Were Christmas Eve boxes not enough?!

[AnnLouiseB]

I’ve just seen these advertised on Facebook. Is this a thing now? Must we have a cutesy box for every single calendar event? Where are people keeping these crates as they endlessly accumulate?

@AnnLouiseB

These are for Easter, so on the main event. These are to Christmas what a Santa Sack/Stocking is.

I guess this is what I find odd - I don’t recall Easter ever being an occasion for gifts etc. We would always have a big family lunch and Easter eggs with an Easter egg hunt at home, but the idea of a box of gifts is totally alien to me. Prepared to be told that I’m in the minority with that though!

I'm 45 and have known people do this for ages.

The main thing is not to follow it or you'll be broke!

but haven't people (some people) always done Easter Baskets? how is the different? I like them.

When I was a kid - in the deep dark early 60's! - Easter Eve (now even I KNOW that is not a real thing) stands out as the most exciting one of the whole year. We would lie in bed and hear the front door going over and over, as relatives delivered chocolate Easter eggs for us all. Being a wee fat greedy bugger, it made me unable to sleep with excitement.

At least the other wee gifts are not all chocolate.

I like the thought of these and usually make our children Easter bags but these are £30.00 each! With three kids that £90.00 before you’ve even filled them!!

Same

I love them! I do little baskets and always have done, but these are especially good because you can reuse the boxes afterwards and are useful. Baskets tend to end up in the pantry.

Thank god Xmas Eve boxes weren't invented when my kids were little .. of these !! Easter egg hunts are good though !!!

We always do an easter egg hunt in the garden bit that's about it. Mine are too old to start doing Easter boxes now. (Although sure they'd like them!). One year I did sticky easter bunny footprints on the floor which ended up being impossible to remove 😲. Ended up carpeting over them a couple years later. They are probably still there lol.

I sell an Easter box with a lid for parents to put chocolate eggs in, not as expensive as those, for £30 we also include Easter craft shapes, and the boxes are engraved with the child’s name and can then be used as a craft box storage, so I do feel like those are particularly expensive.
I think especially this year people want to make a big deal out of all occasions as there’s just not much else to do, and it’s a big deal for younger kids

I never had an easter box when I was growing up in tge 50s/60s and I never had Christmas eve boxes either. It's just a way of getting money out of people and is a great strain for those who can't afford it. Christmas eve boxes especially annoy me; aren't kids spoilt enough the following morning?

Hear, hear!

It's just a gift box. I don't see the issue.

Isn't Easter something to do with Jesus?

@Alicatz66

Thank god Xmas Eve boxes weren't invented when my kids were little .. of these !! Easter egg hunts are good though !!!

When where your kids little? Because loads of posters had similar growing up!

More shit to add to the growing environment waste mountain, just another way to get people to waste money. I don’t do a Christmas Eve box and I won’t be doing this.

They are cute and something a bit more exciting than the usual covid drudgery but we never had Xmas eve boxes growing up.

Nothing new at all, I’ve made up little baskets of crafts, egg, clothes etc for Easter for my kids for years now. It’s nothing expensive and gets used over the Easter holidays so generally stuff they’d get but stuffed in a basket that gets reused every year.

I was born in Germany where Easter is better a bigger deal than it is here. We'd find 'Easter Baskets' outside our bedroom doors on Easter Sunday morning. They were shallow wicker baskets lined with fabric and filled with colourful shredded tissue paper, with lovely little gifts on top. Not really toys but things like shaped candles, egg cups, fancy soap, vegetable seeds to plant in the garden, beautifully painted wooden eggs that separated into 2 with sweets or something inside, and one or 2 small Easter themed toys like wind up hopping rabbits or fluffy chicks, and quite a few chocolate eggs. The Easter Bunny had hidden eggs around the house too, but the basket was the first thing you'd find in the morning.

Having said that I don't like the version in your OP. They're a lot cruder and tackier than what we had as children.

I’ve never done Christmas Eve boxes but have done an Easter basket type thing. DD is 12 now & getting too sophisticated ( so she tries to persuade us!) but has asked for a particular egg & we’ll probably do a hunt in the back garden.

@AnnLouiseB

These are for Easter, so on the main event. These are to Christmas what a Santa Sack/Stocking is.

I guess this is what I find odd - I don’t recall Easter ever being an occasion for gifts etc. We would always have a big family lunch and Easter eggs with an Easter egg hunt at home, but the idea of a box of gifts is totally alien to me. Prepared to be told that I’m in the minority with that though!

Yes, Easter to us was (still to me) is Church, Easter eggs and a special family meal. Everything is all about consumerism nowadaysbwuth people not even clear what they're even celebrating.

Just more tat..

I've never seen them and didn't know they were a thing. Look quite cute but wouldn't bother myself. I prefer an Easter egg hunt with a little basket to collect them in.

Just saw , contents not included...crates alone ..£30!

@FurrySlipperBoots

I was born in Germany where Easter is better a bigger deal than it is here. We'd find 'Easter Baskets' outside our bedroom doors on Easter Sunday morning. They were shallow wicker baskets lined with fabric and filled with colourful shredded tissue paper, with lovely little gifts on top. Not really toys but things like shaped candles, egg cups, fancy soap, vegetable seeds to plant in the garden, beautifully painted wooden eggs that separated into 2 with sweets or something inside, and one or 2 small Easter themed toys like wind up hopping rabbits or fluffy chicks, and quite a few chocolate eggs. The Easter Bunny had hidden eggs around the house too, but the basket was the first thing you'd find in the morning.

Having said that I don't like the version in your OP. They're a lot cruder and tackier than what we had as children.

This is similar to what we had.

Obviously the British (English?) do it scaled back.

There’s another thread on here at the moment about how posters can’t seem to wrap their heads around the fact that people do things differently outside of England, and that people actually exist outside of England...the many, many posters ignoring those of us who’ve said that it’s not “new” makes that point quite well, clearly!

We’ve got these ones, with some wooden craft bits in, I think they are just a nice way to put some Easter treats in on Easter Morning, and reusable

I'm making one for my daughter.... because I think they are so pretty. £4 box from the works, some stickers and voila! It's just the same as an Easter basket which I had as a child and I am 45.