Easter Baskets

themuffinman16 · March 2015

My stepfather was a master at hiding the easter baskets. It was ridiculous. One year, he his my chocolate in the freezer. It took 2 hours for it to thaw enough so I could eat it.

Another year, he hid my basket outside. (It was covered in slugs and I didn't eat it.) Another year, they forgot where they even hid it, I never got that easter basket... ever. We moved without ever finding it. And another year, he hid my sister's basket in the heating vent, after he unscrewed the grate. The next morning was really cold, and my parents completely forgot about the heat kicking on, melted ALL of her chocolate and candy.

Parent- 4; Kids- 0

holyguacamole79 · March 2015

As kids, Easter was a bit of a jackpot because we got candy. My dad is a dentist, so candy was a bit sparse around the house. I remember when I was in junior high / high school, I'd usually get a CD of Christian music (because I actually listened to it). We always got a new dress (well, a little suit for my brother). I remember my mom got carried away with trinkets and gifts one year and my dad got pretty pissed at her, so that was done.

One of my favorite Easter memories was while my sister was in college. She had a few friends who were from out of state, so it wasn't practical for them to fly home for Easter weekend. So they came to spend it with us. Our cousins were there as well. So there were 8 "kids" (ages 19 - 25) and my parents had a very intense Easter Egg hunt (including plastic eggs in the pool). It got rowdy (my cousin hilariously body checked my sister on the couch) because there was a $20 reward for whoever found the most eggs. It was a lot of fun..

If / when we have kids, we'll give them a few gifts in their Easter baskets that focus on the Christian celebration of Easter. I'm especially looking forward to this Easter because we've been teaching RCIA at our church (where adults convert to Catholicism), and they will be baptized on Easter. I'll probably cry with joy for them

theartistformerlyknownas · March 2015

minttobemrsb said:

littlepep said:

southernbelle0915 said:

littlepep said:
WHAAAAAAAAAA?

No. We got candy and a few small things. I don't think my parents ever spent more than maybe $50.

And if we're being honest, Easter baskets are all about the candy. GIMME THAT CHOCOLATE BUNNY.

ETA: It's like a lazy version of Halloween. Candy delievered directly to me right after I wake up.
YESS!! Gotta have the chocolate bunny!! I'm still a sucker for those damn cadbury eggs. Some things you just never outgrow.
I heard they changed the recipe and people are pisssssed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/12/living/cadbury-creme-egg-recipe-change-feat/

TRAGEDY.
"The change applies only to Cadbury eggs sold in the United Kingdom."

WHEW. I'm safe.

______________________________________________________________

Crisis averted!! And for the sake of your wedding diet, we will all pretend that they changed them to zero calories!

I operate under the rule that anything shaped like a zero has zero calories. Bagels, whole pizzas, M&Ms, Cadbury eggs.

littlepep · March 2015

lolo883 said:

minttobemrsb said:

littlepep said:

southernbelle0915 said:

littlepep said:
WHAAAAAAAAAA?

No. We got candy and a few small things. I don't think my parents ever spent more than maybe $50.

And if we're being honest, Easter baskets are all about the candy. GIMME THAT CHOCOLATE BUNNY.

ETA: It's like a lazy version of Halloween. Candy delievered directly to me right after I wake up.
YESS!! Gotta have the chocolate bunny!! I'm still a sucker for those damn cadbury eggs. Some things you just never outgrow.
I heard they changed the recipe and people are pisssssed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/12/living/cadbury-creme-egg-recipe-change-feat/

TRAGEDY.
"The change applies only to Cadbury eggs sold in the United Kingdom."

WHEW. I'm safe.
______________________________________________________________

Crisis averted!! And for the sake of your wedding diet, we will all pretend that they changed them to zero calories!

I operate under the rule that anything shaped like a zero has zero calories. Bagels, whole pizzas, M&Ms, Cadbury eggs.

This is brilliant and will be my new life philosphy.

minttobemrsb · March 2015

lolo883 said:

minttobemrsb said:

littlepep said:

southernbelle0915 said:

littlepep said:
WHAAAAAAAAAA?

No. We got candy and a few small things. I don't think my parents ever spent more than maybe $50.

And if we're being honest, Easter baskets are all about the candy. GIMME THAT CHOCOLATE BUNNY.

ETA: It's like a lazy version of Halloween. Candy delievered directly to me right after I wake up.
YESS!! Gotta have the chocolate bunny!! I'm still a sucker for those damn cadbury eggs. Some things you just never outgrow.
I heard they changed the recipe and people are pisssssed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/12/living/cadbury-creme-egg-recipe-change-feat/

TRAGEDY.
"The change applies only to Cadbury eggs sold in the United Kingdom."

WHEW. I'm safe.
______________________________________________________________

Crisis averted!! And for the sake of your wedding diet, we will all pretend that they changed them to zero calories!

I operate under the rule that anything shaped like a zero has zero calories. Bagels, whole pizzas, M&Ms, Cadbury eggs.

I like the way you think! In that case, I'm on a "zero calorie diet." If it's shaped like a zero, I eat it!

pinkcow13 · March 2015

Hmph. I never got an Easter basket from my parents. The most I ever did was decorate fancy easter eggs at my piano teachers house once. Another year I tried it at home and it was a disaster.

southernbelle0915 · March 2015

littlepep said:

southernbelle0915 said:

littlepep said:
WHAAAAAAAAAA?

No. We got candy and a few small things. I don't think my parents ever spent more than maybe $50.

And if we're being honest, Easter baskets are all about the candy. GIMME THAT CHOCOLATE BUNNY.

ETA: It's like a lazy version of Halloween. Candy delievered directly to me right after I wake up.
YESS!! Gotta have the chocolate bunny!! I'm still a sucker for those damn cadbury eggs. Some things you just never outgrow.
I heard they changed the recipe and people are pisssssed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/12/living/cadbury-creme-egg-recipe-change-feat/

TRAGEDY.

"The change applies only to Cadbury eggs sold in the United Kingdom."

WHEW. I'm safe.

Thank god!!!! No one messes with 'Murica. Especially our Cadbury creme eggs.

VulgarGirl · March 2015

It changed the older I got. When I was real little, candy and a stuffed animal, small toy and a book. My tweens/teen years I'd usually get some flip flops, sunscreen, a new beach towel, some candy, and a book/movie. And then as an adult (cause yes, I still get an easter basket), I'll get some make up or a movie, maybe some hair stuff, a book, usually still some new flip flops and a beach towel.

My mom will pretty much give you a book for any reason. She's big on reading. Wifey and I each got a book for our wedding.

princessbuttercup09 · March 2015

We always got a new bathing suit and some candy. We would occasionally get a few new tank tops or shorts since warmer weather was coming and my parents knew that they would be buying them anyway.

climbingsingle · March 2015

Our Easter baskets were candy and maybe a little toy. That's it.

doeydo · March 2015

As a kid, there would be an Easter egg hunt, but really it was a search around the house in specified rooms for chocolates and candy. So my sisters and I would have a bunch of fun doing that, and at the end we'd divide the candy evenly (I had Celiac's so I couldn't have some of their stuff and also I was way younger than them and they kind of got the most stuff usually because they'd go crazy). And then after that we each got a chocolate bunny of our favourite flavour. It was great!

ShesSoCold · March 2015

We got a small toy or something and then my mom would hide candy all over the house. Inevitably we'd miss one or two and find a half melted reese's egg in like July.

Several years ago, when the Sham Wow came out, my sister really wanted one and it happened to be around Easter. So my mom got a box for each of us and gave them to us at Easter so it became a joke that we get gifts at Easter again.

Blergbot · March 2015

My mom goes all out. Present tense--though I think she forgot last year and this year I'm sure will be more geared toward the baby--and I'm 33! I'm not talking anything as extreme as a new bike, but books, dvds, clothes, toys, and, yes, candy. I'm sure she would drop at least $200 on my basket. And the basket itself would always be a gift. Like a hamper, a storage bin, a cute waste paper basket. Also, since I've been away from home, she's always sent me postcards, emails and texts saying "hippity...hoppity...hippity...hoppity..." Letting me know it's on its way. I literally just got such a text message half an hour ago.

SCbride007 · March 2015

My mom always did a bunch of candy and random things that would have been stocking stuffers for Christmas (lip gloss, nail polish, hair accessories etc). Easter eggs were a bigger thing for us though my dad LOVES hiding the eggs and it gets a little crazy.

FSS gets a crap ton of candy and maybe a $10 little something. This year it will most likely be ear buds since he lost his recently. I normally avoid having candy in the house, but he has to work for that damn basket. I hide the basket and then make a maze of ribbon throughout the house and yard leading to it. The first year I did it he thought it would be so easy, he didn't realize how hard it is to unravel 100 yards of ribbon from the house.

This year I am upping my game. I have two spools of 500 yard ribbon. I have found the perfect spot to hide the basket in the forest. I can't wait!

sunset30 · March 2015

We always got a basket with candy and a gift that was probably in the $25 dollar range. When we were younger it was typically a toy or stuffed bunny or something like that, as we got a bit older, usually something like a few books or a few CDs or some (teen) jewelry or something. We also usually got an Easter basket with money from my grandparents (but the money had to be put into our college savings accounts).

For our kids, in the future we'll probably do something similar. I think its cool to do a gift other than candy but a bit over the top to go crazy with something like a bike or TV.

We too always got our baskets hidden. We haven't done Easter baskets much in the last 5-10 years, though they did do them for us about 2 years ago. My husband had never heard of hiding an Easter basket or anything so the experience was pretty funny watching him go all around my parents house trying to find it. Now that we're having a baby, I'm sure the Easter basket tradition will start up again next year.

MairePoppy · March 2015

Easter was a big deal when I was a kid. My parents were really into the Easter Bunny thing. They would stock our baskets with high quality candy from a local chocolatier, Heberts. No cheap Palmers chocolate in our baskets. We also got PEEPS!

The best part about Easter was shopping for Easter outfits. I'd get a new party dress with sweater, shoes, purse and Easter bonnet. My brother got a new suit and shoes. My parents got new outfits, too. It was the only time in the whole year that my dad would attend mass.

After mass, we went to my grandparent's house for dinner. My mother and aunt would bring inexpensive gifts for the four of us kids - kites, yoyos, coloring books and my grandmother hid candy all over her house and yard for an Easter egg hunt.

Every year, we watched The Wizard of Oz late in the afternoon, while the adults played poker.

Sometimes we got these sugar eggs with elaborate scenes inside:

MobKaz · March 2015

MairePoppy said:
Easter was a big deal when I was a kid. My parents were really into the Easter Bunny thing. They would stock our baskets with high quality candy from a local chocolatier, Heberts. No cheap Palmers chocolate in our baskets. We also got PEEPS!
The best part about Easter was shopping for Easter outfits. I'd get a new party dress with sweater, shoes, purse and Easter bonnet. My brother got a new suit and shoes. My parents got new outfits, too. It was the only time in the whole year that my dad would attend mass.
After mass, we went to my grandparent's house for dinner. My mother and aunt would bring inexpensive gifts for the four of us kids - kites, yoyos, coloring books and my grandmother hid candy all over her house and yard for an Easter egg hunt.
Every year, we watched The Wizard of Oz late in the afternoon, while the adults played poker.
Sometimes we got these sugar eggs with elaborate scenes inside:

It is not Easter unless it involves Peeps!

My kids are 30 and 28. I still make baskets. DS and his wife live out of state, so their "basket" consists of gift cards to local restaurants, movies or candy shop. As a child, I also remember it being one of the few times we got the "good" stuff. We had a chocolate shop that made small, hard shelled chocolate eggs with a liquor filling that were absolutely delicious! We also got a ton of marzipan candy because the majority of my family is German.

@MairePoppy, I always received those sugar eggs as well. I still see them in some of our local shops.

katiekessler123 · March 2015

Our Easter baskets always had candy and a bathing suit in them. But, I'm not at all surprised to hear this. My students get gifts for EVERYTHING. Just recently, a lot of them got gifts from a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day. I didn't know that was even a thing until I started teaching primary grades. I can't even believe what some of them said they got for Christmas. We're talking hundreds of dollars worth of gifts. Not a few books and a board game and maybe a pair of PJs, like we used to get. The worst part is they expect it. I'm realizing that this makes me sound like I hate my students, and I don't at all, in fact I adore them. But, I just don't get it...

ohannabelle · March 2015

MobKaz said:

MairePoppy said:
Easter was a big deal when I was a kid. My parents were really into the Easter Bunny thing. They would stock our baskets with high quality candy from a local chocolatier, Heberts. No cheap Palmers chocolate in our baskets. We also got PEEPS!
The best part about Easter was shopping for Easter outfits. I'd get a new party dress with sweater, shoes, purse and Easter bonnet. My brother got a new suit and shoes. My parents got new outfits, too. It was the only time in the whole year that my dad would attend mass.
After mass, we went to my grandparent's house for dinner. My mother and aunt would bring inexpensive gifts for the four of us kids - kites, yoyos, coloring books and my grandmother hid candy all over her house and yard for an Easter egg hunt.
Every year, we watched The Wizard of Oz late in the afternoon, while the adults played poker.
Sometimes we got these sugar eggs with elaborate scenes inside:

It is not Easter unless it involves Peeps!

My kids are 30 and 28. I still make baskets. DS and his wife live out of state, so their "basket" consists of gift cards to local restaurants, movies or candy shop. As a child, I also remember it being one of the few times we got the "good" stuff. We had a chocolate shop that made small, hard shelled chocolate eggs with a liquor filling that were absolutely delicious! We also got a ton of marzipan candy because the majority of my family is German.

@MairePoppy, I always received those sugar eggs as well. I still see them in some of our local shops.

I loooooove those scenic sugar eggs!

We had candy in the baskets, maybe a couple of silly things like wind up bunnies. Baskets weren't hidden, but eggs were.

ALWAYS See's candy. The kids have to have the chocolate eggs with the white chocolate chick inside, or it isn't easter. Yum. I want all the See's, right now.

ashley8918 · March 2015

I really don't remember getting easter baskets.

Blergbot · March 2015

ohannabelle said:

MobKaz said:

MairePoppy said:
Easter was a big deal when I was a kid. My parents were really into the Easter Bunny thing. They would stock our baskets with high quality candy from a local chocolatier, Heberts. No cheap Palmers chocolate in our baskets. We also got PEEPS!
The best part about Easter was shopping for Easter outfits. I'd get a new party dress with sweater, shoes, purse and Easter bonnet. My brother got a new suit and shoes. My parents got new outfits, too. It was the only time in the whole year that my dad would attend mass.
After mass, we went to my grandparent's house for dinner. My mother and aunt would bring inexpensive gifts for the four of us kids - kites, yoyos, coloring books and my grandmother hid candy all over her house and yard for an Easter egg hunt.
Every year, we watched The Wizard of Oz late in the afternoon, while the adults played poker.
Sometimes we got these sugar eggs with elaborate scenes inside:

It is not Easter unless it involves Peeps!

My kids are 30 and 28. I still make baskets. DS and his wife live out of state, so their "basket" consists of gift cards to local restaurants, movies or candy shop. As a child, I also remember it being one of the few times we got the "good" stuff. We had a chocolate shop that made small, hard shelled chocolate eggs with a liquor filling that were absolutely delicious! We also got a ton of marzipan candy because the majority of my family is German.

@MairePoppy, I always received those sugar eggs as well. I still see them in some of our local shops.
I loooooove those scenic sugar eggs!

We had candy in the baskets, maybe a couple of silly things like wind up bunnies. Baskets weren't hidden, but eggs were.

ALWAYS See's candy. The kids have to have the chocolate eggs with the white chocolate chick inside, or it isn't easter. Yum. I want all the See's, right now.

I'm sorry, but that looks like a deformed fetus to me...

LadyMillil · March 2015

I got candy and a new summer outfit. My mom still sends Easter candy to me.

lovesclimbing · March 2015

Ours were candy and a small toy. The year my little sister was born on Easter, my older sister and I both got small dolls. We have those first family photos of us all sitting on the couch with the new baby and there's my sister's and my heads stuck down in our Easter baskets.

My parents stopped doing them pretty early though. I don't remember getting them much past 11 or 12. My mom would still buy a bunch of Easter candy though.

paperpusher · March 2015

katiekessler123 said:
Our Easter baskets always had candy and a bathing suit in them. But, I'm not at all surprised to hear this. My students get gifts for EVERYTHING. Just recently, a lot of them got gifts from a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day. I didn't know that was even a thing until I started teaching primary grades. I can't even believe what some of them said they got for Christmas. We're talking hundreds of dollars worth of gifts. Not a few books and a board game and maybe a pair of PJs, like we used to get. The worst part is they expect it. I'm realizing that this makes me sound like I hate my students, and I don't at all, in fact I adore them. But, I just don't get it...

I had no idea getting gifts on St. Patrick's Day was a thing. As for the bolded - isn't that why they are calling this generation that's coming up the Entitled Generation? Where they expect everything to be handed to them and they don't have to work for it?
I think I would go BSC on my kid the day they expected to receive a gift especially with non-traditional gift giving holiday's like St. Patrick's.

Growing up the only days us kids received gifts were on your birthday, Easter and Christmas.

jenna8984 · March 2015

My parents were kind of jackasses with things like holidays. They are very stern and they are type of people who never cried or said I love you. They are very "life is tough, deal with it" type of people. So they thought holidays were stupid. They would give us Christmas gifts, but none of the decorating, cookie making, sweater wearing, caroling. Nope. Even when we turned like 16 they were all "you're a fucking grown up, you don't need gifts like a child".

So Easter meant nothing to them. Luckily my grandparents were the store managers at the most popular chocolate store in the area, so they would come over with a deluxe candy basket for us.

ElcaB · March 2015

We always got candy + one or two non-edibles, like a book or movie or toy. One year I wanted a disposable camera so much and the Easter Bunny totally delivered.

Our mom always hid our baskets & we'd have to find them. So much fun!

theartistformerlyknownas · March 2015

paperpusher said:

katiekessler123 said:
Our Easter baskets always had candy and a bathing suit in them. But, I'm not at all surprised to hear this. My students get gifts for EVERYTHING. Just recently, a lot of them got gifts from a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day. I didn't know that was even a thing until I started teaching primary grades. I can't even believe what some of them said they got for Christmas. We're talking hundreds of dollars worth of gifts. Not a few books and a board game and maybe a pair of PJs, like we used to get. The worst part is they expect it. I'm realizing that this makes me sound like I hate my students, and I don't at all, in fact I adore them. But, I just don't get it...
I had no idea getting gifts on St. Patrick's Day was a thing. As for the bolded - isn't that why they are calling this generation that's coming up the Entitled Generation? Where they expect everything to be handed to them and they don't have to work for it?
I think I would go BSC on my kid the day they expected to receive a gift especially with non-traditional gift giving holiday's like St. Patrick's.

Growing up the only days us kids received gifts were on your birthday, Easter and Christmas.

You mean you don't dance around the Memorial Day bush and exchange gifts? What about the Flag Day fairy bringing new video games?

mrsk616 · March 2015

i got a basketball one year, socks and tank tops another.

NowIamMrsKlein · March 2015

We always got a small basket. My mum wasn't a big fan of junk food. We would get one of those big hollow chocolate eggs that usually had a bag of reese or mini eggs or something inside.

Then a bunch of the foil wrapped eggs, maybe a creme egg or two. That was it.

When we were all grown up my little sister complained about never getting an easter egg hunt so my mum hid eggs all over her house for my then 19 year old sister and 26 year old brother to find. (I was 24 at the time, and to be honest, I cant remember why I wasnt included....) My bro and little sis have done an easter egg hunt together every year since. Its adorable.

I hid the little eggs around my FI apartment one year. We kept finding eggs when we moved him out a year later.

ChemFanatic25 · March 2015

cupcait927 said:

themuffinman16 said:
I think it is good to give the kids something other than candy, but a trinket or small toy is what I would do for easter. Dress Clothes given before easter, with a light jacket (but this is just shopping for the season). Chocolate, Jelly beans, fruit, and a toy, maybe 15 dollars for an itunes gift card. Nothing huge.

**Also, what do you think is an appropriate age to stop giving kids an easter basket?
I got one until I graduated from college. My dad mainly used it as an excuse as we got older to go to the fancy chocolate store in town to fill our baskets and get some of the good stuff for himself as well.

Ditto, I had a pink and purple easter basket my parents filled every year right up until the time I graduated high school. Didn't go home for easter during college so I just skipped the holiday completely.

Lots and lots of candy and chocolate in my easter basket. I loved getting the huge reeses' easter egg - yumminess! Every year I'd get a stuffed animal from my mom. It was cute. That continued after I graduated. She'd wait for me to get home from college during the summer and give it to me.

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