Spinoff - Do you buy new baskets for Easter each year?

[lovesmurfs]

My kids have flown the nest, but their baskets (okay, and grass...) were the same from year to year.

And my son's basket was actually the one I had from when I was growing up. So, with me being an antique, maybe it's worth something now.....LOL

 

[disykat]

After discovering my kids wanted to play with the baskets, I started just doing different things each year. One year the baskets were the truck beds of toy trucks, one year little plastic wheelbarrows etc. (at that time our backyard was small, more like a courtyard, and so were they - so it really added to the hunt.) Then when they were older (and our yard was bigger) I started using nicer containers or caddies they could use in their rooms. We stopped by high school, but I still have some of their old "baskets" around.

 

[Boardwalk Jedi]

Same baskets.

 

[CdnCarrie]

We have never used baskets. Didn't as a kid either.

As a kid we only got maybe a small chocolate bunny and a stuffed animal. Never did a egg hunt. However Easter was spent with my Christian grandparents who never have approved of stuff like toys at Easter.

For my kids we did Easter egg hunt when they were younger. Just hid the little chocolate eggs not those plastic things. And would maybe give them something small like sidewalk chalk or a beach towel. Kids just used a bowl or something to collect the chocolate. No basket.

 

[Ellie008]

Same baskets every year. The kids leave them out the night before. I had the same basket every year as a kid as well. I don't need more stuff floating around the house, and the idea of buying a new basket (or other container) every year is not appealing.

 

[Kitty 34]

Still have my sons' baskets; just don't use them anymore.

 

[StephMK]

No, we used the same ones every year. When the kids were really little, we had a few different wicker baskets.

One year, Target was selling cute metal baskets and each kid got one. The handles fold over, they stack, and aren't too big. Both girls got flower designs and DS got a baseball theme. I love them and store them in a rubbermaid tote with the other decorations.

We only had one kid at home this year and it may have been the last time. I'll either use them as decorations or bring them out for grandkids someday.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

Same. Last year I bought personalized baskets with their names on them from a local mom who does crafts.

 

[Wendy31]

Our kids have used the same baskets every year to hunt eggs. They each have a really pretty, sturdy wicker basket. DD & older DS have had theirs pretty much from their first Easter, but it took me a while to find one I liked for younger DS - so he went through about 3 different ones before I found the one he currently uses. He's 9, & he's had it for 4 or 5 Easters now.

We dye eggs 2-3 days before Easter, & their dyed eggs go in their baskets. The baskets then line up down the center of the kitchen table as decoration. And, then, on Easter, they use their baskets for egg hunts. (When it's not Easter season, their baskets are stored in the top of their closets.)

However, for the Easter treats & gifts & candy that they receive on Easter Sunday, I've always used something different besides their baskets.

In the past, I've used new backpacks, duffle bags, beach bags, swim bags, sand buckets, storage cubes, etc. as their Easter "treat baskets". (One year, when DD & older DS were really little, their treat baskets were plastic toy wheel barrows.) This year, their Easter treat baskets were really nice, lined laundry baskets for their bedrooms.

 

[Magical2017]

I use the same ones each year.

 

[Mickeypooh99]

We use the same basket every year. This year DS 18 got a flat rate priority mail box sent to school. The basket didn't fit so I filled the box. DS 17 still got his regular basket. He was digging through the grass and found a chocolate foil wrapped egg. Since I didn't buy those this year I told him to throw it out.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Same baskets. And this year we brought our DD's (33 yo) for DGD (2 yo) to use. Both of my kids recognized it as DD's basket.

 

[720L]

Same baskets.

 

[Pooh2]

My kids had the same baskets for 25 years.
Now I use them for blueberry picking in the summer so they are still going strong!

 

[2 Pinks]

Same baskets. They don't leave them out the night before though. They are filled (this year was a water bottle and t-shirt themed for our Disney trip in September along with some chocolates) and hidden during the egg hunt. We do Easter at my aunts house with all my cousins and their kids so we have 13 kids (ages 19 and under) who hunt for eggs outside and then hunt for their baskets inside.

 

[Summer2018]

When my DD was very young, I got her an American Girl Easter basket that was so well-made that I was able to use it for every Easter since.

When I was a child, I got a different one every year.

 

[fortwildernessishome]

As a kid, I had the same basket every year. For my kids, I never did baskets, I always used pails. When they were real little, I would buy the decorative Easter pails, but by the time they were elementary age, I started buying regular large pails. They used them every year; catching tadpoles/minnows, carrying water at the lake/beach to fill the moat around their sand castles, fishing etc. The pails got a ton of use, so they loved getting a new one every year!

 

[jaiminee krikit]

I would get a different one every Easter, from my mother and my grandma - I had so many Easter baskets hiding in my closet! (My mother is a packrat and wouldn't let us throw anything away, heck, she might still have them all somewhere!)

DD wouldn't use the same basket every year, but I have reused her baskets. This year I just put all her candy on the dining room table, I almost even forgot to do that.

 

[ForMyBoys]

Same baskets. But I prefill and put them out full. We don't put them out empty. I also gather and reuse plastic eggs when I can.

 

[neverlandsky]

Reuse the same very small bucket pail 2-4 years and then we buy a replacement. Old are donated to Goodwill. A couple of lean years baskets were just cereal bowls and the kids didn’t care. This year it was a reuse of the same 3 year old small bucket pail. Next year I’ll probably buy new baskets. Then donate the old because the kids made a comment this year of their themed buckets being outdated because 1 is sports and the other is BB8.

I just fill them and hide them. No leaving them out empty.