Out With the Old! Create Clever New Birthday Sayings for That Special Someone

“On your birthday, I wish you all the blessings for the year to come.” Oh, yeah, I really feel that.

“In celebration of your birthday, I want to say, I hope you live every day, to its fullest, in your own special way.” Gee, how deep. Forget it.

Have you ever, let’s say in the last 30 years or so (if you have that kind of longevity going), just gotten sick of the over-sentimental, maudlin birthday sayings (otherwise known as drivel) that’s been rehashed and warmed-over since, at least, antiquity?

It just doesn’t have to be that way. You can change the situation. Take it upon yourself, march en masse against the drooly, dippy birthday sayings that are so outdated, so generic, so meaningless, that you’d just as soon not get a card at all.

But hold on: Everyone loves birthday sayings, as long as it applies to them, personally. Let’s get original here! How hard can this be? We’re creative people; we live in the age of self-promotion, “anything goes,” and forward-thinking enterprise.

Let’s guess: You go to the grocery store (or, if you really want to spend more money, to a specialty birthday shop), peruse the cards with their nearly identical birthday sayings with about one-millionth of an ounce of interest, finally decide on one because you like the picture on the front, and forget about it until you deliver the gift.

Because this same thing has happened to YOU ad infinitum, you know where that $4 card with the squeaky-clean, grandmotherly birthday sayings will go – straight into the circular file nearest you.

Look. These are your friends. These are people you care about. Don’t do this to them! Sure, there are other card companies that appeal to the more modern, up-and-coming population, but how many times can you squeal with delight when yet another dog/cat/giraffe/ugly elderly person/baby-making-a-face/cutesy stick figure hits you, year after year?

Birthday sayings should be personal; birthday sayings should be directly from YOU to THEM, with no commercialized riffraff standing between you, creating a gulf full of all that is phony. But don’t get sidelined: Birthday sayings don’t have to be glittering with hearts and flowers, causing an avalanche of tears; birthday sayings don’t have to be cutesy-funny to the extent that it makes the recipient of your personalized message squirm and turn red with embarrassment; and birthday sayings don’t have to be, if you’re in a love relationship, all about “I love you forevermore, without sight, without thought,” for heaven’s sake. Get real! Say what you REALLY mean, and everyone from the distant cousin you couldn’t stand since childhood to your nearest and truly dearest won’t wince: leave the stores empty-handed and resort to your own, self-made birthday card and birthday sayings inside. It will mean more to them than that lovely Mix-Master you got for a present any day.

The possibilities are endless! Get your trusty pen out and go crazy!

Whether you are parent delivering a birthday toast to capture the love for your precious daughter or a son presenting a toast to your parent, our birthday speeches will help you find the perfect words.