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?

I think that there have always been kids who'd get loads of stuff for Easter, but as social media wasn't around, you never saw it. Each to their own....

It just seems to be an excuse to spoil kids though. Wonder how many of these people will taking their kids to church today aswell?

This one popped up on my fb feed this morning, I don't feel jealous, she has 3 kids so all that is for 3 children between 12 months & 4 years of age. Along with that there are also new clothes & toys

All I feel sorry for is the kids teeth.

[Image removed by MNHQ - not in the spirit]

mumoseven so sorry! Its a horrible thing to go through

That's obscene. DD gets 1 egg on the solstice to welcome in spring. She loves chocolate and has some every other day or so but last year's was only melted down to make Rice Krispie cakes last week!

They don't get any from other people, and it wouldn't occur to me to buy Easter Eggs for anyone else.

This, yes. I think it's possibly regional as DH remembers getting chocolate from everybody as a child.

I got my arse handed to me on AIBU a few years ago for asking if I had committed a massive faux pas by politely declining a neighbour's offer to buy each of my DC a full-sized egg. I was solely responsible for the death of community

Warning: spoilt FWP starts here.

glueandstick - yesterday evening DH casually said "I haven't got you an Easter egg". My eyes widened in horror and my lip wobbled.

"But ... but ... We talked about this! If you don't get me one, I won't have one. And I'll have done and I'll get nothing."

He went to the supermarket. Then a second supermarket in another town. Then a third supermarket in the village near us.

"The first one didn't have anything suitable, then the second one had nothing at all. I got you the right kind of thing in the third shop. It is the right thing, isn't it?"

Alas no because he rejected all the completely perfect 99p Smarties ones in the first shop, and got me a posh one in dark chocolate. Fortunately I saw it when I was alone, otherwise he would have seen my disappointment. And even more fortunately he also bought a big box of Maltesers.

But I'm gutted that he wasted so much time rejecting the right thing (thin curved everyday chocolate) in favour of the wrong thing (nice chocolate artificially adulterated and glazed so as to be inedible). When he could have BLOODY LISTENED to my long explanation of my need for the former AS HE WAS LEAVING TO GO TO THE SUPERMARKET EARLIER THIS WEEK.

There is other stuff going on that means minor disappointments are hard to tolerate at the moment.

Anyway, combine "far far too much chocolate I do like belonging to the DC" on the one hand and "chocolate I don't like belonging to me" on the other and you'll have a glimpse of my agony.

For reference: I hand made his Easter egg.

I put a pic of my DS eating his breakfast of choc egg and hot chocolate... Not an Easter egg count... However I have seen a couple ..They don't bother me.

Leave Facebook. I did and feel much happier and relaxed as a result. That prob says more about me but it's proven social media is bad for your mental health! I now have better quality communication with people I actually like

None on my FB, most posts seem to be asking if the gym or soft play is open today

I strimmed down my fb to bare minimum friends a while ago. I left it altogether for a year or so but figured out i was loosing touch with friends and family dotted around the country and the world. Now only have 135 privillaged people on there now. I was surprised at my friend who gave her child a bike. She wrote it was because she took away said child's dummy so gave her a bike in return

Actually I think Easter is about "stuff" - it's about plenty, flowers, eggs, rabbits etc. because it's the spring festival when you celebrate that all this stuff will come back and you'll have food to eat. So a chocolate egg is an appropriate thing to have.

If you want to celebrate the man being nailed to a cross, feel free but that's a separate issue, which was tagged onto Easter like so much else was tagged onto pre-exisiting rituals.

I actually like the way Easter still has its pre-Christian name and is primarily associated with the older pre-christian traditions. With the eggs, bunnies, easter colours etc. you really feel like it's about spring.

I don't like excess and bragging though, but I'm not on FB so don't have to see it. If I was it would piss me off.

At least you can get Smartie Eggs.

Ooh, what I wouldn't give for a Buttons egg

Here I can't get eggs like that.

The only ones I found this year are the Aldi Präsent Ei

This has given me the rage this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-celebrate-easter

fourage

Jesus can piss off with those horrible grisly stories about blood and torture and flesh eating zombies.

I think you may be confusing Jesus with The Walking Dead, love.

Jesus didn't actually tell the story.

I'm not Christian but you're being deliberately offensive.

It must be exhausting being so angry over something that other people chose to do that has absolutely no bearing on your life whatsoever .

I am not your love.

Christianity has an influence on all of us whether we choose to be christian or not.

Fourage, my comment wasn't directed at you.

Sorry brian.

I am a bit weird because I absolutely love bragging FB posts. I'm really nosy so I like to see what everyone is boasting about, and then I have a good laugh to myself because I could have bet my mortgage on the ones doing the bragging (usual suspects for Christmas, Easter, birthdays, holidays etc.) i have to admit my two do get a bit spoilt by us and grandparents, but it's for our eyes only FB doesn't need to know about it

Aw buddah, thanks! Actually just got a call from vets to say that he's picking up a bit, eating drinking etc but needs more nursing and treatment. He still hasn't got back on his feet yet though, so there's a quality of life issue to think about....I didn't think I would be so upset about him, I'm usually quite realistic about animal deaths, but this has hit me like a train.

OMG that photo is OBSCENE! I LOVE Easter, all my family do and always have because we love chocolate and even now as adults we all buy each other eggs BUT we have never been bought toys, clothes etc and I wouldn't allow it for my children. Easter is a time to give/receive Easter eggs (putting aside the religious aspect of course before I offend anyone) and that's it! It's a time of year I always loved as a kid because I would be allowed to stuff my face with chocolate all weekend.

I hate fb for exactly these reasons, it seems to have become a platform for bitching and boasting.

I was feeling a bit pissed off with the facebook posts so I came over here specially to find some like minded people! My DS only gets easter gifts from us and i refuse to go mad but secretly hope he doesnt see how much stuff other people get, especially those with big familys. He has had 1 med sizes egg, a bag of mini eggs, a card game, 2 bags of small choc eggs and 3 small choc Bunnies. He had a total of 20 things to find this morning and the cost was maybe £15. He is 9 and happy as anything bless him :) Those pics of half a dozen or more big eggs, loads of small ones, plus toys, clothes etc really get to me though even though ikiabu!

I keep looking at the photo! I can't believe someone would buy their children that amount of 'junk'!

I really dont care what other people post on FB!

You do have the choice to block them if you care so much about what they do. I think its OTT to give you the rage, over a harmless photo. The issue is with you OP not whoever is positing the photo.