When do you put your Easter decks up ?

[Lardlizard]

Is March a bit earlier ?

I have an Easter tree and it goes up on Easter Day. I've done it for years.

I really can't believe that some people have never seen an Easter decoration

I'm 60. I've never heard of or seen Easter decorations.

What are Easter decorations???

I've never decorated the house for Easter.
We did/do egg decorating & rolling and Easter egg hunts, church and a Sunday lunch. Although sometimes we're away for Easter weekend.

Do you all go to church on Easter Sunday - you know as it's a Christian religious festival day!

Do you all go to church on Easter Sunday - you know as it's a Christian religious festival day!

Not to everyone, it isn’t!

64 and never heard of Easter decs.

You know as it's a Christian religious festival day!
Not to everyone, it isn’t!

Er...yes it is. It's just that some choose not to celebrate it religiously, but chocolately.

I do neither, just do the pace eggs my late DH made every year.

It’s a Christian religious festival day for some people but a Bank Holiday break for others with time for family, friends and Easter eggs. It doesn’t have to follow a church service with material which I don’t believe in.

Do you all go to church on Easter Sunday - you know as it's a Christian religious festival day!

Yes I do. And also have the tree with eggs and chicks (see above)

Er...yes it is.

Which was stolen from the Pagan’s festival celebrating the spring equinox. So no, I don’t recognise it as Christian.

Do you all go to church on Easter Sunday - you know as it's a Christian religious festival day!

Yes, my DM is a vicar. (She has an Easter decorations too.)

It's all I can do to drag the Christmas tree out once a year.
I'm not going to start making other times a 'thing'.

You know as it's a Christian religious festival day!

Not to everyone, it isn’t!

Er...yes it is

The Easter celebration is Christian and celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus

Which was stolen from the Pagan’s festival celebrating the spring equinox. So no, I don’t recognise it as Christian

The dating of the Christian celebration mirrors that of the Passover, a moveable feast based on the moon, like the pagans.You don't have to support it, it's a fact.

Why do people have to be so sneery about something that doesn’t affect them in any way?

As explained up the thread a few times by various posters Easter decorations ARE a thing in some countries. Usually a vase with some branches or twigs and some painted eggs hanging from them.

British retailers as always are catching on and there are usually some Easter decorative items for sale in shops here in the UK now coming up to Easter. I’ve certainly seen them in Sainsbury’s.

If you don’t do it fine. It’s not compulsory. But are comments like ‘I have a life’ really necessary? Or comments about dragging out the Christmas tree? There are a few photos throughout the thread of the type of thing that most people do as Easter decorations.

The sneering and judging and crappy comments are mean spirited and not necessary.

We have German friends who have always decorated for Easter but I’ve only noticed it becoming a big thing here in the last couple of years - garden centres are full of Easter decs!

And for those saying it’s a Christian festival - the eggs and bunnies have nothing to do with Christianity! Like Christmas it’s another pagan festival nicked by the Christian church. So yes as atheists we do celebrate Easter with eggs because it’s all about spring and new life, but we don’t mention the crucifixion and resurrection cos that’s not appropriate for young children.

I festoon the front of my house and garden with flashing daffodil lights 3 weeks before Easter. 10 days before I add large eggs to the garden and in the early hours of Easter Sunday I erect an 18ft bunny complete with bonnet and basket of shit from Cadburys.

Add a laser show and I'm there!

I hate tasteful decorations. The tackier the better!

In reality, I just planted some spring bulbs. I guess they'll flower when they're ready.

My easter decs. All German. I adore them.

Your decorations are beautiful Maykid and really unusual.

I put up a few decorations (things my DC have made over the years at nursery/school). We always have a little egg hunt in the garden too.

People actually do such a thing? Oh dear.

People look down their noses and sneer at others enjoying a festival?
Oh dear.
I’d like to introduce tar and feathers for critics. Fluffy yellow feathers and a cute little mask. Like an Easter scarecrow festival.

In the never camp 😂😂

I don’t think it’s sneering at having pretty spring decorations and calling them that. Spring holiday decorations. Anyone can decorate as they want and for everyone Spring breaking through is lovely. It has a hollow ring to suggest it is celebrating Easter without a Christian element to it.

It’s confusing that with Easter, the most important Christian festival of the year that causes dissent. Easter undoubtedly followed on from more ancient festivals but that doesn’t mean they are anything but Christian now. To ‘celebrate’ prior to Easter Sunday is to show a very limited understanding of that which you claim to be celebrating.

Although decorations today are fine - it’s Laetare Sunday when the hardships of lent are relaxed. That is also the reason why it’s traditionally the only day in Lent you can marry and why it’s Mothering Sunday. Then it’s back to plain, simple, solemn until Easter Day.

It doesn’t show a limited understanding CherryPavlova! It shows that those of us with no interest whatsoever in the Christian side of Easter can do what the hell we like because it’s a free country .

And those of us who are Christians are even happier that it is a free country, as in many places of the world we would be thoroughly and dangerously persecuted, as opposed to just bearing the brunt of Mumsnetters derision!

I don't know why this thread has brought such a lot of strong feelings.

I don't know how anyone cares whether or not someone else decorates for Easter. I firmly believe that if you aren't hurting anyone you can do what brings you pleasure.