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How to Avoid Billing from Your Girlfriend or a Friend on their Birthday: 8 Steps to Try

A relationship without money is like driving a car without a seatbelt. Although you can still arrive at your destination safely without issues, the journey will be very tough.

Is your girlfriend or female friend planning to have her birthday soon, and you don’t have money to take her out and buy her gifts? Life is not fair to people who are financially stranded. In this post, we shall show you 8 ways to avoid billing from your girlfriend or a female friend on their birthday.

1. Switch Off Your Phone and Go Offline.

It is common among girls to demand gifts on their birthdays; in fact, most of them will expect something big from their boyfriend when celebrating birthdays, and if you don’t really have much on you, you really need to dodge this bullet.

Switch off your phone two days before her birthday until a week after her birthday. Make sure you don’t appear online too.

After a week, tell her you are sorry, as there was no power supply to charge your phone. “I’m so sorry, babe; my phone went off and there was no power supply to recharge it. Happy birthday, baby. I promise to make it up to you next time.

2. Someone Died.

One of the most painful things on earth is to lose someone close to you to death. If your girlfriend has been demanding a birthday gift and it seems the pressure is too much from her end, on the eve of her birthday, break the news to her that you lost one of your family uncles or sisters who was close to you.

Tell her you will need to attend the burial because the person must be buried quickly. This way, she will not have the guts to demand any gifts from you again because of your condition. Perhaps you just lost someone.

3. Fake Calls.

When it’s a few days until her birthday, tell her to visit you, or whenever you are together, plan a fake call, ask any of your friends to call you, and beg for money in her presence, so you will use that as an excuse to avoid billing from her. If she is expecting a gift or money from you, you will remind her that you already lent your friends all the money you had, and they’ve yet to pay it back. She will understand.

4. Tell Her That You Are Not Feeling Fine.

On her birthday, call her and wish her well, but fake your voice to appear like you are dying. She will ask you what happened. Tell her you are not feeling okay. You could say, “I’ve been purging since yesterday, and I’m having a serious headache. I just returned from the hospital after the doctor gave me an injection. Happy birthday, dear. Please, we will talk later when I get better.”

If you tell her this, you will automatically dodge her bullet of expectation of a birthday gift or surprise. No woman in her right mind will demand a gift or bill her man when she knows he’s seriously ill.

5. I’m Broke.

If you don’t have the money to spend on her on her birthday, then you need to make her aware that you are financially stranded. Do not try to displease yourself to satisfy a woman. When it’s a few days before her birthday, begin to complain to her that you are too broke.

In fact, you can make fake calls in her presence to a few of your friends, begging them for money and telling them that things are hard for you presently. At least this strategy can help you dodge her billing bullet because she knows you are broke.

6. Fake Promises.

Women love it when you promise them out of love. Although it is wrong to make a promise that you can’t fulfill, what should you do to dodge billing from a woman? You should make fake promises and keep procrastinating. After sending her a text message and making calls to wish her well, you could tell her that her birthday package will arrive in a week’s time and that you ordered something for her.

Upon hearing this, she won’t disturb you until after some weeks to remind you, and when she does, tell her the vendor said it will take two months. Keep postponing it till she forgets. Sometimes you have to lie to dodge that billing from a woman.

7. Create A Space.

Giving your girlfriend some space while it’s a few days until her birthday can help you dodge the billing of spending on her. You can act like she offended you, so you can use that as an excuse to avoid her billings. If she does anything that annoys you, you can turn it into big arguments and use that to create space until weeks after her birthday. This will save you from spending on her on her birthday and also dodge the billing from your girlfriend.

8. Apply Diplomacy.

Do not punish yourself to give her money when you don’t have it; instead, apply diplomacy, and she will love you more. Make her aware of your situation. You will be like, “Happy birthday in advance, honey. I wish you a long life and prosperity. I understand how important your birthday is to you, and I wish we could celebrate it together, but I don’t have much money on me for now. Maybe next time, I promise to make it up to you on your next birthday, and it’s going to be a big celebration for us.”

In a nutshell, birthday gifts, birthday surprises, and taking a woman out on her birthday are personal choices, and it’s not compulsory if you don’t have the money. If you don’t have the money, tell her you don’t have.

Pay the price for who you are, live true to yourself, and damn the consequences. What’s the worst that will happen? She gets angry and stops talking to you. A good friend or girlfriend should not monetize and burden you with her birthday stuff; it’s her birthday, not yours.