I just thought of this as I was repling to Raptor Jesus's Sunday thread. What was your birthday's like when it fell on a Sunday while you were still in the church. Were you able to do anything special or did you have to wait? Did you have to celebrate it different in comparison to your birthday falling on other days.

we'd do the normal stuff minus eating out. that'd happen the day before.

Birthdays were treated like any other day. I still had chores. I still had to eat shitty burned food for dinner if that's what my stepmom made. There were no gifts, no cake, no parties, no celebration. A few times, my parents were on vacation on my birthday. One year, dad had returned from vacation and about a month after my birthday, he called me into his home office, picked up a packet of 4 pencils that had been sitting on his desk, tossed them to me, and said, "Oh yeah, I forgot it was your birthday last month," and he just tossed them to me. I can't remember if that was 15 or sweet 16, which wasn't sweet at all.

My parents, as long as I can remember, have always pretty much treated me as though I'm completely worthless to them and they couldn't be bothered.

So if my birthday was on a Sunday, I just wrote it off. Dad would be stuck at church all day in meetings, and my stepmonster was allergic to giving any sort of positive attention at all because she already thought we were spoiled little assholes and she didn't want us to think we were worth anything.

Yes, I'm bitter and yes, that was a sore spot for me. Sorry.



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Or they can have a cake with candles on Sunday but no big party or dinner out.

Some Mormons aren't very strict on Sabbath restrictions. Others are sticklers.

My mother almost always had birthday parties for me, so I assume she did them on another day of the week. My aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents would come to visit (on my dad's side) and bring gifts whether it was Sunday or not. We'd have cake and orange floats for my birthday. Usually angel food cake as my grandmother loved it.

The last birthday I remember as an active Mormon, I was in the primary and I forgot they would call me up to sing to me. Damn. I hate stuff like that.

It is so nice not to have to worry about SUNDAYS any longer.



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We got to sing the "zippity-ay and heidi-ho" birthday song in primary. I believe that phrase is reformed egyptian for "the sabbath trumps your birthday".



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We went out to Dad's favorite restaurant often for Sunday dinner...and if a birthday happened to coincide, so much the better...maybe a trip to the DQ for desert was in order. The only thing Dad didn't do on Sundays, was farm work.

Ron Burr

That is the one thing that everyone told me as a young child was acceptable.

My dad's irrigation days were always on the weekends, but he taught school during the week. My dad always did farm work on Sundays.

When you're farming, ya do what ya have to do. Dad would combine on Sundays when it was late in the season and the weather was threatening....and he always got the crop in and never put a tough bushel of grain in the bin. And yes, irrigating back in the pipe moving days took precedence over church. And he always figured God approved of what he did and didn't care what some self righteous TBM thought. I farmed 7 days a week when it was planting, spraying or combining time.

Ron Burr

The TBM's I know aren't that strict when it comes to Sundays, as they still have a cake at home with family members for birthdays that fall on a Sunday. They just don't go out to eat on Sundays, as to them, that's breaking the sabbath.

I wasn't raised Mormon, so birthday parties took place no matter what day of the week they were.

We always celebrated Easter on Saturday. Which I always found funny since easter is supposed to be religious

Like a BirthdaY Bonanza..!!!!!!! Tons of people, tons of food,
swimming in the pool, lots of laughs , piles of presents....

Oh yeah. It was all good. We never let the church get in the way of enjoying a good time. Besides I lived in L. A. which is a bonus compared to growing up in Utah.

Mine were fabulous... just fabulous.



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WE were big on birthday parties, so, no matter what day of the week the real birthday was, we would have the parties on Saturdays, so all our friends could come. Sleepovers were on Friday night, beach parties had to be on Saturday, so my Dad could help out. It just made sense. I had friends of many religions, and we didn't know what their Sunday rules were.

This is interesting. I am not sure what I was really expecting, but definitely not these types of answers. Heck, they almost sound kind of normal.



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Done on Saturday beforeb so as not to interfere with the Sabbath.

"Saturday is a special day" because Sundays are dedicated to mormonism.

So, between the "keep it holy" and "mormon busywork," birthdays, etc, were usually moved up a day to Saturday.

For that matter... weekday birthdays were frequently moved to the closest Saturday to better accommodate parties.