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Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
Call me selfish, but I ain’t bringin’ treats to my own birthday celebration…WTH is the point of that…?????!!!!! 🤪:hilarious:;)😁🤣
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Yeah....the Dutch are weird that way. If you have a party, you are also expected to serve everyone as they come in. Where we just put a bunch of food and drinks on a table and everyone can help themselves, here, as people come in, you shake their hand and they give you your gift, you open it, and then seat them and ask them what kind of pastry they want and what they want to drink. You get it and serve it to them and this repeats as long as people show up. There's usually no set time for people to come, just "We're celebrating between 2pm and 5 pm" and people show up any time in there and leave whenever. There's no blowing out of candles on a cake....there's not usually a cake as we know it. It's various pies, pastries, etc. And as their drinks are gone, you have to refill them.

In my house, we did it the American way....put everything on a table, except the cake, and people could grab what they wanted. When everyone was there, we'd bring out the cake and do the blowing out of candles and singing happy birthday. My MIL would come in and we'd get her a cup of coffee, which she wouldn't drink, because she didn't have cake yet. We'd tell her we weren't doing cake yet, but she insisted you couldn't do coffee without the cake/pastry. She really didn't like it that we did things untraditionally, but I refused to spend my birthday, or my kids' birthdays running back and forth to the kitchen to fetch cake and coffee. Make yourself at home and grab it yourself.
 
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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Mr Ferret 75 said:
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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Songbird76 said:
Yeah....the Dutch are weird that way. If you have a party, you are also expected to serve everyone as they come in. Where we just put a bunch of food and drinks on a table and everyone can help themselves, here, as people come in, you shake their hand and they give you your gift, you open it, and then seat them and ask them what kind of pastry they want and what they want to drink. You get it and serve it to them and this repeats as long as people show up. There's usually no set time for people to come, just "We're celebrating between 2pm and 5 pm" and people show up any time in there and leave whenever. There's no blowing out of candles on a cake....there's not usually a cake as we know it. It's various pies, pastries, etc. And as their drinks are gone, you have to refill them.

In my house, we did it the American way....put everything on a table, except the cake, and people could grab what they wanted. When everyone was there, we'd bring out the cake and do the blowing out of candles and singing happy birthday. My MIL would come in and we'd get her a cup of coffee, which she wouldn't drink, because she didn't have cake yet. We'd tell her we weren't doing cake yet, but she insisted you couldn't do coffee without the cake/pastry. She really didn't like it that we did things untraditionally, but I refused to spend my birthday, or my kids' birthdays running back and forth to the kitchen to fetch cake and coffee. Make yourself at home and grab it yourself.
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Yea, in the later years we had an office manager, an assistant office manager and a marketing director. They were always in charge of any “festivities”, including birthdays, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Christmas parties, etc.
I just as soon they blew it all off, but it was about team-building and comradery, according to them.
I always enjoyed the snacks and food though, so it was a win…!!! ;) :)

As far as family birthdays go, we always celebrate those, and everyone brings something. No problems, and always fun, like my Mom’s 86th birthday just recently…!!!!! :inlove::happy:

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