I love the idea of summer items in the basket! I grew up in Minneapolis...one year when Easter fell on the early side, it snowed and we made a snow bunny. Needless to say, swimsuits were not on the Easter bunny's mind! On the plus side, it is a super cute photo/memory and the snow did make the egg hunt easier.

On topic: We will spend ~$5-10 total on candy and re-use a small basket that we already have; DD is under a year, so it is really just for me.

Anonymous wrote:I don't get this get a child a bunch of gifts for a holiday business. I tend to give my child something along the way. If I see something that is useful and he might enjoy, I buy and give it to him right away. Why put so much in the basket or under the tree at once?

We didn't get gifts for every little holiday growing up, and I don't give my kid gifts for everything, but Easter is the most important holy day in the Christian calendar. It doesn't strike me as odd that someone who celebrated Christmas in even a partially religious way would likewise celebrate Easter. Gift-giving is a fairly normal way to celebrate a major holiday. The Easter gifts were smaller and fewer, but we got a basket with some candy and something small, often something for the summer, like sunglasses or sand toys.

Do people hide easter baskets. My parents did this for us and it was big deal to hunt for the easter basket on Easter morning. Is that just something my parents did or is that actually a thing?

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are actually answering this with their HHI. DCUM never ceases to amaze.

I'm astonished that people do Easter baskets.

Who doesn't do Easter baskets?

Me. And other people who aren't Christian.

I'm not christian. easter bunny still visits us

I'm an atheist and I do Easter Baskets. Just took my kid to see the Easter Bunny and will go on some Easter egg hunts over the next couple of weeks. Easter is fun.

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I am not a troll. It was a genuine question. The poster I was responding to said it was an "American" thing. Well, Americans include non-Christians, for your information, so I was curious if this was something new since I too grew up in America and never encountered it even among my Christian friends. (And I was invited for Easter celebrations.) No need to be an asshole, you can just answer the question.

Not possible to grow up in America and NEVER encounter an Easter basket. Sorry. Fail.

Agree. Not possible unless maybe you grew up in an orthodox neighborhood in brooklyn or something. Easter stuff is all over the grocery store, drug store, gift stores, newspaper and junk mail adds, TV. it's everywhere.

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I am not a troll. It was a genuine question. The poster I was responding to said it was an "American" thing. Well, Americans include non-Christians, for your information, so I was curious if this was something new since I too grew up in America and never encountered it even among my Christian friends. (And I was invited for Easter celebrations.) No need to be an asshole, you can just answer the question.

Not possible to grow up in America and NEVER encounter an Easter basket. Sorry. Fail.

Yeah I'm calling BS on this. My atheist Russian husband who didn't even move here until he was 19 knows no kids before our own knows about easter baskets. Not necessary what goes into them but he knows what they are.

I am not a troll. It was a genuine question. The poster I was responding to said it was an "American" thing. Well, Americans include non-Christians, for your information, so I was curious if this was something new since I too grew up in America and never encountered it even among my Christian friends. (And I was invited for Easter celebrations.) No need to be an asshole, you can just answer the question.

Not possible to grow up in America and NEVER encounter an Easter basket. Sorry. Fail.

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I'm astonished that people do Easter baskets.

Who doesn't do Easter baskets?

Me. And other people who aren't Christian.

It's not a Christian thing. It's more American/pagan. Yes Christians do it too, but it's not a church thing.

I am Jewish and have never heard of it. And all my friends growing up were Christian. Is it a new thing?

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I am not a troll. It was a genuine question. The poster I was responding to said it was an "American" thing. Well, Americans include non-Christians, for your information, so I was curious if this was something new since I too grew up in America and never encountered it even among my Christian friends. (And I was invited for Easter celebrations.) No need to be an asshole, you can just answer the question.

I am in my 50s, half jewish, and I had easter baskets as a kid. No, it's not a new thing. Do you seriously not go into a Target, CVS, Giant, Safeway, Williams Sonoma, or any other store between Valentines Day (when the Easter stuff comes out) and Easter? Or see the ads in the circulars? Of get any catalogs? There are Easter baskets everywhere at this time of year.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are actually answering this with their HHI. DCUM never ceases to amaze.

I'm astonished that people do Easter baskets.

Who doesn't do Easter baskets?

Me. And other people who aren't Christian.

I'm not christian. easter bunny still visits us

And we are Christian, and the Easter bunny does not visit us. Kids get little gifts (PJ's, some candy, maybe a book?) but they come from mom and dad.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are actually answering this with their HHI. DCUM never ceases to amaze.

I'm astonished that people do Easter baskets.

Who doesn't do Easter baskets?

Me. And other people who aren't Christian.

I'm not christian. easter bunny still visits us

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are actually answering this with their HHI. DCUM never ceases to amaze.

I'm astonished that people do Easter baskets.

Who doesn't do Easter baskets?

Me. And other people who aren't Christian.

It's not a Christian thing. It's more American/pagan. Yes Christians do it too, but it's not a church thing.

I am Jewish and have never heard of it. And all my friends growing up were Christian. Is it a new thing?

Go away, troll.

I am not a troll. It was a genuine question. The poster I was responding to said it was an "American" thing. Well, Americans include non-Christians, for your information, so I was curious if this was something new since I too grew up in America and never encountered it even among my Christian friends. (And I was invited for Easter celebrations.) No need to be an asshole, you can just answer the question.

I think we spent 15.00 at target on stuff for the basket. We use the same Easter basket each year. We are poor- by DCUM standards. HHI 175.
Should we ask for donations??

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I'm astonished that people do Easter baskets.

Who doesn't do Easter baskets?

Me. And other people who aren't Christian.

I don't do Easter baskets either. It feels like sacrilege.

Anonymous wrote:We're French and don't do Easter baskets or see this as a gift-giving holiday. However chocolate sculptures, large and small, with little chocolate eggs inside, are big in France. In the Lenotre caterer and chocolaterie in Paris, there are displays of HUGE, intricately decorated Easter eggs, or Easter hens, or whatever takes their fancy. Those are quite expensive! Here we buy the Lindt bunnies and carrots for the children.

These are great! Thanks for sharing, I had never seen them before. I want one!

Anonymous wrote:We spend 0 on Easter baskets, HHI = 525k.

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