NO EASTER EGGS!

[BooJonesMummy]

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?

Lying, my DC are the only GC.

I didn't put any pressure on anyone to do anything. I said that DH and I would like to buy them a new xbox and asked our close family if they would like to contribute what they would normally spend on chocolate. We thought it would be nice to get the DC something that they would get a lot of use out of, rather than a ton of sweets.

No one felt obligated. My MIl and nan have gone ahead and bought chocolate, which is nice because the DC will have some on the day. Trust me, my family is not backward at coming forward and if they didn't want to do it, they would have said so. My brother offered to contribute without me asking, so I said not to buy them Easter eggs as well.

I do appreciate that this only works in families where everyone is very upfront about what they do and don't want to do and is very open regarding what they want to spend. We are, so it was fine for us.

karmabeliever... Fair enough. When I posted I was thinking of families I know of. If your family is communicative, it really does take the stress out of things, doesn't it? I don't know why it's difficult for some (mine included), it just is.... it's like a minefield.

Karmabeliever Yeah we're all pretty upfront apart from me. I never ask for anything and people are forever winging that they don't know what to get me or Boo for xmas/birthdays etc. I tend to drop little hints. My mum offered to pay for my wedding and I said no all shy and like I really didnt want her to but I did at the same time then wondered why she decided to buy a new kitchen instead.

(I am not getting married for another 2 years yet so I have saved my own money too)

My DH comes from a family where no one ever says anything directly. I find it hard with my MIl, because I never know quite what to say and there is a space between us that doesn't exist with my own parents.

With my mum and dad, if they've got an opinion, we all get to hear it whether we want to or not. I think my mum has forgotten that I am 37 and not 7. Sometimes I think she wants to remind me to breathe in and out!

Still, I am not going to complain about her interfering, cos she and my dad are coming round later to help me lay my new kitchen floor, so I will happily let her be bossy

RubyRR- as a family we boycott nestle products because of their practices in the third world (with baby formula), but it would be utterly churlish of me to turn down gifts to my children, or even downright rude. I would never want to hurt someone because they do purchase nestle, but it makes me shudder because I don't want my children having their products IYSWIM.

I am astonished that you haven't heard of the nestle boycott after the length of time you've been a mner though!

Can't link (on phone) but there are loads of threads, and wiki page etc...

I'd never heard of that either... I know they changed their name because of some scandal but didn't know what it was about. I'll have to google it.

am I allowed to link? Found the link on wikipedia about the boycott. Thought I'd post it here for anyone who is as clueless as me.