To wonder when all this Easter Bunny nonsense started?

[Housewife2010]

As a child I was given eggs by my family which I started on Easter Sunday. We give our children two eggs each and have an egg hunt and a few other chocolate treats. On FB now I see that the Easter Bunny has visited friend's houses and left masses of chocolate and presents. Is this the norm now? I would never have thought of buying Easter gifts.

I didn't realise we were unusual in having the Easter Bunny leaving mini eggs in the garden for us to hunt when I was a child (30+ years ago). I thought everyone did it.

I do the same now. Got up early and put little eggs and chicks round the garden for the DC to go out and collect when they got up.

They don't have piles of presents though, that's odd. They only get a few little eggs and a couple of bigger ones from grandparents.

Yes yes Possum. Stockings from Father Christmas, other presents from the people who they are from.

I don't know anyone who does the presents but plenty say about the easter bunny bringing the chocolate hence the film hop. People have done that since I was little and I'm 32. We did an Easter egg hunt where they found little tiny eggs, a big egg each and the wee ones got one of the big kinder ones and eldest got a lindt bunny. That's it.

possumgoddess

I completely agree with your post! When I was a kid, Father Christmas delivered the small stocking gifts, like pencils and chocolate coins. Not the bikes!! I will do the same when I have children.

Easter bunny, well my mum used to give me a present instead of chocolate and it would be under the foot of my bed from ‘The Bunny’ but it wasn’t really a big thing, I knew it was from them and would thank them for it, it was just a bit of fun to ‘find’ it in the am.

Toys, clothes, trainers, chocolate and eggs that the Easter Bunny had left in the night under the Easter tree.

Woofy, I think you need to tell your friend that EASTER isn't CHRISTMAS.

Yeah, toys and money and trainers shouldn’t come into it. It’s a few chocolate eggs, that’s it.

Easter is the most important Christian festival in the liturgical year.

Surely, the question should be why do we go all-out at Christmas but so low key at Easter?

Hint: popular culture.

I love it. We’re starting to get big fun family celebrations in this country and there is nothing wrong with that!

We don't do the Easter Bunny but I make an egg hunt with clues for DD. As a child I always got an Easter outfit so I do the same for DD too.

The thing that gets me is that we are now expected to have an 'Easter Tree' along with decorations and various stuffed or woolly animals. It is just getting ridiculous, the way in which retailers try to part the gullible from their money. And on Tuesday, we move on to the next 'event' which I guess will be Father's Day and shortly after that, we start the bloody Christmas merry go round again.

I do a little hunt with clues to the next one. I had my toddler nephews last night too so did 2 separate ones (just pictures for them)
Growing up my parents didn't do anything 'memorable' like that, and we only got a few eggs. I remember one year going to my aunties and my 8 year old cousin had got about 8 (full size) eggs and had eaten them all by 10am I was sooo jealous.

Presumably, like Christmas and Birthdays, everyone has always done it differently but now Facebook helpfully highlights this. Plus the people who seem to post on Facebook are always at the extreme end. Can’t see why anyone would bother posting about giving one or two eggs to each child.

I'm almost 36 and my friends and I always had visit from the Easter bunny growing up. Usually a carton of eggs and a couple of bunnies/Humpty dumpty egg. Then we would get one from parents/grandparents sometimes aunts/uncles if we were seeing them on the day. My mum would ration ours out after the Sunday.

I can remember when my sister was a bout 8 this changed and we would get pjs and a cd single or something small from our parents as too much chocolate.

I really only remember hunts at school/public events back then.

Easter bunny was definitely a thing when my eldest was little, she is now 20 so it's definately not a new thing.

Buying huge piles of easter eggs for children in incredibly vulgar as well as unhealthy.

I think we should just send kids out to work at 5, save them getting spoiled by a good, fun childhood. Show them the realities of life.

I'm 36 and did Easter egg hunts from the Easter bunny was I was a child. It's not new. It's fun, it's magical.

My kids got one big egg, some small ones on the hunt and some craft stuff. Some people don't buy their kids stuff outside birthdays, Christmas etc.

They had great fun, we had clues that they had to work out and are now playing happily with some lego that MIL got them.

We never did the Easter Bunny when I was little. My mum and dad left out a few eggs on the table and that was that.
We've given DS two big eggs and a small gift, and had an egg hunt with some small colourfully wrapped eggs. He had loads of fun and I kind of wish we did a bit more when I was a kid. DS also got eggs from grandparents, nursery and our downstairs neighbours. He'll be eating them for months!
I have no issue with people doing whatever they want for special occasions but it does seem a bit like every occasion is becoming another Christmas.

It is everything to do with consumerism.
Yes the Easter bunny used to be a thing but only for a few eggs.
Gifts is too much.

we are now expected to have an 'Easter Tree' along with decorations

I'm secure enough in my skin to not really care about what other people think or expect. If I'm not into Easter tat, I'm not doing it. I'm not posting constantly on instagram and going on about how I'm #soblessed. But there are lots of people who feel they have to get involved with all the stuff because of the kids, think of the children, the children will miss out and it's all just a bit of fun, isn't it hun?

I hate rampant consumerism and buying plastic junk for the sake of it. I don't blame the retailers, I blame the sheeple who jump on the bandwagon with their Easter trees and pinatas and tableware and plastic streamers. Everyone else is doing it so I have to do it too - no you don't. Do Easter YOUR way, or don't do it at all, not the way retailers say you should.

And totally agree that once Easter is done (and the unsold tat goes into landfill), there will be father's day tat, summer tat, back to school tat, Halloween tat, Christmas tat, Valentine's tat, Mother's Day tat and we're back to more Easter tat in a never-ending spiral of awfulness.

I’m 45, and the Easter bunny hid eggs in our garden when I was a child.

32 here and the Easter bunny was always a thing when I was little!
Each to their own I say. We don’t do a hunt but my LO does get a few bits ‘from the Easter bunny’. This morning he woke up to a bubble wand, two little Easter craft sets (the £1 kind from Tiger!) and three little Smarties farm animal things. He had some eggs from family too. He was delighted. We’ve got such a short period of time where he’ll be excited by Father Christmas, fairies and magic bunnies that I fully intend to make the most of it!

The Easter Bunny is neither here nor there, though, as far as consumerism goes. The issue is how much kids are getting, not the more of delivery.

*MODE of delivery ffs

Easter....yet another occasion for some people here to be po faced, miserable and judgy about what other people do. Will never understand why it matters to some to care about what other familes do.

Easter trees are from Germany and Europe. More likely a result of shops like aldi and lidl.