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

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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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Saying that we are Germans and DH and I grew up with this so for me NOT doing it would be strange. What is the point in just getting one large egg.

I also know to decorate the house, we have willow twigs and put wooden ornaments and eggs on it, DD did some decorations. But they only last from Saturday to Wednesday (lazy this year) but I love doing a nice table setting. For me it is a sign spring arrives.

My OH insists on doing the Easter Bunny thing with DD but this year she saw me buy her eggs, then on Sunday when she found her eggs she was very excited and said that the EB has been and given me eggs...that mummy bought for me

I am 46 and easter was never really a thing when I was growing up, certainly not in Lancashire anyway.. there was no issue with kids eating chocolate though, so on Easter sunday there was usually quite a few eggs from parents, relatives, next door neighbours.. but no bloody bunny, no presents, just chocolate eggs, or maybe a couple of quid off elderly relatives instead of an egg. Never even heard of easter egg hunts until recent years either. But then Halloween was not a thing either when I was a kid. Bonfire night was celebrated more.

crispbutty- perhaps it is regional. I am older than you and although money was an issue- or lack thereof we did celebrate easter. painted hen's eggs, go rolling them, one chocolate egg each.
Halloween was always celebrated when I was a child, although we hollowed out turnips for lanterns and made our own costumes.

When I were a lass I just got one chocolate egg from my mum and dad.

We usually spend Easter with a couple of other families and do an egg hunt in the garden wherever we're staying. We don't do presents or anything elaborate, but the children really enjoy the searching and sharing out. There is talk of the Easter Bunny but I don't think even the 5 year old is fooled.

isn't it something to do with God and Jesus? What a load of nonsense

My easter has nothing to do with god and jesus- not a mention.

We told our children that Santa Claus was only a story from day I and the Easter bunny didn't feature then

Nope for a lot of us god and Jesus are no more relevant than the story about the pagan goddess which pre-dates them... Its as valid to celebrate Easter as a general spring festival as any other festival that has latched onto the pre-existing Spring festivities. There have been hares or rabbits and eggs involved in some parts of Europe since way back - the Easter Bunny is arguably as valid as anything else [ducks... although actually wasn't somebody claiming up thread that there is an Easter Duck ]

We always had an Easter egg hunt in the garden as children (it's Autumn in this neck of the woods), always after Mass and generally the whole family would be together including aunts and uncles. The bunny brought them while we were at mass and they were hidden because he would drop them as he hopped over the garden rather than deliberately hiding them. There are certain spots where an egg ALWAYS lands though...

I kept the tradition going with my stepchildren and later with DD. We have even run egg hunts at the campground we go to for the holidays and invited the other campers to join us. There are no presents though, and these days no mass either.

We do it because it's fun and magical for the kids and the adults love watching the kids search (and sometimes the adults get to find them too!) I don't remember actually finding out about FC or EB not being real to be honest.

There are certain places in our garden that just have to have a hidden egg thisk - usually put there by me - my teenage DC laugh at me and say my eggs are hidden for 3 or 4 year olds (I've worked with this age group for many years) But the Easter Bunny just can't resist the middle of a clump of daffs, or the nook in the branching of an old cherry tree

We didn't do the EB or egg hunts when we were little in the 70s - you got one or 2 chocolate eggs and we rolled boiled eggs, and that was about it. I have Scottish parents but we lived in the SE of England, so either our village was particularly unusual or Easter has become much bigger since then.

I'm 36 and my parents kept up the pretense of the Easter Bunny until we were old enough to work out it's non-existence for ourselves. My dad even used to 'phone up from work and but on an 'Easter Bunny voice' to ask us if we were being good (he sounded weirdly like Bugs Bunny HA). To be honest I think it's just another example of children being a bit over coddled to have a melt down when seeing someone buying Easter Eggs! My two DD's have eggs from their grandparents, DH and me and some little ones from the Easter Bunny, and no harm is done.

We never did the Easter Bunny when I was a child but I was aware of him and used to wish very much that he was real/would come to us. We used to get lots and lots of eggs, between 10-20 eggs each from extended family. And because of this my parents always bought us a toy instead of an egg. Sometimes my grandparents would buy toys instead too. But Easter always seemed like it should be something so much more exciting than it was. There was a certain amount of hype about it but really it was just a boring Sunday. Mass, roast dinner, visit nana for tea, go home. Sure we had new clothes, chocolate and a few new toys and a week off school to look forward to. But I would have loved to DO something special. Christmas had the magic of Santa and in the evening all my extra-extended family would gather at my great-grandparents tiny house along with all their neighbours and have a big party and sing-song into the small hours. It was fabulous. Easter was just Sunday.

So I've decided to go big with Easter. We decorate the house, have the Easter Bunny, who hides plastic eggs and a basket with some toys and books. We have a special breakfast with treat foods we baked in the 2 days before. Then an afternoon outing followed by a meal out with at least one relative roped in. Then back to the house for Easter games and play before bed. And on the Monday we do another outing. It's really nice, fantastic fun, hopefully making great memories for DS and really chilled out and not stressful.