To celebrate or not to celebrate?

[EasterGrinch]

Does there come a time when you say no more to Easter? What if your kids are all over 18 and you hate the sugarfest but one of them still wants to do Easter? It's not like they only have chocolate one day a year. No grandchildren.

What do you mean by “to do Easter” ?

If you have reduced to occasion to a commercialised sugar fest, then yes definitely stop, but people of all sorts of beliefs and backgrounds use the occasion (or any occasion) to create family traditions and come together.

Eating together, walking together, visiting someone/somewhere together, etc.

It’s supposed to be a celebration of the greatest of sufferings leading to the biggest of rewards. Does that not inspire you in any way at all?

Compromising yourself as a family and celebrating success, etc.

easter at my place is an egg or egg type treat in the house/on display, could be as small as the trio of lindt bunnies.
mass.
nicer dinner meal with dessert.
the treat can be eaten any time but honestly it's just a few chocolate bits hardly a sugar high.
for me easter has spiritual significance and even without a treat i would still respect the day.

What does "doing easter" look like in your house? What are they expecting you do to?

We do an Easter egg hunt, and a roast dinner. DDs get one main egg (just DD1 at the moment actually, DD2 is only 11 months), plus some mini eggs from the Easter egg hunt.

It's not a big palaver, but I won't be doing an Easter egg hunt for them when they're over 18!

My kids (teens) have got one Easter egg each. I've also bought one for DH; he's bought one for me and we're in our fifties.

I think that for us, age doesn't come into it.

Not so much Easter but my mum died when I was 30 and every Xmas eve since we're adults she came downstairs with a Santa sack with all our Xmas gifts in and handed them out under the rpemise Santa left them for us. We didn't do the Easter bunny because we're not American and I grew up in the 90s but we still got Easter eggs I to adulthood. I too will do childish occasions for my kids until they're way too old and begging for mercy.

The Easter bunny is not an American thing, is it?!

I think it is but may be wrong,it's definitely not a northern Ireland in the 90s thing!

DC are all adults, each is getting a small egg just for the retro thrill of the mini-eggs being inside the chocolate egg!

Then I have dishes of bite sized eggs, and tiny bunnies to go on the dessert.

Easter bunny is definitely not just American - I can remember dressing up as one back in the 1970's. 🐰

Of course it isn’t. What a bizarre thing to say.

I would think it is a bit odd to simply drop a family occasion, and Easter is far more spiritual than commercial, meaning if you are not a Christian, then its is only a gift of a small sweet something and a nice meal. A nice thing to do together, and simple

I'm sure the COE wouldn't be a fan if we all just dropped Easter! For what it's worth I'm 30 and (besides the religious observances) we exchange small eggs with parents and tend to do an Easter lunch at one of the sides - either mine or PIL.

Doing Easter in our house is the kids get an egg each and I make a nice roast. I see no reason to stop this.

Easter is more important than Christmas to Christians. A bit ignorant.

Think of Easter as like Christmas but less stressful. Opportunity for a get together, a celebration meal, and perhaps an Easter treat of some sort. If they want an egg, get an egg. What are you not liking/ not wanting to do?

I've felt the same. Easter is just associated with a hugely traumatic time for me. Posters here do give good reasons to keep celebrating though. I do it for the kids. We did it at home this year but maybe next year I'll book a restaurant instead.

Mine are grown up-but I still do Father Christmas and the Easter Bunny. They humour me.