To think that posting photos of massive piles of eggs is in bad taste?

[Fudgewhizz]

I really can't stand this - people posting their kids' enormous piles of Easter eggs on Facebook (or whatever). Of course I scroll on by and don't comment but I just think it's a bit boasty- honestly who cares how many eggs your kids have got? I don't have an issue with seeing kids enjoying them or whatever but so many people seem to post photos of a massive pile the night before and it just smacks of 'oh look how lucky / privileged my kids are to have ALL THIS CHOCOLATE, aren't we great'. (And yes, I do think the same about the positing of piles of Christmas presents too)

Frankly I don't care how many eggs people have got, and neither does my DD (yet!), but I feel bad for people who feel like they're somehow letting their kids down if they don't have a huge pile that Facebook seems to be filled with.

I like to see photos of friends and families

Where have I said that was in bad taste or braggy?

isn't that what the thread is all about?
I see families having as fun as an Easter as they can, kids getting Easter chocolates and so on. Others see it as bragging.
because god forbid you have a garden and show a photo of it
because showing the kids eggs is braggy
because showing your kids itself is braggy
and so on...

anything you post can trigger some nasty reaction.

Did you not read the thread title?

I find it a bit cringe really. Especially when they are posting pics of their “healthy” diet the week after. I wonder what the dentists kids get for Easter?

What I don’t get is where do these eggs come from if we’re not seeing anyone!?
I get my kids one each but the rest come from friends and family. It wouldn’t occur to me to buy them ten each because we haven’t seen any friends or family!
I’ve got Facebook friends displaying loads of them.

I sent for mine. Actually I ordered some from Thorntons on 21st March but they were lost in transit and I am going to be refunded, however I ordered a couple from here and there and they turned up. They weren't what I'd intended to buy but are nice, Galaxy and the like.

I worry that most people don't realise that there is about 6 weeks worth of sugar there. But other than that I'm not bothered, let people post what they like.

@Ginginwine my family have been leaving them in the porch on their way past.

I have 11 aunties and uncles, 7 brothers and sisters, 17 cousins. My kids get a lot of eggs

Doesn't bother me in the slightest. Would never personally do it but I think it's just a bit of fun. It's not like chocolate is expensive, so I don't really see it as any more braggy than anything else people post. You could ask why anyone posts anything: to share fun times with friends and family or to show everyone what a great time they're having - it's generally 50/50 in my opinion.

I find the whole ‘line it up and photograph it’ thing weird full stop! I have one friend in particular who every Christmas/Easter/Birthday, lines her kids up next to their presents, it looks so false and forced and I can’t help but think why?
I just don’t get it either.

I don't care. Let the kids eat chocolate. That's what Easter is about. They are having a werid 2020 so why not

There was someone on my Facebook that had 37 eggs!!!! All laid out for their 3 children. All under 10! Absolutely ridiculous!!!

@Chiyo666 you’re kids are spoilt. They don’t need 30 eggs and even more so right now. Get a grip and post that on YOUR wall.

Totally agree, any kind of display like this is extremely tacky and I really dislike it. Birthday, Christmas or Easter.
This year I’ve been surprised by the number of people giving their kids piles of Easter presents!

I posted a picture of mine and my mums eggs, we had 6 each , on comment on someone else's jokey post. I wouldn't post a plethora of eggs on my timeline to boast how much chocolate I was feeding my child

Odd isn’t it. My children get one egg given to them by us and possibly another by grandparents.
This year I ordered them a Lindt bunny on my food order and I sent them on a treasure hunt of clues and they got the bunny at the end of it
What is it with this excess?

I have never done the hide 10,000 chocolate eggs. I hide plastic ones which they used to enjoy finding and a couple of chocolate eggs. Why would you want to give your children all that sugar? - it’s weird.

Doesn’t bother me I just think they are billy braggers who like to show off. Same with Christmas presents, I don’t see the point of posting it unless you are show offs or intentionally doing it to be nasty to those who can’t afford/don’t want to buy them. Just scroll on by

It seems a weird thing to brag about to me. Filling your kids with a load of shit.

I've never actually seen anyone so this on Facebook. My DD only ever gets one egg. I'm sure my ex in-laws would try to give her loads if we'd not asked them not to from the start.

I don't get the whole 'rationing them out' bit either. Why would you want to give your kid a huge fucking Easter egg all the time? I think other in people's kids are different to mine too, because mine would endlessly go on and on and on about it if she knew there were 30 Easter eggs in a cupboard somewhere and I really cannot be fucked to listen to that amount of whining for months.

Who really wants a huge pile of eggs anyway? By the time you’ve eaten one maybe two you are sick of them.

I find it honestly quite revolting. Obviously a few eggs are fine but piles and piles and piles of chocolate makes me feel so grossed out. Not only is it greedy and giving out a terrible message about over consumption and health, but in this time when we are meant to be reducing unnecessary shopping, it seems particularly insensitive. Dont get me wrong- chocolate is definitely a "necessity"! but noone needs 30 bloody easter eggs - its just disgusting.

It’s the ones that do that and huge amounts of presents then moan they have no money. Lol

It’s the ones that do that and huge amounts of presents then moan they have no money. Lol

exactly. Just look at photos posted by Tamara Ecclestone. Oh.. wait...

Personally I never really got the huge pile of Easter eggs thing. When I was a kid (in the 70s), I got one from my parents and one from maternal grandparents. I've only ever got my kids one large or two smaller eggs. They don't need a huge pile of them surely?

I absolutely hate anything braggy like this; birthday/Christmas/Easter pics full of presents or choc etc. I feel for the parents who cannot provide the same for their children and therefore probably feel very upset and hurt. There’s no reason for it and if it makes someone else feel badly then I don’t like it.