). For Christmas hubby and I exchange one gift from the Dollar Tree - which has proved to be a great solution and a lot of fun. During the year if we find our adult children and adult granddaughter "need" something outside of their budget range, we'll gift them the money or item. Son got a nice greenhouse, daughter some new dining chairs (hubby designed and built the table in college), and our granddaughter needed a vacuum cleaner for college. We're very practical people, and please don't bother with fancy gift wrap. Some of our homemade bags are a crafter's delight using a lot of "found" objects.

[frugal-one]

Always make DH favorite... cherry cheesecake. We travel and say that is our birthday, anniversary and every other holiday present. As others here, we do go out for lunch to celebrate!

[Teacher Terry]

WE go out to a nice restaurant for a good dinner. wE quit gifts a long time ago.

[happystuff]

His birthday - I ask him what he wants me to bake... usually cake and then we usually go out to dinner as a family.
My birthday - I bake what I want and make the dinner of my choice. I know we would normally go out to dinner for mine, but our son's "Airplane Day" is 3 days before my birthday and we go out to dinner for him. Can't afford that many dinners out so quickly - lol. I always say that my son was my "early birthday present", so it's ok.

[IshbelRobertson]

I usually arrange Dinner at one of our favourite places, quirky gifts, like a couple of outdoor night cameras to watch the wildlife like foxes, badgers and hedgehogs.

He buys me jewellry!

[bae]

I won't say in detail, but I suspect it's illegal in 50 states, even between consenting adults....
















.... but unpasteurized cheese is *sooooo* good.

[kally]

bae ha ha.

[SteveinMN]

.... but unpasteurized cheese is *sooooo* good.
There's a cheesemaker who sells at a farmer's market here and advertises the unpasteurized cheese as "fish bait". You have to know to ask for the "fish bait". Good stuff....

We vary on gifts. Most times they're token gifts; we save the bigger ones for anniversaries and Christmas. We're pretty good about buying little items for each other of a moment, so gift-giving occasions are not tests of devotion as they are for some people we know. There is always a special meal; sometimes homemade; sometimes out (usually out for me because it's a treat for me to eat something I would not make at home and I don't have to cook and clean up). But, like so many here, we are largely past "stuff".