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.

We’ve not done anything for Easter, mine had 12 eggs each from relatives so we decided not to bother as they have more then enough chocolate and they get toys regularly through the year! I just gave them the bags when they came down this morning and told them they could pick one to eat later. Might do an Easter egg hunt next year but I’m way too pregnant right now for that

Same as @RosaBaby2, I'm 30 and I grew up with the Easter Bunny!

We would leave him carrots and water the night before and in the morning I was sent on an egg hunt to find all the chocolate eggs he's hidden around the house and the garden.

Not a big deal, and I'll be doing the same "The Easter Bunny has come!" routine with my DC.

we have never done the easter bunny till this year its something my daughter seems to have picked up from school. she left out a carrot and was happy with her chocolate egg and rabbit.
our easter family tradition is more about spending time together.painting eggs egg rolling at the park and a family lunch.
my sil post photo of what her daughter gets for easter and no joking she must spend about £200

We had Easter Bunny, Easter Egg hunts (mini eggs hidden round house) and a big egg each, plus coloured boiled eggs. My sister is a lot older than me and was born in the 60's and she remembers this from when she was very small.

Hiding eggs in the garden for kids to find is lovely. As for buying presents, I've never heard of it, but now I have I will definitely studiously avoid it.

I do remember one of my dc saying their friends did not have the easter bunny visit, although he did visit our house.

I got my DC a small £1 egg and a book. They will also get a book off GP.
I feel a bit sad that some kids get loads of eggs and wonder if DC mind. They have never said otherwise and I refuse to guilt buy eggs for them.
What is it these days with social media and everyone trying to out-do each other?
I wonder where it will end and at what point parents started buying loads of Xmas/Easter whatever gifts to show their love instead of just being there.

Isn't it pretty obvious that there's a difference between a couple of larger eggs and smaller eggs for a hunt, and providing your child with mountains of presents?

why is it a bunny?
surely a chicken lays eggs

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Our dc have all gifts from fc and gifts from the gp and other people are from.. Well other people.

We don't treat Christmas as a full on the training day.

We can do that on the other 364 days of the year. We have birthdays. We have had 20 class parties this school year so far where we choose and wrap gifts.. We have our own birthdays where we give and receive gifts from our each other. So they get plenty, more than enough training.
I don't understand parents who are more obsessed with getting credit than sitting back and enjoying the day. I get image of dc opening gifts and before they can even look at them parents demanding their credit.

The Easter bunny never organised a hunt for me, I would get an egg from my parents, others from family and that I was it.
I'm 39.
Organised a small hunt for my kids for the first time today. NDN has a proper Easter TREE that the bunny visited with gifts overnight.

The Easter bunny has been around since I was a child but it was never something we ‘done’ in my family. We got eggs from family and the occasional egg that contained a proper mug or egg cup (that was always extra exciting). The egg boxes and wrapping was more elaborate when I was a child and often the boxes themselves had activities etc on them. My mum would take us out to the big hill to roll our eggs before we could eat them.

My own DD gets a few eggs and other food type treats (ie mint matchmakers). MIL always buys her a new outfit in place of an egg. MIL is religious and as a child she and would always get a new outfit for church on Easter Sunday. She had this tradition with her own children (ie DH) and now with her grandchildren.

DD usually ends up with new School shoes and trainers over the Easter holidays but that’s because her feet usually grow around this time of year. It’s not an Easter gift type of thing.

The Easter Bunny visited me in the late 80s/early 90s. He hid eggs AND a small gift for my two DC this morning. DD had her nose pressed up against her front bedroom window while DH quickly hid the eggs out back.

Luckily at 5 and 10 my dc are not on social media and have have no idea what other people get and by the time they they are old enough for social media the bunny will have stopped coming.

Mine have woken to a mountain of two eggs, a dressing up dress, an easter book and vouchers for oldest.

I always assumed the Easter bunny was a thing other countries did, my DH is South African and they had it as kids (he’s 51), we certainly didn’t even hear about it when I was a child.
Of course the show offs love any opportunity to brag about what they’ve bought their kids, so it’s the same ones who post pictures on Xmas eve of the ridiculous piles of presents under the tree. I just yawn and scroll by.

The competitive misery around any event is always spectacular on here

Isn't it just!

our easter family tradition is more about spending time together.painting eggs egg rolling at the park and a family lunch.

Why is it one or the other, can people not do that and do other things?

I've never bought an easter egg in my life.

DD was 2 weeks old and given 14 Easter Eggs from DH family. 14 eggs at 2 weeks of age ffs! We were still eating them that Christmas

I've never bought one for any of my dc yet theres still 6 sat on the side in the kitchen.

The idea of hunting for hidden eggs, around this time of year, originates in Ancient Egyptian mythology. They were hidden (stolen actually) by a hare.

So not a modern fad.

We do it because it's fun. Easter bunny brought one egg and some small ones for a hunt.

And at the snobby posters who think 'spending time together and a family lunch' is a tradition unique to them. It's not.

I always got gifts because I don’t like chocolate.
We do get Easter bunny with our kids. God forbid parents might do something nice their kids will love.

We have a large hall and decorate for the seasons. Currently hosts a small tree with eggs and spring flowers. DD loves to decorate it.

DD got an egg, skipping rope, Easter bath bomb, seeds and a plant. We celebrate spring and seasons and its a lovely day planting seeds and dinner with our family.

It's nice to celebrate things in what ever way you wish. Can be arsed with people boasting about how wonderful they are because this type of thing is beneath them. Life is lovely.

Can't!

No Easter Bunny as a child. Eggs from family and my mum always bought us a small gift. Although she did this as she maintained that chocolate eggs were overpriced and a waste of money. Contrary to that, we didn't get 'gifts' other than at Christmas and birthday and I do look back with fondness at being taken to a department store to choose something I liked. Often it was a really nice set of colouring pencils or felt tips; sometimes a craft set (what were those in an A5 size box, that hung on a stand?) or a book. I feel more sentimental about those small tokens than I do about Christmas.

For my own, sometimes a simple egg hunt in the garden with a basket to collect them. Simple and fun!

Did however visit the 'egg shop' in Saltzburg, whilst on a skiing trip. AMAZING! Hundreds and hundreds of coloured eggs.

I was thinking this this morning when dd wanted to see if the Easter bunny had 'been'. She chose her egg yesterday and got two kinders and a chocolate bunny. We also got an egg for me and dp and two bunnies. Plus she's had an egg off my mum. So I felt guilty but confused as to what else I was meant to have got. She is fine now though, happy with what she's got but her teaching assistant at school had told her the bunny comes if you're good (well that's what she told me!). Yesterday though she said she didn't want too much chocolate so chose the peter rabbit toy one. Anyway, we're off on an organised egg hunt soon so I'm sure it's fine.