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.

a pack of .. 10? cost £1. Yes, people ARE showing off with all their Easter eggs..

Even people in flats around here seem to do some kind of Easter hunt. Some posters must have such miserable Easter, I feel sorry for their kids.

My local supermarkets had shelves full of eggs even last night... I bet they are all reduced tomorrow!

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

that's why I love MN.

It's ok to post pics on fb that some people don't like, it's also ok to be tacky, and to not like those behaviours. This is all. But is it not also tacky to criticise others for minor acts that you just happen not to like?

My children have had 1 large Easter egg each. That is plenty and they are delighted!
The kids with piles of eggs are prime candidates for diabetes in later life.

If the child is in the picture then fair enough, but most the pics I’ve seen this morning is just a pile of eggs on a table. I don’t get it.

It’s tacky. It doesn’t make me feel bad. Same as ridiculous amount of plastic tat for Christmas. I look at it and think that I’m glad I made the decision I made (to get my DC what they thoughts was “loads” of chocolate but really wasn’t all that much).

I agree, it's unnecessary. It's all 'Look at me, look how many eggs my children have got!'
Someone I know posted a pic and she had about 30 eggs for her 2 children, no exaggeration. Grotesque.

bridgetreilly

why so many eggs?
Because it took mine ages to find them in the garden and it was really good fun.

and I am lazy, I couldn't be arsed to use craft material and paint eggs and hide them. Instead mine had eggs, bunnies, easter haribos (easier to hide thanks to the wrapping), characters... It's chocolate, it won't spoil in a week!

Who cares?

To those saying its all ooo look at me... Why are you looking? You actually don't have to... Weird, I know.

If someone was being like this about my social media, I'd get rid of them so they couldn't see my life let alone wait for them to mute me

I’m not bothered even more so because I don’t have to do the clean-up or deal with hyperactive kids.

Plus, my boys won’t have the expectation of such things every year which means not having to keep up with it.

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

Hehe

Well I would hope the parents are eating at least some of it. I’m all for Easter treats (we’ve already eaten a pretty substantial amount this morning) but the amount of eggs some children seem to receive according to Facebook is pretty obscene, especially some toddlers and even babies

If you must judge, I think ONE egg (even one of the big boxed one) is pretty miserable, but each to their own.

I wouldn't have started a thread about it, but surely I am allowed to reply on one.

Photo is from google, but it's part of what Easter is all about for me. As we are on lockdown, we are missing pretty much everything else already. My kids can enjoy their eggs. And their bunnies, and their smarties, and haribos.. no one expects them to eat them all in one day.

deal with hyperactive kids.

research have long proven that sugar and hyperactive kids is a complete myth. Plus spending ages in the garden looking for eggs is a good outdoor activity

Plus spending ages in the garden looking for eggs is a good outdoor activity wink

That I don’t mind. I loved Easter Egg hunts as a child. Prefer that way more than just having them given several chocolate eggs the size of their heads.

YANBU. It's completely crass.

If you must judge, I think ONE egg (even one of the big boxed one) is pretty miserable, but each to their own.

I’m not really precious about chocolate eggs, maybe it’s a cultural thing. I grew up abroad and we would go on an Easter hunt and look for little chocolates and real coloured hard boiled eggs. We would also make an ‘Easter nest’ and the Easter bunny would leave chocolates and maybe a chocolate bunny in there. Massive branded chocolate Easter eggs just weren’t a thing and getting multiples of them as rule just seems like too much. I wonder if that’s just where I grew up though. Are big chocolate eggs a thing in many other countries?

Perhaps not BMI but IQ ?

My children don’t have any eggs this year . They haven’t complained .

Perhaps not BMI but IQ ?

People's arrogance knows no bounds [laugh]

Any boasting is in poor taste. Ditch social media. It’s just boasting in disguise.

I'm hoping this lockdown/pandemic is going to teach people what is actually important in life, and the impact we are having environmentally, and all this materialistic and consumerist bollocks comes to an end.

For some people, ANY photo is "boasting". Fair enough, but why being on social media if you are just there to bitch about others? I just answer my own question didn't I!

@OlaEliza I unfortunately don’t think so - I think the first thing people will do when this all blows over is go on a massive consumerist frenzy.

It's naff. Same with photos of Christmas tress with a slurry of presents under them but why it it warrants an 'AIBU'?, a 'why no OP, you have exquisite taste'/ 'why yes OP, you're a MC mumsnetter' is beyond me.