Easter presents

Eggs for GC, very small certain cream egg on dinner table for adults and maybe either some money/book token or in the past new t shirts for GC. I was lucky in that one of my Aunts used to buy my children Summer outfits but that would be very expensive now there are lots more to buy for. Small pot plants sound like a good idea with hopefully a Spring theme, you could do them up with ribbons etc.

No gifts in this household, only eggs for children, even teenager. Could you boil eggs, decorate and hand them out. Take the commercialism out of the event and keep it low cost. May even give the hint to others involved you are not interested in all the gift giving.

I've just bought my grandson's 'Easter Egg' - The Diddakoi^ by Rumer Godden.

I read it years ago to my sons and enjoyed it so much I thought the next generation would appreciate it too.

Last yr I bought a book for each of my 4 GC. (8yrs-2yrs). Today I bought two little Easter cloth baskets & rabbit ears on a band. I've yet to get the other two something. Why? The oldest of the two (the ones I bought for today) might need fillings soon & he's just coming up to 5yrs old.

It'll be tricky to get around without looking mean, but I would be absolutely determined not to get drawn into present buying and all that palava.

Oh my. I’m lucky that I only had one grandson and bought him an egg and put some money in it for him. This year I have two grandsons. The second is 6weeks old and so too wee for chocolate. I have bought one chocolate egg to which I’ll add money, and am looking for a nice cardboard egg to give to the baby. I have a wee bunny and a special 50p coin to go in it. I’ll add £10 and that’ll be that. We don’t do adults at Easter thank goodness. I’m just glad that it’s not turned into another Christmas with us. As you say, once you’ve started with the presents it’s too difficult to stop. It must be hard for grans who have lots of grandchildren.

I normally give either money or book tokens,as they get to much chocolate.

My DD2 birthday on Good Friday..so she will have a present!

Oh dear im the only one who buys presents
I usually give dd a jumper or shirt with box of chocs and an outfit for dgd with an egg. A huge bar of choc for dsl. My mother gets flowers and chocs and maybe a cake. Luckily i only have the 4 of them as relatives
I give my friends eggs or chocolate. When my mil was alive i always got chocs and a bottle of baileys and of course had to buy back. Maybe thats why im always skint at this time of year also dd birthday is at this time

I've just bought all my Easter Eggs for adults and children, reduced to 75p each in Tesco. That's it.

I send Easter cards to a few people just to keep in touch. Children have small eggs hidden round the garden on Easter Day.

My children had eggs and small gifts....just things I'd picked up along the way and didn't want to give them immediately as random treats seemed like spoiling.
I do the same for my grandbabies. I can't wait till their birthdays to bestow all the randoms. We're not talking big gifts....just some small ones.

If you dont want to participate then I would say something now. If you are actually seeing someone on the day and they are giving you a gift then I would feel obliged to buy some flowers. Here I buy Easter Eggs for just about everyone, eggs hunts when they were smaller but an egg or nothing as far as I am concerned.

I have never done easter eggs. GC seemed to receive loads from other family members so I just treat them during the year.

What a lovely idea PECS! I’ve also bought egg ‘wraps’ from Lakeland.You simply place them round the hard boiled eggs, dip them in boiling water and they shrink round them.
Did you used to ‘jarp’ the eggs?

@Singlegrannie. Not sure what the issue is?
You say “my daughter has married a man whose family treats it as another Christmas”!!!
Then in another post say*“It's usually an Easter egg or chocolates”*!!
That’s hardly treating it like Christmas unless your dds ils only give a selection box or similar as Christmas presents??
In my household we do give Easter eggs as gifts, but that is certainly nothing like our Christmases!!!

A small bag of small eggs per family: small furry chick, bunny or egg shaped tin for GD’s and bunch of daffs or tulips for the ladies, and if there are any sulky men around who like chocolate, I might have a few spare cream eggs in my bag.

Sueki44 that is also my childhood Easter memory as my mother's family from NE.

I have passed it on the DDs and DGCs. We spent ages last year binding eggs with onion skins having put pressed flowers/ leaves under the skin so it left its shape on the egg!

We give eggs, have an Easter Egg hunt and decorate hard boiled eggs to eat on Easter Sunday morning with special Easter cakes. Easter is still a big celebration for me now as it was when I was a child.

The eggs I give my DGC might be those cardboard ones with a small gift inside or just a chocolate one. It depends on what I see when out and about. DH & DDs may also get a small egg or chocolates/flowers. Not other types of gifts.

No, not between adults. A bunch of daffodils if visiting but no easter gifts are for kids only in my circles.

Have a chat with your daughter, as you have diabetes in the family chocolate and sugary things aren't fun. Families spending time together and making memories can be, see if this can be the focus rather giving and receiving "stuff" that's not needed

I do a very elaborate Easter egg hunt with lots of clues, choc eggs and other treats and a pressie at the end for my 7 GC. Varying ages means varying clues and treats. But even my kids (in their 30 /40s love it. All the clues are in rhyme and appropriate for their age. It takes me ages to set it all up, but I love it!
Do what you feel like doing and don't get lumbered into something you don't want.

I agree with chewbacca, it's yet another excuse for the retailers to get us to part with more money. A small egg is surely sufficient. If the parents can afford to indulge that's fair enough.

I don’t stick with anything per se. My kids always had hunt the ‘chocolate’, as I thought there was better value in chocolate bars than eggs, but they always got plenty of eggs from numerous aunts/grand parents etc. My grand children get according to whether we are with them or not. It’s £5.00 each, and usually a story or art book if we won’t be seeing them, and a treasure hunt if we are there.

To Christians Easter is far more important than Christmas because it’s the cornerstone of Christianity; Jesus’ resurrection and promise of the hope of eternal life. Hence the big celebration. We also have a big Christmas type meal plus a family Easier egg hunt