Thursday Tips & Tricks-Happy Birthday to Me Box

Okay, so sometimes we expect too much of our family and friends on our special day.  If we lower our expectation a bit, then we can be pleasantly surprised with the perfect gift or just that anyone remembered at all.  My experience is that it is a rare thing when we get something we were hoping to get secretly in our hearts, is the perfect thing and it becomes a treasured remembrance of that person's kindness and love.  And then there are times when a card, an email, facebook message or even a text is all we get from those we expected to make our birthday a happy one.
But who knows you better than YOU?  By giving to yourself, you take the burden of making it a Happy Birthday off others and realize it's up to you.
 Buy or make a special birthday box to keep in your closet and throughout the year put things in it for yourself to enjoy later.  Here's some ideas:

Gift card for your favorite restaurant (take yourself there on your Birthday if you don't have other plans)
Gift card for a favorite store (I love Target)
Book you wanted to read
Great smelling soaps (Bath and Body Works is my favorite)
Favorite candy
DVD to watch on your birthday
Crazy pen that makes you smile
Bath fizzies
Old Birthday cards that people wrote nice things about you in (start saving those)
Music CD or iTunes gift card
Favorite Magazine (or a subscription)
Flowers sent to your office (sign from "someone who loves you a lot")
Plaque with a saying you like
Pretty journal or notebook
Tickets to a play, concert or show

Remember to treat yourself nicely on your day.  See The purpose of this Blog