When do you put your Easter decks up ?

[Lardlizard]

Is March a bit earlier ?

We’ve got a drift wood Christmas tree which we sometimes gets decorated with items that are also used to decorate Easter bonnets ( those fluffy cheap chicks, Easter eggs & plastic daffs) depends if we remember or not tbh. Also have collected some Easter themed plant pots over the years which might make an appearance but it’s not an official thing. We don’t stick on a Micheal Buble easter album and listen to that whilst decorating

LateEaster, of course people can celebrate the arrival of spring or whatever but a joyful Good Friday is akin to suggesting you’ll celebrate Ramadan by organising a drunken lunch. Easter is a Christian festival. The ultimate Christian festival and people eating chocolate in the name of Easter without any understanding of why it’s a Christian festival is a bit hollow and somewhat disrespectful.

@Cherry - Easter (and Christmas) are Christian festivals if you believe in it. We don’t but doesn’t mean we can celebrate what the holiday means to us - family time, time off work etc.

Decorating before Easter Sunday is like stockings being given in November. Just wrong
Ah, Cherry, there are people on MN that have presents all the way through advent...
Sigh.

Cherry the origin of Easter and even where the name comes from are all debatable!!

Usually pagan.. usually before Christ!!

still

I put Jesus Christ superstar on

Easter is a Christian festival. The ultimate Christian festival and people eating chocolate in the name of Easter without any understanding of why it’s a Christian festival is a bit hollow and somewhat disrespectful.

It’s respecting the pagan spring tradition/festival that the Christians stole! Ditto eggs, bunnies, chicks, new life etc. So if anything it’s the Christians that are disrespectful.

This is our favourite Easter song.

Not up yet

We’ve always had an Easter tree, but our family is part German. Traditionally in our house everything is clean and tidy ready for Good Friday, but no flowers etc, then Easter Sunday we bring flowers into the house and the Easter tree, everyone gets a chocolate egg and there are church services, followed by a family lunch.

MoreSlidingDoors then call it the Eostre, if naming after Saxon queen or Ostern if following Germanic interpretation of the Frankish church term. There is no proof of either being the origin.
It is a Christian festival and whilst anyone can celebrate Spring in any way they wish (avoiding perhaps the fertility rites in public) it is not celebrating Easter which is the Christian festival.
Odd so many people want to celebrate something they don’t believe in - a touch of a shallow celebration which must just have a hollow ring. No wonder the gap is being filled with commercial tat to create an empty and artificial holiday.

@FermatsTheorem bishops used to write a pastoral letter for Trinity Sunday to avoid priests falling in to heresy by trying to preach about it!

What the what now?

You don’t have to be religious to celebrate Easter. It’s a Bank Holiday and the first one of the year for people to have a long weekend off work!

Parker231 of course you can celebrate anything you like at any time. I’m being pedantic and suggesting it’s somewhat hollow to celebrate Easter as a non Christian.
I am not Jewish, I don’t celebrate Hanukkah; I love latkes, think a fully lit menorah looks lovely on a big shiny dining table but it would be odd and empty for me to say I was celebrating an important event in the Jewish calendar unless joining Jewish friends.

Parker 231 it is indeed a bank holiday so perhaps people should celebrate the Spring bank holiday rather than Easter. Good Friday is not a celebration it’s a solemnity.

@Cherry - I don’t celebrate any religious holidays as I have no belief in them but celebrate a holiday with family and friends - Easter is the same as Christmas - an opportunity for parties, good food and drinks and at Easter the added attraction of Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns.

We celebrate in the same way at Spring Bank Holiday in May.

Okay, Cherry, whatever you need to tell yourself to make all the torture the Christians inflicted on the pagans seem okay. Perhaps that’s where RC priests find their perverted inspiration. Aren’t they all about Easter too?

Not yet, in a week or so I'll be updating the house for spring. I like my home to reflect the changing of the seasons so I'm one of those dreadful people who change their cushion covers

I haven't ever had an egg tree or anything as dc1 isn't yet 2.5 but I may do something along those lines.

To me, Easter Sunday is just a day to eat chocolate to be perfectly honest. I'm not Christian, it's just a fun tradition that I take part in, much like it's tradition in my family to sit on top of each other, fitting 5 of us on a two seater sofa while we do the selection box challenge at Christmas. It's just fun.

I don't think it's disrespectful as I don't go around broadcasting it to Christians who it is important to. I don't post photos on social media at all or share the results with anybody outside of the house, it's just fun for me to do.

What's THIS?? I've not even properly put the Christmas decorations away yet! In fact, I've still got a dead Christmas tree in the garden.

Can I get away with bringing it back in and decorating that?

Parker231 Mon 25-Mar-19 09:50:11
You don’t have to be religious to celebrate Easter. It’s a Bank Holiday and the first one of the year for people to have a long weekend off work!

Thank the retail deities for insisting that shops have to remain closed on Easter Sunday still...

These are my Easter Decks 😂

From memory they cover JC with deep purple silks during lent, removing one at a time stations of the cross.

Maybe some purple throws all over the house would be fitting?
And simnel cake (sp?) So I can eat the apostles.

CherryPavlova

But, if there's gate-keeping on celebrations and we're only allowed to celebrate things that we are connected to in some way, how would we be a diverse community?
None of my Brownies are Chinese or Hindu but we celebrate Chinese New Year and Diwali. We do this to expand their knowledge and diversify them some what.

"It’s respecting the pagan spring tradition/festival that the Christians stole! Ditto eggs, bunnies, chicks, new life etc. So if anything it’s the Christians that are disrespectful."

Nobody stole anything. When pagans adopted Christianity, they already had Easter (and Christmas) holidays booked off in their diaries so it made sense just to use the same dates.