£30 Easter budget

[Okayfolks]

My friend just told me her and her husband spend £30 each on each other on Easter eggs.

She’d prefer a nicer one and some small bits and he’d prefer lots of mid sized ones so he had about 8 eggs.

AIBU to think this is insane?

They have no kids.

This is 2 adults buying each other what they fancy, what you buy your kids isn't really relevant.

Well yes, if you buy cheap chocolate it will likely be shit. I would imagine the point of buying more expensive ones is that they are much nicer.

Chocolate is no substitute for love. Actually, I take that back, of course it is 😂🍫

It doesn't sound like you love her dearly. It sounds like her having fun irritates you intensely.

Have you considered that she's on Mumsnet and may see your dreadful behaviour slagging her off for having a good time?

Exactly, surely the best part of being an adult is having your own money to buy as many Easter eggs as you like - and nobody telling you that you can only have "a few pieces of one today, save the rest for other days so you don't make yourself sick" 🙄😁

Imagine the horror if it was £30 spent on hash! 😬🤣🤣🤣

It's called having fun OP. Adults are allowed to do it too. The fun things in life are not just for children.

I also think it's crazy but I also know that dh and I are super frugal and mean with money so I think I'm the extreme opposite 😅 I think if that's what makes them happy and they can afford it though, why not? Maybe if dh and I weren't saving hard for other things we would buy each other more gifts. We also don't have kids (not by choice) so sometimes you have to make up for that in silly ways (speaking for myself, not for anyone else)

I think it’s quite sweet and romantic going all eastery.
They are obviously still in the first flush of love. Don’t worry, it’ll wear off over the years.

I think it is excessive but it's up to them how they spend their money.

But if that's how they want to spend their money then so what?

DP buys me a mother's day present and guess what, we don’t even have any children.

They could spend a similar amount of money going out for a meal at a mediocre chain restaurant, going to a cheap spa or any other discretionary spend. As long as they're not asking you to pay for it or moaning about being skint then what's it matter to you?

I'm a bit tight and wouldn't want to buy easter eggs based on the price by weight or the type of chocolate used to make them. They just seem to be a rip off. Most are nestle or Cadbury which doesn't taste right either.

But I don't judge others for enjoying them. Its just chocolate and most people enjoy that.

Why are you bringing need into it?

I don't need the cup of tea my DS just made me but I'm really enjoying it.

So rude and nasty to start a thread bitching about your friend and inciting others to do the same. I hope they don't see the thread but I doubt they will as it doesn't sound like they'll be on here. They sound happy together and you sound jealous and bitter.

But she does love her dearly!

My husband and I often bake and cook together. We have also decorated biscuits as a competition. Both of us try to keep busy, enjoy life and find pleasure in the small things. What do you think she should be doing on Easter Sunday?

@Okayfolks you seem a bit bitter. Are you a bit jealous that your DP doesn’t do this stuff with you?

What are YOU doing today OP? Have you got all your family coming round for Easter dinner followed by chocolate eggs? Are you going out to a nice restaurant to celebrate? Just wondered what you did at Easter.

I think Easter eggs are an expensive way of buying inferior chocolate, but it's not really my business what anyone else does with their personal spending money.

Maybe she just really likes Easter
I cant really be bothered with it and im a bit ill with a cough and cold
And have never had much of sweet tooth but if somone wants to go overboard with eggs and activities, thats their perogative.

Not what I would do as an adult but hardly equivalent to executing kittens or taking smack, is it? Harmless, it makes them happy and preferable to spending Easter whinging on MN about a 'friend' doing something that impacts you not at all.

Same with the eggs. I got one from my (60s) brother that probably cost that much, sent him and his family a simnel cake.

Some people celebrate things.

I'm sure they will eat them eventually. You don't sound like a 'friend'. You sound judgmental and jealous? Everybody spends money on things that others wouldn't. Most wouldn't create a thread to slag their 'friend' off for doing so.
Sounds like you don't even like her, let alone 'love her dearly'.

Bloody hell, grown adults spending their own disposable income on things they want? Outrageous!!

I bought my adult son the Pokémon coffee beans from Grind. Bought me and DH loads of mini eggs and Malteser bunnies. Will spend my money as I wish

I feel sorry for your friend OP. How horrible for her that someone she thinks of as a close friend comes on to mumsnet to start a very unkind thread about her. I hope she clocks soon that you dont like her much and distances herself from you.