To think it’s easter not christmas?

[backagainohdear]

What is going on with easter these days?
My social media is full of photos of piles of easter eggs, toys & clothes!
Mine got one each (well a tub of haribo for one as he doesn’t like easter eggs.)
AIBU to think people go over the top in some weird bid to show off?

We did often get a new outfit for Easter as kids (80s), it would be worn to church Easter Sunday then be your “smart/party outfit” the rest of spring/summer

I do agree like everything Easter is too commercialised these days though

It's commercialised because people want to spend money on things! No one is forced to. Companies only produce what people want to buy.

Opened this expecting it to be about the weather. Heavy snow in Glasgow today! Happy Easter.

The whole year is getting like this now, practically every month has an event that is hyped, promoted and monetised.

The Spending Calendar:
January, the sales (though these are now much more frequent),

Febuary, Valentines Day
March Mothering Sunday/Mother's day and the build up to Easter
April Easter
May The month with two bank holidays

June Father's Day
July Schools break up and the summer holidays beckon. July sales kick off
August Peak holiday time
September Back to school and Halloween stuff starts to appear in the shops
October Halloween and the build up to Christmas starts
November Bonfire night and Christmas build up intensifies
December Christmas takes over and is everywhere, there is a brief respite after December 27 but then the build up to New Year's Eve gathers momentum.

DH got Easter books as child. I was visited by the Easter bunny. Family who visited for lunch after church brought chocolate eggs.

Our kids get a book and a chocolate egg. They were both thrilled with their books and sat in our bed reading them. They are teens and had they consented to photos on FB, I would have taken photos of their faces - utterly delighted with new books.

Well that’s not true is it? Did you want to buy an iPhone before they were invented?

Life is relentlessly grim. If people want to celebrate and exchange gifts, any excuse, I say.

The pagan festival of Easter would see people decorate their homes with flowers and candles, exchange candles as gifts, paint eggs, make spiced hot cross buns and gather for dancing and feasts. Sounds like the basis for a mini Christmas to me.

That said, I don’t. We do have more than one egg each though. The gluttony!

WTF is a boo box? Is it the same as a Christmas Eve box. Well like the Christmas Eve box won't be doing that

edited to make sense

I'm early 40s and we always got pyjamas and a small gift along with our eggs, when we got to the teen years it changed to a cd and a couple of eggs

What on earth has that got to do with anything? I wouldn't have wanted a dishwasher before they were invested but I wouldn't be without one now.

Celebrating events and festivals is a key part of family and cultural life. What would people do if they didn’t have celebrations? Just work all the time?

so… then they’re not making them because customers demand them. They’re creating the demand by offering them for sale. Basic marketing

Isn’t it really bloody obvious from the name what a boo box is?!

You do realise that isn't true, right? Sales and marketing, advertising, getting more spend per head is a very real thing. Credit, things like karma, buy now, pay in 6 months, all of those are there to encourage people to spend more than they have on stuff they didn't know thwy want, let alone need.

Me! Easter outfit, pyjamas, cuddly toy and chocolate and not a single picture on social media. It’s just fun for us to get excited and celebrate.

It's utterly relentless isn't it? It wasn't like this when I was a child. You could enjoy each event properly without the next being thrust upon you.

Derailing the thread here but what happened to Harvest Festival? As a child we used to take a tin or something into school but that seems to have disappeared

Quite like Easter, means that hopefully better weather is on the way, though as I type this I am looking at a grey sky that is heavy with rain and the wind is howling. I get a big bunch of tulips, chocolates and do a roast lamb lunch with apple pie and cream for pudding . In the afternoon we will watch a film and scoff hot cross buns. Feels much more easy going than Christmas

What the hell is a boo box?! 😂

I used to get new clothes for Easter from my nan as she always said that the birds would poo on you if you didn't, weird but I always got my two new clothes just incase. 🤣🤣

4 kids at ours ranging from 12-18 years old

We do one ‘large’ egg and a small chocolate treat extra each. 4 kids. Roughly £6 per child. Never have any complaints!! Plus they get extra bits from granny etc

Although I’ve always done this with my 2 - DP used to buy his kids at least 6 large eggs EACH when we first met, plus they still got extra from his side of the family. Completely unnecessary

😂😂

They don't force people to buy them at gunpoint! People buy them because they are a great product.

Some people would prefer we still lived in caves.

Of course you can.
However if you invite everyone in via social media, people will respond. I’m guessing private thoughts ( as aired on here) rather than “ stop showing off Amanda” though

There’s never been a time when everyone (or even everyone of the subset of people who celebrate Easter) did so in exactly the same way.

I agree with concerns about commercialisation etc, I do think people can feel pressured now and we all have far too much stuff. But I really don’t see the harm of celebrating or making a fuss of different occasions - be it Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s or the dreaded Halloween. Competitive grinchiness is the order of the day on mumsnet where nobody over the age of 12 is allowed to celebrate birthdays and god forbid anyone do anything other than go to Church and give a handmade card on Mother’s Day.

I’m an older mum to a young child, I was born at the end of the 70s and pretty much every single thing that is repeatedly declared to have never been ‘a thing’ in the past on here was absolutely a thing when I was growing up. We got new pjs on Christmas Eve, we had heard of the Easter bunny and although my parents didn’t make much of that others did, we went trick or treating and we bought gifts for Morhers/ Father’s Day etc. I remember getting multiple eggs at Easter, new clothes (though more just a case of new summer stuff) and additional presents including one year a Jason Donovan VHS which my sister and I were just laughing remembering the other day.

Other people celebrating differently to you aren’t doing it wrong. Ive had to remind myself of that fact because I was a bit shocked by the amount of replies on the ‘what did you get your kids for Easter’ thread being ‘nothing’ or ‘one small chocolate egg, and that only grudgingly’.

My DD had quite a few eggs/ treats plus a couple of smaller things and we also have decorations up - same ones every year and mostly it’s stuff that DD has made or those paint your own bunny type things etc. I like marking the different occasions and it makes DD so happy to put the different decorations up. I don’t think it’s ‘ridiculous’, I don’t care what other people do and none of it goes on social media.

Lol my DC have one large chocolate egg to share between the two of them plus a few mini Lindt bunnies for the whole family (after they have been used as table decor).
We do dye hard boiled eggs though, and pick flowers to do garlands also as table decor.
So far they haven't complained…