AIBU to find 'Easter trees' ridiculous?

[WaltzesWithSnobs]

I'm already annoyed at the general melding of traditional holiday themes, eg Easter crackers, Halloween wreaths etc. Yes it is precisely none of my business and people can decorate or pull crackers however they wish but I have lots of irrelevant opinions.

But Easter trees? Easter trees have tipped me over the edge into proper Grumpy Old Women territory. Now (an important distinction) if the 'tree' is the shrubbery type then that's fine. But NOT an evergreen tree. That's nonsense!!

Evergreen trees are very well suited to Christmas because they are a symbol of life and hope when most trees are empty and bare. Makes no sense then to use them for a springtime celebration. Easter time is time to celebrate new life; lambs chicks, flowers budding and trees growing new leaves. An evergreen tree does not symbolise these things.

YABU: it's just a decoration, fuck off and mind your own business
or
YANBU: Evergreen trees have no place in Easter decorations

Rant over. Thanks for reading. I'm off to have a herbal tea to calm down. 🍵

@FatCatThinCat

7 year old DS's traditional Swedish easter decoration. I think it looks lovely. Tomorrow it will look like it's been murdered by a cat.

That is absolutely gorgeous. I want to make one now. Love the colours and the feathers.

@FatCatThinCat Glad pask to a fellow Swede! I love your paskris!

Adding our second one made by ds1 today. He did go abit bananas on the eggs. Def a more is more kinda kid. As we prepare for the second Easter in lockdown and Miss family we haven’t seen for nearly 2 years due to covid I genuinely don’t see the harm in trying to lift everyone’s spirits. I’ve found this year more than ever that it’s important to separate the days from one another, to look for the silver linings where ever you can find them. To, that is not ridiculous in the slightest but absolutely essential for my sanity and well-being. Not the Easter tree in itself, but what it represents to me. For me it’s a part of my heritage, culture and norms. It’s memories from a happier times when we were able to celebrate and be with family.

What @LyingWitchInTheWardrobe said 100%

Mine is up too🐣

I should start doing an Easter tree. We always did a children, we spent Easter in France with family and it was normal. We would find an obliging tree in blossom and cut a small branch then decorate with dyed eggs etc. Happy times.

[quote Lndnmummy]@FatCatThinCat Glad pask to a fellow Swede! I love your paskris![/quote]
Detsamma. Thankfully it is still standing as the cat is more interested in sitting in the fruit bowl so he can spy on the builders next door.

I never get why people let things like this bother them

I mean it isn’t hurting them or anyone else..so why kick up a fuss?

I have never heard of an Easter Tree.

I mean it isn’t hurting them or anyone else..so why kick up a fuss?

Because misery loves company

I decorate a few twigs for Easter. As a child I was gifted an set of Easter Egg decorations from a lovely elderly Dutch couple who visited a former neighbour of mine for Easter. This was about 30 + years ago. Apparently it was very common in the village where they lived.

I have had an Easter tree for years- never an evergreen.
Always some branches about to burst into life. Willow, catkins, forsythia, apple, usually taken from my own garden. I decorate with paper mache eggs. The foliage springs into life over the Easter period.
I learned of the tradition from a German friend many decades ago.
It is an old tradition there, they decorate trees in the garden too.
I can;t see the harm and my children have always loved it.

I am starting to think the only place which doesn't do this in Europe is UK😳

An Easter tree seems a bit too much effort to me. Mind you, come the Spring, I do like to decorate my pampas grass with a few tasteful dildos.

Popular in Scandic countries too.

DS(6) is working on this year's tree as I type this.

TheYearOfSmallThings

Fantastic!! .

I want to know where people find white chickens eggs to paint, because all mine are brown. Have not seen a white egg for sale here (UK) in years. My German friend was intrigued when visiting me because German eggs are generally white.

@FangsForTheMemory foreign supermarkets usually have them. Or Eastern European shops.
Btw tesco has slightly blue ones if you want to save job coloutlring them 😂

Those might well be duck eggs!

Nooo😁 It's Auracana eggs. Very tasty as well!

Duck eggs are lush. Now I want some

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/277393000

I grew up in Norway, love a good Easter tree...but twigs and eggs, not a Christmas tree....but then in the covid world, I don’t care, whatever makes people happy!

We have flowers and branches in the house (left over from Ostara, but still...). The coming of spring is a thing worth celebrating.

@FangsForTheMemory Asda do white eggs, they're much cheaper than brown ones too.

@FangsForTheMemory

I want to know where people find white chickens eggs to paint, because all mine are brown. Have not seen a white egg for sale here (UK) in years. My German friend was intrigued when visiting me because German eggs are generally white.

Morrison’s and Tesco sell Big and Free white free range eggs. They were slightly more expensive than normal free range but I got them for decorating.

Aldi and Waitrose also sell pale blue eggs, or alternatively duck eggs are usually white as well as being a bit bigger.