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When did Easter turn into a gift-giving occasion?
Looking at fb this morning, several people are posting their Easter morning pictures with their kids and it looks like Christmas. All kinds of toys - big ones. One comment from someone else says they gave their kid an xbox? WTF?
Easter was a lot more humble when I was a kid. Hmmph. Hardboiled eggs we'd dyed earlier that week and jellybeans, a few chocolate bunnies, an empty basket to collect stuff and we could eat what we found. The end.
Re: When did Easter turn into a gift-giving occasion?
::shrugs:: all I keep seeing are the jelly beans and homemade all natural dyed eggs (like "how do you dye an egg with an onion skin?") and I just saw a picture of a kid with homemade rabbit glasses on.
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The only time we got gifts is when our birthdays fell so close to Easter (my brother's bday is April 11, mine is April 18) that it was mushed together with a party or something like that.
Otherwise we got a basket and books. We got books for every occasion and non-occasion though. And we always got an Easter outfit because that was one of the Sundays when we went to church as a family and extended family.
I suspect it started with people trying to give less chocolate to small children, so they threw a book and some crayons into the chocolate egg basket, then marketers caught on and started putting out things with springy themes, and then people just went crazy.
Personally, I'd like to know why the shops are full of summer dresses being sold as "easter dresses" when it's way too cold to wear spring clothes, let alone summer ones.
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I still want to know when St. Patrick's Day became a junk food bonanza for kids, i.e., Easter lite.
ETA: as for Easter, I'm a fan of cutting back on junk so about 1/3 of the kids' eggs had pennies. They are both learning about money and math, so the timing was good. They were more excited about the coins than the candy.
When I was kid, we would get candy and small gifts. Nothing like an Xbox. My parents used to hide our baskets and we'd run from room to room finding little rhymes that would give us a hint to where our baskets were. That was the fun part! Then at the grandparents house, we did an Easter egg hunt.
But my wealthier cousins would get bikes, Barbie jeeps, big games, you name it. And of course, my brother and I would see that and automatically feel bad, like the Easter bunny didn't like us enough. My Mom hated having us feel that way. But looking back, I want my future child to have an Easter like I did. Nothing big and fancy!
we gave grace 2 toys (which i got for $5 instead of $18, SCORE!) 3 packs of pencils and some peeps. the boys got 2 Cars each.
i know what you're talking about, though. my FB page blew up with toys to the point that i had to shut it down so grace wouldn't see it.
I'd always get an Easter basket of goodies. Some candy, a bunny stuffed animal, a book or two, etc. It was more like a stocking in my house.
Please don't assume it's always the parents though. Both MIL and my mom sent DD a PACKAGE of crap. She got a huge stuffed bunny, clothes, a DVD, a book, some more dang Critter Corner crap, a pretty box to store her dolly clothes, and stickers to last until the end of time. This is from the same two moms who gave us not much at all for Easter when DH and I were growing up. Go figure. I know my friend got a ton of candy from her MIL.
The dollar stores make it so easy to buy a ton of crap, too. I got DD some dressup bracelets to put in some of her Easter eggs - 6 bracelets for $1. 9 sleeves of stickers for $1. They also have tons of outdoor actively stuff like others have mentioned - sidewalk chalk and bubble stuff galore. It's so easy to go overboard!
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I give my child more on Easter because it is one of the only holidays where she is not being spoiled by grandparents or other people. I did not buy my kid a birthday present this year because she gets so much from other people that I did not see the point. She did not even notice that I did not give her a gift on her birthday. I think that I am going to continue this when she is old enough to understand and give her the choice of having a party or a present.
I also do not give her anywhere near as much candy as I received as a child. She is four and this is what she got this year:
10 plastic eggs filled with Aunt Annie's cheddar bunnies
small package of peeps
2 books
Disney Fairy Barbie type doll
Sky ball
play doh
flower barettes
It is not as over the top as an x box but she is still very spoiled compared to what I had as a child. I feel guilty for spoiling her but I want to enjoy giving her gifts on occasion without being outdone by the grandparents.
Personally I spent this morning dashing the diabolical Id-serving hopes of other people's children. I busted a friend's son for trying to stash away more than his 6 allotted eggs at the church egg hunt, and also sent him to the back of the line when he tried to line-jump in front of my family for the breakfast.
Easter B!tch.
My mom sent me an Eiffel tower with $20 bills.
I don't think it was over the top.
I was wondering the same thing. My kids got small easter baskets and we did a small egg hunt at MIL's. We are not religious, it was a candy excuse.
You should have seen the over-the-top baskets my religious friends had for their kids. I didn't know I was supposed to go all out. I never heard "Jesus is the reason for the season" on this one.
Only tasteful easter baskets with a small # of wholesome gifts for everyone!
Meh who cares?
We always got one gift. The only one I remember was Air Supply tickets when I was 7. My first concert. It, umm, rocked.
I STILL love Air Supply.
Marisa got candy and a skirt.
Natalie got a smaller version of Marisa's basket, minus the skirt.
I got a MiniVan. The Easter Bunny likes me BEST.
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