Is it Easter or Christmas at this point?

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I assumed Easter was just for chocolate. Apparently social media thinks otherwise! Glad my kids don’t have phones yet because I definitely don’t want them seeing massive “Easter hauls.” Anyone else noticed this?

Why would you want your children to have an orgy of sugar consumption. Revolting.
DS doesn't have a single filling at 43 years old.
He got one easter egg of his choice every year and that's it. He wasn't deprived.

I genuinely have never heard of Easter presents apart from eggs until this year!

We give ours an egg each and do an egg hunt. We don't get eggs from anyone else.

Ours have enough stuff as it is so try and minimise the amount of things we all have.

@Middleagedstriker We used to get presents at Easter when we were children many years ago, although not in the UK. Lots of my UK friends did too though so it’s not a new thing. I suppose SM means more people are aware of it now. I don’t use SM for that sort of thing but lots of people do.

We always do Easter as Christmas 2.0

Christmas is the best time of year so why not do it twice.

The house is decorated like a grotto. We have Easter jumpers. The fridge and freezer are full to the brim. We buy tonnes of presents.

Marvellous.

That's still quite a bit really!

I felt rotten yesterday lunch time after a stroll on social media. DC’s are 5, 1 and I’m pregnant with DC3. They got one egg each, DC age 1 was a token gift and really my eldest will have the 2. We went out for the day and forgot all about them.
They got no gifts, no more than 1 egg and they are untouched so far. I thought getting one for my youngest was OTT but it was only so eldest DC didn’t think he was left out.
I get it’s your kids, you’ll buy them whatever they want etc but it’s another expense and prep not a lot of us have the time or money for.

My kids both got small/token gifts from us and our families instead of eggs - DD doesn't like chocolate, and DS is a baby... surely it's better they get something they like? Besides surely fewer eggs is a good thing?

Then you don’t have to do it. Stop using social media if it negatively impacts you so much.

Right. So I possibly misread that.

Rereading it I'm not quite sure what the poster is actually saying: Is she saying the joy of giving gifts is the joy it gives the gifter even if they have to scrimp and save to do it? As she is at great pains to point out how well off she herself is how could she possibly know whether someone who is already financially struggling actually gets joy from buying gifts they can't afford but are under pressure to buy?

I still don't understand the link between materialistic gifts and joy.

Didn’t anyone learn that bragging and showing off is just plain rude?
don’t post brags and boasts on social media - don’t try to force other people off social media because you can’t control your vanity

It is obvious what you should be doing then. I am not concerned with what others are doing, I am not on SM looking at them, and their Easter hauls.

I'm in my 40s and had a large extended family so would get something like 15+ boxed eggs and gifts.

What we didn't do was decorate but I think it's lovely now that a lot of people do. So long as they use stuff year after year and it doesn't just all get binned.

Easter is the main Christian festival. People celebrate it however they want.

I haven't seen anything along the lines you describe. Are these people your friends and family, or are they social influencers who need content to draw in viewers and clicks? If it's a trend, then it has passed me by. And as always with these things, you can choose to embrace it, or you can ignore it and just celebrate as you see fit.

I don’t think a lot of people who put stuff like this on SM feel that it’s boasting. They just seem to put a lot of their lives on SM and this is just another thing to them. Although I don’t use SM in the way they do, I don’t think they’re forcing other people off it. People shouldn’t have to not post because others can’t cope with seeing it.

Isn't Easter about the resurrection of Christ? And eggs represent new life which is why we have chocolate eggs.

Not sure what sort of mega festivities can be made out of a man being nailed to a cross then coming back to life. Or why you would get anything like presents or money.

It's been nice that Easter still hasn't been completely commercialised and people still do things like lent.

They don’t feel it’s boasting - oh that’s ok then?
I didn’t feel it was stealing your honor also ok?
how is showing everything your bought not boasting ? just stupid ?

Dh decided that we were having a big celebration. Great, lovely food, nice being with family but…. we haven’t done this is the whole 15 years that we have been together!

Not complaining as he’s a fantastic cook and I didn’t have to lift a finger so it was lovely.

Yeah, it’s ridiculous. No coincidence that shops are pushing it super hard, this year,

Everything's an opportunity for instagrifters to sell you landfill fodder

My kids aren’t allowed on social media, so not an issue around here.

But where does it stop?

I put some footage on social media of us at a concert we went to. Was that boasting? A lot of people couldn’t get tickets, some may not have been able to afford it. Can people put holiday photo on SM? or not in case some people get upset because they aren’t going on holiday.

My kids got some little gifts too: a skipping rope, bubble wand, a book as well as an Easter egg and chocolate bunny. We do a little Easter egg hunt in the garden too. I love it. Each to their own.

@SouthLondonMum22 Wow you’re brave, and I hope you’re rich, because you’re setting yourself up for a bit of a nightmare there. Your kids are presumably young enough to accept books, puzzles and stickers. But when they’re older they’ll want much much more, and having established Easter as a time of gift giving, you’ll need some serious cash. Good luck!!

Also I’m an atheist - Easter for me is a spring celebration. Again, each to their own.