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NO EASTER EGGS!

35 replies

BooJonesMummy · 19/04/2011 09:56

I am apparently depriving my 2 year old ball of hyperactive energy by asking people to buy her clothes instead of easter eggs this year.

Last year she had loads and ate one. The rest sat in the cupboard for months and ended up being melted down to make rice crispy cakes. Plus, she doesn't need mass amounts of chocolate (IMHO) just because it's easter and I'd rather people baught her a nice dress to wear or some vests or knickers now she's potty training.

AIBU?

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chicletteeth · 19/04/2011 09:57

Will she get a little bit of choccy for easter?

nethunsreject · 19/04/2011 09:57

Weeell, yabu to ask for something in place of it.

Crisy cakes are order of the day here too.

Plus you need to eat some of them - it is you duty as a good Mum Grin

slavewife · 19/04/2011 09:58

YABU, its not about you, its about you're child.

A egg costs £1, clothes cost considerably more, just say No eggs, but dont expect gifts.

compo · 19/04/2011 09:58

I thnk it's up to you to buy her pants and it's up to her grandparents to spoil her with Easter eggs if that's what they want to do

breathing · 19/04/2011 09:58

There is no evidence that chocolate contributes to hyperactivity if thats your concern.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 19/04/2011 09:59

You can ask people not to buy easter eggs for your daughter but you're being cheeky asking people to buy something else instead. It's up to them, not you. Why can't they buy a small toy or some other thing if they want to?

rubyrubyruby · 19/04/2011 09:59

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sausagesandmarmelade · 19/04/2011 10:03

Clothes are a lot more expensive than an Easter Egg...

I think it should be up to people what they buy her...if you don't want the Eggs for her then politely decline.

bebemooneedsabreak · 19/04/2011 10:03

I'd say: No eggs please, if you feel you need to get her something, maybe some bubbles, or pavement chalk, or a little coloring book or a sheet of stickers would be good options instead, but we really don't need anything, so don't feel the need to buy anything at all...
I said this around Christmas too tbh; it's not necessary to have tons of sweets and choc- I always guide people to things which we'd rather have...

gorionine · 19/04/2011 10:03

Yanbu to say "no eggs please"

Yabu to say "buy clothes instead"

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BooJonesMummy · 19/04/2011 10:03

Ha! Feeling quite guilty now.

I didn't really ask her grandparents not to buy easter eggs. It was them who asked if she needed anything like vests/pants or something else instead....

My friend was telling me she was showing her 2yo how to eat an easter egg ready for the day and I said Georgia wasn't having many and she give me a look of horror and said I MUST get her loads because it only comes once a year.

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diddl · 19/04/2011 10:04

I agree, if you don´t want eggs for herSad, say so, but to specify something else is rude imo.

breathing · 19/04/2011 10:05

When I was a child, I was very overweight. I had been on a weight loss diet and was sticking to it (and it was successful). I have brothers and sisters who werent overweight. Easter arrived and I didnt want an egg, they all had them. My father had bought me a pin which was a easter egg that had a pull string underneath. When you pulled the string, a chicken popped up. Best easter presnt i ever ever received and I remember that 35 years on. Grin

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BooJonesMummy · 19/04/2011 10:06

I think I might have come across wrong.. I realise now. I never asked people to buy her clothes but would prefer something other than eggs. Clothes was an example... Sorry.

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 19/04/2011 10:07

OP... I agree with compo, it's the parents' job to buy the 'boring' stuff, not the extended family's - you buy the knickers and vests, and let the others who want to, buy something that they want to buy for your daughter.

fedupofnamechanging · 19/04/2011 10:07

I don't think a 2 year old needs a ton of chocolate either.

I have 4 DC and recently their xbox broke. I have asked everyone who wanted to buy them an Easter egg if they would like to contibute what they would normally spend towards the cost of a new one. My parents brothers and sister have decided to do that instead of buying chocolate. Obviously DH and I have paid the majority of the cost. My DC will much prefer the new xbox.

Mil and my nan have bought the DC a ton of chocolate, so they will still have more than enough on Easter Sunday.

OP, I don't think you are U to say no to too much chocolate, but i wouldn't ask people to spend more than they would usually.

diddl · 19/04/2011 10:10

Well if people have asked, that´s different.

And she doesn´t have to get loads-you only have to get her one.

How are all these other people who buy, though?

"In my day", it was just parents Easter bunny & maybe GPs.

Friend showing her daughter how to eat an Easter eggConfused

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BooJonesMummy · 19/04/2011 10:13

Ok :) Like I said, it wasn't me who suggested pants etc. It was the grandparents. I agree it's my job to buy the boring stuff. I wasn't planning on asking them to buy top designer gear. If they want to get her an egg then that's fair enough but I would prefer something else even if it is something else at the same price which is what I said to them when they asked me if I wanted something other than eggs and suggested knickers or vests.

DD's grandparents are pretty cool when it comes to stuff like that. It was other people who were horrified she was getting 1 or 2 eggs not 10 like last year.

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BooJonesMummy · 19/04/2011 10:15

Diddl : Yeah I used to get clothes and maybe a toy off my parents. GP's would buy an easter egg and then friends of the family would bring smaller eggs round too. (I've never heard of showing a child how to eat chocolate either Confused )

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 19/04/2011 10:16

karmabeliever... I wouldn't have appreciated that at all. Instead of being able to buy an individual 'Easter-thing', I would feel pressurised to contribute to an Xbox... and possibly more than I would have wanted to pay as a fiver doesn't make much of a dent in terms of contributing to that. Imagine GPs on a budget, having other GCs or friends' DCs they wanted to buy a little something for? They're not going to tell you that, but I think your request was thoughtless.

ChippyMinton · 19/04/2011 10:18

YABU to request alternatives because Easter is NOT an occasion for present-giving. And eggs are soooo cheap - GPs gave eggs yesterday and I had to smile because i'd bought the same for a family egg hunt - 3 Cadbury eggs for £2.50 in Sainsburys.

Mind you, we usually melt them down and make a massive chocolate cake loaded with smarties & mini-eggs. There's still Xmas choc in the fridge, and I opened my Valentine box of chocs last night.

whatsallthehullaballoo · 19/04/2011 10:23

WHAT ARE YOU THINKING??? You can eat them yourself.

Gah - we do not have any family and no one buys my kids Easter eggs except us. I would love to have so many eggs I had to melt to melt them down!!

ChateauRouge · 19/04/2011 10:26

I'm with you on this OP- it may be once a year, but it's the precedent it sets- DS is the worst eater, we're down to potatoes, weetabix, prunes, and yoghurt Sad (also 2) - if I let him eat lots of chocolate we will have the worst tantrums when it isn't available day in, day out (the. Post-christmas period was not fun)
He will have 1 egg, but that's all.

Sticker books are his favourite thing atm though...

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BooJonesMummy · 19/04/2011 10:29

Boo is into sticker books at the moment too, that's an idea actually. And they do them in the £ shop.

I never really ask outright for anything. I'm too (what's the word? Shy?) to say "we/I want..." unlike DP. He's like a bull in a china shop. If people didn't ask if she wanted anything different I probably wouldn't say anything to them about it.

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ChateauRouge · 19/04/2011 10:30

And making myself look really bad... but people buying nestle eggs make me really shudder.

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