To be frustrated with the school about the Easter egg situation?

I was just about to say this. Why are you starting Easter eggs 1 month and 3 weeks before it's Easter? It's like complaining about having to do the Christmas jumper thing, because your kids have been wearing a Christmas jumper since early November 🙄

I think sometimes it is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. In isolation the egg request seems small but once it comes with loads of others it can get overwhelming. I got irrationally pissed off with an extra cake sale a few weeks ago. On the face of it, it’s a nice thing but I find it annoying to spend £3-4 on cakes that might only sell for £3 and then spend an extra £2 on the cake for my kids when I could have just donated £5 and not fed my kids a load of sugar. I find this extra annoying when the school sends home a load of sanctimonious stuff about healthy eating when the children eat more shit at school than at home…

Sorry OP but I have this vision of your house stuffed with eggs and you refusing to share them or donate them like a giant angry chicken😂

Yes that is strange

Eating easter eggs because you want to eat one, not strange

Just like christmas cake or mince pies prior to christmas

Anyway, all this thread has done is make me remember I had another egg in my bag so Ive managed to get some of that down me now.

What is strange is that OP has loads of eggs but is making a big fuss about donating one for a school event.

I’m also surprised that they have been eating Easter eggs just because they are in the shop.

How many easter eggs have your children been eatinig all the way through march that one more egg would tip it to unacceptable levels of easter eggs??😂

I'm not sure why its being portrayed as if it's the strangest thing anyone has ever heard
Well it is very strange to a lot of people. Easter eggs being for actual Easter is far more common than Easter eggs for a few weeks around March and April at a time vaguely related to Easter.

OP your spoilt kids have a pile of Easter Eggs at home yet you don't want to buy/donate one to the school?

Easter is a Christian festival. How very unchristian of you.

It doesnt 'have' to start on easter sunday at all. Thats one way of doing things, OP does it differently thats all

Im not sure why its being portrayed as if its the strangest thing anyone has ever heard

I had a easter egg today at work. They were being handed out. It wouldnt occur to me its for a set day. Nor did anyone else.

I also notice that usually on threads about food, there is a lot of finger wagging (rightly) for terminlogy like stuffing your face, scoffing etc etc

Yet people using it freely here about children enjoying some sweets. Most children and adults have eaten chocolate in the past few weeks, what is different about chocolate in egg form?

I also don’t understand - if you’re drowning in chocolate eggs - just send one to the school? Right?

There's been a few posts like that here lately! How these people manage to bring children up is beyond me!

This must be a wind up or reverse. What the hell? It’s not the job of the school or PTA to provide your child with an Easter egg. If you don’t want them to feel left out, donate an egg. It’s your problem that you aren’t disciplined enough to stop your children eating Easter eggs before the actual event.

I can’t help thinking of how monstrous I am that my 9 and 5 years olds are yet to get an Easter egg…. It’s just been so chaotic (not as planned as the OP!) that it’s just not been a thing and the poor sods have gone to bed without heir first egg yet. Shame on me and DH 🤣 and now I really want some chocolate

@ConnieHeart that’s clearly not going to be true is it.

I understand that all of the little things add up.

But it seems like this is a particularly strange one to make this point about. The upside of asking people to donate an Easter egg at this time of year is that they're cheap, easy to get at any store, and most families are already buying them right now (including yours!). They didn't ask for some specialty item or homemade good and for most families this wouldn't involve anything more than grabbing one extra off the shelf or donating one of the countless ones families are "drowning" in at the moment. All of your specific complaints sort of undermine the broader one, here.

The little and often thing is fine, it just starts on Easter Sunday. Just because they wait until the day doesn't mean they get given them all in one day

I don’t see the issue

eggs are £1 ish

you have many as ‘drowning’ in chocolate so give one of those

but it’s not a cost thing really is it

you for some strange reason have given your kids Easter eggs for the last few weeks

so they aren’t going to appreciate the fun behind it

do you give Xmas pressies in November. As well ?

this is how schools make money to support and help buy things for the kids that go there. Ie yours

we have break the rules day - wear own clothes day - other varies days for £1/2

Your post is full of contradictory statements.
You think it's a nice thing to do.
You are drowning in chocolate.
Your kids are consuming lots of eggs and have been since early March.
It isn't affordable to buy Easter eggs for the raffle.
Your kids don't need it.
You are upset they will miss out.

No, she said the school have said if they don't contribute they might not grt to participate. Which I suspect is just them saying if they don't get enough donations they might not be able to run it.

My school did this two weeks ago. Nobody kept track of which children donated eggs and which children did not. They just put them in a box as they arrived. Then they were put in gift baskets and raffled.

I find some of these responses bizarre. Given the amount of chocolate some children are given in egg form for easter, it make sense to have little and often, not save it all for a few days.

This reminds me of the christmas thing where people are outraged that people start eating mince pies in November. Yes and they're very tasty too for 2 months of munching

Your kids shouldn’t have been ‘nibbling on eggs since March’. And it’s not because ‘they’re kids’ it’s because you’ve allowed it. Stop making excuses not to spend a pound so that the kids can have a rare bit of indulgent fun at school fgs! YABVU.

Never heard of kids eating their Easter eggs before Easter Sunday. Always waited as a child and I would expect mine to do the same. Anything else is weird.

do you also open your Christmas presents from the 1st of December? Or November??