An Easter question for those of you with children

[Judge Smails]

Am I an oddball here, or is my wife, and her circle of friends, completely insane?

I remember when I was a kid I was lucky if I got an Easter basket with some jelly beans, a cheap-ass hollow chocolate bunny and some sticky, half-melted Peeps.

Easter at my house, and for my kids, is getting out of control in recent years. This year they're getting Nintendo DS and Gameboy games, DVDs, clothes and my daughter is getting some $70.00 toy fashion boutique thingy. Then on Easter Sunday the grandparents come over and try to outdo each other in the gift department. Easter is approaching Christmas in terms of loot which my kids come to expect. I'm totally against it, but of course my wife says I'm just a wet blanket. Is this just an abberration or do other people find this happening to Easter?

I used to give my wife some little Easter chocolates and flowers but I've stopped doing that on principle.

[J.Clints]

Taht is a little much. My son gets some stuff but damn. Not that much...

[BoondockSaint]

Would you adopt me?

[J.Clints]

Would you adopt me?

Yea me too.

[nevnut]

My eleven-year-old son is getting a $25 dollar gift card and a chocolate bunny.

[Jughead]

Still get baskets for our boys....I use the word still, because they are 21 and 19..But they look forward to it....My youngest is a vegetarian and no sugar..So we get him things like guitar cords and socks and stuff like that in his basket..My oldest usually gets some chocolate and a few cds....My oldest is in collage,,,,but its only about an hour away....He will come home for my famous easter egg hunt!!....Plastic eggs with surprises in them.....Try it this year it can be a lot of fun even for older kids Its just a little harder to hide them at their age ..Oh and my wife has to write down where I hide them, because my memory is so bad i always find a few when I mow in May..:smile:

[Friday]

There are no presents for EASTER ..... thats just crazy talk!

Easter = easter basket, cadbury eggs, peeps, chocolate bunny, belly jeans, maybe a little stuffed aminal or knick-knack, and an easter card... And egg decorating!
Thats all. It's not Christmas ya know!

You must be very wealthy... my birthday is on May 21st :bye:

[Jughead]

There are no presents for EASTER ..... thats just crazy talk!

Easter = easter basket, cadbury eggs, peeps, chocolate bunny, belly jeans, maybe a little stuffed aminal or knick-knack, and an easter card... And egg decorating!
Thats all. It's not Christmas ya know!

You must be very wealthy... my birthday is on May 21st :bye:

By the way..Mine is on May 17th...:smile:

[Don Stugots]

There are no presents for EASTER ..... thats just crazy talk!

Easter = easter basket, cadbury eggs, peeps, chocolate bunny, belly jeans, maybe a little stuffed aminal or knick-knack, and an easter card... And egg decorating!
Thats all. It's not Christmas ya know!

You must be very wealthy... my birthday is on May 21st :bye:

By the way..Mine is on May 17th...:smile:

Judge, you are nuts. but, i agree with Friday. Also, remember Nov 28th, Don Rigo Black Rubusto cigars.

[Judge Smails]

There are no presents for EASTER ..... thats just crazy talk!

Easter = easter basket, cadbury eggs, peeps, chocolate bunny, belly jeans, maybe a little stuffed aminal or knick-knack, and an easter card... And egg decorating!
Thats all. It's not Christmas ya know!

You must be very wealthy... my birthday is on May 21st :bye:


I do OK for myself, but I'm far from what I would consider wealthy, which makes this whole gifting thing all the more insane in my book. I'm just glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks that this is crazy. I guess I'm just going to have to start laying down the law. Unfortunately, with kids it's difficult to go back once the cat is out of the bag. I guess I can only hope to hold the line here and no further.

By the way this thing of everyone telling me their birthdays reminds me of my thread when I stupidly told everyone I won $55K in Atlantic City. Rest assured I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers when your birthday comes around.

[Tall_James]

The presents seem a little much. My kids will get the requisite basket of jelly beans, chocolate eggs and medium-sized hollow bunny. When we visit relatives they'll gorge themselves on sweets and I'm cool with that.

[angrymissy]

Back when my Grandparents did Easter, one Grandma would get us a purse (or in the 80's a hat) and fill that up with candy, and then we would get clothes (one spring outfit). The other Grandma would fill up those plastic easter eggs with quarters and use those for an easter egg hunt.

[A.J.]

Like others have said, my brother and I would get the requisite basket with the chocolate bunny, the Reese's Peanut Butter egg, and some jellybeans. The best thing was that my parents would hide those little chocolate eggs around the house for us to find.

[Gvac]

No one alive needs anything more than these on Easter -

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[grlNIN]

My brothers an I used to get the Easter basket half with presents and half with candy. Usually my parents got me some form of jewelry and my brothers got a video game or two.

Plus new dress and suits.

[Friday]

my friends have an easter egg hunt for their two boys every year.
but they make it cool by attaching notes to the eggs with clever hints to where the next eggs are... and some cool random prize waits at the end. this year i think i will surrogate myself as their third kid. wheeee

[PapaBear]

There is no way Easter should be a time for kids to expect presents. Candy is a must (unless they get to the age that it doesn't excite them), and a family dinner should include an egg hunt (again.. if the kids are interested).

[cougarjake13]

i never got presents at easter time

usually it was the only time all year that i got candy, gotta thank the rents though, i never had a cavity growing up

[Fez4PrezN2008]

Geez, it's big presents at Easter now ?!?!?, next thing you know the little ankle biters will want a week at Disney for Arbor Day ! You gotta do your part to put a stop to this non-sense. I say we go back to a stocking full of oranges, mixed nuts, and candy canes for Christmas while we're at it. Pretty sure Jesus didn't intend for us to go into debt to celebrate his birth or resurrection.

Just stick to the jelly beans and a nice egg salad sandwitch, you're kids will thank you when they're older.

[Gaia]

Yea me too.

Me three.








I havent eaten in days.

[Bossanova]

I would always get candy, and some new batting gloves every year for the upcoming season.

[furie]

I only got candy at easter. once i got a gi-joe figure in the basket. Hawk if i remember right.

[johnniewalker]

I always just got a basket of candy that was hidden. I remember one year all of our relatives lined the kids up and blindfolded us, and then threw water balloons at us. That was a confusing easter tradition.

[BoondockSaint]

My dad would always hide eggs and then forget where they were. One year we couldn't find the last egg. About a week or two later we were eating dinner and something started to stink. We looked up and there was the egg, in the chandelier, cooking.

Another thing my dad would do is color an uncooked egg and hide it. He's a real funny guy.

[Jujubees2]

I'm 44 and never have gotten anything but candy for easter. My kids are 11 and 9 and they have never gotten anything but candy on Easter. This year I'm thinking about getting them a big chocolate Jesus!

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My priest actually spoke of this at mass this morning.

[ralphbxny]

Easter is the holloween of the spring without trick or treating. Ya get candy! A god awful chocolate bunny! A bad suit and you paint and hide eggs!!

Thats how we did it in the old BX!!

[reeshy]

I used to love Easter......my dad would let me out of the shed for an hour and hose down!!!!!

[WhistlePig]

I didn't know kids were getting presents now! That's ridiculous. When Molly is older we're just getting her a basket with candy. I will hide it, though, and leave clues to where it is like my dad used to do with me. I looked more forward to the hunt than the basket itself.

[PapaBear]

My parents did the clue thing for a couple of years too. My favorite Easter egg story deals with one of my nephews when he was about 2 or 3. They told all the kids to look for the eggs, and whoever found the most got a prize. Travis made a b line for the back door of the house, went into the kitchen, and took all of the regular eggs out of the fridge. He ran back to the adults and said "I win!"

[Gwen]

We only got a basket of candy (with the awful fake plastic grass stuck to the peeps that were torn apart to be split amongst the 2 baskets). We also had the 5 grandkids get together at my grandma's house and they'd fill a whole boatload of those lil plastic eggs with quarters and lots of the little candies (m&ms, jelly beans, those Palmer chocolate coins called "Bunny Money). People are too concerned with getting presents.

I say put your foot down and go back to the old school way, sure your kids will be pissed for a year, but they'll get over it and they'll realize how silly that was (hopefully your wife will too).

[BoondockSaint]

Easter is the holloween of the spring without trick or treating. Ya get candy! A god awful chocolate bunny! A bad suit and you paint and hide eggs!!

Thats how we did it in the old BX!!

Did they hide the eggs in the burned out cars and broken 40 bottles?

[Chigworthy]

If Earl's nephews and nieces can't have an Easter basket, why should anyone else?

[Fat_Sunny]

I always just got a basket of candy that was hidden. I remember one year all of our relatives lined the kids up and blindfolded us, and then threw water balloons at us. That was a confusing easter tradition.

LFAO!! It Sounds Like The Walkers Had A "Festivus" Easter That Year! Fat Can't Wait Until Next Sunday To Try Out This New Tradition With His Nieces And Nephews!

[BLZBUBBA]

I've lost interest in Easter since it became so commercialized?

[PapaBear]

I've lost interest in Easter since it became so commercialized?
Same thing happened to Pancake Day.

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[sr71blackbird]

We get the baskets and candy. The plastic hollow eggs get hidden by my parents breakthrough the house and there is change and the occasional bills hidden inside. No "gifts" like you describe though. Thats waaay to much and sounds too commercialized for me. Tell your wife shes spoiling them. All these holidays are getting out of hand for these kids. Sweet 16's are getting like weddings! Its too much already, unless you are rich..

[angelinad128]

That's a little overboard with presents for Easter. My kid gets a store bought filled basket and some money from my parents and other relatives and that's it.



Come to think of it she gets more than I did when I was a kid!

[bobrobot]

Chocolate Bunnies ROOL, but Cadbury eggs scare me!!!

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[cupcakelove]

In recent years, I have received a Best Buy gift card from my grandmother, but when I was a child I just got crappy candy for Easter.

[Chip196]

We'd get a small present or two, but nothing approaching what you described. I think when I have kids I will attempt to keep it low key as well. Christmas and Birthdays are for presents, Easter is about Chocolate Bunnies.

[reillyluck]

youre only supposed to get candy in the basket, Color some eggs, maybe a stuffed bunny rabbit or something. Thats Crazy Talk. If i ever decide to have children, they will hate me, because im going old school. NO WIRE HANGERS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

[SatCam]

im expecting a cannister of pringlers, some terrible malted chocolate "robin eggs" and an 8hr shift of work

[nate1000]

By the way..Mine is on May 17th...:smile:

Hey, so is my wife's. Somebody remind me.

[Gwen]

im expecting a cannister of pringlers, some terrible malted chocolate "robin eggs" and an 8hr shift of work

Much love for the malt ball robin's eggs! Cadbury Creme Eggs are pretty money too, but none of those new farfangled flavors.

[badmonkey]

We got a basket, some candy, and a stuffed animal thing for each of the kids this year. Then grandma's box came in the mail, complete with a basket for each of them and candy. For some reason grandma thinks my 1yr old son is going to be able to eat jelly beans with his 4 front teeth. I thought two baskets was overkill, but at 1 and 3yrs old, they won't likely remember this next year when they each only get one basket.

Happy Easter

Badmonkey


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IT PUTS THE EGGS IN THE BASKET!!!

[Fat_Sunny]

Fat Loves These Cadbury Mini Eggs More Than Any Other Easter Candy. He Was Surprised To Learn, Though, That They Are Made By Hershey's!

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[RoseBlood]

Fat Loves These Cadbury Mini Eggs More Than Any Other Easter Candy. He Was Surprised To Learn, Though, That They Are Made By Hershey's!

http://www.hersheys.com/products/details/images/flavors/pf_cad_minieggs.gif

I hate Cadbury products. I can barely taste any chocolate. I like the darker chocolates. The Europeans know what they are doing, they require a higher percentage of actual cocao in their chocolates. It satisfies the chocolate craving with much less product, so you eat less of it. Sometimes I think it's a conspiracy by the government to keep Americans fat. :laugh:

[RoseBlood]

Also, to go along with the Easter memories theme, my mother use to buy chocolate in various Easter colors along with Easter chocolate molds. She'd melt the chocolate for us and we would make our own Easter candy. We used toothpicks to add color to the front details and then add the milk chocolate. My favorite was coloring in the Easter basket and making colorful chocolate Easter lollipops. We also made peanut butter cups and chocolate Crosses, this in addition to the usual tradition of egg coloring. My parents started hiding plastic eggs rather than the real eggs because they occasionally forgot where they hid them.

[Fat_Sunny]

We also made peanut butter cups and chocolate Crosses, this in addition to the usual tradition of egg coloring.

Cool! If You Had Taken It One Tiny Bit Farther, You Would Have Made A Chocolate Jesus, And Then You Would Have Been Way Ahead Of Your Time!

[RoseBlood]

Cool! If You Had Taken It One Tiny Bit Farther, You Would Have Made A Chocolate Jesus, And Then You Would Have Been Way Ahead Of Your Time!

:laugh: you're funny Fat_Sunny

[Bob Impact]

Cool! If You Had Taken It One Tiny Bit Farther, You Would Have Made A Chocolate Jesus, And Then You Would Have Been Way Ahead Of Your Time!

Or Tom Waits.

[milliehatchett]

I'm 44 and never have gotten anything but candy for easter. My kids are 11 and 9 and they have never gotten anything but candy on Easter. This year I'm thinking about getting them a big chocolate Jesus!

My priest actually spoke of this at mass this morning.

So no loin cloth for Jesus but they were able to manufacture a chocolatey scrunchy for his ponytail??????