How many Easter eggs do you give the DC?

[Shopperami]

How many Easter eggs do the DC get from you including from family?

My kids get loads. I love Easter. Chocolate works out so much cheaper when you buy Easter eggs in the offers weeks leading up to it, sorts out Friday movie nights for a good few months.

I gave mine 1 small egg and some money to spend when out and about with friends this weekend.

One each. They don’t get them from family. I didn’t realise that was a thing. Don’t give any presents or new clothes either. Didn’t realise that was a thing either!

They end up with lots. We buy some and then they soon add up with ones from family, friends, neighbours and school.

They have a bar of chocolate most days so they just have some Easter chocolate instead, it will last months. Perfect teeth, no fillings yet.

We also do a mini Easter egg hunt in the garden for them, only with them little £1 pack of eggs 😊

One from us, 7 from various family members/god parents

He usually still has at least one left in September

One big egg plus some Malteser bunnies from us. They have an egg hunt tomorrow and the two sets of grandparents have each got them an egg. So I guess three biggish eggs and a clutch of smaller ones.

This is way less than my brother and I used to get in the 70s/80s. We had eggs lining the entire length of the fitted cupboard in the living room! My kids are deprived in comparison.

One from us
One from each set of grandparents
One from her godmother

Dd1 will get 4. She gets one from my parents, one from my sister and then 2 from us (it used to be a load of small eggs as an Easter egg hunt then a biggish one as the main prize, but she's too old to want to do the hunt now)

Dd2 gets more. She's had one from my parents, one from mil, one from my sister and will get a load of small eggs as part of a hunt then a biggish one as the main hunt prize. But she's also had one from the cm, one from Brownies, one from school (small) and one as the party bag from a birthday party she went to this week. It's an obscene number of eggs really, but I don't quite know how to politely stop people buying them for her. She's 9. I suspect she'll still have at least one egg left at Christmas, she did last year.

Normally just the one, but I left them in the car during this surprise heatwave and they are eggs no more. I've bought replacements.

@HebeMumsnet if I hadn't just changed my name, I'd be changing it to "Nibbling Ninja" right now

3 medium sized ones from the family. Was going to get a big bar of chocolate from me and DH, but changed my mind. 3 seems enough for a 5 year old.

One!

14 year old has 3 biggish eggs - one from us, one from Pil and an extra by default, as his vegan sister won’t eat the one Pil gave her!
I’ve got her a lovely Hotel Chocolat vegan one. That’s all.

Ds(15) gets a lindt bunny (the £4 one).

They have two each. one from us and one from my dad. My granny gives them some money and dh’s parents don’t give them anything.

I don't buy any for them. They get from the childminder and we do a hunt somewhere. That's enough. Children eat plenty of rubbish year round now.

New clothing for Easter is a long-standing tradition here (as in my DM remembers DGM buying her a new outfit for church on Easter Sunday and DGM has had the same when she was little - so in the 1920s).

DS1 doesn’t like chocolate (clearly not my child) and we’ve therefore bought him Lego instead. DS2 has a chocolate Thomas the Tank Engine. There will also be a hunt for small eggs (tradition from DH’s family). I’ve recently finished some from last Easter so I’m not too worried about quantities here (agree wholeheartedly that a little chocolate occasionally is much better than feast or famine...I regret my DP made such a fuss about it as I still reward myself with sweets, which isn’t great).

2 boys aged 10 & 15 - they get £5 from one relative and a small egg from my in laws, other than that I make up a bag with a large egg, a couple of those bags of mini eggs, a choc bunny and a creme egg. I used to buy them a book too each but my eldest would look at me like I've gone mad if I did that now

My kids have got about 30 each. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

We only get them 1, but about 14 of OH employee’s have bought them one. Then the usual grandparents (they have 4 sets), aunties, friends, great uncle and then my bloody MIL who thinks it’s cruel (her words) to only get them one Easter egg, and have bought them 5 each. I mean, Jesus wept.

They won’t be getting all of them. And I don’t doubt most will be used to make Rice Krispie cakes or something along those lines either.

My 9 year old has 10 and my 1 year old has 5. I bought one for the 9 year old and that is all, the rest have been given by family and friends

I’d like to add that last year, they received a few - about 15, we politely asked MIL not to get that many again, and also did inform people they didn’t need to get them any either.

No one listened and no my house looks like the fucking Cadbury factory. Luckily the eggs are well hidden and the kids will never know they are only getting given a percentage of what they have been bought. I’m certainly not laying out 60 eggs for them tonight, in order to give them cavaties tomorrow.

Ds had one from us, and MIL bought him one. He doesn't get anything else.

I've not bought them any. They've both got a book each from us. And then 2 each from uncle and their godmother.

One big egg each and one chocolate bunny each which is similar size. They are 6 and 3.