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’d get one of these and be over the fucking moon. Simple times.

Easter celebrations have always been a thing, you don't have to do them all if you don't want to

I’m catholic and the children make Easter cards in school. As they do for most other non-religious celebrations. The end of lent is something to be celebrated but that ends the Thursday before Easter Sunday. The egg rolling is Easter Monday and we cook and decorate eggs on the day. Easter bonnets and Easter clothes seem a thing of the past now that we don’t attend chapel on the day, albeit my children did when younger. The commercialisation is new.

Does no one else roll decorated hard boiled eggs down a hill?

My DC have a father who tries to outdo me so showed up with giant "dinosaur" eggs for them this year. Bigger than their heads! I'll be doling out chocolate until Halloween. 🙄 I got them a moderate sized egg from Lidl and small eggs dotted about the garden because finding them is fun. We had a day out, some lunch, and a roast chicken at home later.

I do admit to putting a pic on social media, but it was of a small egg in a plant pot. Insta mum I am not! 😅

I remember doing egg hunts as a child, my df created a line of jelly beans behind the sofa but ants found those before we did....

I got about 3 eggs as a kid and that was it, but I always got a new dress for church too.

Absolutely hate bank holidays, why anyone wants to go where 2 million others are has always baffled me, then people say, oh the traffic was horrendous, never thinking that they are part of it, as for Easter, it’s the same as other B/holidays ghastly

Growing up in the 80’s mum used to paint a twig white and we would decorate it with flowers, ribbons and decorated egg shells.
I see my Easter tree as a lazy version of that. So not sure how new the Easter tree is.

Aside from that we just do an egg from is and DS usually gets eggs from other close family. Our church hides eggs around it for the kids to hunt after the service but we keep it all low key.

Instagram innit.
It’s a pernicious influence and when I’m a dictator it will be banned.🙂

@inmyslippers

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

Me too with the added Jones of lighter evenings. Plus l much prefer roast lamb tonight turkey. And making the kids hunt for clues rather than just being given their presents!

Added bonus not Jones!

Easter here same as when I was a kid. Church, chocolate eggs, family, roast, maybe a little gift for dc. Nothing fancy, clothes or books.

We had eggs at Easter but they had to be saved until after church. And a nice family dinner. No bunny, egg hunt, decorations, alternative gifts etc. Easter bonnet parades were a thing at schools sometimes. And getting dressed up in your best clothes for Easter Day. It was a day of joy and celebration after the solemnity of Good Friday and Holy Saturday, which were quiet and subdued. 1980s.

When people decided that it was their money and their children to do with what they wish🤷🏻‍♀️Honestly don't know why people get sooo wound up about what other people do.....

It does seem to get worse and worse every year - Halloween is another example. Think it's more out there now because of Social Media. We would certainly do Easter crafts when we were younger but it wouldn't be advertised!! Very odd really!

As a child we would still have got eggs from parents and grandparents and usually a new Easter outfit to have a special lunch with family (elevated roast dinner). Dad always said Easter was like Christmas without the stress and high expectations.

Easter celebrations, the bunny, chocolate eggs, decorating eggs was all around in my 70s and 80s childhood. This year I’ve done more than I would normally, as we missed a family Christmas again as we all had Covid. The dcs had Easter egg decorating and Easter bonnet competitions at school, my middle dc is fed and so can’t have chocolate eggs. Instead they each have an Easter gift bag with clothes - maybe 3 things they actually need for summer, a pair of pjs they also needed and a book. That’s kind of what they needed for summer sorted, but they think it was more of a present. Dd had some bubbles too, and the other 2 had 3 or 4 eggs from us plus an Easter egg hunt in the garden where you get a pack and that’s it, so they’re not big at all. We had the family and the turkey we should have had at Christmas, plus a starter and an Easter cake. I did decorate the table, and put up 2 garlands and a wreath. It didn’t look overdone, just fresh and springlike. Afterwards we just relaxed and played a game. It was actually really lovely, it felt like such a treat and a real celebration. I will reuse what I bought until they fall apart, so it wasn’t particularly extravagant just more thought and effort went in to trying to create something lovely, the kids are not allowed an Easter egg in the weekly shopping, they have to wait til Easter Day. No photos at all will go on social media. 😂

@Mrsmch123

When people decided that it was their money and their children to do with what they wish🤷🏻‍♀️Honestly don't know why people get sooo wound up about what other people do.....

People get wound t, because the increased spending out pressure in parents in particular, to spend more, do more etc.

When you're surrounded by Easter for 2 months leading up to the day at shops, and they're pushing water trees, wreaths, decorations, crafts, food egg hunts, chocolate, cards etc and then on Social Media, your friends and their kids are doing big egg hunts, piles if eggs, gifts etc

It sets the expectation that more more more is normal,and that somehow your kids might be missing out if the Water Bunny didn't bring them a dozen eggs to find, and 3 big eggs and a present etc

We always did Easter trees, crafts, Easter bonnets (I grew up in 80s/90s). I love Easter

@00100001 but that doesn't mean that people who want to do it should be judged on it. It's the whole Santa saga all over again about how Santa isn't ment to bring any expensive items....

Was I was born in 1990 and all our Easter’s were big occasions.
Family round for a big roast, gifts as well as Easter eggs, mum usually decorated too.

@videokilledtheradiostar1 my brothers brown Smarties mug that came with an Easter egg in the 80s is still going strong and hangs on the mug tree at my parents apart from when DB is round there drinking his tea out of it. My Creme Egg mug that came with an Easter egg three years ago developed crazing so had to be thrown out a few weeks ago.

@gluenotsoup
So, for your "small and not over done Easter."

You did;
5 presents for each kid (3 summer things, PJs and a book)
An Easter egg hunt
Bubbles/ 3-4 eggs
Decorated the table
Put up garlands and a wreath
Had a big meal
A special Easter cake

Sounds like Christmas to me...

I don’t do it but I can see why people are making the most of their freedom now after the worst 2 years in history!!! X

I am a child of the 80s and we definitely did easter egg hunts round the house/garden. The year my parents got divorced I got a record 9 eggs (think people felt sorry for us!) But apart from that, I agree OP. Decorating seems odd and giving gifts or cards isn't done in this house.

Like everyone else, I blame the rise of social media.