With the holidays over and everyone is, hopefully, making a full recovery. However, during this time of party, recuperating, party, recuperating, there are a few people celebrating birthdays, like my mom. These are people who have definitely earned the title of “birthday double dippers.”
Sure, people who have birthdays a week before, the week during, or the week after Christmas do complain about their birthdays being so close to Christmas: “I only get gifts one time of year.” “It’s stressful before/after the holidays.” But what about their loved ones who have to trek out and get them yet another present, even after all the Christmas presents are bought?
It is not easy to shop for some people. Getting them one gift seems like a Herculean task by itself without having to do it again. But, surprise, you have to search your brain to come up with another great idea.
Then there is the issue of wrapping paper. About 99% of the wrapping paper in the stores are holiday themed during the month of December. So then you have to search the store for any little scrap of birthday or even a nicely colored wrapping paper sans trees, reindeer, or Santas.
I can find one pro to having a birthday double dipper in your life. You can always switch around the gifts, granted you use neutral wrapping paper. When you don’t think a gift is right for the moment, you can change the birthday and holiday present without the birthday double dipper even knowing. However, this one pro does not outnumber the multiple cons for the family members, he husbands, the wives and the friends, not the double dippers.
So, here’s to the birthday double dippers. Happy Holidays/ New Year’s/ Birthday! P.S. we’re on to you.
Your grandfather was a double dipper. Talk about the impossible gift idea! I am on the "every other year" plan with birthday cards for your mom, which is HORRIBLE because she is the queen of remembering everything. We change month and year. And it's Great Nanny's b-day, too. {hangs head in shame}
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