To think it’s easter not christmas?

The fuck is a boo box??

I suppose an element of it, is people who have given up chocolateor nice things for Lent, finally letting loose and feasting.

All I see on FB these days is unsolicited adverts, AI slop and posts from groups that I’ve joined. Not a single Easter-themed post by anyone known to me.

The toys and clothes thing is new to me if that’s what’s happening now. But the masses of chocolate has long been a thing. Kids with large extended families tend to get a chocolate egg from each relative. I remember being surprised at this about 10 years ago.

Did other people buy your dcs eggs?

we bought our dcs one egg each too- but then so did grandparents and uncles. Some years if we’d seen godparents before Easter, they’d get an eggs from them too, but this year as our kids only broken up on Thursday, we’re seeing godparents afterwards in the holidays, so many years they get 6/7 eggs each.

Ive always just assumed the big pile of eggs is a sign of a big family.

We gave my youngest a cuddly toy, and bought new outfit and bibs, and a couple of books. All themed around bunnies. Easter cardigan, and some stickers a puzzle and game for my middle child. New tracksuit, game to play later as a family for my eldest and some bunny ears for them all to wear.

Easter bunny bought an egg and a little tin of chocolates for each and hid little eggs over the house and garden.

I like to spoil my kids but they are only little once and I sure as heck don’t do it for social media (which I don’t do at all), I don’t judge others for buying more or less for their kids and I don’t buy tat that will end up in landfill, I get stuff they will use throughout the year so I don’t see anything wrong with it 🤷‍♀️ I don’t do boo boxes for Halloween etc. it if people want to what’s the harm?

Half and half here. We’ve always done small presents for Easter since the kids were tiny, mostly to avoid focusing it too much on chocolate especially when they were really young. I do an Easter egg hunt with a few chocolate eggs and some foam eggs / little chicks to give them plenty to look for without overloading them on chocolate, then at the end they find an Easter bag for each of them, usually a small egg or chocolate bunny, a book and a small cuddly toy. I do love leaning into any excuse for a bit of fun and don’t feel it’s too over the top, just replacing some chocolate with a little gift. We don’t have a religious aspect to our day so it’s fun to have some traditions. I don’t usually post anything on social media but do enjoy taking photos for family. I quite like the fun of it!

Not in our church. Quite a tradition of new dress/ outfit for Christmas and again at Easter. Admittedly there is lots of handing down or across to other families of winter coats.(The most gorgeous velvet collared coat is now being worn by the third little girl in the church).

I think when people got new clothes at Easter it was a time when they probably didn't get many clothes the rest of the year.

My kids always got pyjamas off DH & I and a few eggs from the Easter bunny. We are not religious, new winter pj’s for Easter is a bit of a tradition in Australia as it’s getting colder. Used to get them a character tooth brush too, now it’s just cash.

Not a catholic in sight but at our church children get lots of easter eggs. Much talk of easter egg hunts in gardens this afternoon and plenty of new outfits and bunny ears being worn. So not quite the spend of Christmas but traditions being maintained. Talk after church today was about the special offers on legs of lamb in the big supermarkets this year.

Mine had 4 eggs (2 small, 1 medium, 1 large) and a chocolate bunny, the large egg was from my mum, and 9 tiny eggs each hidden around the house

The dog got a dog safe one too

No gifts or clothes, but they both have march birthdays so gifts on Easter would be overkill. If you have kids with oct/nov/dec birthdays I could see it being a good time to gift summer/outdoor toys

@Drivingmissrangey what's an Easter tree? It is just like a Christmas one but with eggs and chicks or is it a religious thing?

I don’t go mad for Easter, just do an Easter egg hunt, but I think it’s a bit moany to rant about what other people choose to do! Let people get their joy where they want, it doesn’t affect you.

I usually got new clothes too but mostly because it was time to buy new clothes. I never thought of it as a Catholic specifically, but it makes sense. We are Catholic and Easter Sunday was a day for a big roast with grandparents or extended family and we wore our new clothes. We got a few eggs but as I got older we got money instead so probably the equivalent of 10 or 15 from grandparents and aunts etc. I always did well out of it! To be fair we bloody deserved it, we were off things for lent, we did the really long Holy Thursday mass, stations of the Cross on Good Friday then another mass Easter Sunday morning. It was such a relief to be over it. With my kids we might do 1 mass or stations max and they get one egg from us plus whatever from grandparents. They also get one at school, at tennis, at soccer, at drama etc. Literally every activity seems to hand them out now. For that reason we don't do much else. We usually have a roast and a family meet up too. I like it, none of the pressure of Christmas and no extra decorations or clean up. I'm not on SM and honestly when I read these threads it reminds me why. I think I'd be constantly complaining about SM attention seeking if I was.

It’s INSANE. We bought our 4 kids one egg each

We do an egg hunt around the house, way too much chocolate but it will be eaten over months so I really don’t care. I usually get the kids a few new t shirts around now but nothing they don’t need.

I can assure you not a single photo will be posted on social media. Not even of my little Easter tree. So hopefully no one will be offended.

We got new clothes at Christmas and Easter too, possibly Catholic, but I think it's also just a very innate tradition that kids need bigger clothes, and when we mark the season is a good time to give them!

The Icelandic Yule Cat eats children that haven't been given new clothes.

Easter trees are traditional though, I will die on that hill.

I loved the little Easter egg hunt. My parents knew exactly how many they'd hidden so told us when it was time to stop.

Yeah of course people go over the top and I’m sure it’s the same people who moan about the cost of living crisis and have no money.

I’m not sure it’s new. I used to get dozens of Easter eggs when I was a child. We’d make ourselves sick! No SM though. Interesting everyone mentioning the Catholic element. Mine is a big Irish Catholic family and the day was such a weird mix of dressing up for church and stuffing our faces with chocolate…and our Catholic school made a big deal out of Easter in the run up to- again with a mix of religion and excess fake rabbits/chicks/chocolate.

It’s ridiculous. I saw a post and a women had lots and lots of gift on the couch like it was Xmas morning!!

I buy eggs and Easter themed sweets although the last couple of years I’ve bought my teens/tweens a candle and reed diffuser too from home
bargains.

Easter has been commercialised from the early days when some entreprenurial Romans decided to sell souvenir crucifixes,

Disappointed I’ve not had anything on any of my pages, I love seeing stuff like that, how did you get it?

I went to a church school for primary and we got dyed boiled eggs from the staff 🤣
I thought they were fantastic
Now it's all chocolate eggs

Many years ago, in the fifties, I remember Woolworths had a giant chocolate egg in their shop window. You had to guess the weight. The winner got a prize, and the egg went to the children’s ward at the local hospital. The primary school had an Easter hat competition. The thing that was that all the Easter stuff didn’t appear in the shops until much later.