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.

YABU for following people on social media you are neither friends nor related to.

If you were following people you actually liked, you would be happy for them.

My kids had a lot more than double the amount of eggs they'd normally had today. I am not remotely sorry, why should I?
We are stuck at home, they had more eggs to find and the "easter egg hunt" in the garden lasted a lot longer it would normally had. Find a miserable 2 eggs in the garden would have entertained no one.

Other friends have done things a lot more cleverly, with a lot more clues and a real hunt. Other friends have done next to no chocolate, but a lot of crafts and lovely things. Other friends have done a 1 egg chocolate reward for finding all the easter "token" across house and garden.

We are all different, but shocking as it might sound to you, I enjoyed looking at their photos and I will put as many photos of my kids as I like on my social media. Don't look if it bothers you.

It's telling that you call people's normal life - and I mean life under lockdown which is far from normal - bragging.

@Namesgonenow Well I figured it would be nice to have a non-Covid-related post 

@Pollypocket89 Why does finding something like this tacky mean that you have to be insecure? Genuine question. Isn't it more likely that the person posting the photos wanting 'likes' for them is the more insecure one?

The rule of “nun-ya” applies here.

“Nun-ya” yer business. How does it actually matter to your life.
Well. Unless you couldn’t buy an Easter egg because they had all gone.

Don’t give it head space OP. Just because someone buys their DCs 20 Easter eggs doesn’t necessarily make them great parents. I honestly can’t remember how many eggs I got as a child, but I can remember my dm taking me to the park and painting in the garden with me. Sometimes parents do the over buying thing to compensate for the fact that they spend little time with their DCs the rest of the time. Makes them feel better and less guilty.

I just can’t muster the motivation to give a fuck about what people post on Facebook. Just keep scrolling.

It’s tacky

It’s a waste of unnecessary packaging

They are overpriced to begin with

Luckily my son is too young to know any different

I did say I wasn't referring to you specifically. I have no idea why you feel like you do, as I'm not projecting how I think onto others (...irony intended ;))

If someone, as another pp said above, posting something of their normal lives makes you feel anything, it says more about the viewer not the poster. Maybe they want likes, maybe they're just posting pictures of Easter eggs with no weird I secure backstory behind it because that's what they're day looks like. People who follow me on social media care about me/my life so look to see what I'm up to... Not because they envy me and 'my bragging'

*insecure not I secure

If I saw someone post a photo of their kids eggs it wouldn’t cross my minds they were showing off but then I i try not to judge other people or be jealous of other people’s circumstances so it wouldn’t bother me.

My kids in a normal year get about 10 eggs each, thankfully this year will be much lower due to not seeing anyone.

Totally agree, it's tacky. MIL brought 10 for DCs this morning

@Noti23

Trust me, I've lived on a very tight budget. Chocolate is one of the cheapest treats you can give your dc in that situation.

However, for the vast majority of people in the UK, being able to afford chocolate is not a barometer of wealth. You can buy a heap of it in the pound shop fgs.

In terms of privilege, its hardly skiing in Aspen or showing off your £50k kitchen extension.

@Pollypocket89 I know you didn't, which is why I replied in a general 'people' sense, rather than 'me', iyswim

MIL brought 10 for DCs this morning

so what? Is that her usual number or is she overcompensating because she feels bad your kids are on lockdown?

Someone is trying to be nice, it's more tacky to moan to strangers about it.

One from parents, one from each set of grandparents. Maybe the odd creme egg or something from elsewhere.

I genuinely don't understand how kids end up with huge piles of Easter eggs. Are people each buying loads for their own children? Or are people giving them to all the children they've ever met?

you'd think people were posting photos of loo rolls on social media

I genuinely don't understand how kids end up with huge piles of Easter eggs. Are people each buying loads for their own children?

yes.

It's very tacky and wrong in so many ways but don't let it get to you. Laugh and move on...

Someone is trying to be nice, it's more tacky to moan to strangers about it.

Maybe she's trying to be nice or maybe she's trying to score points. Or maybe she's trying to undermine the parents. Or maybe she's showing off to people.

Giving anyone 10 Easter eggs is frankly bizarre.

Shops local to me have seemed desperate to get rid of eggs in the past week. Bogofs and vast reductions. I bought more than I usually would just to do my bit to clear the aisles in Aldi.

I think it's about as tacky as judging someone doing something perfectly harmless that they and their family find fun, that they're doing differently to you on social media, as tacky. On an alternative form of social media.

The shortage of Easter eggs in the shops isn’t because people have bought too many and stockpiled, it’s because the supermarkets didn’t buy all of the Easter eggs they originally committed to suppliers that they would as they were worried people wouldn’t buy them. This has created shortages in the shops and left suppliers with a massive problem.

@MamaBearLockdown, but why?

I think a lot of people (friend on my Facebook anyway) aren’t actually wanting the eggs in the photos to be the focus - I think it’s an excuse to show off their nice rooms, gardens and houses 😂. And to show what wonderful parents they are (nauseating more like).

I always wondered if there's a relationship between the number of eggs and the BMI of the parents...