Easter presents

I agree with you mcem ! But there are three of them in their household to eat the chocolate and only me in mine. Won't have the opportunity to start a conversation about it though.

Thinking about ageing with type 2 diabetes would seem to be a good way to explain why you don't choose to continue exchanging chocolates and, while you're at it, say that from now on you'll focus on the children.
Can't understand 5 years of diabetics swapping chocolates!

Last sentence should read : I have to send by post or via my daughter and son in law. Would have no problem with small gifts if we were seeing each other.

Grandchildren get loads of eggs, so rather than add to the pile, I like to get them something that isn't edible, but reflects Easter, eg home made soft chick or bunny, Easter story book, that sort of thing. DH gets a chocolate egg as no-one else would give him one, AC would get a packet of seeds, a primula or something to reflect new life. We have hot cross buns after the Good Friday service, and believe it or not, on Easter Day after church, turkey and the second Christmas pudding made in October. That tradition started by my mother, and everyone expects it now. I only spend a couple of pounds on each present, it is not a re-run of Christmas, but it is something to celebrate!

Leyla, I would be happy to give flowers but I don't live near them and won't be seeing them before or at Easter. I have to send by post or pa s on bus my f2f and si

I would just give flowers or a nice plant - could be decorated with a pretty pastel/Easter ribbon.

Easter eggs all round here including my mother who will be 88 by Easter time this year.

In addition something to wear for the two grandchildren. This year the 14 year old is in mansize clothing!

My teenage GDs now get a medium size egg and a £10 gift card for Costa, Starbuck, or similar. Nuff said!

We usually buy a small egg because they get eggs from other members of the family.

I certainly wouldn't buy gifts or eggs for adults. I think it's silly. I would just say it's not my custom to buy expensive presents at Easter.

We don't buy gifts for adults at Christmas either but, as a concession to my son's partner, we do a Secret Santa.

Easter eggs all round here including the grownups and especialy me. I do have some little things, like a bunny and some pretty coloured eggs in the drawer that DDs have given me in the past, and I might buy little things like that for them if I see anything. No bigger presents though.

We don’t do gifts for AC.

When our own children were young it was just an Easter Egg or choc bunny, but for DGC we do buy the egg or bunny each and a few Easter related items in a bag.
We always host an egg hunt in the garden, and do a buffet lunch for everyone, I enjoy it all.??

I can't start as I mean to go on, I have gone along with it for 5 years now! It's not a matter of cost, it's just that I'd rather not do it! It's usually an Easter egg or chocolates which I would much rather not have as I am type 2 diabetic. I then send chocolates in return which I don't like doing as my dd's mother in law is also type 2 ! I don't really expect an answer here and will probably continue as before for a quiet life. I am just interested to know whether it is common for so many gifts to be exchanged at Easter !

I am not a fan of Christmas, but as we now have DGC it about the Happy Day, the rest is just something to get through.

However I have always loved Easter it is so full of promise.
We go to the village's Good Friday procession and then home for hot Buns
The children make Easter bonnets and have a school church service.

Easter Sunday we have a family gathering and Easter egg hunt complete with Easter Bunny pink foot prints.
The conservatory is decorated in all things Easter and hopfully as Easter is late this year and very close to my birthday we will have bouncy castle in the garden. ?

After lunch it is all about chocolate inc special chocs for various dietary requirements.

I also buy my 2 DGS Summer holiday clothes and same value in money we give my other DGS.

I do understand the fear that the buying of presents at Easter is making yet another of our religious festivals in to a commercial event.

What level of present are we talking about, Singlegrannie? If it’s a token, a small egg, an Easter bauble or a little plant then fine, I’d play along for the sake of family harmony. Otherwise I agree with Urmstongran, just ask your daughter to explain that your traditions are different.

We have an Easter get-together, usually afternoon tea with a nice cake, and an egg hunt for the children. And I buy eggs for DH, all our AC and partners and our DGS. 12 in all, so I’m so glad they’re cheap these days! I just get one from DH - just as well considering I can’t resist the Cadbury creme eggs I’m forever buying for myself.

I’d just start as you mean to go on. If that means no presents for the adults then so be it. Perhaps ask your daughter (who married into this family I assume) to use the time before Easter to explain that her own family don’t exchange Easter presents for adults. And leave it at that.

It is a problem Singlegrannie! Could you find something small which you could give everyone (for example a particular kind of egg, a packet of seeds, or a small plant) and just do that every year. It would become known as your way of dealing with the situation and be relatively easy to do and would fit your budget.

Chocolate bunnies from Thornton's!

I used to buy them a new top or similar when they were tiny as they didn't have that much chocolate, but not now they're older.

I agree with you all but as I explained I have been drawn into this and don't know how to get out !

Small eggs for the adults, nothing for the children (who get enough eggs IMO from other sources). On the other hand, when I was a child, we always got a small present, usually a paperback, as well as an egg, but I have never been organised enough to carry on the tradition.

The DGC often have an Easter egg hunt arranged by their parents in the garden. When Easter was on April 1st, there were no eggs for them to find - took them quite a while to work it out

You get an egg, and if you are too small for chocolate, a small gift worth about five, ten quid (usually a baby outfit).

Eggs are fine but it's not a round of present time. By the time I've paid up for Christmas, mother's birthday, mother's Valentine and Mother's Day itself, I honestly would struggle to afford another round of gifts at Easter. I am glad to get away with an egg.

I give my dc and 5 dc £10 each as I think Easter Eggs are a waste of money. I'd rather eat a large bar of Cadbury Milk chocolate myself ??

I have never bought presents as such.
When they were small my GC would get, as someone else up thread said, a teeshirt or shorts.
Now they get a card with a £10 note in it.
AC don't get anything although my D's in-laws always bought them a planted hanging basket which I though was a nice idea.

Is there no end to this madness? Christmas; birthdays; Mother's Day; Father's Day; Valentine's Day and now Easter. An Easter Egg or a small amount of money for children is enough and no need to extend it to the adults.

What mine really look forward to is the egg/treasure hunt.
I write clues for them to solve and they find various things around the house.
Maybe a chocolate lolly, a small pack of sweets, some bubble bath, a 50p piece and finally a modest egg. The adults (no eggs for them) enjoy cheering on the GCs but are no longer needed to help read the clues!