Question about Easter baskets

Nanner · April 2011

I am curious--when did people start giving gifts for Easter? In the thread below, a lot of posters mentioned larger gifts. (Not like Christmas big, but bigger than what would fit in an Easter basket, or "useful" things.) Did you all get gifts like that when you were kids? I just got a basket with eggs and candy, with a couple of trinkets. Maybe I just got the shaft? lol

I'm truly asking this out of curiosity. It's just fascinating as I get older to see how holidays evolve.

rayskit10 · April 2011

I got candy. I think the idea of gifts is a) a response to parents trying to ratchet back on the amount of candy they give, and b) pressure/influence from retailers who know parents are trying to do this. I mean, if everyone followed the example of PBK, we'd be spending $100 easy on just the gifts.

cali_girl92504 · April 2011

I got a Cabbage Patch doll for Easter one year that didn't fit in my basket. If I got a bigger gift, it was next to the basket. We usually got candy and one gift. Nothing over the top.

I got my younger sister for Easter one year. I asked to take her back...

mom2ll · April 2011

We don't do anything big... coloring book, a couple of eggs with M&M's, Peeps (because it wouldn't be Easter without them), bubbles, sidewalk chalk, and a set of bunny ears.... I try to keep everything under $20 total for both kids.... They have way too much stuff and the grandparents send stuff too....

jen5-03 · April 2011

A stuffed animal was as big as my gifts got. But I got a TON of candy. Insane amounts. And I can't stomach giving my kids that. Heck, we still have Christmas candy, not to mention Valentines candy and from random birthday parties.

KelleyA · April 2011

I don't like to do a lot of candy...that's a treat in our house.

I like to give my kids gifts and well, Amelia gets the shaft. Her birthday is one week before Christmas and that's her only gift time every year. I do so small things in her Easter basket for the most part, but I like it to be special.

She's getting a Tangled sticker book (which is meant for the car ride the weekend after Easter), a baby Cinderella doll, some educational DVDs (was going to buy them anyways so I'm just throwing them in there), a Cinderella night gown and a bit of candy.

Juliet is getting bath toys, books and baby snacks.

Kimmer123 · April 2011

We usually got small gifts (bubbles, stickers, pencils, small stuffed animals) and lots of candy. Since G is too little for all the candy I do a little bit of my favorite candy and a little of DH's favorite candy and then fruit snacks or animal crackers etc for G. The rest of his basket is non-edible things that I would end up buying him anyway.

This year he's getting a little bit more than he otherwise would because a) I have the "I'm ruining your life with a sibling" guilt b) we happened to get a killer deal on a bike for him, that is now going to be a "yay you're potty trained" gift so he's getting a helmet in his basket, which wouldn't normally happen. He's also getting the Cars movie because he's obsessed with cars and frankly I'm going to snap if he asks me one more time to produce some sort of vehicle show on TV and I can't do it.

chrisbride04 · April 2011

Our gifts stem from not wanting DS to have a ton of candy. Growing up, our baskets were filled with candy, but we also got a small gift, like a CD we'd been wanting, books, a small piece of jewelry, etc. It was usually something small enough to fit in the Easter basket, although we did have fairly large baskets. My mom usually gives DS a nice outfit and my grandmother will send him money for savings.

melrrr · April 2011

we only got candy, but I agree I'm sure it is partially anti-candy driven, and partial marketing ploy. If I observed it I'd probably do candy when they kids were older, like the necessary chocolate bunny that I could eat the ears off of, and something cute and soft now.

M&M614 · April 2011

We do a gift in lieu of candy. They might get 1-2 pieces of candy... but they get plenty from my parents and his.

This year they are getting piggy banks. One year Mia got a bunch of goldfish because it was her favorite thing ever. Usually they just get their Easter dress plus something useful. Mia got her "big girl" Bible last year. They each got monogrammed bloomers for their first Easter.

Confession: they probably aren't getting Easter dresses this year because of the move. Oh well.

txbootsy · April 2011

This is Audric's first Easter, but we plan on doing cookies, egg dye, reading the story of Christ, and giving gifts in a basket, with a few treats.

starlettedir · April 2011

I won't do santa/easter until I think she's able to *get it*/open things.

I will not be doing a basket this year.

WorkingMomofTwo · April 2011

I got the same things you did when I was a kid. Now, I can see giving summer toys and/or things of that sort, but nothing big or expensive really.

SigmundsGirl · April 2011

My parents did lots of candy and a few small gifts. There is a picture of my brother on his first Easter (he was about 9 months old) and he had a HUGE basket and an Easter bunny cake. He was also in a horrible little suit with a bow tie. It was the 70s so I give my mom a break.

Since Evan is just over a year old, we won't be doing candy, but we will probably let him have a cookie that day. I like the idea of goldfish crackers, yogurt melts, and one other healthy snack.

kreeper611 · April 2011

We usually got stuff like candy, maybe a combined gift of a movie, for both my sister and I, books. It was small "fit in the basket" stuff. Kind of like your stocking gifts.

I plan on Cooper's gifts being smaller things too, however this year I am getting a water table. Mostly because I'm going to buy it anyway, so I using this as an excuse. His basket will end up being some snacks or something small. He doesn't really know better anyway.

Suzi-G- · April 2011

We usually got candy, a stuffed animal and small toys, similar to what we got in our Christmas stockings.

I intend to put some more substantial toys in Cooper's Easter basket this year but they are the things I'm buying him to take on our trip to Costa Rica. (I wanted new toys that don't make noise or have 9 million parts to take w/ us.) In the future he may get some bigger Easter gifts simply because his birthday and Christmas are so close together there isn't any other "gift giving" occasion during the rest of the year.

Karey08 · April 2011

We got Easter gifts growing up; typically spring time toys for outdoors or items for the pool/new swim suits. The boys are getting some toys for the beach vacation we have planned for next month, swim suits, and towels along with a very minimal amount of candy.

aprilprincess · April 2011

we got candy and a stuffed animal or other small toy, it all fit in the easter basket. That's actually how i discovered the easter bunny was fake-my bunny had a tag from TJ Maxx. I was 5 and called my mom out, yet somehow it didn't make me question Santa.

A gets a mix of stuff, but I try to make it all fit into the basket. Last year I found a ton of stuff, like melissa and doug gardening tools, and not everything fit in the basket. This year I'm pulling it back. I don't know why, but it bugs me that Target and Toys R us are coming out with big Easter Toy ads. It's making into one more thing kids can ask their parents for or start expecting because their friends are doing it. I remember being surprised that someone got something as fancy as a movie in their easter basket, yet this year Addie is getting Tangled (although that's because DH accidentally ordered it on amazon and we just said ok).

ccc'swife · April 2011

I usually got candy and some small gifts, plus my mom bought me a nice hand-painted egg every year and wrote the date on it...I love those and still have them all. She now does that for Charlotte, too.

I don't want to give Char a ton of candy, and we like to be outdoors (who doesn't in this awesome weather?!?), so I focused on artsystuff/stuff she could play with outside, for the most part ~ big stamps, the stamping pad, stamping markers, Silly Putty (indoors, too), and foam stickers, and then a broom. My parents used to hide eggs around our living room and they either had money (coins) or candy in them, plus one egg with some bills in it, so I'll probably do something similar for Char and we'll put the money in her college savings piggy bank

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