Anyone else not buy(ing) dc an easter basket/gifts?

belle204 · April 2010

I feel like I should based on the "everyone else is doing it" factor but I don't really see the point. I think Easter is just as commercialized as Christmas and it bugs the crap out of me. Why do they need candy and little (or big looking at today's pre-made baskets) gifts for something that isn't even about them?

KrisBriMcBunny · April 2010

I totally get what you are saying. But Easter Baskets are such a big tradition in my family...nothing to do with Religion at all. I've scaled it down quite a bit over the years. They get a big thrill looking for colored eggs, chocolate eggs & jelly beans thru out the house more than the actual basket.

jaime ma famille · April 2010

Are you going to do anything? Decorate eggs? Egg hunt?

belle204 · April 2010

We went to an egg hunt this morning. But, no I won't be coloring eggs or anything else. That stuff doesn't bother me. I just don't have time to mess with it and she doesn't care one way or the other.

Emiliana7 · April 2010

DH and I don't do any of the "traditional" easter stuff for DD. No basket, no gift, no eggs, no Bunny

However My mom does get her a basket with candya nd a small toy and an outfit. DD knows its from Mawmaw and not some bunny.

We are religious so we want her to grow up knowing the religious aspects of it. I grew up non-religious and with Santa bring me toys and the easter bunny bringing candy and toys. It wasn't until I was much older did I 'get' the real points of the holidays. (that's when I went all religious.)

Makinroom4baby · April 2010

I feel the same way you do...what's the point of the easter basket?? Parents spend so much money for a basket that will more than likely go in the trash and little trinkets that the kids will play with for a few days then forget about them. But at the same time I feel bad if I don't get Jayden anything at all b/c my mom always gave us easter baskets (even when she was single mom and struggling to pay the bills). Having said that, I still haven't gotten his basket yet, but it will be very small and will have a few packs of fruit snacks and some spiderman toys from the Dollar section in Target.

#6 · April 2010

We do both. While they are this young its all fun. Santa, & Easter Bunny. Once they are old enough to understand (I was 7/8yrs old) I will tell them about the real reason for the holidays. We go to church every Sunday so it wont be the first time they hear it.

I think you can do the fun part and the religious part. (if you want to that is. Not pressing my opinion on anyone. Just saying what I think) It doesnt have to be OH, Im religious so we dont do Santa/Easter Bunny. Esp when kids are this young and dont know. Let them enjoy the fun make believe part. Its fun and exciting to them. Then they grow up and celebrate the real reason for the holidays.

marchbaby · April 2010

I get what you are saying but the easter bunny is a fun thing for kids. And I wouldn't want my kids talking to other kids wondering why the easter bunny didn't come to our house. That said I buy them outdoor toys for easter, things I'd end up buying anyways. This year they both got a bike from the easter bunny, its something they both needed and with their birthdays in winter i'd just end up going out and buying it in a few weeks anyways.

kevschickee2 · April 2010

aren't you a party pooper. Yes it is about Jesus and such (if you are religious) but there is some fun in it also. They are only little for so long then it is gone

belle204 · April 2010

Yes, I am a party pooper. I'm sorry I don't really care for holidays and all the "froo-froo" and didn't even as a kid and I'm not the most religious of people, especially right now. Yes, my child is lucky to have such a party-pooping witch for a mom.

MelandJeff · April 2010

Aww, Belly, she needs an Easter basket. :-(

praline · April 2010

I just love holidays so our DD's will get a basket. I just do a few pieces of candy (for DD #1 some sweet tart jelly beans in plastic eggs, a chocolate cross and a Hello Kitty pez dispenser). Then I picked up a few things from the Target dollar bin...a Benjamin Bunny book, two Sesame Street triangle crayons, and a slinky. DD #2 is getting a teether and pacifier clip. I don't know why I wrote all that out, lol!

Anyway I'll celebrate all our cultural holidays and any others I know about, lol! We got a book about Passover too and someday I hope to be invited to someone's seder. I am just the kind of person who gets more depressed not celebrating than celebrating. We also do the religious aspects of Easter but I'm basically agnostic (DH is Catholic).

I just try to focus on the positive aspects of all of it! Of course it is commercialized, but you can still stress the soulful, meaningful part of it. And of course there are the Peeps!

Happy Easter Belle! Hugs!!

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