When she was little, Jennifer McNeese thought having her birthday two days before Christmas was “awesome.”
“You get all kinds of toys. It was like doubling up. Then when you hit 12, all you get is: ‘P.S. Happy birthday.'”
So what’s it like having a birthday close to Christmas now?
“It sucks,” the 42-year-old McNeese says.
Many people who have a birthday either on or near Christmas say it can mean missing out on the birthday parties that everyone else seems to get or getting birthday gifts wrapped in Christmas paper. In worst-case scenarios, it can mean having their birthday forgotten altogether.