AIBU not to do an Easter Egg Hunt for DC?

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AIBU to think that, no I really can't do an Easter egg hunt for DC? Full disclosure, they are 18, 20, 21 and 23 but still asking for one

Easter egg hunts when they were young were really fun as they are close in age and liked competition (they inherited that from us, as DH and I are both far too competitive, we actually can't play Trivial Pursuit together anymore without threats of divorce I'm not even going to mention The Monopoly Incident in lock down when everyone else was merrily playing board games like normal people.

As DC became teenagers we hid a tenner in a plastic egg each and they had to find them. It was fun. Now though, a couple of them actually have more disposable income than us and we subsidise the others anyway, so it seems a bit daft. I did have the idea of getting a physical UberEats gift card and hiding them but can't go out to get the cards anyway. Plus, they are ADULTS. I definitely can't hide them in the garden like we used to, the neighbours may witness us

We are actually all together this Easter which is lovely, I think a boyfriend may also be also coming (TBC) but surely he would think I'm a bit of a knob doing a hunt for adults? Plus would I have to include him in the hunt? That could be awkward for all parties .

So MNers, AIBU not to do one? I've got them all an egg of course. Shit, just realised I haven't got one for BF. Fuck.

🤣 I don't think you are being unreasonable. My kids are 17, 12, 9 and 6 so I did a mini egg hunt in the house this morning and am setting up a clue hunt tomorrow... BUT my 17 year old looked at me like I was nuts when I said go find some eggs. He just wondered around until the kids had found their quota and then picked up what was left with a sort of well its free chocolate shrug bur definitely didn't really wany to hunt them!

I don't mean to be rude to any religious people here with the willy drawing on the egg. Just realised it could come across very badly!

We are actually a multi cultural (albeit not religious) household here, the DC that drink alcohol will have mini wine bottles for Passover and non drinkers will get a nice candle!

Just hide the Easter egg you’ve got for them. Fastest to find their egg is the champ.

Maybe do an adult Easter themed game of some sort.

Right I've just looked at the chocolate and I have Lindt ball things in four different colours (handy!) so I could do Egg Bingo eg

Red egg gets breakfast in bed with their choice of food
Yellow egg gets to choose the takeaway

Brown egg gets to choose the film
Black egg gets a shower/bath with unlimited time (this will probably be the one they all want!)

Or something like that...

I could include the cats, eg one gets pack of yellow dreamies, one gets green dreamies, one gets lick e lix etc...

Oh man I'm going home tomorrow. I'm really hoping my mum does one for me and I'm 49.

I still do an Easter egg hunt every year for my DCs (and their partners ) who are now in their mid 30s. I use little chocolate eggs and we do it outside. I make it difficult and it can take an hour with everyone getting very competitive. I wouldn't do it if they didn't ask me to, but they still get a lot of amusement from it. My grandchildren are still too young to take part properly but I imagine the focus will switch to them in a year or two - although I would not be surprised if my DCs continue to compete energetically as well.

Yes, our neighbours probably do think we are mad but no one cares.

I went to a child-free Easter wedding. All the 100 or so adults present enthusiastically participated in the Easter Egg hunt (and this was before any had the chance for serious drinking). So I don’t think you’re in any danger of people thinking you’re daft.

It’s surprising too how many adults get Christmas stockings.

Ha ha. 15 and 20 ds's still excited that I have today offered to do a massive one, many bags of mini eggs hidden downstairs, upstairs and in the garden. Tomorrow.

Good point re Christmas, they do always get a personalised advent calendar (in that I fill the little pockets with treats individually) and stockings!

They also get tealights/nice candles and lots of doughnuts for Hanukkah, so actually they do really well

You can see why it's hard work keeping all these traditions up! I do love the traditions/rituals but I also like to give spontaneous little (not hugely expensive) gifts at various points eg a new nail Polish I think DD will like, or McDonald's breakfast muffin etc. Just because

Kind of off topic, but I always marvel at those threads where people ask for birthday present ideas for other people to give them as they "don't want or need anything". I always think they must be wealthy as God knows I have a long list of lots of items I would love! Or experiences like meals (or the famous spa day) before I get accused of being materialistic! I can't imagine not being able to think of a single thing I would like.

Oh yes, I still do Christmas stockings for my DCs in their mid 30s as well. A few years ago they started doing a stocking for me too. A really lovely surprise.

I did one today, for ds2, largely helped by ds1. We hid mini eggs round the house, front garden and back garden. It was good. We've always done it and ds2 still likes it mini eggs!

YABU

We no longer do egg hunts but every Easter we have a themed competition (another competitive family here). We've had: Easter cake competition; Easter miniature garden competition; Easter raft competition (we live near a pond); Easter dressing up; 'which came first, the chicken or the egg' competition; Easter creative writing competition etc...

Often my SIL declines to join in and is the judge.

Oh and there are always little yellow chickens hidden everywhere in the house - they mysteriously get into people's bags, or appear under the toilet seat, or in the fridge...

And the year we did 'design an Easter game'. My adult dd and her bf had chalked a chicken on the wall of our house, had us blindfolded, spun around and throwing eggs at our own house to try and hit the chicken!

I'm liking the Easter egg bingo though - that's one for next year!

We are a family group with ages ranging from 18 to 91. An Easter egg hunt is a massively important part of the festivities for all of us! Ignore your neighbours, they will probably be wishing you invited them too 😀🐰🐰🐰🐰

Thank you for all replies! I thought I would update to say no egg hunts yet as our Easter has been delayed as arrival of one DC has been delayed.

I think you will all admire my heroic sacrifice in saving four Lindt balls in different colours, as I really really wanted to finish them. Especially the white chocolate one.

Matters are further complicated (or simplified?) as I am now stuck in bed due to an injury involving stairs So Easter Bingo Pick will take place in my bedroom. I will have to adjust the movie night reward as I don't think all six of us will fit in my bed together plus the cats would be really pissed off as they have their set positions on the bed and obviously they take priority! So I will have individual movie nights with the DCs, which will be nice, especially for the ones who live away from home. The BF isn't coming which is good as DD and I can hopefully now discuss the fact he's actually a bit of a knob and I don't have to save him a Lindt ball .

They’re grown ups, so are you. Tell them you want an Easter egg hunt organised for you.

And obviously the neighbours won't be joining me in bed either!

I wouldn't invite them into my garden anyway as I fucking hate them and the smell of dogshit from their poor untrained and unwalked dog wafts into my garden as they never ever pick it up. (And RSPCA aren't arsed as he has access to food and a paved garden). He is bored as hell and barks constantly all day, not his fault but also makes our lives hell.