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Socialist vs Capitalist Easter Egg Hunts

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Confrontayshunme · 09/04/2023 20:01

Growing up, my experience was a free-for-all where you got however many eggs you could find before they were all in baskets and gone. Tiny children got a few and older kids got more generally.

My DH's family hide all the eggs then have an elaborate system of division where everyone gets the same- from 2 year olds to teenagers.

Decide the debate once and for all: Which one is best?

YABU - Socialist "No, you already have a Malteaser Bunny so Give Your Brother That One" Egg Hunts

YANBU - Capitalist "You Get What You Get And Maybe Next Year You Will Be Better at Finding Them" Egg Hunts

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AnneWhittle · 10/04/2023 12:26

very pleasing to read of the popularity of socialist egg hunts, I thought it was just us

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 10/04/2023 13:12

thespy · 09/04/2023 23:23

I've always made them divvy it up (otherwise eldest would have loads and the others would barely have any) and then I've taken half of it and hidden it because no one needs that much chocolate, and none but my youngest can pace themselves. Anyway - why buy so much? Because it would be a rubbish hunt if they found the amount of eggs I think they should have 😂. I like the colour coded idea - but we are coming to the end of the hunts so it's too late for that now!

Buy the small foil wrapped chocolate eggs so you don't need vast quantities of chocolate and can be more cunning in your hiding places!!!

The ones the size of a mini egg are fiendish to find, make sure you count how many you hide so they all get found! If you don't you'll find one hidden on top of a door frame in December.

GreenWhiteViolet · 10/04/2023 13:29

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 09/04/2023 23:17

We used to have a colour each, so I would be looking for blue eggs and my sister silver or similar. The competition was in finding yours first so we didn't tell the other if we saw their egg.

Our parents made the older sibling's eggs a little harder to find.

Equity over equality

This is exactly what we did, except with names written on the packaging instead of colours. Eggs we'd been given by relatives and had already seen would be hidden as well - the idea was that the eggs were our Easter gifts, and the 'hunt' was just a fun activity. Parents used to hide a couple for each other to find, too!

gerbilcrocus · 11/04/2023 06:31

sst1234 · 09/04/2023 23:29

‘Everyone’s a winner’ seeping into every aspect of life. Because we mustn’t upset the children, won’t somebody think of the children.

It would be cute, if it wasn’t so pathetic.

Too right! It's utterly pathetic that parents don't make Easter Egg hunts a hard-nosed life lesson on this dog-eat-dog world we live in.

So what if your 4 year old finds no eggs whilst your 10 year old cleans up and scoffs them in front of her crying face? It will sharpen her competitive edge and toughen her up for the real world.

She may be crying now, but she'll be the one laughing in others' faces in years to come as the losers in life sob their pathetic hearts out because they weren't brutal enough to win at all costs.

gerbilcrocus · 11/04/2023 06:34

7Worfs · 09/04/2023 22:00

I lived through actual socialism and it’s this - the children are told there is a five year waiting list for chocolate eggs.

The parents secretly eat chocolate eggs every night of the year.

😂 - brilliant!

Tirnanogg · 11/04/2023 06:59

At the Easter egg hunt I went to on the weekend, there was a general free-for-all at the start, and then the older children (11 year olds) wandered around throwing their own eggs in places they thought the littler ones were about to go. One spotted that I didn't have anything and hid one in my hood. It was absolutely lovely.

SneakAttackDamage · 11/04/2023 07:24

Find the bags with your initials. Everyone gets the same number of eggs, the winner is the one who finds all theirs first.

Nanaof1 · 11/04/2023 08:20

Mylobsterteapot · 09/04/2023 20:08

I hide different colour resuable plastic eggs filled with sweets/chocolate. Then each child looks for alloacted colours.

That's how we did it. I had two children and one would look for pink and green and the other blue and yellow. There might be a couple of purple or "strange" eggs and those were for whoever found them.
Of course, it would be next to impossible if you had many children participating, though I did know a grandma who had a big hunt, and they would be numbered with 1 or 2 or 3 etc. and those are the eggs you got to hunt for and pick up.

SkankingWombat · 11/04/2023 08:21

Socialist hunt here.
I hid even numbers of each colour egg/bunny, then DCs were told they needed to find 2 red, 3 green, and 3 yellow each. We also have the rule that if you have found all of your share of a particular colour but spot another on your travels, you keep your mouth shut about it unless your sibling has asked for help/clues.

Hoppinggreen · 11/04/2023 08:23

Mine are teens but we still do an Easter egg hunt, we had some of their friends here on Sunday so 6 teens doing it. They enthusiastically joined in, although they refused to wear bunny ears .
I hid an assortment of things in a number divisible by 6 and they had to bring everything to me and we divided it up fairly, they all seemed happy with that

Nanaof1 · 11/04/2023 08:38

Well, when my brother and I were young, the hidden goodies around the house were hard-boiled dyed eggs and our baskets. My Mom learned the hard way to write down each exact location. LOL! My brother and I were 10 and 12 years older than our little sister so by the time she enjoyed egg hunting, we just made it a game of helping her. The important thing was finding all the eggs. 😄

After a couple of Easters, I went to the plastic eggs for my DD and DS. Some would have candy, some would have a little toy, some would have money and some would have "notes" with such things as: a trip to DQ, renting a movie they wanted, a book at the store, a hug, a kiss, a cuddle, a sleepout on the pull out sofa and silly ones like, "The holder of this egg gets nothing at all", "This is good for one grounding" "Good for no dessert on the night of your choice", "A spanking when you choose". Funnily enough, those were never redeemed but the first ones always were and much loved. My DD now does the same with her DD.

Yes, I hid a LOT of eggs.....(and still wrote down all the locations)

Nanaof1 · 11/04/2023 08:43

Elsanore · 09/04/2023 20:51

My poor MIL did an egg hunt for DD and grandad. Of 12 eggs, DD found 7, grandad found 4 and poor MIL is driving herself demented searching the garden for the last one. She can't remember where she hid it (on Friday- still looking).

Did you read on another thread about the fox getting all the chocolate eggs this morning in someone's garden?? Maybe the capitalist egg hunters can sound the bugle and summon the hounds to chase it away.

My friend went outside and found a few plastic eggs "nibbled" open via squirrels and foil wrappers hitter and yon. I wanted to convince her that the little foil eggs grew into chickens, pecked their way out and shed their foil skin, but I don't think she bought that.

Snugglemonkey · 11/04/2023 08:49

We have colour coded eggs. Hunt for your own colour. My son was happy to collect eggs to help his wee sister, but knew the contents were for her.

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