What wonderful things did people get you for your 40th birthday?

Went to the Alps for three weeks culminating in the Mega.

People didn’t buy me anything special really, I’m a grown-up.

joshvegas
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Ceilidhs are great if you have a decent ceilidh band that takes you through the dances had the dances drummed into you for 13 school years.

People didn’t buy me anything special really, I’m a grown-up.

Stop being so miserable. It’s nice to get nice things even when you are a ‘grown up’.

Stop being so miserable. It’s nice to get nice things even when you are a ‘grown up’.

Fair comment.

😀

I just get a bit irked by all the self-indulgent “which expensive watch” or “which titanium ego chariot” threads on here for blokes’ 40th or 50th birthdays.

But TBF to the OP he doesn’t seem to fit that mould anyway. And the essence of my comment was really experiences > products.

And the essence of my comment was really experiences > products.

100% this. But some sort of keepsake would be nice. You don’t need to spend thousands to get “Alan @ 50” engraved onto a glass. (Other names, ages and engraveables are available)

100% this. But some sort of keepsake would be nice. You don’t need to spend thousands to get “Alan @ 50” engraved onto a glass. (Other names, ages and engraveables are available

Yep, ive still got my 30th birthday mug that gets used every day for drinking tea

For my 50th my two best mates got me:

– A pair of the Italian square whiskey tumblers used by Deckard in Bladerunner and a bottle of JW Black Label (as also seen in the film)

– A bottle of JW Blue Label with some Joy Division lyrics etched into it.

I was very humbled.

Tudor Black Bay red (sorry Chakaping) which is a really very lovely thing.
I also had a child free weekend away in Bath with Mrs LJ (who is also very lovely)

The kids made me a framed picture with 40 things they loved about me, which was properly cheesy but also a little bit amazing. I will be quoting it back to them when they are teenagers.

A big box of climbing holds and the iou for timber to build a climbing wall in the garden (as yet unbuilt). I did spend the day on a Spanish hillside overlooking the med so that was nice.

Update:

In the end my parents are getting me a bushcraft weekend and my girlfriend is getting me a label maker cos I’ve always wanted one.

Looking forward to my party!

Deranged wife put herself into debt and bought me a Rolex, we were divorced by the time I was 41. Watch is in a drawer still in it’s original box 22 years later. Serves as a reminder not to marry lunatics but doesn’t seem to be working.

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I got a Hegel H120 amp for my 50th.

My wife didn’t exactly get it for me… but she did green light the deal.

Serves as a reminder not to marry lunatics but doesn’t seem to be working.

You probably need to wind it up…and the watch

Good work on the experiences!

Our label maker is extremely satisfying. All the boxes of “useful” tools are much more useful if I don’t have to look through all of them for one specific thing😂

Not exactly on my birthday but in my and my friends 40th birthday year we went road cycling, in the French Alps for a week. It was fab!

Not exactly on my birthday but pretty close to the date.

41st birthday I bought myself a Cannondale Scalpel SE.
42nd was a cycling trip to lake Como.
43rd was a weekend completing the CL200 as part of the group start.
44th, this year. A Hello Dave and a Garmin Venu. I’m taking off my actual birthday from work and intend to ride some steep Tweed Valley trails.

You should always be nice to yourself on your birthday ☺️

Friends and family clubbed together and got me a massive roll cab, along with some 40 year old single malt, which I drank very slowly over about three years.

Similar to @jamesmio – mine was March 2020 just as we wen’t into the first lockdown. Sadly I got nothing. I’ve promised to buy myself something when it’s all over – hopefully in March 2022.

I’m really fancying a Singature Enigma Excel road bike in Ti64…

My phone rang at 1 minute past midnight on the day of my 40th. I wondered which of my mates was having a laugh being the first to wish me happy birthday. Turned out it was a cave rescue shout! So I spent the next 10 hours setting up underground communication in a freezing cold cave on a Welsh hillside in the middle of February. Missing group were found tired and down on lights but OK and were helped out of cave. Got home at 10 am and spent most of the rest of my 40th asleep in bed!

As far as pressies go, I got a nice bottle of Whisky and a new butchers knife 🙂

Good thread. Mine’s next year and I don’t intend on doing anything for it, but I will be taking my eldest to the Bremen Classic before it, and a group of pals to Techno Classica after it.