AIBU to not give DD a pile of gifts for Easter?

[johalgh]

DD is 7 and will receive an egg, an Easter cuddly and maybe a couple of Easter themed trinket type things if I see anything nice. But I know on Easter Sunday Facebook will be filled with photographs of piles of stuff that give Christmas a run for it's money. Am I being mean? It was a single egg in my day...

Exactly, I like the low-keyness of it. I get one egg each for my DC and their great auntie sends me money to get one from her. No presents or anything.

Also can't understand kids getting loads of eggs. I still can't get my head round getting more than one. I do like making an easter chocolate cake though with mini eggs on it.

Once we ended up in A&E over easter and they gave DS an egg! Lovely of them and all but not exactly joined-up thinking by the NHS there!

Because I was a good, church going girl as a child, I used to get half an ASDA-aisle worth of Easter Eggs from the community. So from family, my siblings and I were given small tokens instead. Usually it was a toy chick or similar - one year we were given a storage box shaped like a little house (useful, but also really lovely) . If we were not so lucky in how many eggs we were given by others, we'd probably get them from family (there is such a thing as too much chocolate, apparently).

We do an Easter egg hunt and give them a small one. PIL give them an egg, as do my siblings (all child free). Doubt my father will as he's, apparently, not talking to me . Sometimes my sister does a Hun too but this year the eldest 2 are away on camp over Easter so we're postponing till the following weekend.

As kids we got eggs and £5 from my paternal grandparents for the fair - but it felt more of a £5 to go away. Not that we minded as we had way more fun at the fair than sitting around with our cantankerous grandfather!

My girls get a summer dress for Easter but no chocolate. So one gift each from us. Like the previous poster this is a tradition from my childhood that I've chosen to continue. They'll probably get a chocolate egg from my sister and my Mum will take them on a special outing at some point over the easter holidays instead of getting them an egg as will my MIL. I'd rather have it that way than them getting an unending supply of chocolate.

Their birthdays are a couple of weeks either side of Christmas so this is a way to spread things out a bit.

Well I don't have low self esteem thank you chocolateaddict but I do buy my DC a small gift each to go with their one Easter egg which I will also buy. My reason being that whilst all their friends will receive a pile of eggs from grandparents, aunts, uncles etc, we have no extended family left to shower them with such things 🙁

My kids get one egg and a Spring/Summer outfit. No family to buy excessive amounts of chocolate. Our kids only have chocolate on a Friday so one egg is a big treat to them.

For Easter, MIL likes to give DC Easter Presents, plus egg, and then tops up with cash if it doesn't seem like enough.

For Easter, I insist DC go to church and I get them an egg.

They hate me and love MIL... Hey ho

We give an egg, or a toy to the equivalent price of the egg (about a fiver).

My DM used to ask us if we wanted an expensive, posh egg - or a £1 with a tenner inside :D

A £1 egg, obviously.

You sound more than generous OP. We have bought DD the smallest Peppa egg we could find as a token gesture. We're not religious, so tbh I'm not entirely convinced even that is necessary but we don't want to be too mean She has one DstepGF, 2 aunts and an uncle who will no doubt all get her a (hopefully very small) egg each too. It's more than enough as she's still a littley, and I'll slowly portion them out to her I doubt she'll finish them much before Christmas. My DM used to get me either a Lindt bunny or a small trinket, and I think our ways are the more usual over the 'present haul' bunch.

I hate "haul photos". I would never, ever post pictures of presents I've received (although I don't get many these days being partnerless and considered too grown up by my family). I kind of hate seeing children getting hundreds of presents too. Surely a few lovely, thoughtful presents is better. And certainly a couple of eggs on Easter Sunday!

When I was a child my mum used to hide eggs we got from family etc round the garden with clues. It was awesome and better than the chocolate.

From me all dgc get socks and a small egg :)

DD will get a boiled egg for breakfast and an egg hunt in the garden with plastic eggs.

She's only 20 months and doesnt eat chocolate yet

Never heard of Easter presents. I get my DDs an Easter egg or bunny plus a few little ones that we hide around the house and garden because they insist that they haven't yet grown out of this

My DDs are 15 and 12!

Dd will probably get an egg from us, my parents, dh's parents, my nan, her aunt m and her aunt s. So 6... but she will only have one a week so will last her 6 weeks. (Maybe two on Easter Sunday as a treat)

Ds is allergic to milk so will probably get a small toy (maximum £5) or a bit of clothing as a compromise. When he is older he will probably have something sweet as a subsitution

People on this thread are acting like gifts at Easter is a new thing. It's not. People did it way back when. I remember getting some gifts and my Mum got clothes and a new hat every Easter in the 50s.

This is just an extension of that.

I don't do it because of budget. We just do eggs but really...worry about something else.

We only did an egg, with extra from grandparents maybe, growing up, usually the ones with mugs or similar and it was great.

My dh's family have a weird split where some don't celebrate Easter but the ones that do think you give gifts. It really made me uncomfortable the children receiving more 'stuff' for this but didn't feel I could say anything. Now they are older I'm thinking of saying something like "please don't feel you have to get them more than an egg" but is that terribly rude? I probably won't. I don't mind chocolate as they can share with Mummy spread it out over a week or two after dinner if they get more than one each.

We do a day out with egg hunt, Easter crafts and I usually make hot cross buns and think about Jesus whilst waiting for them to rise.

I've never heard of anyone getting/giving anything other than chocolate eggs for Easter.

I used to buy lots of cheap easter eggs and do an egg hunt around the house with rhyming clues.

DD is 16 now and I did wonder whether I should buy her a small gift instead of eggs - but she does love her chocolate.

Resist this at all costs. It reminds me of how I keep getting emails suggesting gifts for Mother's Day (An iPad, anyone?) Easter, Half Term (A Playhouse? Family sized paddling pool? New bike?)
It's mad. Easter here will be an egg for the big ones and a little egg with some tiny eggs to hunt for the little one.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at gifts btw, it's just for eg in these few months they've had christmas, a birthday, holiday gifts from grandparents, random gifts sent over from overseas relations and belated gifts which all added up to second christmas already. Then Easter gifts and another birthday soon after. It makes me feel unable to treat them as they would be terribly spoilt and there is very little room in between.

I think I'd (kindly) allow a cute little Bronnley soap as a gift. But other than that it's chocolate or nuffin'.

Only eggs but when I was a little girl, back on the early 60's we used to get rigged out for spring and summer around Easter time and the first time we could wear out new summer coat was to church on Easter Sunday. We'd also get an easter bonnet, gloves, and a nice we handbag. We looked forward to it all year. Then after church on the Sunday we'd go for a picnic and roll our eggs down a hill to symbolise the stone rolling away from the tomb of Jesus when he was rising from the dead.

Dd 9 has one £3 egg and a net of small eggs that I'll hide for her. I usually do print outs from a site like Activity Village and pop them in a folder for her to do over the holidays.