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What do you like getting in your Easter basket?
Are you going to make/get an Easter basket this year?
I always hated Easter as a kid because I was sad that I never got gifts like in Christmas or good like in Halloween. I hate jelly beans and my parents always made to sure to fill the basket with them.
I love the Peanutbutter Eggs.
Re: What do you like getting in your Easter basket?
Cadbury Cream Eggs. Happily, the British-owned bookstore on Rue de Rivoli has ten billion tons of them.
I used to like Marshmallow Peeps, but had way too many one Easter not too long ago and can go without them now. I haven't seen those around these parts anyway.
If I lived in Spain, I would give myself a big pata de jamon in a huge Easter basket.
I never got an Easter basket growing up--my parents were all about Easter as the day Jesus rose from the dead. What a great present for a six year old!
When I told my high school boyfriend that I'd never had an Easter basket, he was shocked. Lo and behold, I got a surprise visit from him on Easter and an amazing Easter basket: a huge chocolate Peter Rabbit, lots of candy, movies, CDs, etc. It was pretty amazing, and I loved that he went to the effort to get me something really special since he was 'making up for all the baskets I didn't get.'
Frankly, I don't see any other Easter baskets topping that for me.
Ok, I just teared up a little.
Maybe it's because I am already having an emotional kind of day, but truly, that is an awesomely thoughtful thing he did for you.
We don't do Easter baskets... it's a religious holiday not a present giving one.
Though we always got an easter egg growing up and still do (though not from our parents any more). One egg each was plenty... I know some kids in our school got a load of easter eggs and they were still trying to finish them off months later.
My favourite easter egg would a toblerone egg - the egg that is actually made of toblerone, not just the plain egg! DH would love a giant creme egg in theory, but in reality I think he would find it wrong - the chocolate/fondant proportions would be all wrong...
The Easter Bunny always brought us one nice chocolate bunny -- dark for my older brother, white for me, and milk for my younger brother and one bag of our favorite other candy. I always got a bag of Sweetarts Duckies, Chickies and Bunnies. My younger brother got a 5 pack of Cadbury Creme Eggs, and my older brother, who was never a big candy person, got $10 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets.
The Easter Bunny also visited at my grandmother's house, and we got personalized dyed eggs, a plastic egg with $20 in it, and an assortment of Elmer's creme eggs -- maple creme, strawberry creme, coconut creme, etc. (Elmer's was a local NOLA candy company).
I've only had one Easter here in Australia, but I got more chocolate than I have ever gotten -- I have really not found a wide variety of non-chocolate candy here, and I am suffering.
The Easter Bilby has a maze writing pen for my DH and plans to get a Rocky Road Egg and a couple of other trinkets. If I can't get non-chocolate candy, I would prefer to get non-food stuffs like crayons or coloring books. I have hinted as much to the Easter Bilby, but I am not sure he has gotten the message.
He was (and is!) a great guy. We are still good friends.
It's always been both for my family. I'm excited to do a basket for W this year.
In Italy we don't put presents in our baskets and as far as I remember the actual activity of making a basket and fill it with coloured eggs is something elementary school children do. We would bring boiled eggs to school and decorate them.
The main traditions would be giving chocolate eggs to our loved ones (they usually hold surprises inside), eating lamb (what would be a holiday without the slaughter of thousands of innocent living beings, right?) and serving the Colomba, which is practically identical to a Christmas' panettone only shaped into a dove. Although, colombe (doves) could also be made out of chocolate.
I'm Jewish so no Easter baskets for me. Instead we got Passover, the holiday of eating terrible crackers and endless stress switching over dishes and cleaning the entire house. Good times. :-)
My MIL used to make us Easter baskets (I guess we aged out?) and I loved peeps. Actually, I might ask my dad to bring some over, they're practically the only candy my DH loves.
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
This is so funny I nearly peed myself!!!!!