How many Easter eggs do you buy DC?

[OtherCoraline]

Just bought my Easter eggs for DC. They each have:

1x medium size smartie egg
1x medium size creme egg
2x small size eggs (one mini egg, one milky bar)
1x smartie bunny

And a packet of mini creme eggs to hunt around for.

I know that if you add the sugar value up, it’s a lot, obviously will be spread out etc but I can’t help but feel that it’s not lots? I definitely got more as a child and they won’t get any from anyone else. It’s just we have a holiday next week so I’m just trying to save money for that.

@housethatbuiltmeso true. It’s like the less you give your DC present wise the better you are. I don’t go overboard during the year but I do push the boat out at Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. My parents did the same. My DH comes from a family who are beyond mean (through choice) and it makes me sad for him because he knows he didn’t get as much as his friends.

Of course it’s all means dependent and if it came down to getting food on the table or buying presents the food comes first. Being mean/tight through choice doesn’t sit right with me if it makes your child feel rubbish.

I didn’t get dozens of eggs in the 80’s. I got a book from my parents and one from both sets of grandparents occasionally one from an aunt or uncle if we saw them over Easter.
My kids get about 5 from family so I wouldn’t buy them loads myself as DH ends up eating them usually because the DC get ones they don’t like.

Its not about being tight or being a better parent, I just dislike piles of Easter Eggs, Christmas presents etc - I prefer quality to quantity.
I don't care what anyone else does if its affordable for them but for me presents are something you couldn't or wouldn't buy yourself so there would be no point in me buying my DC a pack of creme eggs as they could easily get those themselves. 1 really nice egg from a local Chocolatier or higher end store is more meaningfull and preferable to me.

Jeeeez no wonder the UK has a problem with obesity and diabetes. One egg each in our house.

It's not competitive, I've just never seen Easter eggs as the same as presents. They're a one at a time thing. I've never seen anything on social media about piles of eggs so no, I didn't know that was a thing.

DC have 3 each now. One from a friend who visited recently, one from SIL and one from church. PIL will probably buy one as well. No way I'm adding an extra one, it's just totally unnecessary and no chance DC will notice whether they end up with 5 or 6 and if one came from us or not.

1 egg each, and maybe a packet of little ones for a hunt. I find it really odd to buy more than one each; to me Easter eggs are something that you give in ones! Giving 4 to one person is like going to buy a tv and buying 4 instead!

They’ll get a couple more each from grandparents, Scouts etc.

We each buy them an egg, so thats two from either, we don’t celebrate easter but we don’t want the kids to feel the odd ones out, plus who doesn’t love an excuse to eat chocolate. Here the eggs are cardboard and have sweets and chocolate inside, you don’t see many big chocolate eggs.

Buying more than one or two is excessive and in the next breath people will be moaning about the cost of living crisis and how they have no money!

We get them one egg from us and my parents normally give them an egg too.

@MamaAndTheSofaperhaps not if you knew that they were only getting ones that you personally bought for them.

Very interested in what people have said, but like @housethatbuiltme, I don’t know anyone irl that only buys one. Of course that must be the case as many posters have said that they do, so it was interesting to learn ☺️

If we knew they weren’t getting any others, we might get them a bigger egg, but I don’t really feel like they miss out by not getting more.

To be honest I have no idea how many eggs my friends buy for their children; I see photos of them with multiple eggs but I don’t know who they’re from.

I have an almost 5 year old. No eggs this year sadly (tube fed, unsafe swallow), last year I was still blending food and giving that so he did get an egg but this year there will be none as we have had to move him on to prescription milks instead. I am sad about it to be honest, I hadn't realised how much I enjoyed feeding him regular food.

One medium each and I don't allow my immediate family buy any for them but they go get them from others. They eat enough junk so I refuse to get them more as they don't need them.

One medium one each, a kinder bunny, three popping candy ones (between a mini egg and a creme egg in size) and I'll hide a few coloured ones round the garden.

Other people can buy their children as many eggs as they want. I know my cousin's kids will get about 8 each. I don't think it's being "competitive" or a "martyr" to not want to buy my three year old tonnes of chocolate. Apart from a few small chocolate eggs (Mini egg size) she's getting toy wooden eggs, two books and spring- themed Lego Duplo - so hardly nothing. She's still got party bags full of sweets from birthdays in January and February so I'd rather not give her several tonnes of chocolate to add to that! There are no hollow chocolate eggs here anyway and the giant chocolate bunnies can wait until she's older.

The real question is, what day do you give them their eggs ?

On Easter Sunday. Is this a trick question?

No not really, I see people on insta giving them on Good Friday 🙃

Those people are wrong. That's like Christmas presents on 23rd December.

Quite a bit worse than that I’d have thought!

One, and then some mini eggs for an Easter egg hunt. He'll get others from his taxi driver, aunt, and one set of grandparents. Other grandparents buy new clothes.
We always just got 1 egg from parents growing up so it just seems pointless to me to buy more. We did usually end up with about 9 each tho, from family & neighbours etc.

My DDs are 22 and 24, we still get them one each.

They used to get one from grandparents and uncle when they were young... up to about 16.

They get them whenever they are home near Easter, but would only open them on Easter Sunday.

Dd22 will collect half an egg in "tax" each to make brownies with... which we all enjoy more than Easter egg anyhow.

One large, one medium and one small each including adult DC and DSil🫣. Teen has a gift basket with a few treats in it (not sweets) and they are given on Easter Sunday hidden with the Easter bunny egg hunt treats and located before Easter lunch. DH and I can’t see a day we don’t get them anything.

I like the egg tax, genius! Ours always make crispy cakes with leftover eggs sometime in May.

Easter was never a big thing in our family growing up, so I wouldn’t have thought about getting eggs. I think my aunt sometimes got us a small chocolate button one.

My children are all under 4 so they won’t get eggs as I wouldn’t choose to give them chocolate. I’m sure the older one will have some sort of chocolate at pre-school. Easter is a bigger deal for my husband’s family but grandparents will get them a little bit of Lego/Duplo.

This thread has made me think that I ought to do some kind of egg hunt though!