For my 35th birthday (2006) my partner asked what I wanted. With two full-time wages coming in, we could afford most things, so money wasn't a problem. However, I told him the thing I wanted most was to spend a day just with him. We had two teenagers in school, and I was 8.5 months pregnant, so I knew that this would be my last chance for a very long time to spend a day just being in love (sorry, I know you're allStripyPixieSocks wrote: Quite honestly just spending one day with my OH, alone, cuddled up on the sofa watching DVD's will be just a nice a Christmas than getting hundreds of pounds worth of gifts I don't want or need to be honest!
-ing, but I bet you're all a bit 
-y when you get the chance 
). OH felt a bit stingey not buying me a present, but I didn't need anything, and there was nothing I wanted that could be bought. It was a lovely birthday.As for cards, I don't send them to people I live with. I used to have to when I lived in my parents
house, or they would sulk and say I didn't care. I send them to other relatives, because I never, ever see them, and like them to know I'm thinking of them. Same with some friends that I don't see very often. I also send to neighbours, because they send them to me and it's just the 'done thing' around here. I think it's important to keep the harmony with your neighbours.