£30 Easter budget

So jealous of people who have more than you in every way. More personality, more money, more sense of fun, more love in their hearts. You sound like a mean spirited envious woman. You're lucky she's still your friend - if she reads this post she may not be anymore.

This is THEIR real world and it's nothing to do with you. You don't sound like you like her much so I suggest you distance yourself. For their sake.

Some of the posher eggs (hotel chocolat for example) are around £30 so I can see that. £30 worth of cheap eggs is basically just a lot of packaging. Very inefficient chocolate to cardboard ratio. Though with the state of Cadburys these days it might be hard to tell the difference.

YABU now I need to go eat the chocolate my sister gave me.

I got one for my mom, my elderly cousin (I am the only family member who still sees her for various reasons) and my partner.

I have been given one by my mom and my brother.

I don't think it's that unusual for adults to buy each other eggs, and there are certainly several in the shops that seem to me to be marketed towards adults.

My OH & I used to do stuff like this pre kids and now we do similar with our kids. My brother and his wife used to join in with us as did my parents (I mean they still do but now it’s aimed primarily at the kids)
I also fondly recall the Christmas we went for a walk and were spotted by a family of all adults doing a silly hat competition who asked if we would come in, have a drink, & judge a winner.
Sometimes it’s just nice to be a bit silly or to enjoy the kind of stuff you did as a kid in the holidays. I very much doubt she’s doing it to show anyone anything. It will just be something that gives her joy

How is it any of your concerns though?

I love curvy chocolate. Maybe they do too?

You sound jealous OP.

Same here, and a similar conversation for Valentines and our wedding anniversary

I feel sorry for your friend OP. How horrible for her that someone she thinks of as a close friend comes on to mumsnet to start a very unkind thread about her. I hope she clocks soon that you dont like her much and distances herself from you.

I bought my adult son the Pokémon coffee beans from Grind. Bought me and DH loads of mini eggs and Malteser bunnies. Will spend my money as I wish

Bloody hell, grown adults spending their own disposable income on things they want? Outrageous!!

I'm sure they will eat them eventually. You don't sound like a 'friend'. You sound judgmental and jealous? Everybody spends money on things that others wouldn't. Most wouldn't create a thread to slag their 'friend' off for doing so.
Sounds like you don't even like her, let alone 'love her dearly'.

Not what I would do as an adult but hardly equivalent to executing kittens or taking smack, is it? Harmless, it makes them happy and preferable to spending Easter whinging on MN about a 'friend' doing something that impacts you not at all.

Same with the eggs. I got one from my (60s) brother that probably cost that much, sent him and his family a simnel cake.

Some people celebrate things.

Maybe she just really likes Easter
I cant really be bothered with it and im a bit ill with a cough and cold
And have never had much of sweet tooth but if somone wants to go overboard with eggs and activities, thats their perogative.

I think Easter eggs are an expensive way of buying inferior chocolate, but it's not really my business what anyone else does with their personal spending money.

What are YOU doing today OP? Have you got all your family coming round for Easter dinner followed by chocolate eggs? Are you going out to a nice restaurant to celebrate? Just wondered what you did at Easter.

@Okayfolks you seem a bit bitter. Are you a bit jealous that your DP doesn’t do this stuff with you?

My husband and I often bake and cook together. We have also decorated biscuits as a competition. Both of us try to keep busy, enjoy life and find pleasure in the small things. What do you think she should be doing on Easter Sunday?

But she does love her dearly!

So rude and nasty to start a thread bitching about your friend and inciting others to do the same. I hope they don't see the thread but I doubt they will as it doesn't sound like they'll be on here. They sound happy together and you sound jealous and bitter.

Why are you bringing need into it?

I don't need the cup of tea my DS just made me but I'm really enjoying it.

I'm a bit tight and wouldn't want to buy easter eggs based on the price by weight or the type of chocolate used to make them. They just seem to be a rip off. Most are nestle or Cadbury which doesn't taste right either.

But I don't judge others for enjoying them. Its just chocolate and most people enjoy that.

But if that's how they want to spend their money then so what?

DP buys me a mother's day present and guess what, we don’t even have any children.

They could spend a similar amount of money going out for a meal at a mediocre chain restaurant, going to a cheap spa or any other discretionary spend. As long as they're not asking you to pay for it or moaning about being skint then what's it matter to you?

I think it is excessive but it's up to them how they spend their money.