Easter is NOT Christmas!
 

Right so I have just been scrolling through my fb feed and there are tons of posts like 'The Easter Bunny has been to *insert random kids names here*' followed by images of tons of easter eggs/chocolate, clothes, consoles/games, money, toys etc...ummm when the hell did Easter turn into Christmas 2.0? isn't that just making kids greedier and then in return they will expect to get these things every year, they already have Christmas and Birthdays so why do they need to have lots of gifts on Easter too? I know it's personally up to the parents what they give their kids but it's adding to the ever increasing materialistic attitudes that kids seem to have these days.

On Easter we used to get Easter Eggs, a lot of them right enough but it was still just Easter Eggs and also Clothes, that was it.

Don't get me wrong, I couldn't find a specific egg that a couple of my nieces wanted so I just got them massive bars of chocolate with a little gift to go along with it but that's just a little thing.

Opinions?

Holidays adapt and change with culture, I'm sure you have some religious person somewhere ranting that Easter is supposed to be about Jesus and not eggs/toys. Things just change.

Its not about the Holiday any more though for most people

It hasn't really been about the holiday for a long time. A majority of this country probably aren't even religious anymore.

That'll probably be me then,not all change is good imo.

Yes Josh that's pretty much the whole point of the thread

Yup. I'm sick of everything getting far too over commercialised these days tbh

Buying toys, consoles and other expensive gifts is just bizarre. Easter for me always has and will be about chocolate eggs. The most I used to get as a kid outside of eggs was a fiver from my nan.

I worry as times change when us younger adults have kids we may be pressurised to buy our children more. No doubt these things extend to school for kids. When I was in school it was 'I got 2 more eggs than you na na na'. I would dread to think now and in the future it becomes 'I got a Nintendo 3DS' 'Haha I got a Playstation 4, I got something better than you na na na'.

I'm not a fan of bringing kids up with materialistic attitudes. By all means treat them, but within reason. Those kids who get spoilt beyond belief will grow up with no appreciation of the world and no realistic out view of life and how you need to work to get what you want.

Holidays like this becoming more of a time of showering your kids with expensive gifts is wrong imo.

it seems pushy parents powered by social media are desperate to outdo each other in what they got little Macey for Easter, more fool them :laugh:

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When our kids were actual kids, they got gifts for Easter as they were both lactose intolerant and could not eat chocolate, however the gifts were small and inexpensive.
Nowadays they get eggs...making up for lost time I suppose. (And cheaper).
I don't get the need to spend a fortune at Easter to be honest.
We are not a religious family, but love to treat the holiday as time to get together...circumstances willing.

Too right Josy,it makes kids greedy and they expect more every year.

I had this conversation with Tom in the lounge last night. My cousin is the same with her kids. She's got them five or six eggs and a handful of presents including Xbox games :umm2:

There is no need.

It is much more important for it is the day that Jesus rose from the dead and showed himself as the saviour for all of us

I've just spoken to my friend who told me what she has got her daughter....eggs, toys and clothes. I felt a little guilty but my son has just told me it's the best Easter ever. He got one egg and we've had an egg hunt. I had hidden plastic eggs with his fave things, zomblings (which cost 50peach) around the garden and he had a great time finding them.
I didn't realise Easter was such a big thing...

I've only ever got chocolate eggs and I prefer that, you can receive presents any time of the year but it's not often that giant chocolate eggs are on sale. :amazed:

I only ever got my kids one chocolate egg. I would usually let them pick which one they wanted.

I have noticed it seems to be a 'gift giving' season now, but I don't follow the pack, so I don't really care.

I don't have fb, and one of the advantages is that I don't have to see the bragging-fest that goes on every five minutes. At Christmas, Birthdays and now Easter it seems that a lot of parents are more interested in showing the world how much they spent rather than the thought behind the gift.

Next you'll be telling the kids the easter bunny isn't real, scrooge

An Easter egg is all mine get anyway :shrug:

He emerged from a giant chocolate egg

My kids get eggs, but my mum and dad brought a kinda gift bag thing with some clothes and an egg in

Yup

Well this is news!

I agree, someones little darling will be going back to school bragging the easter bunny brought them an organic gold leaf egg, and an iphone 5 :laugh:

I have like three eggs and a fiver from my gran because I don't like chocolate.

Now when I think about it, when we were kids (way back in the dark age) we always got our first summer outfit for Easter, new white socks, white cardigan and a summery dress...we thought we had done well, crafty parents got brownie points for buying us clothes I guess, anyhow, I always done the same with my two, apart from buying our son the dress. Used to hopefor good weather at Easter so they could wear their Easter best.