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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This is what I do for my kids now. They are excited to find eggs with pennies and nickels

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Sounds fun! My kids would love it. We mix chocolate and the golden egg has money. Kids are getting too old. 13 year old still wants to go in the hunt.

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45 and middle class. It was just $20 sheesh

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45, middle class. We had $1s and $5s and I thought it was great. We only got like 6 eggs each so about $10 each

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I had not thought about it in a while but most of the eggs were candy and yes one or two eggs would have a silver dollar. Born 1974

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This is what I do for my kids now. They are excited to find eggs with pennies and nickels

We're UMC and my kids also are excited to find eggs with money in them. The oldest is 2nd grade so they don't really get how much money it really is (the 2nd grader does).

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I grew up wealthy and hunted for real dyed eggs and occasionally a few plastic ones filled with candy. Never money. We also never received money as gifts from anyone.

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My parents would hide dollar bills. When I was cleaning out the house to prepare it for sale after my mother died I found a very very old plastic egg with a very very old folded up dollar bill!

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

we got nickels, dimes, or a quarter. No dollar bills. Educated middle class.

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$20? This is one of the more shocking posts I’ve ever seen on DCUM. I’ve never heard of such a thing.

Pennies, nickels and maybe dimes. But some years they were just empty eggs and we considered that perfectly normal and fun. Some years there were jellybeans but that stopped early on because we would forget to empty them before putting them away and they melted in the attic.

Quarters are for pay phones and laundry.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Loved my white vinyl “patent leather” purse.

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I never did but we do it for our daughter. Starts with quarters and goes in different denominations, as high as a hundred dollar bill. The hundred dollar bill is in a large golden egg hidden very well in our yard.

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I have only encountered lower middle class doing this. The upper class families I know use real eggs.

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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.

What is wrong with you? No one is making anything up.

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Anonymous wrote:I have only encountered lower middle class doing this. The upper class families I know use real eggs.

Only DCUM would throw shade for an Easter egg hunt, plastic eggs for money or real eggs. GTFOH with that attitude.