People who grew up with money hidden in Easter Eggs, what age are you and was your family wealthy?

[Anonymous]

I never heard of this. Someone explain. Did you get $20 in each? Was it one that had money or all?

[Anonymous]

45 and no

[Anonymous]

It was small denominations like quarters

[Anonymous]

I grew up where money was in eggs, but most were a penny, a few eggs with nickles, there was always one golden egg with a dollar. If you didn’t get the golden egg you would end up with about 80 cents. We weren’t rich.

[Anonymous]

We hide hundreds of eggs throughout our yard. Each kid has a large, gold egg that has their name on it. The super special egg does have a $20, plus other prized candy or stickers or whatever. We go to great lengths to hide their special eggs. The rest of the eggs have pennies, dimes, quarters, jelly beans, stickers in them. We buy some filler items (I HATE trash fillers so it's always useful stuff like hair ties), but then the rest get whatever spare change we have. 300+ eggs doesn't sounds like a lot, but I spend several nights stuffing these dumb eggs. lol. I quickly run out of filler and pennies are great!

The kids are super into it. They're required to wear matching Easter pajamas and their bunny ears. We have a sound track too (Mission impossible, the bunny hop, etc)

I grew up an only child who dreamed about having a large family to celebrate with on holidays. My parent was a doctor and usually couldn't be there on Easter or Christmas morning. My basket was lovely though, but no money. On years my parent didn't work we did have an Easter egg hunt with money with my cousins.

[Anonymous]

I put quarters in some eggs to reduce the amount of candy. We have one golden egg that I put a dollar bill in. I grew up in modest economic circumstances and we didn’t do eggs at all, just baskets.

[Anonymous]

Grew up with Easter baskets filled with Easter candy and small easter toys like hopping bunnies and fuzzy chicks. We did an egg hunt for our kids with plastic eggs filled with Easter candy and stickers. Money always seemed crass.

[Anonymous]

Haha I am a boomer. We used real boiled eggs and had to eat them all eeek.

[Anonymous]

I’m 50. We had this as a kid. There would be one golden egg for each kid that usually had $20 in it and all the other eggs had change. Each kid could only get one golden egg but the rest were up for grabs.

We were NOT wealthy.

I did do this same tradition with my kids when they were little (they’re not late teens).

[Anonymous]

We had real dyed eggs, and a few plastic ones. Most of the plastic ones were filled with candy, but a few had quarters in them. The real fun of it was shaking the eggs filled with quarters to make noise. We also went to church, so for me, as a kid, that meant a new dress and dress shoes, and sometimes a spring weight coat, and even a hat, purse, and gloves. Lol: I was a kid who enjoyed accessories! When I got older though, my Mom would draw cards and do things like a bunny holding a real 50 bill or include a gift card for “Easter clothes”. We were not wealthy.

[Anonymous]

My stepfather did this. I actually hated it. He was basically bribing his own kids to come over for Easter because there would be a significant amount of money involved (well, significant for a teenager). The plastic eggs would be hidden all over the yard and they had bills in them, mostly $1 and $5, but some $10 and $20 and a couple of $50 ... and one $100 bill would be out there somewhere.

Afterwards we'd have to pose for a picture with money fanned out in our hands. Tacky AF.

This was mid to late 80s in the northern Midwest. Middle class (stepfather was a doctor).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My stepfather did this. I actually hated it. He was basically bribing his own kids to come over for Easter because there would be a significant amount of money involved (well, significant for a teenager). The plastic eggs would be hidden all over the yard and they had bills in them, mostly $1 and $5, but some $10 and $20 and a couple of $50 ... and one $100 bill would be out there somewhere.

Afterwards we'd have to pose for a picture with money fanned out in our hands. Tacky AF.

This was mid to late 80s in the northern Midwest. Middle class (stepfather was a doctor).

Did you consider he missed his kids and wanted to spend time with them? Did you consider that some people (especially men) are socially awkward and don't know how to interact with others, especially disgruntled and sensitive teens? Come on, this isn't exactly evil stepfather shenanigans.

[Anonymous]

My grandmother always gave us $20 in an egg. That was in the 80s. It was a lot of money then. Probably like $100 now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My stepfather did this. I actually hated it. He was basically bribing his own kids to come over for Easter because there would be a significant amount of money involved (well, significant for a teenager). The plastic eggs would be hidden all over the yard and they had bills in them, mostly $1 and $5, but some $10 and $20 and a couple of $50 ... and one $100 bill would be out there somewhere.

Afterwards we'd have to pose for a picture with money fanned out in our hands. Tacky AF.

This was mid to late 80s in the northern Midwest. Middle class (stepfather was a doctor).

Did you consider he missed his kids and wanted to spend time with them? Did you consider that some people (especially men) are socially awkward and don't know how to interact with others, especially disgruntled and sensitive teens? Come on, this isn't exactly evil stepfather shenanigans.

Well, not "shenanigans" ... when I was 11 and he was dating my mother he dragged me across a room by my hair and shoved my head into a toilet where I thought I might drown, then pulled my head out, picked me up, and threw me across the wall. Because I was "too loud" while talking to his daughter. This was before he was even my stepfather, and it was downhill from there. So ... there was context. So maybe calm down your aggressive and desperate desire to correct people on the internet lest you reveal yourself to be the idiot you are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My stepfather did this. I actually hated it. He was basically bribing his own kids to come over for Easter because there would be a significant amount of money involved (well, significant for a teenager). The plastic eggs would be hidden all over the yard and they had bills in them, mostly $1 and $5, but some $10 and $20 and a couple of $50 ... and one $100 bill would be out there somewhere.

Afterwards we'd have to pose for a picture with money fanned out in our hands. Tacky AF.

This was mid to late 80s in the northern Midwest. Middle class (stepfather was a doctor).

Did you consider he missed his kids and wanted to spend time with them? Did you consider that some people (especially men) are socially awkward and don't know how to interact with others, especially disgruntled and sensitive teens? Come on, this isn't exactly evil stepfather shenanigans.

Well, not "shenanigans" ... when I was 11 and he was dating my mother he dragged me across a room by my hair and shoved my head into a toilet where I thought I might drown, then pulled my head out, picked me up, and threw me across the wall. Because I was "too loud" while talking to his daughter. This was before he was even my stepfather, and it was downhill from there. So ... there was context. So maybe calm down your aggressive and desperate desire to correct people on the internet lest you reveal yourself to be the idiot you are?


Hardly makes her an idiot because she can't tell from your idiotic post that you're carrying around enough of a grudge to make up weird crap on the internet.