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...

seeing as I still have 2014 and 2013 eggs in the cupboard, we will probably get a small bag of eggs to do a hunt (small eggs I mean like mini eggs/equivalent) and one family member has already bought them a book each in lieu of an egg so will probably go down that route too. I'd prefer to spend a tenner on some decent book people books that the dos have been asking for for a while tbh. Am sure someone else will get them eggs. which won't get eaten!

The dc get far too much chocolate between the Easter Bunny and the eggs they get from family. We end up melting it down to make krispie cakes which the dc take into school or I take into work to share around.

I sometimes also get an Easter themed 'something' - colouring book/DVD etc. But that's as much as they get...never presents. I don't understand why you would.

I don't see the need for extra gifts in addition to Easter eggs.

I understand Christmas gifts are different as the tradition comes from the wise men bringing gifts, and there are various bringers of gifts (such as Santa) in different countries.

I'm not aware of any particular reason to go down that route for Easter. It has probably come about due to purposeful commercialisation and enough people who enjoy shopping.

When I was a kid we only had eggs, but quite a few - one from the easter bunny, one from parents, one each from grandparents, one from a couple of uncles, so maybe five or six in all (it seemed like loads at the time! They kept us going until June most years!) - BUT they were only ever those small/medium size eggs which were standard in the 70s/80s, e.g., Cadbury's Buttons, Smarties, etc., the ones with the little plastic pack of buttons or smarties inside. Looking at photos they weren't very big and neither were they expensive. To be honest though it was still probably too much choc for small children (we didn't get much the rest of the time though). And easter egg choc is always that nasty sub-standard choc that tastes horrid, so I didn't like it anyway. We'd also normally get new clothes for church, but those were "best" dresses for summer, just given for Easter day. I think that's a pretty old tradition though, new clothes for Easter Sunday church-going.

Now my mum and dad and other family do actually give easter gifts (they would have been horrified at the thought 30 years ago!) - mainly because my mum loves loves LOVES to buy gifty tat, especially bits of felt baskets, chicks and crafty egg stuff; but also because DD and cousins are too young really to eat much choc. Also I know I sound a bit knit-my-own muesli with this, but I'm not keen on the ingredients off mass-produced cheap choc now - lots of it is full of all sorts of goodness-knows-what, even cadburys have started filling it full of palm oil and stuff. And is tastes grim. Sounds PFB (sorry!) but I'd rather DD ate a few small bits of nice choc (Lindt still seems like it's got decent ingredients in), and had some other crafty stuff or a rabbit toy rather than loads of eggs. She also gets new clothes from GPs or us. So we are guilty of the presents a bit (DD also has a just before Christmas birthday, so like others in the same boat, sometimes I see small things for her in the spring and keep them for an easter gift). But I agree that that isn't really in the spirit of it. Maybe as she gets older we'll stop, I think?

Oh and one thing my mum always did was Easter flowers. So some years I get my parents something like an inexpensive tete-a-tete narcissi bowl or hyacinth pot for Easter instead of choc.

My mum is horrified I'm not getting 9 month old ds an egg he will be ten months at the time. He doesn't need anything he won't know but I am getting him a small toy. We are low income he isn't treated often so I want to get him a little something. My mum gets me and dp an egg every year and I might get one for my little brother and some individually wrapped eggs for the food bank .

Ours get eggs plus an outfit from MIL And FIL for Easter Sunday
We don't go to church or anything, it's just their little thing.
We're hosting the traditional Easter egg hunt this year so there will be lots of food, beer and chocolate but no toys. It's not a birthday!

Easter is always traditionally a new set of smart clothes - mum did this with me. Dc will get an egg.

What makes me angry is greedy retailers trying to turn Easter into a Christmas in the Spring, so now we have Easter cards, door wreaths, wrapping paper and I even saw Easter crackers in Tesco....I kid you not. My children will be getting an egg and that is it. I'm not going down the road of gift giving, it's bad enough at Christmas.

Until I was 6 I didn't know that Easter Eggs has a back and something inside; my mum and aunts used to eat them and put the front bit back. It's no wonder I'm in therapy.

I get DS and DSS an egg each. DSS is 18 so DH will probably give him some cash which he does anyway every so often as he is at uni now. I might get DS some clothes for holiday. He usually gets a book voucher from ny sister and money for his savings from my dad. ILs don't really bother much with Easter and are too far to send chocolate etc.

DS looks most forward to an Easter egg hunt and making Easter cards and biscuits. I don't think children need piles of stuff. Maybe a nice activity would be a better idea?

My mum revealed my Easter present early this year - we're going to see Carole King perform Tapestry in Hyde Park. I'm 33.

I usually get some chocolate - maybe an egg, a little bunny, a cream egg etc and then a toy, dvd or game - £10 maybe.

No presents here. Will do a fun Easter egg hunt using small eggs and a couple of bigger ones. That's it! A bit of chocolate and a nice roast lunch, a film in the afternoon and that's Easter

An egg and a packet of BOGOF hot cross buns here.

One year DS very badly wanted a particular musical instrument and was saving hard for it. I found a good one at a very good price on Gumtree and created an Easter Egg trail that led to the item on Easter morning. He was blown away, but has never expected an Easter present since. He knows it was a special one off.

Aww Blu I bet it was lovely seeing his face when he found it I bet he'll always remember that Easter.

My mum always bought us a new outfit at Easter and we were allowed pick out one egg. My brothers always figured out where I hid my egg and come Easter morning my egg would already have been eaten by my brothers so I got nothing! Im still scarred by the trauma of no chocolate on easter sunday.

The Easter bunny has always left little hollow eggs or cadbury mini eggs around the house for the kids to collect in the morning. He leaves them in some inventive locations. My mum used to always buy them a new book or teddy at easter instead of an egg and maybe a colouring book from aunties and uncles but last year my 6,5&1 year old got 17 eggs between them! I am going to have a word with everyone to limit the eggs. No idea why last year they all decided to buy chocolate.

We celebrate two Easters (dh is Romanian) so for my Easter we have an Easter trail where each clue will have a mini egg, and the end will have an Easter egg. The Orthodox Easter they will usually have smart clothes/characters that they are into clothes, and as their birthdays are in December we occasionally use it to give them something they need for summer, so for example they got a scooter each one year.

Does anyone else have easter decorations? I decorate sticks with easter eggs and have other easter decorations. Its very big in germany and over the years ive collected alot of german easter decortions and love getting them out as it shows the beginning of spring. As for presents just one choc easter egg to family members and maybe an egg hunt to small members!

DS is 12. From his first Easter we have given him a small egg, a t-shirt and a book which, when he was younger, would have been an age appropriate version of the Easter story but now will be his choice.
Not too OTT I think. It's a bit of a fuss for him as his birthday is very near Christmas.
Easter Sunday is to us a celebration of the risen Christ, the coming of spring and a day together (I work a lot of weekends). We always go for a picnic with decorated boiled eggs for rolling.
Gps give him an egg too.

I doubt I'll even get mine an egg! He's 19 months.

I see it on Facebook of parents showing off what they gave their kids, money, console games, clothes etc. I don't get it. Mine gets a few eggs. Mil gets him all sorts of stuff like its his birthday, makes me look tight. But i was brought up just getting eggs off family members and an Easter cake for the house from a family friend. just gonna get some of the 3 for ten quid eggs at work, give DS two and have one myself . And just do a roast for tea.

I've asked relatives this year to give ds a small toy instead of choc as he has a bit of a weight problem but they still want to buy him something esp the older generation xx

londonrach yes I do that too, I have some painted wooden/plastic eggs of different sizes that I hang on a branch/twigs in a vase.
I like to do things to celebrate Easter, as Christians it's the most important occasion for us so it would feel wrong not to do anything when we decorate etc for Christmas. I send cards too (although just a few as I don't want to make people feel awkward they didn't send me one). Our DDs get books, it's a tradition we've established over their lifetimes as they get plenty of other chocolate from relatives and are still wading through Christmas chocolate at this point. I used to get a present instead of chocolate as I had dental problems as a child and wasn't allowed much sweet stuff although am making up for it now, one year I got a vest and knickers set