When did people start going so OTT for Easter?!

[WhackingPhoenix]

I’ve seen absolutely WILD posts on social media (and MN!) this year. Hundreds of eggs, lavish lunches and dinners, extravagant gifts and people generally spending ridiculous sums of money on Easter tat. Has this always been a thing? I had a chocolate egg as a kid and maybe a roast. That was it, surely that is the norm?

I'm 42 and we used to have big Easter celebrations when I was a kid. Church followed by a big roast lamb dinner, eggs from all of my aunties, uncles, godparents etc, decorated eggs.

My children are young teens, when they were small we did Easter egg hunts in the garden, but it was just a time filler. We made baskets decorated them, did eater displays etc. (not spending any money just crappy preschool art type stuff)

For the last few years we have done one egg, they get to choose it and love the tradition. (some years I eat them, then have to replace😳)

This year they calculated how much chocolate cost by weight an bought alternatives with the money 🤯😁

It's the fault of social media.

I like Easter, it's like Christmas without all the pressure. Thankfully not on social media to see all the one upmanship

@Lockheart

Eggs, cards, and good food for Easter have been a thing for a long long time, but Instagram and the ability of corporate pressure to convince us we need ever more crap which is just going to end up in landfill have a lot to answer for.

See: Easter wreaths on doors, Easter trees, Easter decorations, children getting actual presents for Easter (as though heaps of novelty chocolate are somehow not enough)... All of it is just more unnecessary consumption.

Oh shit. I forgot I have an Easter wreath on my door. It was just so pretty. The bloody Range has a lot to answer for.

Kardashian’s!!!!!
Did you see their instas- disgustingly spoilt children theyre creating!

It's completely for show. People will post a dozen photos of the ridiculous amount of eggs and gifts they got for their kids but I wonder how many of these parents actually spend any real time with their kids during Easter. People just want to look good and like they have more and do more than you.

We used to have six or seven eggs plus a mini egg trail. We’d get one from each set of grandparents plus parents and aunts and uncles. We’d go to stay with my gran and there would be a big family roast dinner then later massive buffet on Easter Sunday with lots of other relatives. That was 35 years ago. No presents though.

ha ha I saw those wreaths in the range. they were pretty.

I have a spring wreath, I made myself.

The more shit supermarkets sell, the more thick people will buy it. It's easier than cultivating a personality.

Erm surely its plain old fashioned capitalism? Create a demand for stuff then flogg said stuff to the #makingmemories crowd.

I'm the 80s child mentioned above with one egg and yay smarties and a roast that was isentical to all the other sunday roasts.

I think there's probably always been a degree of variance in how people celebrate, it's just that we're now more aware of it because of social media, and people see others ideas and want to adopt them.

Easter lunch with roast lamb was a thing when I was a child, although don't do it on now. We always did an eater egg hunt and used to get lots of eggs.

We’ve done an easter egg hunt and a nice lunch and tea since my children were small

They also get a book but my mum did that for me when i was young so 35/40 years ago

Oh i do decorate the heath and have an Easter tree as well

I had this conversation last night with DH. I'm
English and living in Scotland and was asking him if Easter was a much bigger deal in Scotland or something because over the last few years it seems to have gone a bit mental with people we know. I actually think it's not that, it's just that we have three young children so the people we know usually also have kids and what we are seeing is the same people who go nuts for the elf on the shelf and Christmas Eve boxes, just doing the same thing about Easter.

When I was young we got an egg and that was it, no big dressed up rabbit at the door, balloons, decorations and gifts. One friend hired a whole menagerie of eastery animals for a party! It definitely seems a bigger deal now and like Christmas, the religious significance has all but disappeared.

Oh yes, I actually do remember when there was chocolate inside the egg. Saved that bit of plastic didn’t it. Why don’t they do that any more?

Roast lamb dinner and a chocolate egg. That's us.... haven't seen anybody do any different to be honest, but we're old fogeys ...

I've worked most of the weekend, did our own egg hunt yesterday, went to a fair and had fish and chips on the seafront. No Easter bunny bringing gifts but mine got a couple of eggs each. Actually, must more low key than when I was a kid with a big family lunch, Easter bonnet and egg competitions at the pub, loads of eggs...kids enjoyed it though, and quite frankly I haven't got the time or the inclination to decorate trees etc

I went in Pets at Home today and there was a sign up saying they’re not selling rabbits over the Easter weekend. I was quite confused at first but then realised this must now be a thing.

My nan used to give me and my sister a little basket of gifts each Easter (nothing big - a new book, some crafty bits and maybe a little bracelet or similar) and that was about 20 years ago, I also got quite a lot of chocolate eggs from family too. I had an Easter party one year with my friends because I asked for it, we made chickens out of marzipan and painted some boiled eggs. I think it's whatever you grew up with as well as influence from social media and a desire to make up for the rotten past few years we have had. My children got a little more than just an egg, again nothing spectacular just a book, some bubbles and a tonie each. I didn't post anything on social media and I do in fact spend time with my children as well, it doesn't hurt anyone to treat children once in a while if that's what the parents want to do.

Always been a Thing for us as kids. Several families getting together in one house for a long weekend. Roast or bbq depending on weather and usually a ‘project’ - digging a pond or building a garage, so no egg hunts or pretend bunny visits, but maybe a day out and a few eggs, for sure.

We do the Easter bunny, because it’s how I bribed the DD to give up dummies, and because we still need to celebrate now the families have fragmented into their own extended family groups and we’re a bit left out, as it’s just the two of us. No one’s fault, just life, so we make it special in our own way. Wreaths, Easter flowers, treasure hunts and chocolate! Don’t care if other people think it OTT. They can do them, I’ll do us.

I always had loads of eggs as a child as extended family would all buy us one each. My Grandma would buy us Easter dresses and we would do an egg competition at school. So I don’t think is new but like everything else it is more commercialised.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers if the Kardashians bother you so much, why look on their Instagram?

When we were kids we used to get an Easter egg off relatives and parents and probably had at the most four each on the window sill. We also painted hard boiled eggs and rolled then down the hill. It was such a magical time.

I cant be arsed with the pressure of Easter egg hunts and all that bollox anymore, but I don’t need t9 be. I’ve done my stint. This is the first year I haven’t bought my adult children an egg. None of them have mentioned it, which goes to show they couldn’t care less either.

I do, and have done for about ten years, decorate some twigs with little eggs. I think it looks lovely.

Each to their own, no pressure, as far as I’m concerned. You make your own traditions and memories, just don’t make a rod for your own back.

I grew up in the 80s. Easter was primarily a religious festival but it was a really big important event.

We had chocolate eggs (often in novelty mugs) given to us by grandparents, uncles and aunts as well as parents.

We always went to church, wearing brand new clothes bought for Easter Sunday.

We always had a special assembly about the Easter story, made Easter cards and decorated Easter bonnets at school.

We always had a boiled eggs for breakfast, then a big extended family lunch of roast lamb, on Easter Sunday.

We always decorated the house with flowers.

We always dyed eggs and hung them on a branch inside.

There was no mention of the Easter bunny, and we didn’t have egg hunts.

We never did Easter as a child not really fussed about it to be honest. Christmas on the other hand !