https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:54:14 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137566 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:28:22 +0000 joyjoy 137566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, my close friends and I still do gifts for each other. DH and I will be the only ones in these circles with a LO, so I don't see that changing until more join our train. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137531 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:14:08 +0000 winniebee 137531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! For friends with kids, I get their kids bday gifts instead. For friends without kids, we will usually do dinner or drinks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137526 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:13:39 +0000 Andrea 137526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do drinks and dinner. I only buy gifts for my BF as she lives across the country. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137524 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:11:41 +0000 lavender 137524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, we just do a dinner. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137352 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:53:23 +0000 LuLu Mom 137352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, we do dinner or lunch and I will pick up the tab but we have stopped gifts awhile ago! It was getting too expensive! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137345 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:41:43 +0000 Alivoo01 137345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just take them out to nice/fancy dinners, and if they've mentioned something they've been wanting, we get it for them. Otherwise, just dinner. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137309 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:20:48 +0000 sulli301 137309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I usually get gifts for a couple close friends but usually we just celebrate friends birthdays with dinners or date nights out </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137249 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:45:56 +0000 mrsjyw 137249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. We usually do a lunch/dinner. This year though, I did send a gift card to one of my out of state bfs and bought lingerie for my intown gf, and plan to gift my other gf for her bday. They were all BMs and it's been a while since I've been able to do something special, so I wanted to do it this year :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137213 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:33:23 +0000 Rubies 137213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a group of four girlfriends and one year I bought nice gifts for each of their birthdays and went out of my way to organize a dinner for them. When my birthday came and with it NOTHING from any of those girls, I stopped trying. We're still close friends but when it comes to gifts and stuff, I stopped. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137211 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:32:35 +0000 MsMamaBear 137211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We take each other out for lunch or something. Used to be big dinners, but with kids..it's not so easy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137209 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:32:09 +0000 chopsuey 137209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friends are all over the place and most don't have babies. I don't think we ever exchanged gifts for birthdays.. We just went out and ate well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137207 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:50 +0000 heffalump 137207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a few friends who buy gifts for me so I do too in return. But honesty old rather not, I wish we would both just save our money! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137205 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:22 +0000 banana 137205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We buy each other's kids gifts instead. It's more fun that way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-birthday-gifts-for-your-friends#post-137202 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:28:52 +0000 Mrs. Bee 137202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used to buy each other gifts every year. But now that we're all a bit older with kids, we usually just do a nice dinner for everyone's birthday... esp since everyone has birthday parties for their kids, and we buy them gifts instead!</p> <p>What do you do in your circle of friends? </p>