When did Easter become Christmas II?

Foolish Mortal

Foolish Mortal

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Easter gifting ??? No way, stop, I refuse. I heard my favorite morning team talking about this on Friday (4/6) and couldn't believe what I was hearing. And now I read about it here :brick: Aren't the big Christmas and Arbor day celebrations enough :veryconfu
 
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mary219

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I was listening to a radio program last night here in ny and the host was talking about a friend of his who has three children and 15,yes,15 wrapped gifts at home for his children to be left easter morning by the easter bunny.CRAZY!!!!!My kids get a video game and their baskets.The youngest boy also recieved some air gliders (1.99 in toys r us )and youngest daughter recieved a skip it .I get video games for them three x a year,christmas,bday and easter.i have a friend who every other week is buying video games for his 2 boys.he must be a lot richer than me.
 
mousebymarriage

mousebymarriage

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We do the standard Easter Baskets for kids filled with a chocolate bunny and some other candies and also a few little "toys" or a video and each child also gets a book in their basket. We also do an egg hunt on Easter morning. We fill plastic eggs with hershey kisses or M&M's and some eggs have money(quarters) then we hide them in the living room and playroom, the Easter Bunny leaves a little note for the kids telling them how many eggs they are each allowed to find. The kids love it! Church and then the relatives house for lunch and catching up with family!
 
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beachclubbasics

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This is such a great thread! My children and I were discussing the overcommercializatin of Christmas and Easter just this weekend.

Unfortunately, I do tend to spoil my kid a little on Easter because we lost their firefighter dad in the line of duty 5 years ago and I lost my dad in a fatal car crash on Easter Sunday 3 years ago and I want to try to make the day a little brighter for them. They're all old enough not to want candy (even my youngest) so what I do is give them each a Visa gift card in the amount I would have spent on candy and basket stuff so they can buy themselves something that they woud like to have. However, that gift card is NO WHERE near what I would give for Christmas...and I usually tell then to try to save their money so that they have extra to spend at WDW on our vacation.

The gift card is easier on me...and healthier for them :).

My sister thinks I am crazy because we spent this year at home eating sushio and Chinese food and watching Japanese TV dramas....the best Easter we've had in a long time!
 
maelstrom

maelstrom

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My mom has always given an Easter basket to both me and my dad (he's 48 and I'm 21). This year my mom gave me a bunch of candy buttons (my favourite candy ever), a bag of Easter Hershey kisses, fluffy stuff cotton candy in a bag, a baby seahorse hole-punch (I scrapbook & stuff), a mini photo album, and a couple of little things to scrapbook with. This is pretty much the way it has always been. I used to get more candy (Easter Sweetarts, Spree, a chocolate bunny, etc), but this is fine. My grandma & grandpa gave me a Lindt dark chocolate bunny (I don't eat dark chocolate, or Lindt chocolate, and I'm not quite sure why she doesn't know that after 21 years) and $25. My Nana, when she was alive, would also give me an Easter basket with some candy in it. But no dropping $300 on a designer handbag or anything like that. My fiance doesn't believe in exchanging gifts for Easter, so he gave me nothing, and I gave him the dark chocolate bunny from my grandma.

I love to exchange little things on every holiday, including Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's Day, etc, and we generally do in my family, even if it's just a little bit of candy or a little trinket or $20. I must assimiliate my fiance into our ways.
 
Horizons1

Horizons1

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I just usually get a basket with candy. Like someone else said earlier, sometimes there is a movie or a videogame but thats it. Buying these huge gifts for Easter, never heard of such a thing. Whats wrong with people nowadays? Has the world really become that narrow minded that all a holiday is about is getting stuff?

Sheesh...
 
WaltzingMatilda

WaltzingMatilda

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I, personally, blame my family for this madness. When we were small, there was always a basket of chocolate from the bunny that was eaten after church and it was great (though my mom swears now she always got us "real" presents too). The best thing, in my opinion, was the hollow egg with our names on it in script. Now that the sibs and I have wee ones, I get phone calls like this:

My Mom: "Ok, so I brought Precious Grandaughers a Littlest Pet Shop set and we also filled 500 plastic eggs with change for the egg hunt and I thought it would also be nice if they had such - and -such newest thing that's out and what did you get her for her basket because I asked them what they wanted and they said...."

Me: "Um, a basket with some candy?"

My Mom: * click *

My Sister: " So I went to the craft store and I got these great little metal buckets for each of my 60 nieces/nephews and personalized them and put $10 worth of junk from WalMart in each one and a 5 dollar bill and what do you think you might be doing on your end?"

Me: "Um, I was gonna wish them a Happy Easter?"

My Sister: * click *

You can't fight it. Or maybe you can...I didn't. :lookaroun
 
Mikester71

Mikester71

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hcswingfield said:
Time to start making the list of what you want Uncle Sam to bring you on the 4th of July!!!!
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:ROFLOL:No wait, you forgot Mother's Day! I'm surprised my kids haven't figured out a reason to receive gifts on this day yet (something like - "well we HAVE a mom, don't we?"). :sohappy: My kids usually ask why there isn't a kids day every Mother's Day and Father's Day and I tell them because every day is kids day. They usually aren't impressed. :(
 
disneytati

disneytati

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Mikester71 said:
:ROFLOL:No wait, you forgot Mother's Day! I'm surprised my kids haven't figured out a reason to receive gifts on this day yet (something like - "well we HAVE a mom, don't we?"). :sohappy: My kids usually ask why there isn't a kids day every Mother's Day and Father's Day and I tell them because every day is kids day. They usually aren't impressed. :(
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We don't have such a problem here in Brazil, as THERE IS kids day! It's on Oct 12th, and kids usually ask for expensive gifts!
 
Joepic

Joepic

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Easter can be a really big holiday for some people and they go to great lengths to celebrate it. I would expect it to be one of the less-crowded times at Disney. I guess not.
 
The Mom

The Mom

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Joepic said:
Easter can be a really big holiday for some people and they go to great lengths to celebrate it. I would expect it to be one of the less-crowded times at Disney. I guess not.
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It is actually one of the most crowded times, next to the week AFTER Christmas. Most people would still prefer to be at home on Christmas Day itself, but don't mind being away on Easter Sunday, so the parks are packed. Add in the vacation that many schools have at that time, and locals having long weekends (my son had Good Friday and Easter Monday off) and you have a very, very crowded park Easter weekend.
 
Aurora_25

Aurora_25

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My kids got lucky this year with Easter basket stuff because my DH won a raffle at his work that got him this HUGE basket full of fun stuff for the kids and we saved it for Easter. My son also got to go to three Easter Egg Hunts and my daughter did one. Now, normally they get a Easter basket with a little bit of candy and then get to have an Easter Egg hunt at our church- there is also a petting zoo normally at the church during this time...so much fun for them.

Really, I never got alot on Easter other than a small basket, a new dress and new shoes....So I don't know why it has gotten to be like another Christmas....
 
Mikester71

Mikester71

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disneytati said:
We don't have such a problem here in Brazil, as THERE IS kids day! It's on Oct 12th, and kids usually ask for expensive gifts!
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:eek: Oh no!!! That would totally suck. Oh well, I would tell them not to expect much the other 364 days of the year then (yeah, like that would go over well)! :ROFLOL:
 

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