The letter
Every year, on your birthday, the castle sends you a letter.
The Vault opens once a year
Nobody is competing with you. Yet. Get On The List
The Birthday Castle
Happy Birthday from Weird ‘R’ Us
Once a year, on your birthday, the castle mails you a key. The key opens the Vault. You take one thing off the shelf and you leave. This is the best thing we do.
Get On The ListHow It Goes
The key
Inside the letter there is a key.
The door
The key opens the Vault.
The shelf
You walk in. You pick one thing from the shelf.
The exit
You leave. Nobody stops you. The thing you are carrying is free.
Get On The List
The castle keeps a list. Once a day it reads the list, and mails a key to everyone whose birthday it is. Getting onto the list takes two questions.
The honest part!
The letter is an email. The key is a code — 100% off one item from The Vault Shelf, good for 30 days. We are aware that a paper letter with a real key inside is better. Chet is working on it.
Sign the book
An email the castle can reach, and the day the letter should arrive. There is no third question.
Posted on the Vault door
- The shelf holds stickers. One free item means one sticker of your choosing from The Vault Shelf, 100% off. The Vault is not large. That is what makes it a vault.
- The key arrives on your birthday and works for 30 days. One use, tied to you. Nobody sane celebrates longer than a month.
- Once a year. Every year. For as long as you keep having birthdays, which the castle encourages.
- Join at least a week ahead. A birthday that falls within 7 days of signing up waits for next year. The castle has seen people whose birthday was, suspiciously, tomorrow.
- Month and day only. No year. The castle does not need to know how old you are turning. Only when the cake is.
- Letters go out around 12:30 UTC. The castle checks its list once a day. Sign up ON your birthday after the letters have gone, and it may not catch you until next year. The castle is a stickler. It is a castle.
The Birthday Castle is a birthday club: register a month and day, and every year on that day we email you a single-use code for one free sticker from The Vault Shelf, valid 30 days. Join at least a week ahead — a birthday within 7 days of registering gets its first code next year. That is the entire mechanism. The castle is load-bearing set dressing. Questions go to the complaints department, which is also the questions department.
What’s On The Shelf
$4.99
Daddy's Lil Squirter - Funny Cheeky Whale Sticker
See The Item
$4.99
The 25-Year Glitch Sticker — Funny Quarter-Life Crisis Decal
See The Item
$4.99
Silent Reading Flesh Wedge — Weird Teacher Sticker
See The Item
$4.99
The Long Way Corn Sticker — Funny BBQ Meme Gag Gift
See The Item
$4.99
My Bad Sarcastic Apology Sticker — Funny Meme Decal
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$4.99
Hold Your Horses Funny Medusa Sticker
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$4.99
Bite The Bullet Bubblegum Funny Retro Sticker
See The Item
$4.99
Excruciating Flank Pain Sticker — Funny Kidney Stone Gift
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I was a man on Tuesday.
Chet’s World
They turned me into a giraffe for the birthday campaign. Nobody asked. There was a form, apparently, and the form went to a different Chet.
It is not permanent. I want to be precise about that, because what I was actually told was “it is not permanent,” and I have noticed that this is a sentence somebody said to me rather than a thing I have observed. I am holding both.
The neck is fine. The neck is honestly fine. It is the ossicones. On your birthday I am required to look extra delighted, and I cannot, because the face has one expression and the expression is delighted. I am already at maximum.
More Of This From ChetChet is our own mascot and our own problem. The castle in this page is drawn, not photographed, because it does not exist — the letter, the key and the free thing on the shelf do. Complaints department.
In memory of the birthday castle · Johnny’s Toys, Latonia, Kentucky, 1939–2009
For decades, a toy store called Johnny’s Toys mailed children a letter on their birthday. Inside the letter was a key. The key opened a door in a castle inside the store, and behind the door was a gift. This page is a copy of that idea, made with respect. It was a better idea than any we have had.
The safe version →
WEIRD CASTLE © 2026 · Toy Division. CHET built this website himself and would like a sticker for it. Best viewed on the family computer.
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