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AIBU to want the Easter Bunny to F*#k off?

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Limurz · 27/03/2016 11:12

When did the EB become a "thing' like a big eared santa sneaking in to leave Easter Eggs? My friends 7yr old was distraught at the supermarket yesterday when he saw someone buying an Eastet Egg and deduced that the EB may not exist. FFS. This just feels like a cynical ploy to turn Easter into Christmas and have us all running around like loons buying presents and too much food. I am officially an Easter grinch!

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greenbloom · 27/03/2016 12:25

No Easter bunny here either. It was bad enough when she figured out about mr F.C. And we had a fairy who left notes. That was more than enough. We make a window display and have eggs and a nice meal.

Sparklingbrook · 27/03/2016 12:28

The whole concept is a bit Hmm and how you can get children to believe in it all I'll never know.

Why do the eggs need hiding? Confused

Birdsgottafly · 27/03/2016 12:28

I say this on every thread, but Easter is as big a deal as Christmas, if you take on the Cultural celebration of it being a Religious event.

If you don't, then Rabbit/Hare route is the correct one, again and it is as big a celebration, if not more, than the Winter Festival (Christmas).

My DH was from a Irish Roman Catholic background, so it was celebrated by us, as our own 'Christmas', when it falls in April, the children were healthier (than over Winter), weather was better and we could get time off work.

We lived in a very Catholic area of Liverpool.

So we've always given presents, most people I know, going back 30 years, would buy trikes/bikes/swings etc.

Pre that, 70's, we'd get new clothes, outdoor toys/hand me down bikes etc and money has always been given.

We'd get chocolate, but it was comparatively more expensive than it is now and a real treat.

Special days out would be planned, over Easter, usually on a community hired double decker bus.

""But I'm in Scotland and I don't think we 'do' Easter as much.""

Is that traditionally to do with the Presbyterian way of celebrating?

mrsplum2015 · 27/03/2016 12:29

Easter bunny hides eggs and leaves clues in this house and always has. He exists along with Santa and the tooth fairy...!

My dd (11) needed to work it out in her head when she was 8 so I had to tell her after very specific questioning, which became tearful due to her inability to understand it and need to know! This was about the tooth fairy but then extended to cover the other 2.

I think dc2 (7) has figured it out this weekend after catching dh out with some eggs in a box last night and then questioning the bunny's handwriting of the clues (looks like dad's?) but I think he will play along for a while!

Dc3 (age 2),who knows?!

herecomesthsun · 27/03/2016 12:33

We really don't do the Easter Bunny like that, the kids still get Easter Eggs though

Wolpertinger · 27/03/2016 12:34

No idea, first year I've heard so much about bunnies.

If you are Christian then yes Easter is as big a deal as Christmas - and bunnies do not feature in it at all.

Think bunnies have arrived with German retailers (Lidl, Aldi) selling us their bunny related chocolate stock as when I was a child it was eggs or nothing.

herecomesthsun · 27/03/2016 12:38

Easter the new Christmas

pourmeanotherglass · 27/03/2016 12:44

It's just a bit of fun. We didn't have the Easter bunny when I was growing up, but when DD1 was 3, her preschool teacher told her that the easter bunny hides eggs, so I did a trail for her with picture clues. Shes now 13, and the clues have got a bit more cryptic. She realised it was me when she was 10 or so, and decided to do a trail for me as well.
I don't buy any more chocolate than we used to get when we were kids, they just have to hunt for it rather than just being handed it.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 27/03/2016 12:44

IgnoreMeEveryOtherReindeerDoes... When I was young I was told that the Easter Bunny lived in Hendon. As far as I know, he still does. There's a convenient airfield there and I don't still believe that He manages to fit all the eggs for delivery into the cockpit of his plane.

NoahVale · 27/03/2016 12:44

i used to do easter bunny presents. I am sure my dc still kind expect them, but I don't think I have done them for a few years

rosy71 · 27/03/2016 12:47

We've never done the Easter Bunny & I never did as a child either. A couple of years ago ds2 started going on about the Easter Bunny bringing eggs, which was weird as he'd been with me when I bought his. It's never been mentioned since though.

SanityClause · 27/03/2016 12:54

I'm 47, and we believed in the Easter bunny, when I was a child.

There was no "naughty or nice", though. It's just the Easter bunny brought eggs, at Easter.

In Australia, where rabbits are an environmental disaster, there is a move to associate Easter with the bilby, an endangered species. My mother sent three chocolate bilbys for my DC. This raises awareness of the plight of the bilby, raises funds for environmental programmes and helps to discourage the fluffy cuddly bunny image off the rabbit, which is a huge pest.

Perhaps you could adopt the Easter bilby, instead?

AIBU to want the Easter Bunny to F*#k off?
AIBU to want the Easter Bunny to F*#k off?
EmGee · 27/03/2016 12:55

Given the depressing state of the world at the moment, and the fact that my kids are growing up in a more unsettled world than I did, I'm glad they believe in FC and the EB. And The Tooth Fairy. I'm sure they will cope fine when they realise it is all made-up.

We got back from Mass and DH said let's go and see if the EB has left us any eggs. Off we went round the garden and found them.

Kids don't get a big egg - just the mini ones they find in the garden or are given at school.

I live in France though so while there is a shelf in the supermarket dedicated to Lindt eggs/Milka chocolates, it's nowhere near on the same level as the UK.

InQuiteAPickle · 27/03/2016 12:57

We don't really do the Easter Bunny here either. I get stressed enough at Christmas! Easter Grin

Having Santa and the Tooth Fairy is enough. The amount of times the tooth fairy has almost forgotten to come is astonishing! Ours is a bit of a ditzy biatch so I wouldn't trust the Easter Bunny.

Besides the eggs that we bought 3 for a tenner in tesco have been out on display for about a week. They'd probably melt in the wardrobe (our usual hiding place for Christmas presents).

I remember when I was a toddler I was given a toy Easter bunny that walked and played a tune, with it's basket of eggs. It was the scariest thing I had ever seen! I screamed and ran! Easter Blush

MardyBra · 27/03/2016 13:00

My DS remarked yesterday that it was odd that a bunny would produce eggs. Shouldn't it be an Easter Chicken?

Yanbu btw OP.

ClashCityRocker · 27/03/2016 13:01

Surely all but the very littlest of littlies don't actually believe this stuff and just play along for the fun that's in it?

I mean, there's Easter eggs for sale in shops from January onwards.

We didn't do the Easter bunny, but did do egg hunts and other Easter activities. We did do Father Christmas, but I don't remember ever actually truly believing - I think I put on a show and played along 'just in case' he was real.

PrimalLass · 27/03/2016 13:01

""But I'm in Scotland and I don't think we 'do' Easter as much.""

Is that traditionally to do with the Presbyterian way of celebrating?
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That was me, and I have no idea tbh. It just doesn't seem as 'big' a holiday here (e.g. often Easter Monday is not a holiday, shops stay open etc.)

I certainly never got piles of Easter presents as a child. We did paint eggs and roll them though. AFAIK the Easter Bunny was an American import that kids learned about on youtube, but obviously I know that's wrong after reading this thread.

derxa · 27/03/2016 13:03

But I'm in Scotland and I don't think we 'do' Easter as much.
Yes I think we Scots are a bunch of miserable old bastards Grin
Christmas wasn't much of a 'thing' when I was growing up either.

WaxyBean · 27/03/2016 13:08

The Easter bunny has never been real in this house. DSs got given an egg each mid morning having watched me hunting for where I hid them - they also saw me buy them, so no pulling the wool over their eyes.

Nobody got me an egg and I'm pondering buying myself a half price hotel chocolat egg tomorrow.

WaxyBean · 27/03/2016 13:10

Sanity - I want an Easter Bilby now!

Tessabelle74 · 27/03/2016 13:11

We've never had the Easter bunny here, our parents give them eggs but we don't as the chocolate they get off them is enough. My ds friend though obviously has a big deal made of it to the point that I've had to sit my ds down and explain he's got all the chocolate he's getting and there'll be no bunny visiting us! It's getting ridiculous the amount of fuss made about it imo

imeatingthechocolate · 27/03/2016 13:13

never done easter bunny never have its a case of easter = chocolate and religion that is all no need to get into the whole giant egg laying bunny to scare the shite out of kids

Platelet · 27/03/2016 13:34

We don't do the bunny either, just a few eggs. We've never gone overboard. We've always been saving hard at this point of the year for our summer holiday so the children are told this and are happy with the couple of eggs they have. We don't do gifts etc like I've seen on some of my friends FB pages.

Why would you want the Easter bunny anyway?
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MrsDeVere · 27/03/2016 13:37

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Ham69 · 27/03/2016 13:45

I love the EB! Always had a couple of gifts and an egg as a child and have carried on the tradition. There's not the pressure at Easter that there is at Christmas so I enjoy it. DC are 9 and 6 and I'll carry on even when I know they don't believe. Pretty sure DS doesn't believe but he happily plays along with it.