Easter! Overrated

[bellalou1234]

Is it me or are people making more of Easter this year?

There does seem to be more Easter tat to buy that's for sure. In this house we just have a few Easter eggs.

For some it's like Christmas #2 with an Easter tree, a roast Turkey and Easter crackers. To go with their Easter bunting. I don't know anyone in RL who does that though thankfully.

Not that I've noticed. I suppose I've seen extra buying like turning it in to a mini Christmas gift wise which I think is ridiculous.
We have always done, eggs, church and dinner with family on Easter Sunday.

My dad makes a leg of lamb dinner with all the trimmings - mainly because it's my favourite and my birthday this year

We just do what we have always done

Eggs

Bunny shaped pancakes for breakfast

Champagne & roast lamb with all the trimmings tonight

We have never done the Easter Bunny/Egg Hunt thing. I was never on board with all that.

I don't know what non believers do, but for Christians it is the most important day in the liturgical year, so naturally it is a big deal, and always has been since they began celebrating it

Does it take anything away from you if others do things differently to you? Does it compel you to change in some way?

Why begrudge anyone?

Yes, I believe people should do what they like. We are quite happy doing our own Easter thing as we have always done.

I haven't noticed anything different among the people I know. Seems the same to me. Apart from on here where everyone keeps going on about gifts and decorations. Haven't seen it in real life though!

It's probably the shops trying to encourage people to make more of Easter. More tat sold = more profit.

I really like it, it's like a more chilled Christmas here. We're catholic though.
We're at my parents and have got a big roast, a Colomba (traditional Italian cake) and chocolate eggs. A few vases of flowers for decorations and we'll be doing an eastern egg hunt in the garden before lunch.

And we missed church this year because no one thought 12month old DS would make it through the extra long service bad catholic

I'm with Uncontrolled** it's the most important holiday, more important than Christmas in many ways for Christian's. We have always made a big deal of it and we always had an Easter tree as kids! (A big branch with eggs hanging from it).

Roast dinner, chocolate eggs, Easter egg hunts, egg painting, egg rolling.

I love Easter.

Waitrose had the full range of Easter decorations including crackers.

Ooh Easter crackers if my dd1 had spotted those she would have been over the moon! We do an Easter egg hunt (actually ended up with 2 this year as dds had friends around yesterday so did one for them all then and then the Easter bunny tends to leave small plastic eggs filled with non edible things and one Easter egg for them to find) and then are having a dinner later with my mum and dad. We always manage to take Monday and Tuesday off and either go away for a couple of nights or like this year do days out which isn't easy in farming

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Nice food, chocolate and Fri, Mon & Tue off work for us.

I think it's underrated!

I love Easter and I have had an Easter tree for years and years. WAY before it was fashionable...I love all the German decorations and the nice food too. Nothing wrong with making much of a day. It brightens things up!

I really feel like shops and things would like to make it like Christmas, I remember being little and maybe getting a spring outfit a small egg and going to by nanas for a roast, suppose it's the media time we live in, and a chocolate egg doesn't seem a treat

It's a normal weekend for us except for dh having 2 extra days off work.

Well yeah, things change that's just the way of the world.

100 years before, your new outfit, chocolate and roast dinner would probably have been seen by some as outrageous spending

Doesn't mean we're all going to hell in a handcart

Although we avoid some of the places we usually go to due to them being busier with egg hunts.

I suppose I now work shifts so don't feel like I get that lovely feeling of breaking up for 4 days xx

It's a big deal for us as Christians but we haven't gone in for any of the bunnies, decorated eggs etc. Just a trip to church (packed out) and a family meal here, plus a few Easter eggs of course.

Bugger! Wish I'd seen some Easter crackers. Never heard of these or Easter trees before

I love Easter - trip to church, followed by an Easter egg hunt, egg & spoon races & a family lunch & watching family tv. It does have a Christmas feel but without the presents - love it!

Definitely ovarated.