How old was your child when you STOPPED making them Easter baskets?

[lovegrumpy]

I stopped doing baskets but the still get a bunny and gift cards.

 

[Southernmiss]

Going to buy my Easter Bunny goodies tomorrow. 4 kids ages 11, 14, 15, and 18. Then I'll buy some extra goodies for a "family basket" we leave on the table, mostly with treats for DH and I!

I find that as my kids get older, I feel like they need the little treats of stockings and Easter baskets MORE than they did when they were little, especially since I have one at college now.

I'll get mostly chocolate candy, a spring/summer t shirt for each of them, snack packs of cookies and/or lunch box type snacks (don't often buy those and keep them in the house) and whatever goodies strike my fancy.

About a month ago, DD saw a solar powered "dancing flowerpot" that dances to music at the dollar store and loved them. I'll see if I can still find one for her.

 

[Jacoby 46]

My kids are 15 and 13 and they still get baskets! I love to do them so I doubt I will be stopping anytime soon I just fill them with some of their favorite candy and some novelty items. We are also leaving for Disney in 11 days so I threw in a few Disney items as well...they will love it!

 

[KimOhio]

our Daughter is 19 and she still gets an Easter basket

 

[#1hoosierfan]

I am forty and I still get a basket from my mom. She makes one for my boys too....

 

[sillylily]

My 13 and 15 year olds will be getting Easter baskets. They're loaded with Disney beanies, tchirts and gift cards. And a chocolate bunny who's just begging to have his ears bitten off. And my oh so silly Lily will get a bone for good behavior.

 

[dreamin_disney]

DD14 will get one until she's 18 and graduated but not sure now. I guess if she's in college and living at home she might get a lil something. She's an only child so its easy to spoil one-lol!

We fill her basket from when she was lil. She would get 1-2 baskets each year. one from us and someone would always give her one. She ended up keeping a cute medium one she liked and we just use that every year.

This year I plan on buying her snack size bags of her favorite chips. Her favorite mints. She's not really into candy. I thought about buying her a few nail art set or a giftcard( $10-$15) to Sallys Beauty supply and 5-$1's in easter eggs. We dont go all crazy spending $$$$$.

one year we bought her just a lil bit of candy and hid eggs with $1's and change all around the house. It was fun to see her face with only a few mini candies in her basket. Then we yelled, "Easter Egg Hunt!!"

She loved going all over the house searching for eggs-lol!

 

[Trish.Glenn]

My daughter is 20 and I won't be making her a basket like I did when she was a child, the Easter bunny still visits. A bag full of goodies and a card....

 

[Mickey Fliers]

A question for those that fill a basket for your adult children. Do your children still live with you? Do they live close by or are you sending baskets through the mail?

I ask because I can't remember a time when I was home for Easter after I moved out. During college, I think I stayed at school to work or didn't have a break around Easter. After I graduated, I got married and haven't lived near my family since.

I guess I will continue to make a basket for those who will be in my home on Easter, just like I do Christmas stockings.

 

[MIGrandma]

I really can't remember for sure, as our kids are "older" being 37 and 34 now...but I imagine I made them until they left home after graduating from high school. I just changed what I put in them as they got older. Usually it was just a few small toys/gifts then lots of candy. Just last night I was thinking back to the Easter egg hunts we had for the kids. We preferred to do them outside, but if the weather was bad (and it was bad quite often) we hid them in the house. And we always colored a dozen or two eggs, the kids always enjoyed that. Ah, the memories. I did start making Easter baskets for the grandchildren too, but stopped that after just a few years when DD mentioned the kids were getting too much candy.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Mine are 16 and 14. They wanted to dye eggs yesterday

I still make baskets for them. I assume I will any time they are home for Easter. I enjoy doing it.

I use just a little candy. At this age, they mostly get a few new shirts or other spring clothing, maybe a CD or a game. This year it is a new board game each, summer scarves and socks for DD and t-shirts for DS.

 

[PollyannaMom]

DS is 12, and I don't see stopping anytime soon. My mom loved Easter, and made them for me anytime I was home.

 

[NAB]

I have done both baskets and Easter egg hunts. I wish I never started the hunt though. Wanted to stop it this year, kids are 12 and 15 soon to have birthdays in May.

My 12 says she wants a hunt because her brother had one up until last year she should get one until she is 15. Her brother doesn't care anymore.

I set out candy in bowls for the whole family and everyone gets a bigger solid bunny that includes mom and dad. I'm sure this will be the way it is until they leave home. After that if they want a solid bunny or chocolate they know where to buy it.

Besides candy and baskets are definitely not what Easter is about in our house, this being the start of Holy Week.

 

[MoukyMouse]

I'm 34 & my mom still sends me an Easter basket/package. She has to mail it since she's in TN & I'm now in PA, but she does it without fail and I look forward to it every year. *She also sends a little something for all holidays that pertain to me: Valentine's, Mother's Day, Bday.* She, of course, sends Easter baskets to my kids 10 & 8 and my DH. It's not so much a "hooray it's Easter basket" as much as it is an "I'm thinking of you basket".

Now that I'm an adult & live so far away, my "baskets" from mom tend to include a gift card, some candy, & something I wouldn't normally buy for myself but would love to have. My husband gets a $100 gift card to his favorite restaurant which my mom has to drive through 3 cities to get so it's also the fact that she took the time to think of him that makes his gift special to him.

I figure I will always gift my boys like my mom does me. I guess it's just what you grow up with & are used too. Last year, instead of a true basket, I gave my boys each a scooter (about $25 each) and of course the obligatory Chocolate Bunny. This year since we are doing Disney in April, their basket will have new Disney shirts & other fun stuff that will be used on our trip (& of course a chocolate bunny).

 

[Katy Belle]

My kids are 13,15,17. They still get baskets. Its mostly candy, and plastic eggs filled with cash, usually about $15 per kid. Each basket is probably around $25.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I'll have to let you know. My oldest is 19 and I'm still making him baskets. My MIL still makes us baskets.

Forgot the second part of your question. In the past, I've spent about $40-$75+ each, but this year I'm spending less because I'm currently unemployed. I think this year it's about $25-$30 each.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey12]

I asked my 28 yr old son how old he was when I last made him an Easter basket. I thought it was around 15. He said I made him one until he moved out at 18.

But the last few years I have been making him an Easter bag full of candy and goodies I know he like, like SLim Jims and Ferrer Rocher expensive little boxes of candy. He looks forward to it now because he knows I buy him everything he likes.

This year about half of the different little candies and bunnies and carrot shaped chocolates I bought were Lindt. I have never had that brand of chocolate before. I hope it is good. I didn't buy them all Lindt brand on purpose but when I got them that is what they all turned out to be.

I didn't spend $50 on my DS28 and his g/f. I spent about $50 total for the both of them. The younger ones get more stuff than the older ones.

If I only had one child I probably would have kept giving him a basket all his life but when it was 3 kids I guess I decided 18 was old enough.

 

[AustinTink]

I will be making my DS a basket or Easter treat for the rest of his life. His wife and kids will get one too someday.

My mom sent me a bunny in the mail up until the last couple of years when she got sick. I will always remember that.

 

[Liberty Belle]

A question for those that fill a basket for your adult children. Do your children still live with you? Do they live close by or are you sending baskets through the mail?

I ask because I can't remember a time when I was home for Easter after I moved out. During college, I think I stayed at school to work or didn't have a break around Easter. After I graduated, I got married and haven't lived near my family since.

I guess I will continue to make a basket for those who will be in my home on Easter, just like I do Christmas stockings.

We live about 2 miles from my MIL and always go over to see her near Easter, if not on Easter. We have two kids and she makes baskets for them and us, too.

My parents live about an hour and a half away, but they always come up on or near Easter to see us and the kids and they usually make the kids baskets and sometimes make one for us, or sometimes just give each of us candy.

 

[SpartanMommy]

I am 30 and my mom still makes me an Easter basket!