Because Fb Easter bragging posts are giving me the rage?

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Aarghhh!!! "All ready for my babies in the morning" with picture of ridiculously huge pile of chocolate, sweets, TOYS (WTF? It's not Christmas!), CLOTHES, Easter trees, bunnies and fluffy chicks. I have oodles of these nauseating posts on my Fb feed tonight. AIBU to think Easter is letting your kids eat chocolate for breakfast and that's it? What the heck is WRONG with people?

Just for you OP www.mommyish.com/2016/03/25/stfu-parents-easter-on-facebook/

Hahahhahahhahahhaha Jerry that is exactly what I'm talking about!!!

I'm not even logging onto bragbook tonight!

I am so thankful I don't have many people on FB who do this shit - I have no idea when Easter became Christmas - it's a bit much

my DS gets an easter present, but its only to the value of about £5 and because he's autistic and doesn't eat Easter Eggs or any of the sweets.

We got him a ps4 game that was on sale. DD is getting a Frozen set with the bowl, spoon and egg.

We don't do the hunt business or make anything special out of the day either!

I need new fab friends... There's none of this shit in my newsfeed - it sounds quite entertaining.

My lot have got 1 egg from us, 1 from GPs and a couple of bags of mini eggs that the Easter Bunny will hide round the garden. We have a tradition that the Easter Bunny's arrival is random and cannot be predicted as I can't be arsed to get up before the dcs

Don't fret about what others are doing though - does it really matter? All this fb bragging just sounds a bit insecure to me.

as always, Facebook is there to allow people to bitch about other people, I am not sure why, to make them feel better about themselves, to feel superior because they do things differently?

It's my wall, I publish whatever I like. If it bother you, defriend me, but then you won't be able to bitch about me? What will you do instead?

I think new clothes are actually traditional (hence Easter bonnets!) because the idea was that children get a new set of Sunday Best in time to go to the Easter Sunday church service (so presumably your Sunday Best outfit got upgraded once a year).
I would not say that that is a current secular tradition though.

DD has a slightly battered Frozen egg (because DH didn't go shopping for it until 4PM today and it was the last one in the shop) It's about 15cm tall and I have wrapped a large and splendid blue ribbon around it in the hope it makes the box look less bashed.

Clearly paddling pools of gifts in that link are OTT but am feeling rather guilty there is no basket or anything.

Not when it's just about 'stuff' and lots of it ! Not really what Easter is about, nothing wrong with a proud 'look at my homemade simnel cake ' or ' Easter tree' posts though, that's just seasonal fun

Facebook isn't the problem it's the way people use it. It doesn't have to be full of bragging or boring posts. Unfollow or defriend these people if they give you the rage so much.
You've got more control of what you see in your timeline/newsfeed on FB now than when it first started.

There's not been any gloaty Easter posts on my Facebook...yet! I'm sure there'll be some tomorrow. I couldn't really give a shite, we'll be giving the kids two small eggs and a bunny each.
When I was a child 20yrs ago my grandma used to buy a new outfit at easter for each grandchild, she bought pyjamas at Christmas. That was the only time we got bought clothes that weren't school uniform. I used to really look forward to it and I think it's a nice idea.
There's no right or wrong way to do Easter.

The only photos I will post are of my dcs when I've sent them into the garden to look for eggs which aren't there, with their faces pressed up against the glass of the locked door while I eat their chocolate. :o

Arf @ the man being nailed to the cross
Do you realise how offensive that post was Worral?

Never heard of an Easter tree. Is it a Christmas tree covered in eggs and chicks?

My dd has small gifts from us instead of eggs because she has 4 sets of grandparents buying for her, which frankly is more than enough chocolate for a 4 year old. So a few little crafty gifts from us seems more sensible to me. But there isn't any right or wrong to me. Whatever makes your family happy. Have seen a few Easter posts already. I'm not bothered by them or think they are braggy, I guess some people get more into these things than others

You can choose to take offence if it makes you happy AndNowItsSeven

Or you can read it in its correct context, which was in reply to SallyingForth saying "a bit of fun with chocolate because a man got nailed to a cross 2,000 years ago."

That's what I found funny...

No it doesn't make me happy Worral it makes me upset. Offended was possibly the wrong word it made me really sad.

It's odd. If they embrace Easter why are they not involved in all the lovey activities in their local churches and other venues?
We have been to numerous fun events over the past week ,and the children have had a great time learning about the meaning of Easter.
No grand gifts involved, I really don't get the present buying thing.

Well again that's your choice Seven, I'm not really sure what else to say to you?

Lots of things in this life make me sad, but a random stranger laughing at another random stranger's internet post, really isn't one of them.

Can you honestly not see why someone would find a post laughing at Jesus being nailed to the cross upsetting. Really?

Bollocks, I forgot to get the oldest an Easter egg! I've been so busy, it clean went out of my head. There'll be a sulk tomorrow if I can't get one. I wouldn't mind but he's 25

My wee lass and I will boil eggs, decorate them and roll throw violently them down a hill, until they crack.

That wasn't what I was laughing about, as I've already explained...to explain again, it was the random way Sallying equated chocolate with someone being nailed to a cross.

On an entirely different note, had I actually been laughing at Jesus being apparently nailed to a cross, that would have been as much my choice to find it amusing, as it would be your choice to find it upsetting.

Horses for courses when it comes to religion and all that.

And he's also hidden lots and lots of eggs in the garden - good luck to my boys finding them as Easter Bunny had drank a bottle of wine before they randomly chucked then out into the garden!!!

laguna! Hahaha