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?

There’s so many saying they got new clothes at Easter as children, followed by posters certain it’s just for social media. Perhaps, just perhaps, there might be traditions in other families you aren’t aware of because your family/community didn’t follow them?

”Easter bonnets” were a traditional thing, because having something new and fancy to wear for Easter was a long tradition in the UK.

Also as a child, I’d get an egg from my parents, one from each set of grandparents and one from each of my aunts/uncles. Usually my godmother would send one too. So I’d usually get 6-7 eggs. If 2 or 3 children are getting that many eggs, that’s going to look like a huge pile. In the 80s/90s this wasn’t unusual, those with big families got massive piles of chocolate.

I've only read the OP's posts, but yes, new clothes for Easter were a feature of my Catholic childhood. Indeed, the superstition was that if you didn't wear something new for Easter, the crows would shit on you.
Back then, in the 60s, clothes weren't bought with the frequency they are these days, or they weren't in my low-income family.
Easter eggs? One each, a Smarties one.

If you live near country see lambs, rabbits. Or go to a farm or city farm to see them.

Why are people so negative about everything?
It's pathetic

What waste? We got 3 new outfits in winter and 3 new outfits for summer. Not as well as 15 new outfits. They were new clothes and were needed them? Also the Easter eggs literally cage from family and friends. I’m from a huge family and my nan was 1 of 13. That’s a lot of cousins and we all swapped eggs, that’s hardly unusual. And you do know I was a CHILD and couldn’t do anything about the “waste and consumerism” apart from wear the clothes until I outgrew them and eat the chocolate 🤷🏼‍♀️😂🫠. None of it was wasted. Don’t be ridiculous. I swear to God the pearl clutching analogy retentive competitive snobbery on here is totally bizarre. Tempted to go buy my grand babies 6 outfits each, an Oompa Loompa and an entire chocolate factory just to push you over the edge 😂

It takes the same amount of time to hide eggs as it does to unload a dishwasher. "Do it all"...come on.

yes! My family was huge and we all swapped eggs. And we got new clothes, every kid in the family got new clothes. Just the way it was.

My social media is just all adverts now so I’ve no idea what any other children have got!

Two major themes of our age - over consumerism and people getting into debt to try to keep up, and poorly behaved spoilt kids. Wonder if they might be linked

Treating kids doesn’t need to be about piles of stuff.

You do understand why Easter moves, don't you?

It has as much to do with Christ's death, resurrection and ascension as it does with presents - because someone along the way has decided it has.

Have you been living under a rock for the past 20+ Christmases and Easter's, and Hallowe'ens and Mothers Days 😂 that's what social media is there for, to brag about how much people are giving their kids and what a perfect little family they are. Hence why I haven't had SM for the past 20+ years, it's tedious and synthetic tripe.

My DM and stepdad were/are very arty/craft-y. The bonnet wasn’t an art gallery masterpiece but I had to make it myself.

My 4 year old got a Lindt bunny, some stickers and a play cloth with an Easter scene on it from us, a kinder egg and craft bits in a felt basket from my mum and a small buttons egg from a party she went to. We aren’t doing a hunt as the labrador would likely find them all first 😂 but we are going to make mini egg nests later. I only know one person who does the huge Easter basket thing you see online (she does all of it, boo boxes, advent boxes for Dec 1, Christmas Eve boxes and god knows what else).

I had forgotten I always got a new dress at Easter! I didn’t go to church but did have an Irish Catholic granny. 🥰

I normally get mine a plushie that's Easter themed to avoid disappointment

I’m not seeing anything Easter-y on social media. 🤷🏻‍♀️ We had an egg hunt and everyone got one main chocolate egg. Then they’re being subjected to a forced march to the pub with the dog for lunch and a sea swim after. No plastic tat or new outfits here or amongst any friends as far as I can see.

Life’s hard enough, why not celebrate the small things if that’s what you want to do? having small children goes so quickly if people want to be ott, so what, who are they hurting? For the record my children got Bought about 8 eggs each from family and friends, they have enough chocolate, so yes I’ve bought them a toy each. Nothing on social media either 🤷🏻‍♀️

When big enough to understand my youngsters were asked to checkout our chicken’s nest boxes, where they’d find a pretty easter egg. Actually a false egg in decorative shiny decorative wrappings, which they’d bring in to swap for a clean shop bought version. Very sweet delighted faces looking into nest boxes seeing unexpected surprises, could never reproduce that onto whatsapp!

Same! We always got a new dress for Easter Mass & I remember getting a straw hat too when I was about 5. Never got toys though & never bought my DC toys , just sone easter eggs.

Makes me sad. Easter is my fave holiday and always has been, much nicer than Christmas.

It’s such a lovely time of year and you can do so many low cost activities with children outdoors now it’s spring, there’s the bank holiday for family time and yet - it’s been commercialised.

It amazes me in a cost of living crisis people are buying all this rubbish too. Easter baskets are the new thing and such an awful American import.

YANBU. People being social media attention seekers.

😭😭😭 I can't find my rabbit ears headband.

I'm assuming this is a joke, pardoying the misersble tone of many of these posts?

Nothing that poster listed is a waste at all! You think a bike or scooter is a waste? Bubble bath? Clothes?

Most children need bikes sand clothes fairly frequently and who doesn't need bubble bath?

Yeah I'm 55 and we always got clothes at Easter. It was always a bigger celebration than Christmas. Two weeks off school rather than one and maybe 10 or more eggs each. Only difference is no social media so it was just family.

Not religious, but we always got a new outfit for Easter. Most of my friends were not from religious families and they always got new outfits too. Usually something that was for spring/summer. We always got eggs and novelty chocolates.

That’s a Scottish, working class, 90s childhood.

I really don’t understand why so many people who clearly hate the social side of social media insist on using it and following friends/family rather than just celebrities/news outlets - if you don’t want updates from friends and family members’ lives, why bother following them?

If you will view any post about things family and friends have done, days out, birthday/christmas/easter posts, parties etc as boasting and clearly people are only thinking about insta posts etc - why do you follow them?

The only photos I’ve seen today with big piles of eggs and gifts have been with a thank you message from the parent to all the family members and friends who sent the eggs/gifts. It’s a photo showing their appreciation. For many, it would take a lot more time away from their family to post a message to each gift giver.

This is how most people use Social Media - but it’s not the only way and you could just stop following friends and family if you don’t want to use social media as a local network for highlights from their lives and more as if it’s a traditional media of interesting content to you from professional content creators.