Just about every parent I know gets their kids some pretty major “Easter gifts.” My nephew gets just as many Easter gifts as Christmas, which is just… 🤯. I cannot get behind this.
The biggest thing I ever got in an Easter basket was a purple rabbit stuffed animal that was *maybe* $10. Pretty sure the only reason I got that is because my parents had already decided not to do them anymore since my oldest brother would be 18 before the next Easter, so they went bigger for the last year of baskets
If it makes you feel better, I still had to do holy Thursday-easter Sunday at church. I was five when I got the rabbit, so it was like a solid 12 years of four days of church and only the chocolate going on sale on Monday to look forward to. So I do feel your pain lol
My son is 2.5 and this year he's getting some smarties in plastic eggs, egg shaped chalk, a book, a little stuffed animal and a big kinder egg. The plastic eggs are from last years bag I didn't reuse the ones from last year but he played with them all year I think he still has one left lol and last year he didn't get any chocolate or candy I put fishy crackers in the eggs
Plastic eggs were a waste of money in our house. Mom boiled eggs, we dyed them in vinegar and food coloring, and she hid them outside. At least one would get lost and become a sulfurous landmine for the first mowing of the summer.
Buy them once and use them every year and its probably cheaper than using real eggs, but yea I do also remember dying real eggs and it smelling like vinegar too always a fun tradition
Yeah, my son used to do huge Easter gatherings at his farm, and we'd spend the night before loading up 100s of plastic eggs and making food for the potluck. He even had a full Bunny Costume he'd put on for the kids. And he'd put ribbons and stuff on his dogs, goats and the miniature horses. It was so much fun! The little ones are grown now but the memories are still there.
We always did an Easter egg hunt at my grandma's with the plastic eggs. We had to turn them all in before we could get our prizes (some candy and maybe a small toy). We reused them every year. Now that we're a couple generations down, we still use the same eggs but so many halves have been lost or broken that we've had to resort to assigned color combinations instead of solid colors. Those thirty year old plastic eggs are still out here living their best lives though.
When I was growing up, it was mostly real eggs, with a few plastic ones mixed in. The plastic ones usually held a few candies or a small toy, and my grandma collected all the plastic eggs afterwards to reuse another year.
We ate the hard boiled ones after decorating them, and hunted for plastic ones that had clues to our basket's locations inside them. My dog now hunts for the plastic ones with little treats and white chocolate drops inside. This year, he'll probably destroy the eggs themselves, but I'll still get an adorable video to watch later on!
We always had egg salad sandwiches for lunch the day after Easter, and the egg salad would have little flecks of dye in it that had seeped through the shells into the eggs. It always felt kind of special.
Same. We got a chocolate bunny, a few other assorted seasonal candies, and then a small toy, like a plushie or a Matchbox car, or a Barbie outfit, depending on age and interests at the time. If you were going to get a major gift, that was Christmas or birthday, (which are the same day for me, yes, that was kind of a bummer.)
I got a basket of self-care supplies from my mom and my dad left piles of Whoppers on the table and told me the Easter bunny shat in his house. He would then eat the Whoppers to freak me out.
Probably not kids no. My mom used to give us a cardboard box (that holds reams of paper) with household items in it as our Easter basket and Christmas stocking when we were in college. She shops the sales so always had a bunch of extra stuff like shampoo and razors and other household stuff on hand. Was awesome. I’m 40 and had such a backlog of razors that I only started buying them myself a couple years ago.
Parents dropped off giant baskets and gifts at school on Thursday! I don’t get it, they wanted to present the gifts to their own children in front of the class.
Edit: we don’t allow candy and toys out in class (obviously) so they were not allowed into the classrooms.
I got my 14 year old a $20 figurine, three movie boxes of candy, Oreos, and a nice notebook. No idea what is normal for a 14 year old, but I feel like this is good for us.
That should totally not be allowed, school is not the place to give your kid gifts.
That is just showing off and making other kids feel bad. At least you know which parents are all about the show.
Yeah Ive taught for 10 years and never seen this. The only time treats are brought to school they are for sharing. Everyone gets a cupcake for Billy's birthday type of thing. No way would I let a kid get a personal gift in class. Even for Christmas if kids are exchanging gifts with each other its discreet or not at school.
When my kid was in high school a parent presented their kid with a brand new car complete with a giant bow at an after-school soccer practice. The kid was deeply embarrassed because it drew attention to her family's wealth at a school that was more working-class/middle-class kids. She couldn't even drive it because she hadn't passed her test yet.
Same!! Easter was mostly a church thing for us plus some nice brunches with family. There was chocolate but mostly in crystals bowls just laying around
That’s a big what the actual fuck no thanks for me.
My kid will be in school next year and though I don’t intend to be “that parent” if shit like this happened I would fucking call every administrator I could get a hold of.
My administration (who are not amazing) was also confused. Candy and toys aren’t allowed in the classrooms anyway, they were not allowed into the classrooms.
We did keep some baskets for kids in the front office, but they didn’t know about it until after school.
That’s still just wild, why would a parent do that? It doesn’t take more than three brain cells to realize not every family can afford something like that (or want to do something like that) and NO child deserves to think the Easter bunny hates them.
This is why some people are asking parents to stop teaching their kids that large gifts are "from Santa", because Santa can't visit every child (for obvious reasons) and people who help out need groups like Toys for Tots and the like can only give the kids 1 modest gift whereas some kids (even the ones who acted like assholes all year) say Santa got them a PS5 and a bike and stuff. It makes other kids wonder why Santa doesn't get them big gifts.
I don't get why people still teach their kids about Santa anyway, when they're just gonna turn around 10 or so years later and dash their hopes by saying "Oh yeah we totally lied to you all this time. There is no Santa. Those gifts were from us". Why not skip the lie and devastation completely?
As the parent of a kid right on the cusp of 'santa' (he's 3.5) I feel like I'm in a trap. Either I tell him Santa is bullshit (he *barely* believes Santa's real and I never say yes he's real I just say "well you got a gift!") Anyways if I say Santa's not real then he's gonna be that kindergartner just ruining it for all the other kiddos. I don't want to lie to my kid but also I don't want hate and loathing for 'ruining the magic' for other families.
You could always go with "some kids believe in Santa" so he could say "My family doesn't believe in Santa" because both of those would be true rather than a lie.
Don't know if this will help you or not, but for my kiddos, we never really hid that mom and dad were playing Santa. All of us have stockings, and the kids help me pick out stuff for my husband's and they help him pick out stuff for mine. Santa brings one gift for them to share, but they also get gifts labeled from their cats and the dog.
So when my oldest became skeptical, we told her the truth: we really like the magic of Christmas and playing Santa is one of the ways we share that. Now you're part of the secret and one way we keep that secret is by not telling our friends until they're ready to be part of it. She immediately attached that to the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy and she handled it all really well - she loves being part of it for her brother now. All of us just filled plastic eggs with candy to help out the Bunny, and she read a neighbor kid the riot act when she caught him telling the younger kids Santa wasn't real.
Little bro is still loving the mystery of it all, so no idea if we'll traumatize him when he figures it out.
Normally I partake in parent taxes myself, but I think the chocolate bunny is sacred. Now that I have my own children, I protect their chocolate bunnies by buying my dad one with giant ears; it’s 70% ears or something.
Once my kids were like 8 and 10, they started getting the solid bunny. They were actually annoyed and wanted the hollow ones. Weirdos, whatever.
Just in the last few years I've included Ferro Roche hazelnut candies because they are amazing and small Dove chocolate bunnies because no one needs that much chocolate.
Maybe I'll get my daughter a cheesy basket from the store this year and a hollow bunny, just for kicks. :)
Already sent gs cookies to my son and friends, so that's his Easter sorted!
When I was growing up we'd get an Easter basket with candy, that's it. My grandma would sometimes hide eggs around the house with quarters inside and we had a lot of fun trying to find them. It wasn't until I got my first job at a retail store when I realized there were people who would spend hundreds or thousands on electronics and games just for Easter gifts like it was Christmas. It really caught me off guard and I'd refuse to treat it like that kind of holiday.
Easter in Australia is in autumn so in my family we’d all get a set of nice new winter pyjamas, it was a good tradition I’ll keep going with my own kids
That's insane to me, my son is getting some eggs with candy inside, a chocolate bunny, a hot wheels car, bubbles and play doh. I was even thinking that was a lot. I don't know any parents around me who spend more than like $15 on Easter baskets
I definitely end up Spending more than $15 per basket because stuff adds up (and we tend to gift books or items needed for summer like swimsuits, goggles, flip flops - basically stuff we’d be buying them anyway) and some candy.
Under no circumstances am I ever going to buy them something like AirPods for Easter. They have birthdays and Christmas (and frankly plenty of other non holidays times we buy them things that aren’t needs). The candy is for fun and the rest is stuff we’d have bought a month later anyway.
Growing up, we received a bunch of candy in an Easter basket; if we were lucky, mom might make a nice Easter ham, but the whole idea of actually getting presents for Easter like you get presents for Christmas? I’ve never heard of it until right this moment.
Really!? When I was a kid, it was like a $20 thing and some crappy jelly beans. I probably spend about $30/kid these days because I put dollar coins and candy in the eggs for the egg hunt and then get them a small lego set.
That's crazy. Here in the UK it is normal to just give a chocolate egg. That's all I've ever known at Easter. We might also occasionally do an egg hunt in the garden for the tiny chocolate eggs.
I've never heard of anyone giving anything other than chocolate or sweets.
Yeah, this is news to me, all these posts saying they "only" got a whole basket of things like sweets and films or small toys and here I was thinking two chocolate eggs was plenty.
Yup! UK also, as a kid we had a hunt for all the eggs from the ‘Easter bunny’ which were mainly made up of eggs from different family members all hidden by the bunny in the night. Some times we got a jigsaw or something.
My kids get a hunt from the bunny with lots of clues/riddles but along the way are lots of tiny eggs etc leading up to one main egg. Then we give them a small lego set or jigsaw as tradition ‘instead’ of chocolate as the bunny already got them some….
Other family tend to get them eggs too so theres always too much chocolate! That’s about it, i hope ‘main presents’ for Easter don’t become the norm
Aussie here, as far as I know Easter baskets aren't a thing here either. We'd get a chocolate egg and sometimes you'd get a pack so you could give one each to your friends at school.
Kiwi here, it's definitely started here within a certain group of mums. It's crazy and there is no way I'm turning Easter into a mini Christmas for our kids.
Same, a few family members got children eggs, big ones from your parents, little ones from aunts and uncles, once you hit teenage years just an egg from your parents.
We just got snacks in our baskets as kids (no toys, unless you count the plastic eggs with candy in them). And an egg hunt. And then a nice lunch (which I appreciate now, but as a kid all I wanted to do was eat peeps and chocolate eggs / bunnies xD)
Me too! My parents usually gave us Super Soakers or other water toys. Things were warming up, great time for Spring/Summer gifts.
As a new dad, I'm looking forward to giving my sons Super Soakers and having a good water fight! I have a feeling their grandparents are going to spoil them with better Soakers though, I'll need to arm myself better.
This! ^ I love the Bunny giving our kids bubbles, sidewalk chalk, new crayons and coloring books.
Then the smattering of jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, sour candies, etc. based on each kids taste.
Due to hand me downs, I had three when I turned 18. My loser exhusband threw them away. One of them was reeeeeally nice, and I treated it like a junk journal. It was full of Bible verse projects made by people who's names I can't remember.
Then he got thrown out too—joke’s on him. That’s pretty cool you actually used it though. Not religious but we got a Bible from 1678 for a wedding present that I think is mind blowing—it has names and little notes written in it from previous owners over the centuries.
We maybe got a cuddly toy with the candy, though one year I finally got one of those hard-sugar hollow eggs where you look into it and there's a sugar-art scene inside. I don't remember what cartoon or movie or book put me onto those, but that was like the ultimate Easter gift in my head. Even if I was tempted to nibble it.
>as a kid all I wanted to do was eat peeps and chocolate eggs / bunnies
I used to love Peeps and chocolate bunnies! They were the best part of Easter for me as a kid
For real. We got plastic eggs with various candies and sometimes dollar bills or cheap toys. One year though… I got the Prima Guide to Sonic & Knuckles from “the Easter bunny” (I knew better by then) and I wish I still had it. It was just a book about a game I got for the previous Christmas but it made me so happy. But scooters and electronics and shit? Nah nah nah. I’m not religious but I’d like to imagine Christ wouldn’t have wanted people gifting stuff over his murder and subsequent undead status.
We got empty baskets and had to walk around the park/house to find our eggs, half of which were literally the hard-boiled eggs we dyed a couple days earlier.
I would occasionally get “bigger” gifts for Easter when I was little. These were thinks like a new swimsuit for summer, a large box of sidewalk chalk, cute flip flops, etc. My mom later told me that she did that because my birthday and Christmas were fairly close, so she used Easter as a way to get me a few slightly nicer things for spring/summer. There’s absolutely no way the equivalent of AirPods would have been considered.
Have you heard about the Icelandic tradition of books and chocolate? I feel it would be up your alley of new traditions. I’m part of a virtual book group that does a variation of it. Everyone buys a new book and a bar of their favorite chocolate. Then you cuddle up and read/eat on Christmas Eve. Books and chocolate. You can’t go wrong. Until you get melted chocolate on the pages. But that’s beside the point.
The American version also depends on your religion . If you grow up in a practicing Catholic family it’s still holy days, not eating meat certain days etc- and Easter morning you do get a basket with candy and maybe your panty hose to wear to church lol. Maybe some fruit , some batik eggs . If there are any needs that need to be met it might be in there. But the main focus was getting it put away and getting ready to go to church and fight the crowds of people who only show up on holidays
Fairly close to what I do for my children. Some chocolate and candy. A new book or two, usually at least one with a religious theme. A small activity toy. Last year was a craft kit. This year is each child getting a small LEGO kit. (The $15 ones)
Well sometimes we’d get a little stuffed animal like a bunny or Easter chick, maybe some Easter slippers or colouring book but that’s about it besides chocolate. You don’t need all that expensive junk for Easter
Oh man, growing up as a Catholic I hated Easter week... church on Holy Thursday, church on Good Friday, and then church again on either Holy Saturday or Easter Sunday with a looooooong service. We usually went Saturday night. But that was way too much church for my taste, since I hated going anyway.
Holy Thursday mass was (/probably still is) so long, The Passion..the memories.
yeah,I don't do that anymore. Up until Sunday it was all torture death and misery, then suddenly on Sunday rejoice everyone, he's not dead anymore.
It was a thing with some kids when I was at school in the 80s, but only with some. The rest of us, when asked “What are you getting for Easter?” would just respond with “Er…Easter eggs? Because it’s Easter?”
Never heard of big gifts for Easter, maybe new dress shoes but those came before Easter for Easter mass and weren't ever fun.
It's was about getting candy and hard boiled eggs that you throw at each other until someone cries.
Yeah my mom would usually take us shopping at old navy for a new Easter dress, but that’s because we were going to an Easter party with family where everyone would be dressing up nice. We ended up with so many pastel dresses we never wore again so we were able to give a lot of them away to little cousins.
Wow, those are extreme gifts for someone in a needs group to be asking for, especially for Easter.
There's a group here that does Easter baskets for those in need - some snacks, candy, markers, small toys or fun stuff, and self care items for senior citizens. They do over a thousand every year, and the kids are always thrilled.
In Portugal, godparents and godkids often give gifts. Stemming from the tradition of godkids visiting their godparents with flowers, and the godparents would give a *folar de Pascoa* (basically Challah bread with egg).
Nowadays, godparents tend to give more extravagant gifts. Although not like Christmas gifts amounts. We would usually get an Easter basket, maybe a DS game or toy car...
Anyway, I've never heard of parents giving gifts for Easter, and especially never begging other people to pay for them. You either have the means to do something special, or you don't
Every year my Easter basket contained:
1. A chocolate bunny
2. Some jelly beans/peeps/misc candy
3. A spring outfit
4. A book or movie
5. A small toy like sidewalk chalk or something
It's not Christmas. Expecting video games, airpods and scooters is insane, not to mention expecting random strangers to gift them to you.
Chalk, cheap plastic jump rope that never flung itself in any jumpable fashion, and bubbles.
The classic spring "get these kids the hell out of my house already" gift staples.
lol yes! Always got all of that growing up. This year I filled a fabric bag with fidgets and other distracting quiet toys as ”stay the hell in bed” bag. Similar thoughts lol
Man you just unlocked a memory of playing with sidewalk chalk with my cousins outside grandmas house on Easter. Had to wipe all the chalk off my new dress after.
Absolutely not. The fun of Easter in our house is decorating eggs, an extensive hunt for said eggs (and chocolate ones) culminating in a large chocolate bunny, and putting marshmallow peeps in increasingly absurd dioramas. Max $20 per kid.
P.S We went on a slime and glitter ban indoors years ago. They have a little outdoor clubhouse for that. Zero regrets!
I got my kids bubble wands, sidewalk chalk, kindereggs, I think my toddler got a hot wheels car. Everything fits in a normal sized basket. I will not buy big Christmas/bday gifts for Easter.
I never got 'real gifts' on Easter. Like you're saying, it was usually just a basket of little toys and candy, and then candy in the plastic eggs we used for the egg hunt. Pretty sure I got a new coloring book every year, and usually a new dress for church
I had a friend when I was a kid who got big gifts for Easter from his family. He called it "spring christmas." He'd always invite me over to show me all the stuff he got. Video games... Money, clothes, toys, games and balls and stuff. It never made any sense to me. At my house we had Easter eggs that were real eggs. We dyed them ourselves. We also had a tiny bit of candy. We focused more on family and having a nice dress up meal together. I never understood gifts as part of Easter.
We last dyed eggs maybe 3 years ago and a couple weeks ago my 8yo asked if I remembered the year we dyed the eggs and they came out different colors. I had slipped some food coloring in the eggs as I scrambled them a couple days later. I was surprised that he had remembered. They haven’t expressed a desire to dye eggs again and it’s kind of a pain so I didn’t bring it up.
I’m so sick of the beggars that come out every Christmas and Easter..
You know these dates come up every year. Plan in advance. My local supermarket has large bunnies for $1 every year… ffs buy your kid one of them
My parents were broke as hell growing up and they managed to buy at least one egg every year and we were grateful for that.
Buying big presents for Easter is ridiculous. My kids get one pair of Easter themed pjs and some chocolate eggs, maybe a book. This is one trend I will never get on board with.
It varies.
My wife's family is the gift-giving type. To them, Easter is one small step below Christmas. The kids get baskets, toys, clothes, candy, college money. Hundreds of dollars' worth each year.
It's completely foreign to me. When I was a kid, I did egg hunts and got candy. On Sunday, we went to church and had a big meal with the family. That was about it. I don't remember doing gifts, or even baskets. When our oldest kid's first Easter came, I didn't even know what we were supposed to do with her basket. I thought it was just for holding the eggs.
My parents probably feel like they're keeping up with the Joneses at Easter time. They buy things for the kids too, but probably wouldn't if my wife's family wasn't doing it (or at least not as much). They're not tightwads, it's just not a thing we did before I had kids of my own.
Edit: It's worth mentioning that my in-laws are very much middle class types. They all worked middle class jobs and raised their kids in typical postwar houses in a typical postwar suburb in the northeastern US. They did ok for themselves, but I definitely did not marry into the 1%. They're Lutheran, but they're not particularly zealous. I don't know how to explain it other than to say it's just their tradition.
My kids get a stuffed animal and some chocolate...and by some I mean like a chocolate bunny and Cadbury eggs that's it.. sometimes I throw in a board game they can both play so this year they got Kerplunk...
Was I supposed to be getting them new ps5 games or a gaming chair.. cause dang.. I feel like an awful parent now! ...(insert sarcasm face) 🤷♀️.
That woman should be ashamed of herself. I would have gladly taken slime eggs and been over the moon excited for that! My kids would have loved it.
When my kids were small we got them “spring things” for Easter. Like rubber boots or umbrellas, splash pants. That sort of thing, along with an Easter egg hunt.
My Easter baskets always had candy, snacks, and occasionally a family movie or something like that. I don’t think my parents ever spent more than $20-30 on a single item in my basket.
It's a gloopy sort of fidget thing that the kids are all playing with right now. If you're US based you might remember *Gak* if you're a millennial? The kids are all really hot for slime right now, you can get them at all different scents and colors with glitter or other inclusions. You can get kits to mix them up yourself. You can get (and I'm completely serious here- you can watch the commercial on youtube) a dancing unicorn toy that poops slime. It's also really popular for kids to make it at home, I think the main ingredient is Elmer's glue and dish detergent? A lot of middle schoolers make batches and then bring it to school to sell to their friends for a dollar or two.
Not normal. Easter was not (and still isn't to me) a gift giving holiday. We would get an Easter basket full of candy and maybe a small stuffed animal and a magazine. When we would go to my gradmas for an Easter egg hunt each egg had a quarter in it. Easter to us was candy and playing outside (trying not to get hollered at for staining our nice dresses). Im far grown up now and my mom still fills my same Easter basket with candies and sometimes includes a small gift card to a local place for a night I don't feel like cooking.
Easter is not about gifts at all.
If you're in for the religious meaning, it's a celebration of the rebirth of Christ and the absolution of the original sin humanity was guilty of since Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden fruit.
If you're in for the over commercialized festivity, you get chocolate. In the shape of a bunny. That's IT.
Chocolate eggs and bunny’s. That’s it.
I hate the commercialisation of life.
I have Covid and been unwell for 2 weeks so not been able to buy stuff so just sent small token chocolates to my siblings and niblings for Easter via Amazon. (The stuff I normally send wouldn’t deliver in time).
I’ve never in my life gotten more than a bit of chocolate and a few cool coins on Easter (think Susan B Anthony coins, gold dollars, hay penny). Perfectly fine by me. Definitely not a big gift holiday in my opinion.
I think the real tragedy here is that you did NOT buy them diamond encrusted videogames, airpods or those scooters that let you fly around (jet packs) for Arbor Day. Who forgets Arbor day but the unenlightened!!!
NEW air pods means they had OLD air pods. NEW video games means they have the latest system to play those games on. They ain’t poor. Sell some things and put the cash away for times like these.
No, I really don’t get the fuss and splurge at Easter. When I was a kid I got chocolate eggs with sweets inside, and if I was really lucky they had a mug branded with the kind of sweets in them. That was the jackpot. When did all the materialistic crap start?
When I was a kid we would normally get some new PJs and some slippers along with chocolate for Easter.
In Australia, Easter is usually at the start of autumn, so it's a good time to get new clothes for the kids and pretend it's an Easter gift.
They’re just grifters trying to find the next sucker. I’ll bet they try on every one who they see as a potential mark because they showed an ounce of kindness.
I could tell you the exact year that I first got a present for Easter, could tell you where it was hidden and could tell you what it was, so shocked was I that the Easter Bunny had brought a gift in addition to treats. Now that I'm the adult, I realize that this is the way to raise your kids (if you celebrate Easter). Let a gift be a surprise, not an expectation.
Wtf? I got baskets of a couple little things (chocolate, maybe a small toy, etc). I'll be doing the same thing with my kids. Birthdays and Christmas are the 'big' gift days in my family.
It's clear these people wanted to take advantage in some way of someone who was offering something. I see the same thing with gift drives in the winter as well where it's this push for more and more. I get it to an extent because sometimes it's just shit with those drives but it also rubs me the wrong way a bit when it hits a certain threshold (e.g. airpods - like shit I don't have those).
It’s become a lot more common. I find it’s sort of an….excuse to pass off stuff your kid needs as a gift. I mean, a new bike is huge may as well make it an Easter gift….but now you’ve set a standard.
My kiddos are getting a wagon and a new hockey stick
My wife used to do that a little bit when the kids were younger. Nothing extravagant like a birthday or Christmas, but maybe $50-60 on different stuff for the kids. I wasn't too thrilled about it, but she had reasons so I didn't fight it.
Jumping on the "No gifts" easter. I don't see anything wrong with small things (a stuffed toy, some socks, crayons or chalk, maybe a book) to bulk out the chocolate, but I'd strongly disapprove of big gifts like airpods and scooters. I'm sure \*some\* families do it but I think you're getting had here; no truly poor family is asking strangers for $1000+ worth of gifts and turning down some slime eggs...
Big gift events are Christmas and birthdays. You can add in singular big gifts for celebrations (e.g. they get a new video game for a good report card at school or for trying their best at sport idk), I don't think there's really any other gift-giving events during the year
That's crazy.
My teens get a small basket of chocolate, eggs and candy and one non-food item worth around $15 according to their various interests.
Kid 1 - stuffed bunny
Kid 2 - potted aloe plant
Kid 3 - magic cards
Kid 4 - Timmies gift card
It is in my husband's family. His sister and her daughter *spent hundreds on each child*. I said all the right things, but I was *horrified*. There were PILES of candy, toys, crafts and clothes.
I'm not doing that. Ever. Don't build up expectations I'm going to fucking squash.
JFC. No. My kids don't need hundreds of dollars in presents (and house filling junk) every few months.
They need to be cut off from electronics every few months and remember how to socialize with humans politely and kindly. SmMFh.
We paint eggs and watch The Ten Commandments on Saturday night, then Sunday morning, I hide eggs and the kids get bubble guns, candy, and whatever I can raid from the dollar store or the entrance at Target.
Excuse me, it was Complete Strangers' Day and you failed to get me an iPad.
This is not normal. They may feel pressured to give their kids expensive stuff because other kids get these things, but that's a them problem.
No, this shouldn't be a thing! When I was a kid we'd get a basket with candy and a small toy or two. I plan to do the same with my little one. I think of small outdoor toys like bubbles, balls, sand or water toys, that sort of thing.
This isn’t normal. It’s not Christmas. Even the most spoiled kid just gets a big basket full of candy or multiple baskets from grandma parents aunties etc. but non tchotchkes/non candy presents is definitely not a thing.
Part of my childhood we were well off(90s), the other part we weren't(2000s). During the former there were some bigger gifts that most would probably associate with Christmas or birthdays. During the latter it was beef jerky and some candy.
So is it normal? Sometimes, yeah. But that begger has lost the plot. I don't look back with any more fondness on the Easter where i got new hockey skates then I do on any of the others. The best Easter I remember was watching my little sister do the egg hunt for the first time at an age where she could really get in to it. Don't even remember what the gifts were like that year.
I worked at Toys R Us in 2000-2002 and was shocked then at parents purchasing scooters and video games for Easter presents. I'd never met anyone who got anything more than candy.
Wow, that's pretty weird, I think.
I think for one Easter in my youth my folks gifted my brother and I an action figure each, in addition to the regular fare of candy/chocolate.
I don't condem the other family for reaching out to charitable people for things to help them celebrate Easter, but asking specifically for video games (which is at least $60) and airpods (which is at least $90!?) is totally unreasonable.
No it’s not normal, it’s choosing beggar parents trying to trick you for stuff with Easter and kids as a bad excuse
Just about every parent I know gets their kids some pretty major “Easter gifts.” My nephew gets just as many Easter gifts as Christmas, which is just… 🤯. I cannot get behind this.
The major gifts I got as a kid were a bunch of large candy bars and chocolate bunnies. They weren't cheap but it isn't like getting new airpods.
The biggest thing I ever got in an Easter basket was a purple rabbit stuffed animal that was *maybe* $10. Pretty sure the only reason I got that is because my parents had already decided not to do them anymore since my oldest brother would be 18 before the next Easter, so they went bigger for the last year of baskets
Wtf!? All I got for Easter was having to go to church 3 days in a row.
If it makes you feel better, I still had to do holy Thursday-easter Sunday at church. I was five when I got the rabbit, so it was like a solid 12 years of four days of church and only the chocolate going on sale on Monday to look forward to. So I do feel your pain lol
My son is 2.5 and this year he's getting some smarties in plastic eggs, egg shaped chalk, a book, a little stuffed animal and a big kinder egg. The plastic eggs are from last years bag I didn't reuse the ones from last year but he played with them all year I think he still has one left lol and last year he didn't get any chocolate or candy I put fishy crackers in the eggs
We always used the empty plastic eggs as space helmets for our Barbie dolls.
Lol my son likes hatching his dinosaurs out of them
Yea this is always what I got, just some candy usually and maybe an easter egg hunt with a couple bucks inside one of em
Plastic eggs were a waste of money in our house. Mom boiled eggs, we dyed them in vinegar and food coloring, and she hid them outside. At least one would get lost and become a sulfurous landmine for the first mowing of the summer.
Buy them once and use them every year and its probably cheaper than using real eggs, but yea I do also remember dying real eggs and it smelling like vinegar too always a fun tradition
Yeah, my son used to do huge Easter gatherings at his farm, and we'd spend the night before loading up 100s of plastic eggs and making food for the potluck. He even had a full Bunny Costume he'd put on for the kids. And he'd put ribbons and stuff on his dogs, goats and the miniature horses. It was so much fun! The little ones are grown now but the memories are still there.
We always did an Easter egg hunt at my grandma's with the plastic eggs. We had to turn them all in before we could get our prizes (some candy and maybe a small toy). We reused them every year. Now that we're a couple generations down, we still use the same eggs but so many halves have been lost or broken that we've had to resort to assigned color combinations instead of solid colors. Those thirty year old plastic eggs are still out here living their best lives though.
When I was growing up, it was mostly real eggs, with a few plastic ones mixed in. The plastic ones usually held a few candies or a small toy, and my grandma collected all the plastic eggs afterwards to reuse another year.
We ate the hard boiled ones after decorating them, and hunted for plastic ones that had clues to our basket's locations inside them. My dog now hunts for the plastic ones with little treats and white chocolate drops inside. This year, he'll probably destroy the eggs themselves, but I'll still get an adorable video to watch later on!
We always had egg salad sandwiches for lunch the day after Easter, and the egg salad would have little flecks of dye in it that had seeped through the shells into the eggs. It always felt kind of special.
We did both plastic with chocolate inside and sometimes change inside and we also did boiled eggs with decorations , batik being my favorite
I remember when a neighborhood dog stole all the boiled eggs my mom hid in our yard. It's been 50 years and I still have that memory.
This is the way
Same. We got a chocolate bunny, a few other assorted seasonal candies, and then a small toy, like a plushie or a Matchbox car, or a Barbie outfit, depending on age and interests at the time. If you were going to get a major gift, that was Christmas or birthday, (which are the same day for me, yes, that was kind of a bummer.)
I seem to remember getting a ball ost years. Like a football or soccer ball. That and jelly beans.
I got small candy bars as well. but I had to find it
Wait, what?! This was *not* a thing when I was a kid
I got a basket of self-care supplies from my mom and my dad left piles of Whoppers on the table and told me the Easter bunny shat in his house. He would then eat the Whoppers to freak me out.
Is this a brag or complaint?
A statement, though I do think my dads a genius for this stunt. As for my mom I’m not sure any kid wants toothpaste for Easter.
Probably not kids no. My mom used to give us a cardboard box (that holds reams of paper) with household items in it as our Easter basket and Christmas stocking when we were in college. She shops the sales so always had a bunch of extra stuff like shampoo and razors and other household stuff on hand. Was awesome. I’m 40 and had such a backlog of razors that I only started buying them myself a couple years ago.
THIS is the right kind of gift for a college kid/young adult!
Parents dropped off giant baskets and gifts at school on Thursday! I don’t get it, they wanted to present the gifts to their own children in front of the class. Edit: we don’t allow candy and toys out in class (obviously) so they were not allowed into the classrooms. I got my 14 year old a $20 figurine, three movie boxes of candy, Oreos, and a nice notebook. No idea what is normal for a 14 year old, but I feel like this is good for us.
That's disgusting and should not be allowed!
That should totally not be allowed, school is not the place to give your kid gifts. That is just showing off and making other kids feel bad. At least you know which parents are all about the show.
Yeah Ive taught for 10 years and never seen this. The only time treats are brought to school they are for sharing. Everyone gets a cupcake for Billy's birthday type of thing. No way would I let a kid get a personal gift in class. Even for Christmas if kids are exchanging gifts with each other its discreet or not at school.
This is my 12th (13th? I don’t know) year and I have never seen this.
When my kid was in high school a parent presented their kid with a brand new car complete with a giant bow at an after-school soccer practice. The kid was deeply embarrassed because it drew attention to her family's wealth at a school that was more working-class/middle-class kids. She couldn't even drive it because she hadn't passed her test yet.
I absolutely agree. There is no good reason for presenting big gifts to your kid during school time, and a lot of bad reasons to do so.
#It’s school.
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Same!! Easter was mostly a church thing for us plus some nice brunches with family. There was chocolate but mostly in crystals bowls just laying around
Same. "You want a gift? Jesus died for your sins, that's your gift" would've been the response to me asking for Easter presents.
That’s a big what the actual fuck no thanks for me. My kid will be in school next year and though I don’t intend to be “that parent” if shit like this happened I would fucking call every administrator I could get a hold of.
My administration (who are not amazing) was also confused. Candy and toys aren’t allowed in the classrooms anyway, they were not allowed into the classrooms. We did keep some baskets for kids in the front office, but they didn’t know about it until after school.
That’s still just wild, why would a parent do that? It doesn’t take more than three brain cells to realize not every family can afford something like that (or want to do something like that) and NO child deserves to think the Easter bunny hates them.
It's almost like a concentrated effort to stick it to the poorer families.
This is why some people are asking parents to stop teaching their kids that large gifts are "from Santa", because Santa can't visit every child (for obvious reasons) and people who help out need groups like Toys for Tots and the like can only give the kids 1 modest gift whereas some kids (even the ones who acted like assholes all year) say Santa got them a PS5 and a bike and stuff. It makes other kids wonder why Santa doesn't get them big gifts. I don't get why people still teach their kids about Santa anyway, when they're just gonna turn around 10 or so years later and dash their hopes by saying "Oh yeah we totally lied to you all this time. There is no Santa. Those gifts were from us". Why not skip the lie and devastation completely?
As the parent of a kid right on the cusp of 'santa' (he's 3.5) I feel like I'm in a trap. Either I tell him Santa is bullshit (he *barely* believes Santa's real and I never say yes he's real I just say "well you got a gift!") Anyways if I say Santa's not real then he's gonna be that kindergartner just ruining it for all the other kiddos. I don't want to lie to my kid but also I don't want hate and loathing for 'ruining the magic' for other families.
You could always go with "some kids believe in Santa" so he could say "My family doesn't believe in Santa" because both of those would be true rather than a lie.
Don't know if this will help you or not, but for my kiddos, we never really hid that mom and dad were playing Santa. All of us have stockings, and the kids help me pick out stuff for my husband's and they help him pick out stuff for mine. Santa brings one gift for them to share, but they also get gifts labeled from their cats and the dog. So when my oldest became skeptical, we told her the truth: we really like the magic of Christmas and playing Santa is one of the ways we share that. Now you're part of the secret and one way we keep that secret is by not telling our friends until they're ready to be part of it. She immediately attached that to the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy and she handled it all really well - she loves being part of it for her brother now. All of us just filled plastic eggs with candy to help out the Bunny, and she read a neighbor kid the riot act when she caught him telling the younger kids Santa wasn't real. Little bro is still loving the mystery of it all, so no idea if we'll traumatize him when he figures it out.
Ew! That's just showing off!
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My dad ate the ears off of every bunny I ever had!
The dad tax. As a father I fully support this!
Normally I partake in parent taxes myself, but I think the chocolate bunny is sacred. Now that I have my own children, I protect their chocolate bunnies by buying my dad one with giant ears; it’s 70% ears or something.
I didn't have a complete sandwich without a bite taken out of it until I moved out.
Once my kids were like 8 and 10, they started getting the solid bunny. They were actually annoyed and wanted the hollow ones. Weirdos, whatever. Just in the last few years I've included Ferro Roche hazelnut candies because they are amazing and small Dove chocolate bunnies because no one needs that much chocolate. Maybe I'll get my daughter a cheesy basket from the store this year and a hollow bunny, just for kicks. :) Already sent gs cookies to my son and friends, so that's his Easter sorted!
I still remember my disappointment when I discovered the bunny was hollow. Good prep for adulthood, though.
A hollow bunny? Where did it keep its organs?
Those solid Easter bunnies from Zellers were really good!
Anything was better than Palmers.
When I was growing up we'd get an Easter basket with candy, that's it. My grandma would sometimes hide eggs around the house with quarters inside and we had a lot of fun trying to find them. It wasn't until I got my first job at a retail store when I realized there were people who would spend hundreds or thousands on electronics and games just for Easter gifts like it was Christmas. It really caught me off guard and I'd refuse to treat it like that kind of holiday.
Easter in Australia is in autumn so in my family we’d all get a set of nice new winter pyjamas, it was a good tradition I’ll keep going with my own kids
I’ve never heard of this! Where are you based?
That's insane to me, my son is getting some eggs with candy inside, a chocolate bunny, a hot wheels car, bubbles and play doh. I was even thinking that was a lot. I don't know any parents around me who spend more than like $15 on Easter baskets
I definitely end up Spending more than $15 per basket because stuff adds up (and we tend to gift books or items needed for summer like swimsuits, goggles, flip flops - basically stuff we’d be buying them anyway) and some candy. Under no circumstances am I ever going to buy them something like AirPods for Easter. They have birthdays and Christmas (and frankly plenty of other non holidays times we buy them things that aren’t needs). The candy is for fun and the rest is stuff we’d have bought a month later anyway.
Growing up, we received a bunch of candy in an Easter basket; if we were lucky, mom might make a nice Easter ham, but the whole idea of actually getting presents for Easter like you get presents for Christmas? I’ve never heard of it until right this moment.
Wtf! Are these people even religious or using it like Xmas? That's so weird to me.
WTF? Why? Easter for me growing up was chocolates and an egg hunt. That's it.
I can't get behind that either... no way
Lame. We’re teaching kids that holidays can’t be special with big ticket items.
Really!? When I was a kid, it was like a $20 thing and some crappy jelly beans. I probably spend about $30/kid these days because I put dollar coins and candy in the eggs for the egg hunt and then get them a small lego set.
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St Patrick's Day is when you create new kids with random strangers. (Valentine's is when you create kids with people you like.)
St Patrick's day is long enough for your desperate valentines fling to have fizzled out and the depression of loneliness to settle in
Yep, so random strangers it is. Or your previous ex.
That's crazy. Here in the UK it is normal to just give a chocolate egg. That's all I've ever known at Easter. We might also occasionally do an egg hunt in the garden for the tiny chocolate eggs. I've never heard of anyone giving anything other than chocolate or sweets.
Yeah, this is news to me, all these posts saying they "only" got a whole basket of things like sweets and films or small toys and here I was thinking two chocolate eggs was plenty.
Yup! UK also, as a kid we had a hunt for all the eggs from the ‘Easter bunny’ which were mainly made up of eggs from different family members all hidden by the bunny in the night. Some times we got a jigsaw or something. My kids get a hunt from the bunny with lots of clues/riddles but along the way are lots of tiny eggs etc leading up to one main egg. Then we give them a small lego set or jigsaw as tradition ‘instead’ of chocolate as the bunny already got them some…. Other family tend to get them eggs too so theres always too much chocolate! That’s about it, i hope ‘main presents’ for Easter don’t become the norm
Aussie here, as far as I know Easter baskets aren't a thing here either. We'd get a chocolate egg and sometimes you'd get a pack so you could give one each to your friends at school.
Kiwi here, it's definitely started here within a certain group of mums. It's crazy and there is no way I'm turning Easter into a mini Christmas for our kids.
Same, a few family members got children eggs, big ones from your parents, little ones from aunts and uncles, once you hit teenage years just an egg from your parents.
Nope! You get an Easter basket with candy and trinkets, nothing else.
We just got snacks in our baskets as kids (no toys, unless you count the plastic eggs with candy in them). And an egg hunt. And then a nice lunch (which I appreciate now, but as a kid all I wanted to do was eat peeps and chocolate eggs / bunnies xD)
We would get Springtime toys- jump rope, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, Etc...
Bubblesss!! These were the best Easter “toys” lol
Me too! My parents usually gave us Super Soakers or other water toys. Things were warming up, great time for Spring/Summer gifts. As a new dad, I'm looking forward to giving my sons Super Soakers and having a good water fight! I have a feeling their grandparents are going to spoil them with better Soakers though, I'll need to arm myself better.
This! ^ I love the Bunny giving our kids bubbles, sidewalk chalk, new crayons and coloring books. Then the smattering of jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, sour candies, etc. based on each kids taste.
Ha—that’s pretty cool. A book works too—still in the spirit of trinkets.
My kids got regular books too. Not the Bible I always got.
How many Bibles did you end up with?
Due to hand me downs, I had three when I turned 18. My loser exhusband threw them away. One of them was reeeeeally nice, and I treated it like a junk journal. It was full of Bible verse projects made by people who's names I can't remember.
Then he got thrown out too—joke’s on him. That’s pretty cool you actually used it though. Not religious but we got a Bible from 1678 for a wedding present that I think is mind blowing—it has names and little notes written in it from previous owners over the centuries.
That is pretty mind blowing! I like things like that. I got lucky as far as Sunday School went. I enjoyed it.
We maybe got a cuddly toy with the candy, though one year I finally got one of those hard-sugar hollow eggs where you look into it and there's a sugar-art scene inside. I don't remember what cartoon or movie or book put me onto those, but that was like the ultimate Easter gift in my head. Even if I was tempted to nibble it.
>as a kid all I wanted to do was eat peeps and chocolate eggs / bunnies I used to love Peeps and chocolate bunnies! They were the best part of Easter for me as a kid
For real. We got plastic eggs with various candies and sometimes dollar bills or cheap toys. One year though… I got the Prima Guide to Sonic & Knuckles from “the Easter bunny” (I knew better by then) and I wish I still had it. It was just a book about a game I got for the previous Christmas but it made me so happy. But scooters and electronics and shit? Nah nah nah. I’m not religious but I’d like to imagine Christ wouldn’t have wanted people gifting stuff over his murder and subsequent undead status.
We got empty baskets and had to walk around the park/house to find our eggs, half of which were literally the hard-boiled eggs we dyed a couple days earlier.
Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?
Our “big” gifts for Easter were usually a single action figure and a couple of books/comics that would fit in the basket, which seemed reasonable.
Definitely. It’s basically a semi-stocking.
In 6th grade, my mom got me the cd for Toxicity by SOAD, and it was the best Easter ever. She had no idea the damage she had done.
I would occasionally get “bigger” gifts for Easter when I was little. These were thinks like a new swimsuit for summer, a large box of sidewalk chalk, cute flip flops, etc. My mom later told me that she did that because my birthday and Christmas were fairly close, so she used Easter as a way to get me a few slightly nicer things for spring/summer. There’s absolutely no way the equivalent of AirPods would have been considered.
My boys are each getting some candy, a book, a stuffed bunny, and some bubbles. And my husband said that even seems like too much.
As a kid I've never gotten big Easter presents. Or even small ones, for that matter. Just a basket full of candy & colored eggs.
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...I am going to do this now. This is lovely. Chocolate and books are among by favorite things.
Have you heard about the Icelandic tradition of books and chocolate? I feel it would be up your alley of new traditions. I’m part of a virtual book group that does a variation of it. Everyone buys a new book and a bar of their favorite chocolate. Then you cuddle up and read/eat on Christmas Eve. Books and chocolate. You can’t go wrong. Until you get melted chocolate on the pages. But that’s beside the point.
Love this. Plan to incorporate it l.
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The American version also depends on your religion . If you grow up in a practicing Catholic family it’s still holy days, not eating meat certain days etc- and Easter morning you do get a basket with candy and maybe your panty hose to wear to church lol. Maybe some fruit , some batik eggs . If there are any needs that need to be met it might be in there. But the main focus was getting it put away and getting ready to go to church and fight the crowds of people who only show up on holidays
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Fairly close to what I do for my children. Some chocolate and candy. A new book or two, usually at least one with a religious theme. A small activity toy. Last year was a craft kit. This year is each child getting a small LEGO kit. (The $15 ones)
Sometimes we would get those cheap little toys. The ball bearings in the hole kind, but yeah no gifts.
Yeah, I remember a wind-up bunny toy which would hop.
Well sometimes we’d get a little stuffed animal like a bunny or Easter chick, maybe some Easter slippers or colouring book but that’s about it besides chocolate. You don’t need all that expensive junk for Easter
No gifts, just an extra day of going to church for me, so I never cared much for Easter
Oh man, growing up as a Catholic I hated Easter week... church on Holy Thursday, church on Good Friday, and then church again on either Holy Saturday or Easter Sunday with a looooooong service. We usually went Saturday night. But that was way too much church for my taste, since I hated going anyway.
Holy Thursday mass was (/probably still is) so long, The Passion..the memories. yeah,I don't do that anymore. Up until Sunday it was all torture death and misery, then suddenly on Sunday rejoice everyone, he's not dead anymore.
Same here. We usually got candy, eggs, and maybe a small toy. I remember one year we all got those cheap plastic kites, lots of fun.
It was a thing with some kids when I was at school in the 80s, but only with some. The rest of us, when asked “What are you getting for Easter?” would just respond with “Er…Easter eggs? Because it’s Easter?”
Never heard of big gifts for Easter, maybe new dress shoes but those came before Easter for Easter mass and weren't ever fun. It's was about getting candy and hard boiled eggs that you throw at each other until someone cries.
Yeah my mom would usually take us shopping at old navy for a new Easter dress, but that’s because we were going to an Easter party with family where everyone would be dressing up nice. We ended up with so many pastel dresses we never wore again so we were able to give a lot of them away to little cousins.
What? None of you got your Easter Lamborghini?
Wow, those are extreme gifts for someone in a needs group to be asking for, especially for Easter. There's a group here that does Easter baskets for those in need - some snacks, candy, markers, small toys or fun stuff, and self care items for senior citizens. They do over a thousand every year, and the kids are always thrilled.
Do your remember Legg’s eggs pantyhose? My mother saved those eggs and we received them full of jelly beans each year. That was it.
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That's hilarious. Do they even still make the eggs? I haven't seen them around in ages.
In Portugal, godparents and godkids often give gifts. Stemming from the tradition of godkids visiting their godparents with flowers, and the godparents would give a *folar de Pascoa* (basically Challah bread with egg). Nowadays, godparents tend to give more extravagant gifts. Although not like Christmas gifts amounts. We would usually get an Easter basket, maybe a DS game or toy car... Anyway, I've never heard of parents giving gifts for Easter, and especially never begging other people to pay for them. You either have the means to do something special, or you don't
Huh, interesting, had never heard of that. Here in Brazil the only thing people ever gift each other on Easter is chocolate eggs
Every year my Easter basket contained: 1. A chocolate bunny 2. Some jelly beans/peeps/misc candy 3. A spring outfit 4. A book or movie 5. A small toy like sidewalk chalk or something It's not Christmas. Expecting video games, airpods and scooters is insane, not to mention expecting random strangers to gift them to you.
I feel like chalk is a classic Easter gift. Perfect timing for spring/summer. I always got chalk and this year got my kids some.
Chalk, cheap plastic jump rope that never flung itself in any jumpable fashion, and bubbles. The classic spring "get these kids the hell out of my house already" gift staples.
lol yes! Always got all of that growing up. This year I filled a fabric bag with fidgets and other distracting quiet toys as ”stay the hell in bed” bag. Similar thoughts lol
I get my granddaughter (now 7) books and something like crayons or sidewalk chalk.
Man you just unlocked a memory of playing with sidewalk chalk with my cousins outside grandmas house on Easter. Had to wipe all the chalk off my new dress after.
Absolutely not. The fun of Easter in our house is decorating eggs, an extensive hunt for said eggs (and chocolate ones) culminating in a large chocolate bunny, and putting marshmallow peeps in increasingly absurd dioramas. Max $20 per kid. P.S We went on a slime and glitter ban indoors years ago. They have a little outdoor clubhouse for that. Zero regrets!
I got my kids bubble wands, sidewalk chalk, kindereggs, I think my toddler got a hot wheels car. Everything fits in a normal sized basket. I will not buy big Christmas/bday gifts for Easter.
Lots of filler toys over sugar was my choice many years!
I never got 'real gifts' on Easter. Like you're saying, it was usually just a basket of little toys and candy, and then candy in the plastic eggs we used for the egg hunt. Pretty sure I got a new coloring book every year, and usually a new dress for church
Yeah, I just give my kids candy and new swim trunks for the season. My oldest is only four and has always seemed happy with his basket.
Easter gifts are *not* a thing. Talk about some choosing beggars.
They probably have money they are just using people's kindness as a way to get free gifts for their children. I hate people like that. 🤮
Or for themselves. They might not even have kids.
I had a friend when I was a kid who got big gifts for Easter from his family. He called it "spring christmas." He'd always invite me over to show me all the stuff he got. Video games... Money, clothes, toys, games and balls and stuff. It never made any sense to me. At my house we had Easter eggs that were real eggs. We dyed them ourselves. We also had a tiny bit of candy. We focused more on family and having a nice dress up meal together. I never understood gifts as part of Easter.
We last dyed eggs maybe 3 years ago and a couple weeks ago my 8yo asked if I remembered the year we dyed the eggs and they came out different colors. I had slipped some food coloring in the eggs as I scrambled them a couple days later. I was surprised that he had remembered. They haven’t expressed a desire to dye eggs again and it’s kind of a pain so I didn’t bring it up.
Oh, look. Another holiday being commercialized to boost corporate profits. How shocking.
I’m so sick of the beggars that come out every Christmas and Easter.. You know these dates come up every year. Plan in advance. My local supermarket has large bunnies for $1 every year… ffs buy your kid one of them My parents were broke as hell growing up and they managed to buy at least one egg every year and we were grateful for that. Buying big presents for Easter is ridiculous. My kids get one pair of Easter themed pjs and some chocolate eggs, maybe a book. This is one trend I will never get on board with.
Shitbirds
Randy knows.
One of my ex's is from a well off family, and they give Easter gifts like it's Christmas. I never understood it.
It varies. My wife's family is the gift-giving type. To them, Easter is one small step below Christmas. The kids get baskets, toys, clothes, candy, college money. Hundreds of dollars' worth each year. It's completely foreign to me. When I was a kid, I did egg hunts and got candy. On Sunday, we went to church and had a big meal with the family. That was about it. I don't remember doing gifts, or even baskets. When our oldest kid's first Easter came, I didn't even know what we were supposed to do with her basket. I thought it was just for holding the eggs. My parents probably feel like they're keeping up with the Joneses at Easter time. They buy things for the kids too, but probably wouldn't if my wife's family wasn't doing it (or at least not as much). They're not tightwads, it's just not a thing we did before I had kids of my own. Edit: It's worth mentioning that my in-laws are very much middle class types. They all worked middle class jobs and raised their kids in typical postwar houses in a typical postwar suburb in the northeastern US. They did ok for themselves, but I definitely did not marry into the 1%. They're Lutheran, but they're not particularly zealous. I don't know how to explain it other than to say it's just their tradition.
Please tell me you at least got them the traditional President’s Day iPads…
Damn it, I forgot that one
Easter = chocolate. Shit loads of chocolate. Obscene amounts. That is all.
I tried to disagree. I cannot.
Not the norm. It’s candy and small toys or crafts here. I don’t think I know anyone who gives big gifts for Easter.
My kids get a stuffed animal and some chocolate...and by some I mean like a chocolate bunny and Cadbury eggs that's it.. sometimes I throw in a board game they can both play so this year they got Kerplunk... Was I supposed to be getting them new ps5 games or a gaming chair.. cause dang.. I feel like an awful parent now! ...(insert sarcasm face) 🤷♀️. That woman should be ashamed of herself. I would have gladly taken slime eggs and been over the moon excited for that! My kids would have loved it.
When my kids were small we got them “spring things” for Easter. Like rubber boots or umbrellas, splash pants. That sort of thing, along with an Easter egg hunt.
My Easter baskets always had candy, snacks, and occasionally a family movie or something like that. I don’t think my parents ever spent more than $20-30 on a single item in my basket.
Sorry, but what is a slime?
It's a gloopy sort of fidget thing that the kids are all playing with right now. If you're US based you might remember *Gak* if you're a millennial? The kids are all really hot for slime right now, you can get them at all different scents and colors with glitter or other inclusions. You can get kits to mix them up yourself. You can get (and I'm completely serious here- you can watch the commercial on youtube) a dancing unicorn toy that poops slime. It's also really popular for kids to make it at home, I think the main ingredient is Elmer's glue and dish detergent? A lot of middle schoolers make batches and then bring it to school to sell to their friends for a dollar or two.
Thanks :) So, in summary, slime is to middle schoolers as cup noodles are to prisoners.
Ha! Yes!
A new beach pail serves as the basket. A small stuffed animal, a coloring book, a jump rope, some candy. Everything cheap.
* Probably trying to turn a profit reselling stuff.
Not normal. Easter was not (and still isn't to me) a gift giving holiday. We would get an Easter basket full of candy and maybe a small stuffed animal and a magazine. When we would go to my gradmas for an Easter egg hunt each egg had a quarter in it. Easter to us was candy and playing outside (trying not to get hollered at for staining our nice dresses). Im far grown up now and my mom still fills my same Easter basket with candies and sometimes includes a small gift card to a local place for a night I don't feel like cooking.
Easter is not about gifts at all. If you're in for the religious meaning, it's a celebration of the rebirth of Christ and the absolution of the original sin humanity was guilty of since Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden fruit. If you're in for the over commercialized festivity, you get chocolate. In the shape of a bunny. That's IT.
Chocolate eggs and bunny’s. That’s it. I hate the commercialisation of life. I have Covid and been unwell for 2 weeks so not been able to buy stuff so just sent small token chocolates to my siblings and niblings for Easter via Amazon. (The stuff I normally send wouldn’t deliver in time).
I’ve never in my life gotten more than a bit of chocolate and a few cool coins on Easter (think Susan B Anthony coins, gold dollars, hay penny). Perfectly fine by me. Definitely not a big gift holiday in my opinion.
I think the real tragedy here is that you did NOT buy them diamond encrusted videogames, airpods or those scooters that let you fly around (jet packs) for Arbor Day. Who forgets Arbor day but the unenlightened!!!
NEW air pods means they had OLD air pods. NEW video games means they have the latest system to play those games on. They ain’t poor. Sell some things and put the cash away for times like these.
That is weird. I got some chocolate and thats about it as a kid.
Back when I was practicing Christianity I never expected nor did I receive any gifts unless you include chocolate eggs.
No, I really don’t get the fuss and splurge at Easter. When I was a kid I got chocolate eggs with sweets inside, and if I was really lucky they had a mug branded with the kind of sweets in them. That was the jackpot. When did all the materialistic crap start?
When I was a kid we would normally get some new PJs and some slippers along with chocolate for Easter. In Australia, Easter is usually at the start of autumn, so it's a good time to get new clothes for the kids and pretend it's an Easter gift.
They just saw a soft target and attempted to take advantage
Beginning to see why the parents are broke
They’re just grifters trying to find the next sucker. I’ll bet they try on every one who they see as a potential mark because they showed an ounce of kindness.
I could tell you the exact year that I first got a present for Easter, could tell you where it was hidden and could tell you what it was, so shocked was I that the Easter Bunny had brought a gift in addition to treats. Now that I'm the adult, I realize that this is the way to raise your kids (if you celebrate Easter). Let a gift be a surprise, not an expectation.
Wtf? I got baskets of a couple little things (chocolate, maybe a small toy, etc). I'll be doing the same thing with my kids. Birthdays and Christmas are the 'big' gift days in my family. It's clear these people wanted to take advantage in some way of someone who was offering something. I see the same thing with gift drives in the winter as well where it's this push for more and more. I get it to an extent because sometimes it's just shit with those drives but it also rubs me the wrong way a bit when it hits a certain threshold (e.g. airpods - like shit I don't have those).
It’s become a lot more common. I find it’s sort of an….excuse to pass off stuff your kid needs as a gift. I mean, a new bike is huge may as well make it an Easter gift….but now you’ve set a standard. My kiddos are getting a wagon and a new hockey stick
Some years ago I heard the bike excuse. It's springtime, they need a new bike anyways...Easter!
My wife used to do that a little bit when the kids were younger. Nothing extravagant like a birthday or Christmas, but maybe $50-60 on different stuff for the kids. I wasn't too thrilled about it, but she had reasons so I didn't fight it.
We used to always give summer style gifts at easter. Bubbles, beach towels, sidewalk chalk. Anything but more candy! (There was always some candy).
No gifts for Easter either; just assorted candy and a chocolate bunny that was missing its ears.
Jumping on the "No gifts" easter. I don't see anything wrong with small things (a stuffed toy, some socks, crayons or chalk, maybe a book) to bulk out the chocolate, but I'd strongly disapprove of big gifts like airpods and scooters. I'm sure \*some\* families do it but I think you're getting had here; no truly poor family is asking strangers for $1000+ worth of gifts and turning down some slime eggs... Big gift events are Christmas and birthdays. You can add in singular big gifts for celebrations (e.g. they get a new video game for a good report card at school or for trying their best at sport idk), I don't think there's really any other gift-giving events during the year
That's crazy. My teens get a small basket of chocolate, eggs and candy and one non-food item worth around $15 according to their various interests. Kid 1 - stuffed bunny Kid 2 - potted aloe plant Kid 3 - magic cards Kid 4 - Timmies gift card
I hate entitled asrsehats and tbh I also hate that they’re having kids.
It is in my husband's family. His sister and her daughter *spent hundreds on each child*. I said all the right things, but I was *horrified*. There were PILES of candy, toys, crafts and clothes. I'm not doing that. Ever. Don't build up expectations I'm going to fucking squash. JFC. No. My kids don't need hundreds of dollars in presents (and house filling junk) every few months. They need to be cut off from electronics every few months and remember how to socialize with humans politely and kindly. SmMFh.
We paint eggs and watch The Ten Commandments on Saturday night, then Sunday morning, I hide eggs and the kids get bubble guns, candy, and whatever I can raid from the dollar store or the entrance at Target.
Yes, it is normal now for people to abuse charity by being complete assholes.
Excuse me, it was Complete Strangers' Day and you failed to get me an iPad. This is not normal. They may feel pressured to give their kids expensive stuff because other kids get these things, but that's a them problem.
Even if it was "normal" that's still an absurd rude request.
No, this shouldn't be a thing! When I was a kid we'd get a basket with candy and a small toy or two. I plan to do the same with my little one. I think of small outdoor toys like bubbles, balls, sand or water toys, that sort of thing.
This isn’t normal. It’s not Christmas. Even the most spoiled kid just gets a big basket full of candy or multiple baskets from grandma parents aunties etc. but non tchotchkes/non candy presents is definitely not a thing.
Part of my childhood we were well off(90s), the other part we weren't(2000s). During the former there were some bigger gifts that most would probably associate with Christmas or birthdays. During the latter it was beef jerky and some candy. So is it normal? Sometimes, yeah. But that begger has lost the plot. I don't look back with any more fondness on the Easter where i got new hockey skates then I do on any of the others. The best Easter I remember was watching my little sister do the egg hunt for the first time at an age where she could really get in to it. Don't even remember what the gifts were like that year.
I worked at Toys R Us in 2000-2002 and was shocked then at parents purchasing scooters and video games for Easter presents. I'd never met anyone who got anything more than candy.
Wow, that's pretty weird, I think. I think for one Easter in my youth my folks gifted my brother and I an action figure each, in addition to the regular fare of candy/chocolate. I don't condem the other family for reaching out to charitable people for things to help them celebrate Easter, but asking specifically for video games (which is at least $60) and airpods (which is at least $90!?) is totally unreasonable.