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AIBU to buy our adult children Easter eggs?

111 replies

nameohnameohname · 03/04/2024 16:51

Please settle an argument with DH!
Kids are in their 20s.
One of us thinks this is a usual thing to do.
One thinks it is weird.
I won’t tell you which of us thinks it’s weird until later….

YABU - buying eggs for adult children is WEIRD
YANBU - buying eggs for adult children is not only usual, but LOVELY

OP posts:
canyouletthedogoutplease · 03/04/2024 18:06

Anyone that's in my house on Easter day gets an egg, this year it was my parents and my friend and her daughters, DP and my kids, eggs for all.

Molonty · 03/04/2024 18:01

Surely they can just buy it themselves?

MotherofGorgons · 03/04/2024 17:59

Perfectly fine, lovely and not at all weird to buy for adults. AFAIK adults like chocolate too.

CurlewKate · 03/04/2024 17:58

Perfectly normal. The Easter Bunny may well have also visited adult DD's dog.

Crumpleton · 03/04/2024 17:55

DC is 31 and still has Easter chocs.

Wordsmithery · 03/04/2024 17:52

My adult children get Easter eggs and Christmas stockings. And will continue to do so until they get married or have children of their own.

ARichtGoodDram · 03/04/2024 17:43

Mil still buys for us, as well as her grandkids.

She also buys us advent calendars.

Tukto · 03/04/2024 17:42

Mum bought me one until she died when I was 62.
I buy for adult DC and their partners.
It's just a nice little token.

SeeingRainbowsInTheGloom · 03/04/2024 17:23

In my fifties and I still buy for my parents and brother and they still buy for me and my husband. Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do!

MyOtherHusbandIsAWash · 03/04/2024 17:16

I haven’t had an egg from DM for a few years (42yo) but DH and I both get Xmad stockings from our parents! I’m sure if we saw them at Easter we’d get eggs.

lazyarse123 · 03/04/2024 17:14

Well we bought for ours all in their 30s and they bought for us. I suppose we all could have just bought ourselves one but it's nice that someone else has thought about you.

ThePoshUns · 03/04/2024 17:14

I buy my DH and adult sons one still

Nudgethatjudge · 03/04/2024 17:12

Keep buying them.
It's just a token of thinking about them/love isn't it?
I checked and there's no age limit (except little ones with little eggs).

PandaG · 03/04/2024 17:09

Bought for our adult kids and partner, and for DH, and various packets of minieggs for cake decorating and evening munching with wine and board games. Everyone happy. If I'd seen my Dad over Easter he would have bought one for each of us, or possibly a large slab of chocolate each instead, as they tend to be better value for money!

Vicliz24 · 03/04/2024 17:07

My 39 and 36 year olds got one each as did their partners.

familyissues12345 · 03/04/2024 17:06

We bought for adult DS (and his GF) and DH and I bought each other the same amount of eggs as we bought for the children - 2 eggs plus something else (creme eggs etc).

RufustheFactualReindeer · 03/04/2024 17:05

Got 20 year old ds2, 22 year old dd and 25 year old ds1 and his partner easter eggs, and bunnies and all sorts of chocolate bits

and df got all of us including 55 year old dh and 54 year old me easter eggs 😀

Nanny0gg · 03/04/2024 17:05

nameohnameohname · 03/04/2024 16:51

Please settle an argument with DH!
Kids are in their 20s.
One of us thinks this is a usual thing to do.
One thinks it is weird.
I won’t tell you which of us thinks it’s weird until later….

YABU - buying eggs for adult children is WEIRD
YANBU - buying eggs for adult children is not only usual, but LOVELY

And they buy for us!

Createausername1970 · 03/04/2024 17:04

My adult DS lives at home and I get all of us a large egg each.

haveyoutriedturningitoffandonagain · 03/04/2024 17:04

Who cares if it's not usual it's lovely

LillyLeaf · 03/04/2024 17:03

I'm 41 and my parents bought one each for me, my partner and 3 year old. We all scoffed them, never too old for Easter eggs.

Tel12 · 03/04/2024 17:03

Well mine all got Eggs and some of their children are in their 20s.

ClaudiaCattipuss · 03/04/2024 17:01

God, my adult children still have big piles of presents at Christmas!

I say take the little pockets of happiness and indulgence where you can. Why not?

DurhamDurham · 03/04/2024 17:01

We bought our girls eggs and they're 27 and 31, bought their partners one each too. They get advent calendars too. Left it too late to stop now Grin

CandyCaneLane0 · 03/04/2024 17:00

I'm 33 and got one from my mum, I got her one too