Easter Baskets - Do you use them?

[Ashbiez]

I'm 26 and the youngest of 4 kids, my mom still gets each of us a big chocolate bunny on Easter (including boyfriends, if she likes them haha). She does baskets for the grandkids.

Working in a toystore you wouldn't believe what Easter has become in some families. Its a second Christmas!! We do a special promo for customers to spend a certain amount in the small trinkets (bubbles, jelly beans, party-favor type items) and they get a free bucket to use as a basket - its so fun to help them pick out all the little things!
We also have some customers who buy $90 Lego sets or tons of games/crafts for their kids for Easter.

All I ever got in my basket was Candy, Bubbles, Chalk and those windup chickens that pooped out bubble gum eggs!!

 

[prncess674]

I am 35 and my mom still makes me an Easter basket! There is always a bit of candy, socks, gift card to my favorite jeweler and other cute things in the basket. I don't make my parents an Easter basket per se, but I do give them Easter presents. Last year I got Mom an antique magazine table she had been eyeing and I got Dad an Ipod Nano.

If you think Easter baskets are a burden then don't do it.

 

[cnlmom]

We do baskets as well. I do not buy much for the kids through out the year so we tend to "overcelebrate" at holiday times.
We always include a movie in our baskets....disney seems to always put out a movie just in time to do this....how very clever of them. Truth be told, I would have bought the movie anyway, so heck, might as well add it to the basket!!!
Last year we were camping at Fort Wildernes for Easter....we had a AWESOME time. Tinkerbell teamed up with the Easterbunny and left a ton of eggs and little prizes all around our campsite. Since I am cheapI went to the dollar tree which is a great place for disney related trinkets, and the hit a disney store clearance during the months prior to our trip so I was well stocked up. Even lucked out and bought the year before at a 75 off after easter sale some supercool Disney themed plastic eggs.
This year I got some DS games saved from a great sale last November along with some other items. I tend to put toys and such in the baskets and minimal candy. My dd will just gobble it all up and then be out of control the entire day, (poor sweetie has no selfcontrol with candy), so we just avoid issues by just not giving much more than a pez dispenser (I just gather up the ones from the year before that are discarded and add new candy....try it, switch between a few and no one is ever the wiser) and a pack of peeps. Chocolate is also purchased, but usually for me!!!

 

[lathamary]

We hide plastic eggs with money in them around the house. (some with just a dime, some with a dollar) Our 7 year old loves it; I'm sure even your grown up kids would love it! I don't think there's an age limit on the joy of finding money

 

[ohlas]

Oh let them eat all the candy they want on easter and halloween.

I do baskets for 22, 20 these 2 moved away / 16, 6 year old at home, but I do baskets for all of them...they have their own baskets for the easter bunny to fill from when they where little little

I just give them candy the good kind, and a private local made cho bunnies they are so good...

my husband get the most candy lol boy i wish i could eat like him lol

 

[momejay]

For the ones that are home...(DS 14 & DDs 16) I make a basket of things they need. Last year, it was trial size items to use for an upcoming school trip & a gift card. This year they will be lucky to get an Easter outfit.
I never really put much candy in their baskets when they were little. I got the matchbox cars in eggs for my son, bubbles, a toothbrush, nail polish, puzzles, jump ropes...Every year they would get a few children's books with a religious theme so they remember why we celebrate. (Noah's Ark, etc.)

 

[Mom2Ben02]

I am 33, married, pregnant with my third child - and still get candy from my mom for Easter

For my own kids (5&7), I buy summer things I would be buying anyway. They always get flip flops, a beach towel, swim suit, bubbles, kite, water bottle, etc. My DD is getting Princess & the Frog on Blu-ray. My son is getting the Lego movie that he is obsessed with.

We color real eggs, and hide fake ones. I go to Chuck E Cheese with one of the 100 tokens for $10 coupons, and use them to fill the eggs. We then have several outings paid for by the Easter Bunny

Oh, and yes - the baby is getting a basket. My family buys fetuses presents