Your Guide To Remembering Birthdays

Make Cupcakes

Make your friend some cupcakes! Then, make a big spectacle about it, acting like you planned this all along. She will NEVER know that you forgot her birthday. Ya know, just play it off. mmmmmm cupcakes!

Bake Them A Cake

Invite your friend over (the day after their birthday) and make them a cake! Once the cake is prepared, light the candles, turn off the lights, and blow the candles out for them. Yes, that’s right, for them. This way, you can show them how to do it correctly.

Just say that is the reason you didn’t go to their party. She doesn’t know how to blow the candles out correctly.

Throw An Early Party

Here’s an idea…

Just invite ALL of your friends, throw a big party, and at the end just yell, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” That way, you are killing two birds with one stone. Yes, everyone is appreciated!

Use Facebook

This is my FAVORITE! I seem to be on facebook a lot these days, and it’s nice to see a list of birthdays coming up.

Get 'em Wasted

Take your friend out for a drink, get them drunk and tell them that you remembered their birthday all along. Then sing them a karaoke song on YOUR birthday, just to be safe.

Oh this works, trust me.

Go All Out

Now you have to cover up your mistake. What are you going to do? Make a huge hot air balloon into a birthday cake, duh! This might be good in circumstances such as: forgetting your significant other’s birthday. That is a big deal! Rent the balloon, ok.

Send Them A Cheesy Card

There is something about these cards I’ve never understood.. their lack of creativity. There is always some shy, sad animal on the front who is supposed to portray your feelings about missing your friend’s birthday.

Still, send it anyway. It might make up for the fact that you miss their birthday EVERY year!

Have A Standby Cake

You never know when you might have a friend’s birthday sneak up on you. So, I suggest that you have a cake pre made in your freezer. When that unexpected day comes around, just set it out to defrost and you’re set!

Mark It In Your iCal

Seriously one of the best inventions EVER! iCal has a system where you can plug in all of your friend’s birthdays, plus any other important days you want to throw in there. Have I done this yet? Nope, but I’ll get to it. I think there is an alarm for the more important dates? Maybe I’ll invent that for iCal.

A Case Of The Common Cold

Just call them the day after their birthday, or the day you realized that you missed their birthday, and act really sick. Simply say that they were on your mind, but you weren’t coherent enough to talk.