Funny Birthday Ideas for Turning 50
Once a year a person's birthday allows friends, relatives and peers to honor that person's life. It can be a sweet time of reminiscing and gift giving. If the honoree's age ends in a zero, it can also be a time to step it up a notch with jokes, quirky gifts and endless laughter. Fifty is the perfect age to pull out all the stops for an unforgettable celebration. Does this Spark an idea?
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Decor
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The Red Hat Society commemorates and makes light of women turning 50. The club throws all rules, except respect for others, to the wind, and it uses the unlikely pairing of purple and red to represent the milestone of a 50th birthday. Though the group is reserved for women only, you can still use red and purple items to make a gentleman's birthday even funnier. You can hang red hats with purple bands in corners with balloons. Red roses in vases wrapped with purple ribbons can serve as centerpieces.
Other decorations can start outdoors. Black ribbon can line the walkway, and the yard can be dotted with miniature gravestones with a simple inscription: R.I.P. Flank the entrance with black balloons. Be sure to load coffee tables and end tables with the latest copies of retirement magazines.
Funny Gifts
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Sit the guest of honor in a wheelchair while he opens gag gifts. The birthday presents can include a cane, a walker, "Coke bottle" eyeglasses, false teeth, hot water bags and adult diapers. You can even include a box of brochures for local nursing homes or senior citizen discount coupons for restaurants.
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Food for the Elderly
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Food allows you to take the humor to new heights. For instance, you can stamp chocolate bars with the names of popular constipation remedies. You can label a milk-based cocktail with indigestion medicines, or you can just serve the medicine itself as a joke. Instead of dinner mints, place bowls of fake vitamins or sexual dysfunction pills around the room. Milk Duds can represent Geritol vitamins. You can even bake a prune pie and serve up baby food that's easy for the guest of honor to chew.
The birthday cake can serve as one of the highlights of the party. Order a cake shaped like a sagging bikini bust, or carry the outdoor decor inside with a headstone cake. The cake can also resemble an AARP card. As if the birthday "boy" or "girl" hasn't been reminded enough, you can decorate the cake with candles shaped like the number 50, or you can use as many ordinary candles as the cake can hold.
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