When did Easter turn into a gift-giving occasion?

pixy_stix · April 2012

I look at this as a good indication that the economy is rebounding. If people are going all out for a holiday in which a humanoid bunny delivers gifts, it must be getting good out there, right?

Besides, I know someone who has the tooth fairy give $20 per tooth. Now that is a real travesty.

shankyouverymuch · April 2012

teacherjulie:
Growing up we got jelly beans chocolate bunnies and a summer outfit. My daughter got a few books doodling pad bubbles and fridge phonics the zoo. My parents went overboard but I did not

You need an Easter Basket full of commas, "Teacher".

Pamela05 · April 2012

Knitty:
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.

Speak for yourself. It's always at least 75 if not 85 here on Easter. :-)

mlwooten · April 2012

We were going to give my daughter a bike a couple of years ago. A good friend with older kids advised us not too as it sets the bar too high. :0)

My girls got a swim suit each, a coloring book, some barretts, some nail polish, and a book along with some candy filled eggs.

Don't get me started on the grandparents, though.

Eddy1 · April 2012

I never got gifts either.

I try really really hard to keep it under control with J. He got new water guns (which he needed anyways because old ones were broke) and a fishing game.

I also tried really hard to restrict with the candy. But then ILs gave him a shitton of candy and kiddo was on full blown sugar meltdown last night. I may have thrown the IL candy away last night. Embarrassed

meshaliu · April 2012

KA's right, the bunny likes her best.

I'm kind of lost with easter. I didn't get my first basket until I was 23 and dating my H (his mom). I wouldn't do it at all if MIL wasn't giving babyliu a basket.

nitaw · April 2012

SparrowSong:
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.

I was on a rant about this over the weekend. I don't do Easter Baskets. It's about the risen Savior, not Christmas Part II.

eclaires · April 2012

For us, I love cheesy holiday stuff, so I started doing Easter baskets when Jackson was like 7m old (for his first Easter). And obviously, I wasn't going to give him candy, so I got him things he needed anyway (pacis, sippy cups) and a few treats (toy, puffs, etc.). As he's gotten older, I've continued to do the same thing and it's morphed into them getting a lot of the spring/summer stuff we would buy anyway (new sunglasses, shoes, swimwear) plus some toys and a treat.

I like doing it b/c currently we still travel for Easter, which means our parents do the Egg hunt stuff, and it's something I have fun w/ for the kids since I don't get to do that. Plus, they get a crapton of candy from my ILs (HATE) so I don't even want to buy a small amount of candy for their baskets.

I justify it because it's all stuff I would have bought them anyway - I just buy it over a few months leading up to spring/summer and put it in their baskets.

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