Easter presents

My Grandson has asked us not to buy eggs for his 2 children and asked for crafting bits & bobs instead this works fine for us as Aldi are having a crafting week offer this week I think and the items are very reasonable.
My 3 DCs always get a Terry's chocolate orange, job done !!C
A tin of Quality Street is sent for older DGCs to share between themselves.

No, no, no!
Easter eggs for my DDs , the grandchildren and maybe flowers/plant in a pot for anybody else I am seeing on Easter Sunday.
Not cards either.
What I have always liked about Easter is the absence of commercial pressure on a family day and I intend to keep it that way!

Its often a time of year when families go on holiday so I often pop some foreign currency in too

I send easter craftey bits to my god children, and to my nephews when they were younger. Not to adults

The GC get an egg and some cash to spend during the school holiday.
When they were tiny I used to buy clothes. Last year, for some reason, I ended up buying new bikes
This year eldest GC is going abroad with the school so will probably want something new to wear.

I only get Easter eggs for the DGDs. Used to get something for adult DC and their partners, but don't bother now.

When ours were small they sometimes got a new bike around that time of year because that would be when they started playing outside again more. One year it was inline skates, that sort of thing.

We would probably have bought them them then anyway, though, as they all have birthdays in winter when outdoor toys weren't so abundant in the shops.

When I was a child, we used to get Easter eggs in elaborate boxes with windows so we could see the big, foil-wrapped egg inside.

We were allowed to eat half of it for breakfast !

But the rest of the year (except Christmas), our sweet ration was very much curtailed, so that was hardly a regular indulgence.

My youngest grandchild is 'sugar-free' and although we can get sugar-free eggs here, they also contain the sugar substitute DIL doesn't like. Stymied !!

Up to now, I've bought a book as an "Easter egg", or one year I purchased a cardboard egg and filled it full of little toys.

The stores and supermarkets are trying to make it a bigger celebration in order to make more money.

I won't indulge them either

Just Easter Eggs. If I was asked not to buy eggs, I'd send a small amount of money. I certainly wouldn't want to turn Easter into another Christmas.

Your daughter needs to help you out here and tell her inlaws to leave you out of the Easter gifts. She just has to explain that it's not a tradition in your family, only children qualify. If they are reasonable people, they won't take offence. It shouldn't be a big deal.

Same here paddyann, but even so bunnies and eggs are traditional (pagan) gifts.

Everybody gets an egg ,adults and children alike .No presents because March and April have 11 birthdays and anniversaries between them to buy presents for and thats plenty .

No presents at all, nor cards either. Just a small Easter egg to each family member and that is it.

Send a card containing your message well in advance.

Trouble is ayse that the first present is received without prior notice !

The adults don’t do eggs at all. My older grandchildren receive £5 each that they can spend on anything they fancy. My two youngest who live nearby are different because they’ve always lived close. When they were very small I bought two empty painted tin eggs for reuse every year, just as my mother did for me. This year the have a tiny box of mini eggs, a small chocolate bunny, tiny egg containing smarties and some new hair slides each. I’m also planning to make some hair bands or similar with scrap fabric. These little gifts go in an Easter painted tin bucket, padded out with tissue paper. Mum and Dad can then control the amount of chocolate they have and the other gifts last longer. The eggs and buckets are returned for use next year.
When they are bigger, I expect they will receive money or jewellery as a token.
TBH, if I was expected to give to the adults I think I’d have to decline to join in. Christmas and Birthdays are enough.

Phoenix, flowers won't work because they don't live nearby and I won't be seeing them !

Ok, if they insist on giving gifts, then why not a simple bunch of spring flowers?

PS sorry about the typos in the post of 17.32, tablet has a mind of its own, will be glad to get the desktop pc fixed, if it can be

Bluebelle, only one of us isn't happy with it !
I am considering just the card, though I don't send Easter cards to anyone else.

Think that came out wrong we buy eggs for the children but wouldn't contemplate buying adult members of the family anything at Easter.

Yeah agree with BlueBell, I wouldn't go along with it.

You made me laugh Phoenix, I will follow your advice if it seems appropriate, but they do love giving gifts and I am told that they have been upset by such suggestions before . Hey ho !!

Well I guess we are all different, presents at Easter just why?

Easter eggs for the children in the family, sorry but I don't think we need an excuse to go and buy more unnecessary stuff in an already over consumerised age.

Pressed the button too soon I don’t understand why people go along with things they re not happy or comfortable with
Why on earth would two women with diabetes swap chocolate eggs !
You don’t have to start a conversation at all or make excuses etc send them a nice Easter card and that will start a new tradition of not sending you chocolate that you don’t really want

I think I may have a possible answer to this.

For years, when I was with ex husband, we would receive awful (but we'll meant) Christmas gifts from his mother and his 2 sisters.

It got so bad, that if we were having to open the presents in front of them, we would (prior to artival) toss a coin to decide who had to do it, and express "delight" at the contents!

One year, in plenty of time, I took the bull by the horns and suggested that we all just buy for the little ones. No one complained, and in fact, I think they were all quite relieved.

None more than me, no more unwrapping awful glitter type pictures of tigers, smoked brown sherry glasses, or an indescribable wooden object that vaguely resembled a pineapple, and was supposed to be "useful" for serving accompanied for curry

So, Singlegrannie you may have left it too late for this year, but once you have received and sent the gifts that both parties don't really want or need, just say "thank you so much, but next year shall we just buy for the children ?"

Nothing for adults
When they were small an Easter egg, now as teens a tenner
Don’t complicate life