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

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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.}

DS got an egg from my mum and from 2 toddler groups. He got a book from preschool rather than an egg which I thought was good and I didn't want to get him an egg as he already had 3 so I got him an Easter present. It was DVD about Easter which cost 99p.

My dd got the chance to go to church. But I am mean amd knew her grandma would buy her an egg, she did not need more than one.

my kids got two each.

i think thats becuase most of our rellies are dead now!

snort at custardo

I have found that pester power is far less of a problem in reality than I feared. Children learn that they all get different things anyway. Just shove your fingers in our ears and go la la la.

I completely agree.
DH and I went to see some friends at the weekend and they were telling us they gave £10 to the teenage children who live a couple of doors down because 'they are too old for easter eggs now'

At 30, I still get an egg from my mums best friend!

Don't mind ridiculous mountains of chocolate eggs, that hasn't changed since I was little - but not at all keen on POS displays in shops with "pick up a treat for Easter", "Ideal Easter gift" etc over racks of DVD's / CD's etc. No. An ideal Easter gift is an egg. I don't give older nieces or nephews money instead either - they get an egg (if I'm not too old, neither are they )