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AIBU not to want to wrap Easter Eggs?

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CheesyBadger · 20/04/2014 08:37

In laws wrap eggs. Spent yesterday afternoon wrapping eggs and tying ribbon round them.

Dp can do it next year as I think it is daft! It's an egg! No surprise, why wrap it?!?

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CheesyBadger · 20/04/2014 09:01

Yes 2rebecca - no getting out of it but I think he can do it! It is a strong tradition as I have objected for years to no avail

You are right though, it should not depend on what other people do. I am likely to fly in the face of daftness like this!

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BuzzardBird · 20/04/2014 09:02

You must be yolking? How eggstravagant! Eggs don't need eggstra wrapping...or do they? Am I being shellfish not wrapping them? I will wrap them all and take a photo for the albumin. That will be all white won't it?

CheesyBadger · 20/04/2014 09:03

There is Easter paper and gift bags... You watch, next year everyone will be sucked in .... (Hears laughing of consumerism monster)

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CheesyBadger · 20/04/2014 09:03

GrinGrin Buzzard!

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hmc · 20/04/2014 09:32

Groan @ Buzzard Wink

SecretNutellaFix · 20/04/2014 09:43

Wrapping easter eggs?

How bizarre.

Nennypops · 20/04/2014 09:45

Tell them it's not environmentally friendly, and you feel guilty enough about all the extraneous packaging round the Easter eggs already without adding to it.

HokeyCokeyPigInAPokey · 20/04/2014 09:50

Fucking hell, wrapping eggs?!

It's not like Christmas when you don't know what you've been given.

It's Easter, it's an egg!

CheesyBadger · 20/04/2014 10:10

Ha ha I know! There is no surprise element, so it all becomes about the wrapping and choice of egg. We have extra guilt about type of egg and feel pressured to spend a lot, although we don't

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flashnorman · 20/04/2014 10:14

Never heard of anything so daft! YADNBU

ThePinkOcelot · 20/04/2014 10:21

I must have bought at least a dozen eggs. None have survived until today so no eggs here at all, never mind wrapped. Seems daft to me, but I imagine they look nice.

CheesyBadger · 20/04/2014 10:41

They do look wonderful, I just don't want to be the one wrapping! Smile

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beccajoh · 20/04/2014 11:33

I've never, ever heard of anyone wrapping Easter eggs before Confused Why is it compulsory? They're your children are they not?

IrrelevantSquirrel · 20/04/2014 11:46

YANBU for not wanting to wrap them (never heard of anyone doing this before, ever!). However YABU for actually wasting your time bothering to do it Wink

MissDuke · 20/04/2014 11:48

What an odd tradition!

My hubby never remembers to buy wrapping paper for his family's birthday presents so usually ends up wrapping them in tin foil or newspaper :-/ He doesn't believe me that tin foil is more expensive than wrapping paper and looks very smug for being so 'resourceful' :-/

CheesyBadger · 20/04/2014 16:52

Ha ha love the tin foil wrapping!! I might wrap the eggs in it next year and sell it as a futuristic look GrinValue stuff of course

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Topaz25 · 20/04/2014 17:05

Why would you wrap Easter eggs? They're already presented in foil and a box and given the day there's no mystery about what they are! It's unnecessary and all that extra packaging is bad for the environment.

Lesleythegiraffe · 20/04/2014 17:10

Never heard of anyone wrapping Easter eggs before - totally bonkers idea to wrap something that's already wrapped.

stealthsquiggle · 20/04/2014 17:58

Sounds fun. I like wrapping stuff. The easter bunny doesn't, though, so no wrapping here except for token things delivered to PIL and DPs - which I guess is the same as the OP's ILs, but at a much smaller scale.

OP I fancy this competitive element though - can I do them for you next year (would need some photos of this and previous years to make sure yours are up to standard win, though)?

littledrummergirl · 20/04/2014 18:04

They would hate us this morning then. Our dcs chose one each in the shop, we bought them one 'surprise' each and mil and sil brought a selection. They each chose one and then another which were opened shortly after.
The fun was in the eating.
We do try to get them one with a mug each year though.

windchime · 20/04/2014 20:22

I did take egg to PIL in a bag which they couldn't actually see into. DCs produced them out of the bag, one by one, and handed them out. As for wrapping them, fuck that.

windchime · 20/04/2014 20:22

*eggs

ENormaSnob · 20/04/2014 20:33

Wrap a turnip and shout surprise as they peel the last bit off...

CheesyBadger · 21/04/2014 22:23

Ha ha stealth, I may rope you in next year!

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stealthsquiggle · 21/04/2014 23:50

You know where to find me, Cheesy Smile.