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Original poster

to ask my kids to wait till monday for easter eggs

136 replies

ghostspirit · 04/04/2015 12:57

because i cant be arsed to leave the house. and thinking i can get them home delivered from asda on monday.

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saaa · 04/04/2015 12:59

If it really is because you can't be Arsed, then yes probably are being unreasonable.

WorraLiberty · 04/04/2015 13:01

I'd be surprised if there's any left in the shops on Monday.

I've noticed over the years, shops don't seem to overstock any more.

Years ago the eggs would be half price the following week but now, the shelves just seem to be empty. In my area anyway.

PtolemysNeedle · 04/04/2015 13:01

YABU!

Would you ask them to wait until Boxing Day for their Christmas presents because you couldn't be arsed?

GothicRainbow · 04/04/2015 13:01

Ummm Yeh you are being unreasonable.

You can't be arsed to get your kids an Easter egg?!? Hmm

PestoSwimissimos · 04/04/2015 13:01

Round here the supermarkets have sold out, so think you are pushing your luck tbh

Fluffyears · 04/04/2015 13:03

How awful. Get out and buy them, YABU!

ohmychrist · 04/04/2015 13:03

Lazy sod!

WorraLiberty · 04/04/2015 13:03

If I remember rightly the OP is heavily pregnant.

Mind you, Easter eggs have been on sale since just after Christmas Grin

loveandsmiles · 04/04/2015 13:04

You might be lucky to get any now - I was doing a food shop this morning and Easter egg aisle nearly empty. I started buying mine weeks ago (only problem with that is I've eaten a few)Grin. It depends how old your DC are but I think YABU and could have made a bit more effort.

cashewnutty · 04/04/2015 13:05

You won't get any if you leave it. There were virtually none left around here on Thursday.

ResurrectAndEatShitChoc · 04/04/2015 13:07

I've been to ASDA and there were barely any left.

I got some from Tesco yesterday but only a few left.

I got my son some playdoh Hulk thing instead of an egg

CoffeeTwo · 04/04/2015 13:09

We always had our eggs on a Monday, rolling them down a hill on Easter Monday is a local tradition that I only realised was local a couple of years ago! DS can have one on Sunday and save the rest for rolling on Monday :)

Fanfeckintastic · 04/04/2015 13:10

How old are they? I'm not really into the huge fuss people make of these holidays but I do think you're being unreasonable.

UAprilFool · 04/04/2015 13:12

I haven't bought any yet either. Blush

Bakeoffcake · 04/04/2015 13:12

Yabu

Do you also give them their Xmas presents on Boxing Day? Grin

Bakeoffcake · 04/04/2015 13:13

There were about 3 left in M&S yesterday.

WorraLiberty · 04/04/2015 13:14

CoffeeTwo but did you buy them on Monday?

VikingLady · 04/04/2015 13:14

Nowhere in our town had any eggs left today. The local supermarket didn't have any on Friday either.

ohmychrist · 04/04/2015 13:15

Heavily pregnant is no excuse! Especially as supermarkets deliver and have been stocking Easter Eggs for months. plain laziness.

CoffeeTwo · 04/04/2015 13:15

worra no we didn't so I realise my comment was irrelevant Grin

Weebirdie · 04/04/2015 13:16

Coffee, thank goodness someone else has experienced rolling their egg down a hill. I thought I'd imagined doing it every Easter Sunday as a child.

My dad would take us out in the car and find a field that had a hill, lambs, and daffs in it and out we'd get with our picnic and roll our eggs. We'd also wish really hard they didn't land in sheeps poo at the bottom of the hill.

And if its was raining we'd either roll them down the stairs or roll them into the skirting board.

I grew up in Scotland.

Original poster
ghostspirit · 04/04/2015 13:19

i dont think easter is same as xmas really. yes pregnant about 3 weeks to go :) roll on....

i dont normally buy them easter eggs at all. they never ask. its only because the 4 year old asked. they had been been talking about it at school. i normally let them buy a game or something instead of eggs

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CoffeeTwo · 04/04/2015 13:20

weebirdie that's nice to hear :) we're in Lancashire. Poo was always a worry and we also rolled them down the stairs if the weather was bad! These days you see kids rolling their eggs in sandwich bags, they don't know they're born Grin

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ghostspirit · 04/04/2015 13:23

well as they have all run out or almost that gives me more of an excuse not to leave the house

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msgrinch · 04/04/2015 13:26

yabu. If you go today there may be some left.