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to think some people have gone totally over the top with eggs and 'Easter presents' this year?

58 replies

Shitemum · 12/04/2009 22:10

I am feeling a bit non-plussed.
What's with the Easter presents and the 50 million chocolate eggs and the long, long run-up to Easter where people were scoffing their choc egg stash and replacing it several times over?

Where is your restraint you people?
Has Easter become another excuse to get into debt? It's not xmas ffs!
Haven't you all noticed there's a recession on? Or a depression or whatever they want us to call it...

What's wrong with boiling and decorating some hen's eggs, rolling them down a hill ON EASTER SUNDAY and eating them? Or maybe giving one small choc egg to each of your children/nieces and nephews/grandchildren also ON EASTER SUNDAY.

Rant over.
{Puts on tin helmet, making me look rather like a newly hatched chick with 1/2 eggshell on head and awaits flaming in good old MN stylee.}

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Highlander · 13/04/2009 08:59

arf, you should have gone to a National Trust property this w/e shitemum. Cadbury's were sponsoring all the kids' activities

noonki · 13/04/2009 09:17

easter presents
A little egg for children that I am closely related to and that's it.

Oh and painting ones (but seeing as we eat the insides that doesnt cost a thing)

Baisey · 13/04/2009 09:30

Ive been working at ELC for 8 years now and slowly over the years the "fasion" for buying big easter presents has gotten silly (im obviously not bothered about the money in my till aspect!) But you are right its getting over the top, I used to get an egg off my parents and that was it lol.
As for spending to get out of credit crunch.
Spending will help the majority of shops that are struggling with the threat of closure due to the recession. But it wont help with things like household debt.

piscesmoon · 13/04/2009 10:11

I think it is silly-it isn't a time for general presents-just a small chocolate egg.

roulade · 13/04/2009 10:24

I bought all my eggs for £1 each in sainsburys, it hardly broke the bank!!

Northernlurker · 13/04/2009 10:31

I bought one bag of Lindt chocolate eggs between my three and they got a few others from grandparents etc. That's it! Certainly wouldn't dream of buying Easter presents. We don't need presents - we got Jesus

Confuzzeled · 13/04/2009 10:47

Okay my 2yo dd got an egg hunt in the garden from me and dh. Her 3 sets of gp's bought her eggs, sent cheques and got her toys. Nothing from her aunty's and uncles. All this I don't mind even if it's a bit excessive.

However at nursery today some of the parents have brought easter eggs for all the kids in my dd's room. Okay if other people want to spend their money but i hope they don't expect it back.

The girls from my postnatal group are meeting up this week for an easter party. I can't make it but I've been included in the emails and the amount of money they're spending is silly. They put a £5 limit on easter presents, wtf, easter presents, why on earth do they need this on top of doing chocolate eggs etc? There's 6 toddlers in the group thats £30 for a start. I told them not to include my dd in presents because we weren't going to be there, I had to really insist that they don't keep her presents till the next time they see her. I can't afford this extreme spending for a religious holiday that I don't even believe in, but respect others beliefs and it's more about the chocolate anyway. Grrrrrrrrr rant over.

Idranktheeasterspirits · 13/04/2009 10:48

YANBU. There was a thread on here talking about what presents posters were buying their children for Easter. Completely unnecessary.
There does seem to be a trend for over consumption if you see what i mean.
DSD had 7 huge eggs, bloody ridiculous. All were from her mum by the way.

SammyK · 13/04/2009 10:58

YANBU

easter presents

asking for presents instead of chocolate

we bought our own kids £1 worth of choc from the shop (older ones chose box maltesers, younger one a bar), and we bought a bar of choc for one of our 9 neices/nephews as their parent was the only one who ignores our pleas that we don't do hundreds of easter eggs. With a big extended family it can get ridiculous.

My mum didn't want to buy the kids choc so gave them all a packet of seeds each to grow as we are all doing veggie plots this year in our gardens. They were given these last week though so they didn't connect them with easter.

What annoys me more is children with a sense of entitlement at these times of year, someone was telling me their daughter had asked for a cd album instead of an easter egg!

InTheScrum · 13/04/2009 10:59

I'm not going to complain. DH and I were given £100 from my parents!
DS1 (3) got 5 eggs, 2 dinky cars and £5. DS2 (9 months) got 5 eggs(!) a stuffed rabbit and £5.
We got them nothing.
Had friends over for brunch last weekend and did an egg hunt in the back garden for the children. Spent about £10 for those eggs and hunt paraphenalia (sp?).
I think it's important to celebrate Easter (as a Christian). It's really a bigger deal than Christmas, it's about the resurrection and therefore the cornerstone of the Christian faith. We went to church and then had a wonderful day with our family, lovely lunch (less hassle than turkey, and just as tasty) and spent quality time together.

piscesmoon · 13/04/2009 11:47

Mine are teenagers but I still get them an egg. I certainly don't give them money or a present instead.

Shambolic · 13/04/2009 12:02

The setting up the easter stuff in Feb is new.

The loads and loads of chocolate isn't. As children me and bro got stacks of chocolate eggs, and it was brillaint. I was born in the early 70's...

RushandGo · 13/04/2009 12:05

Easter presents are ridicoulous. Some people just cant help but spoil their children.

Watchtheworldcomealivetonight · 13/04/2009 12:10

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Divvy · 13/04/2009 12:13

Alot of cheaps eggs around this year added to giving more, which was due to Woolworths order being sold cheap to other chains.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 13/04/2009 12:31

I've had Happy Easter cards sent to me this year which I'm a bit about.

Takver · 13/04/2009 12:34

Be glad you don't live in Spain - new clothes all round for Semana Santa - and they're not cheap there, either, no Primark or Peacocks, at least not where we were

Morloth · 13/04/2009 12:38

I forgot to give DS his easter egg, he hasn't noticed. Am going to play Greek Orthodox Easter card (though we are neither Greek nor Orthodox) and give it to him next Sunday.

Don't care what other people do. I say No all the time and when he whinges I tell him to suck it up.

sparkplug · 13/04/2009 12:41

I confess to not buying any chocolate eggs this year. I did try to get some on Thursday and Sainsbury's was sold out of all the ordinary one (they had the babyish ones, and the uber expensive, but not bog standard chocolate buttons).

I thought that we would get them on sale today, but so far have no plans to go out to get anything.

The children seemed to have survived.

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Shitemum · 13/04/2009 14:07

-Titsalina - we grew up on the bread line too and I used to be envious of my cousins getting 3 or 4 choc eggs, we got one smallish one each from my mum.

Takver - Oh, but I DO live in Spain! {Takes earplugs out and scrapes wax from processional candles from shoes}

I don't care what other people spend their money on, good for them if they aren't feeling the pinch, I just feel that it's getting all out of proportion and that kids just expect more and more stuff all the time because they see other people getting it.

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Takver · 13/04/2009 16:08

But now I am confused - if you are in Spain, why are you over-run with chocolate eggs? I never saw an easter egg in all my years living there. . .

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Shitemum · 13/04/2009 21:25

Takver - It's not the eggs here, it's the eggs on MN! (maybe I shouldn't assume that MN is a faithful reflection of RL in the UK )

I never saw one here either until about 3 years ago. Now the Corte Inglés has huge displays of them. However, ask a passing Spaniard what eggs, chicks and rabbits have to do with Semana Santa and they will shrug.

There was never any Santa Claus/Christmas tree type Xmas stuff here either until very recently when they started selling those tasteless life-sized Santas for hanging off your balconies and the front of your house and plastic xmas trees and decos.

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bamboostalks · 13/04/2009 21:34

My MIL arrived with:
Metre high Easter bunny
Easter fluffy lamb
2 sets of eggs for egg hunts
2 big Easter eggs
Chocolate lamb AND rabbit
Easter outfit
Crockery set Easter style
Easter craft set
Plus
Easter presents for dh and me!!!!!!!!
dd is 2!
I had nothing for her at all but a roast dinner. It is mad. I thought she was OTT last year although she was in hospital so couldn't go as mental.

snowybun · 13/04/2009 23:40

I brought my two a chocolate egg breakfast set each they are 4.5y and 13m and some little eggs for a egg hunt. They have a total of 2 eggs each from mil and my bro. We have been sent money from family living away I will use this money to buy a sandpit and sand.

SuziSeis · 13/04/2009 23:43

totally agree shitemum
used to be called 'spoiling' children

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