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Leave it to the Germans to be effecient, even about partying!!
As is probably the case with most of us, who really likes to put birthday candles on a cake, only to have them melt alot of wax onto the icing before they get blown out by the birthday-boy or girl?!?!?
Well, the Germans have invented a system for getting around this that can be used through your 14th, 38th or 46th birthday, depending on how you use them:
The first ring looks like this:
There's room for 8 candles, so this ring is good through the 8th birthday.
The second ring fits inside the first, like this:
There's room for 6 candles in the smaller ring, so together, that gets you to your 14th birthday.
After the 14th, many Germans use the inner ring so that each candle represents 5 years. So, the 15th birthday would be three candles on the inner ring, none on the outer.
The 16th birthday would be three candles on the inner ring and one on the outer ring, usually of a different color. And so on, and so on....
Since the inner ring can hold up to 6 candles, if you use it for every 5 years of a person's life, then it is good for the first 30 years, plus the 8 candles on the outer ring, which makes 38.
Some people switch the roles of the rings and the outer ring represents 5 years per candle, whilst the inner ring represents 1 year - and that gets you to 46 years.
I bought these GEBURTSTAGSRINGE the week my daughter was born and have used the first ring now for every birthday.
Cool, eh???
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Feel free to use this thread to record other birthday traditions that, like this one, may be a little off the beaten path.
These rings make for great gifts for people who "have everything already" btw...
best,
-Stat
As is probably the case with most of us, who really likes to put birthday candles on a cake, only to have them melt alot of wax onto the icing before they get blown out by the birthday-boy or girl?!?!?
Well, the Germans have invented a system for getting around this that can be used through your 14th, 38th or 46th birthday, depending on how you use them:
GEBURTSTAGSRINGE!
(Birthday Rings!)
(Birthday Rings!)
The first ring looks like this:
There's room for 8 candles, so this ring is good through the 8th birthday.
The second ring fits inside the first, like this:
There's room for 6 candles in the smaller ring, so together, that gets you to your 14th birthday.
After the 14th, many Germans use the inner ring so that each candle represents 5 years. So, the 15th birthday would be three candles on the inner ring, none on the outer.
The 16th birthday would be three candles on the inner ring and one on the outer ring, usually of a different color. And so on, and so on....
Since the inner ring can hold up to 6 candles, if you use it for every 5 years of a person's life, then it is good for the first 30 years, plus the 8 candles on the outer ring, which makes 38.
Some people switch the roles of the rings and the outer ring represents 5 years per candle, whilst the inner ring represents 1 year - and that gets you to 46 years.
I bought these GEBURTSTAGSRINGE the week my daughter was born and have used the first ring now for every birthday.
Cool, eh???
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Feel free to use this thread to record other birthday traditions that, like this one, may be a little off the beaten path.
These rings make for great gifts for people who "have everything already" btw...
best,
-Stat
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