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

Stay classy hero.

I had a mountain biking weekend and stayed in the Old Canon Brewery in Bury St Edmunds....
Bought the other half a leather motorbike jacket for his 40th

Ooni pizza oven from my ma which is the best thing ever - mostly just loads of whisky from pals. I did tell people not to bother though because I'm not a child and I can just buy stuff if I want it generally. 😉

Did have a big rave party in a barn (which also had a hot tub outside in fact) in a beautiful spot in Cumbria, which I DJed at and also played with a ludicrously excessive smoke machine. Good times!

My friends mostly bought me booze. My wife bought me a nice camera, and my parents (bless them) gave me £500 to put towards a new synthesizer of my choice. Which felt kind of odd, but also appropriate, since that was pretty much the first time they'd bought me a present since my 18th... when they got me a synthesizer 😆

Pretty sure I got some socks! Maybe some other bits but didn’t really need anything!
That all sounds very middle aged 😂

Following. Over a year till mine but still useful info.

Nothing significant because thats what I told them to do. My family and friends do not do big pressies anyway - never have

I did have a big party tho

My partner gave me the most expensive present I have ever had for my 40th, but it has been so worth it.
A weeks holiday on Bryher, Isles of Scilly, somewhere I had always wanted to go. Why the most expensive? Well, we have been back 15 times since……

A massive pie.

highly recommended.

@doris5000 what synth did you get? 🙂

Went touring with friends for a few days from Aviemore - Inverness - ft William - Oban. Doable for everyone, great times. No tangible gift but probably the best "present" for them all to come along

(They also bought me a bottle of Scapa 16 whisky, a favourite which had stopped being made - nice touch).

Roberts custom built road bike from Mrs Kilo and a trip to the Ghent 6.

Close friends and family chipped a few quid each and bought me a new snowboard. I was well happy.

A chainsaw and a weekend off D I bxstxrd Y

Once in a lifetime trip to Lofoten Islands - a place I'd always wanted to go to but never managed until then.

Mine fell slap bang in the middle of lockdown last summer, so was a bottle of gin and a stack of IOU’s to “do something nice when we’re allowed” that, if I’m honest I’m not expecting to come to fruition.

Nothing as far as I remember.  In fact, come to think of it, I'm not sure anyone's ever bought me anything of any significance for any of my birthdays.  I'm 50 in a fortnight, anyone want to buy me a nice pair of socks?

I got some nice knives. A 2 day Indian cookery course at a very good chef school.

I bought myself a hewitt cheviot se tourer and did lejog

Can’t remember, it was 27 years ago…

Grum - for my 18th, or my 40th? 😉

For my 40th, it was a Novation Peak. I got a 2nd hand one off eBay. Really handy little beast 🙂

Our kid got me/us tickets for LCD Sound System at Hyde Park, a mountain of class A’s and a first class train ticket to that London

It was quite a weekend 😃

I’m not sure anyone’s ever bought me anything of any significance for any of my birthdays.

I'm glad it's not just me then...

You should definitely ask your parents to pay for that last idea of yours...

I think I got a bottle of whisky. I mean, it was only last November so I should remember, but it was also in lockdown. I know we got a nice takeaway meal from Prashad, though.

For my 40th I was single and just did what I wanted to do:

I bought travel chips:

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Had a walk and stalked some sheep:

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And then stuffed myself, fighting off some ducks.

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Went bankrupt! It was a great year! 🤪

Just been discussing my 40th with my OH. I don't want gifts. A week in Iceland fly fishing.

I am quite jealous of Binners's 40th though!

My dad died on mine. Birthdays have been a bit of a shite concept since.

So using that as a base datum for having a great day, I'm sure yours will be fine and dandy whatever you do or get bought for you.

My friends clubbed together to get me this:

https://thebigcatsanctuary.org/photography/

I very briefly stroked a Tiger (but don't tell the keeper)

This is how close I got.

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Just after this I had to wipe Tiger dribble off the lens after the Tiger licked it.

One of the best days of my life.

I got a decree absolute 👍👍

My mother gave me a "surprise" family and friends birthday party at a hotel that has stages most big family events in our lives for more than fifty years. Was a lovely sunny day, the kids played in the outdoor pool, we all had fun. It was great. Presents? Well I bought myself a Titanium Merlin Cyrene - subsequently stolen. I can't recall any others. Activities will trump things when it comes to look back.

My family got me one of these. State of the art.

A bottle of 40 year old port, and a white gold copy of a cheap pewter pendant I'd had on a necklace for 20 years.

My 40th happened last year a few days after the restrictions came back in after christmas. As I wasn't working and all my friends were too far away to even meet in a park I spent the day doing bugger-all and ordering in a pizza. As for presents I got a Haynes Manual for my from-me-to-me 40th present and a new set of tyres for one of the bikes. Never really been a birthday person anyway (having yours a few days after christmas means it's always a bit shit) so doing nothing special sort of suited me. Was planning an Alps trip this summer but that got canned due to restriction uncertainty so haven't done anything special for the big 4-0 at all. Didn't for my 30th either, my 21st was reasonable (met my mates in the pub, nothing special) and my 18th was just a complete disaster. Not planning anything for my 50th.

A party at Carreg Cennen Castle followed by a trip back to Iceland to cycle the Kjolor.

Stuff all

Cotic BFe frame in green that I built up over a few months. Its still hanging in the garage, I'll be 49 next week.

My fabulous wife took me to the British Grand Prix. Which also happened to have Mansells FW14b running as a bonus! I was like a kid in a sweet shop. Such a great weekend.

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Wife got me VIP tickets for Wales v All Blacks in a few weeks - limo from home, the works.
Mum and Dad got me MTB coaching with Andrew Mee.
5 year old got me an imaginary dragon that lives in the back garden.
Made up with all of that!

For my 40th i got my first (and only) child

He was a few days late though, ive told the wife for my 50th i want a present that dosen't cry, piss, shit, eat and sleep

For my 60th i want him to move out!

Just thinking back to other 'landmark' birthdays:

Don't remember doing anything for my 18th, (probably went to the pub and got pissed)
Was away camping on my 21st and forgot it altogether
On my 30th I had just moved to a new city and was crashing at someone's place. My girlfriend refused to go out, so I went to meet the one person I knew for a pint, and then went back to kip on the floor.

At least I managed a party for my 40th!

For my 40th i got my first (and only) child

My old man (courtesy of my sister) got his first grandchild, same day. There seems to be a bit of hero worship back and forth between them, but it's nice to see considering she's now 37

Thanks for the reminder of good times
I got to drive 1600km (with my family and all of our bikes) to do this*

And then when the weather went south we drove 300km to this

I suppose I also made that trip an excuse to buy a new bike to it justice 😛

*Disclaimer - i don't appear in these videos

Some pretty cool present ideas here!

Personally, I'm not too fussed about getting a gift - best present is getting all my pals together for the weekend after all the lockdowns etc.

Though my parents were asking about a gift.

So far my thoughts have extended to:
A bushcraft course (a guy I did the Skelf bike park does them and they look great)
A pair of William Lennon boots
A night in a hotel in Hebden Bridge my girlfriend and I liked when we went before.

Have also thought some kind of fancy/expensive tool I would have for the rest of my life, but can't think what it would be!

Mrs Davesport bought me a KTM Duke & some sticky tyres. Best handling bike I ever owned. Bit slow but cornering & stopping were up there. Thanks for reminding me this was almost 20 years ago :o)

Revisit your roots.

Laser quest and Megabowl combo at The Stacks, Dundee.

Deep-sea world.

Hire the inflatables at Cupar sports centre.

Followed by a Mully hill party.

I received;
- Kid-free weekend away including dinner at L’Enclume
- Tickets for Stone Roses
- my wife also found my hoard of tickets from years of gigs and stuck them all together and framed them which was lovely

My wife received;
- Spendy Wedgewood dinner set. She’d always wanted one apparently. Made me happy as it’s years of presents sorted as I can just keep adding bits to it!
- As the above was not a surprise I also got her one of those silly Dyson hairdryers as she’d used one recently at a spa and had said how great it was.

Actually @joshvegas the big birthday party I'm having is at a castle in ... Guardbridge!
All those years and never knew it was there: https://kinnettlesmansion.com/

It's behind the chippy

Not quite 40 yet but I've already decided I'll be treating myself to my third visit to the Whistler area and parents will contribute towards it rather than a party (I did inform them I'd rather nothing than a party, well it would be a party for 5 people anyway!).

I had a weekend in Krakow (staying in a lovely little boutique hotel just off the main square) and visited Auschwitz.

A weekend in Graz, my dad had the kids up the road at the inherited home.

Set of kitchen knives from a cutler in the city and fun times with Mrs Sandwich.

The then teenage Ms Sandwich got mild hypothermia because a jumper and coat isn't necessary in a mid-winter temperature inversion in a city!

@woody2000

I’m 50 in a fortnight, anyone want to buy me a nice pair of socks?

I'm 50 tomorrow, perhaps we could buy each other socks?

Can't remember what I got for 40, and for 50 I've bought myself the Lego ISS set. And I'm sure a nice bottle of wine will appear tomorrow, although I quite like @binners plan of class A's and a gig...

For my 40th I decided to ride a proper century (100 miles/ 160km) at the local Gran Fondo that happens around my birthday; it was a step up from the 100k I'd done the previous year on my fixie, so I figured I needed a proper bike. So the family all chipped in to a new road/ gravel bike (Ribble CGR Ti), which was excellent.

Had mine end of last year. Didn't do anything. Would have felt a bit selfish, especially as my partner is 6 months older the chance of us both being able to both take the time out is zero.

I was due to have a meal in a Michelin starred place in town with family, but my wife miscarried and we were in hospital for 48 hours. Normal things kind of lost their urgency after that. I think I was supposed to have had a tandem parachute jump as well, but that got postponed, delayed and then just never happened*.

YGH, it's a special/not special celebration. Do what makes you happy, or that gives you memories you can look back to with happiness.

I got a cake!

Never banged a prozzer though…

So you've done coke then!

yourguitarhero

So far my thoughts have extended to:

A pair of William Lennon boots

Nice boots, I had mine on today, the tan waxy ones. I would probably go for the vibram sole on my next pair rather than the leather which can be a bit slippy in the wet but otherwise a quality product.

For my 40th I got a Ceilidh. It was awesome, kind of like a mini wedding again but without the stress and only the fun!

40th isnt really celebrated in my family, only the 18, 21 and then 50.
18 was nothing, but i did get some cake off the Welsh prison service, 21 the family got me a small TV as i was in a social work unit, which was promptly stolen, and for the 50th I got a nice meal(Mitchells in Glasgow) and some gold to stash away for that rainy day.

I think from then on in, it's a celebration on making to to 60, then (hopefully) 70. I'm not really a gift person, don't really like receiving, prefer actually giving.

I don't remember.

For my 21st, friends threw a surprise party. I came home from work knackered and stinky to be met with a houseful of people. Which was nice.

30th, I was dating a lass in Wales and we had a fairly low-key party at the local working-men's club.

40th I don't have the faintest idea, I was with a partner who had perpetual wanderlust so we probably went to Center Parcs or Scotland or something.

As for physical gifts, who knows. The things I treasure most are little things like, my current partner had a padlock engraved with our names. Such a sweet gesture.

I turn 50 in a couple of months, I'm already being asked what I want. The truth is, I don't want anything physical. I moved house a year ago so I'm time-poor and anything that I / we have needed we've just gone and bought. I don't need books, I have more unread than I know what to do with. Ditto video games. Ditto board games. Ditto chocolate. Ditto pictures and nick-knacks.

An interesting single malt would be well received. I'd quite like some new pans and I really need something to wear on my feet indoors like sandals or slippers, but they're hardly 'special' landmark gifts. Lego?

Rather than stuff, I'd like to do things whilst I still can. Assuming I can get anyone to join me I'm giving serious consideration to taking a week off work and touring the country doing escape rooms, that's my Thing these days.

A driving experience maybe, I love anything like that. I've never tried rally driving, that's always appealed. Learning things? (Kitchen) knife skills; photography course; axe throwing; veggie-friendly bushcraft; anything else random and a bit off-the-wall really. I want memories, not clutter. I miss friends.

For my 40th (almost 12 years ago now!!) I had 10 days at Whistler Bike Park. Bloody excellent and would very much like to go back, but i suspect that it would most likely kill me now 🙁

Nice venue YGH

But I still think Cupar sports centre inflatables would be more special. RR ound the night off with a trip to Jordans it's probably got the same CD playing on loop.

I got 2 special draught belgium beer kegs from the missus, she was well pleased.... however

1. it was Hoegarden and Leffe - so not special (and she has the nerve to raid my Belgium collection)
2. the kegs needed to be used with a special machine that cost another £200,

so it all went back - still waiting for it's repalcement 1.5 years later..

for my 42nd however -well 40 +2 as far as im concerned im taking my bike and mates somewhere fun.. there i've said it... its my day..

anyway back to the op - physical stuff, unless its from a special person and probably isn;t even expensive (my most memorbale gift is the watch my mum and dad got me on my 18th, it's stil lmy fav to this day), i'd stick with a memory -so go biking somewhere cool like Peru!

Happy birthday @mogrim 🍻

Pm me and I'll send you some socks 🙂

My family paid for a drifting experience did 40 laps loved it, wife not so much as she had to stand on a windy and rainy airfield for a couple of hours.

That was in July as my birthday was in lockdown.

Happy birthday @mogrim 🍻

Pm me and I’ll send you some socks 🙂

Thanks, although I'm fine for socks at the moment 😀

For my 40th I got a Ceilidh

Each to their own and all that, but that would be my idea of complete and utter unbridled hell on earth. Imagine Hieronymus Bosch set to bad music.

Thanks, although I’m fine for socks at the moment 😀

Whoops. Looks like woody2000's put their foot in it again.

I got a decree absolute 👍👍

I didn't know what that was and suspected it might be something a bit fruity.

A cautious web-search later and I am thoroughly disappointed.

Cotic BFe frame in green that I built up over a few months. Its still hanging in the garage, I’ll be 49 next week.

This is what I'm planning when I get to 40 in a few months (God willing, etc). Modulo the "green" and "hanging it in the garage" bits.

For my 40th I got a Ceilidh

Each to their own and all that, but that would be my idea of complete and utter unbridled hell on earth. Imagine Hieronymus Bosch set to bad music.

Damn, and I've already booked one for you. Is it too late to say I'm sorry?

I didn’t know what that was and suspected it might be something a bit fruity.

Some sort of flavoured vodka I think.

Each to their own and all that, but that would be my idea of complete and utter unbridled hell on earth. Imagine Hieronymus Bosch set to bad music.

Ceilidhs are great if you had the dances drummed into you for 13 school years.

I love ceilidhs

I got a Marino hardtail frame for my 40th 🥰

I am shocked at the love for ceilidhs :-O

I'd rather go to a Celine Dion concert.

Oof. Imagine a ceilidh at a Celine Dion concert.

had a big party in my back garden because it was july - absolutely hosed it down all day !!!

everyone brought me either wine or scotch 🙂

Went to Barcelona for the weekend with my wife