Are you a frugal person?

Happy birthday in advance. Wow! Was it made mandatory? You will have a bigger budget for that because you will also treat your family. When my budget is not enough, I just bought something for dinner (not the usual dinner). It's difficult to spend your money in one day for the celebration and the coming days are headache. You have prepared it though, right?

Wow!! At the price of restaurants now a days this is a lot to expect people to do. I would be thinking maybe a Box of Doughnuts or something would be the easier thing to do.

I don't agree with that custom.

happy birthday to you. hope you have enjoyed your day with your family and friends.

Happy birthday, I wouldn't think about footing the bill for everyone's dinner. Why not everyone pay for their own dinner and chip in for yours. That sounds more reasonable to me.

Happy birthday dear.. It's a good way to share heavy bills. It's done here too

The birthday person treating everyone else. If it has grown to that many it would be my last one too.

@Annierose ~That's dumb., it sounds like you have a lot of moochers where you work The most that we have done at my jobs is get a cake for someone's birthday. Some of the places that I worked had one cake for birthdays for the whole month. Have your company change it's policy. You don't want to be stressed and burdened on your birthday. Sometimes, I'm really frugal, like when I go grocery shopping. I wait for items to go one sale before buying them. One superstore that I go to, Meijer, a competitor for Wal-Mart, in the midwest of the U.S.A., has a frequent shopper plan called MPerks. Occasionally, Meijer will send me coupons from items I regularly get from the store. I take advantage of store specials and use coupons when I can. I also get $2 off for every $100 that I spend. I bought a 28 pound bag of Rachel Ray's Nutrish dry dog food. It's normally $41.99 but it was on sale for $36.99. I also used a Nutrish coupon that they had sent to me for an additional $6.25 off. I haven't been eating much since I suffer from nausea frequenty. I only shop for myself, my dog and cat. So far this year I've saved $261. Imagine how much an attentive shopper with a family could save! Have a Happy Birthday!

It is really a big expense to invite all the staff to lunch. Fortunately, we don't have this habit.How many Staff do you have?

Wow. Indonesia has that culture too. So when I was still working in office, I usually make my homemade lunch, which is enough for all of us. It's so much cheaper than buying at cafe hahaha

Happy birthday!. yeah that's more practical share it with someone. but you know actually it is wrong. they should treat those who are celebrating the birthdays, because it is a celebration of her/his birth.

It’s the opposite here. People treat you on your birthday and it makes more sense, yeah? Hehe

I hope you had a Happy Birthday. That would be hard on the budget to treat all your coworkers.

Advance happy birthday, Ms. Annie! Maybe what you should do is group all those who are celebrating their birthdays during the month into one blow-out as is usually done here by certain organizations. That way, the cost for the treat is divided equally among the month's celebrant.

Lucky you coz there's someone to share it with.

it's good that you have someone to share the expense with. are you going to buy lunch or merienda?

Some offices will take a monthly small collection of money from each person in the group so that there is a fund to pay for the birthday cakes and sweets.

I'm not a frugal person but I would object to having to treat everyone to lunch. That is an unreasonable expectation.

What?! Who made this up?? Where is the logic in this? Why on your birthday do you need to *spend* money on everyone? It supposed to be the other way around! That is so stupid in my opinion.... Tell the boss if he wants you to give his employees a free meal he should give you a raise Wish you a happy birthday and may all your wish will come true

I am not a frugal person, although I love to save money because of precautionary and contingency motives, when is available I spent but careful to spend