What is your budget for easter baskets for the kiddos?

[DeniseinNS]

Originally Posted by DeniseinNS
my kids get a pair of sandals, a bathing suit, a few summer clothing items, bubbles, skipping ropes, books, sidewalk chalk,a few other small trinkets and a few chocolates/candies. They each get one bigger thing as well (a barbie, transformer, etc...) Prob $50-$70 per child.
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Seriously? For Easter?

yes They also get baskets from each sets of grandparents that have just as much or more. I enjoy spoiling them for easter, christmas, birthdays and grading day. These are the only times that they get new toys. You should see Christmas at our house LOL.

 

[mousefanmichelle]

When I was a kid the basket was all candy - no toys, no books, no clothes - just candy and lots of it! The bunny hid the basket and I found it!

With my kids we use the baskets from year to year and it's mostly about candy too!
Choc. bunnies, reese eggs, jelly beans, gum, peeps, pez, gummies. I don't buy candy usually for them so for Easter that is what they get. If we are going on vacation after Easter they sometimes get googles or flip flops or a new swim suit. This year we will be in Florida for the actual holiday and I don't know what I am going to do. Any ideas?
Kids are 15, 13, and 11.

 

[pixiewings71]

Not much, they get about $20-40 worth of stuff. We still have candy from Christmas and Halloween so they won't get much candy at all. Just a few things like peanut butter eggs, a chocolate bunny, some sweetarts and maybe jelly beans. I give them each a cute pair of Easter themed earrings, maybe a shirt and skort combo but that's about it. I do check and see what movies and music might be on sale and if something is really good I pop that in the basket too but that's a special thing and it doesn't happen that much.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Originally Posted by DeniseinNS
my kids get a pair of sandals, a bathing suit, a few summer clothing items, bubbles, skipping ropes, books, sidewalk chalk,a few other small trinkets and a few chocolates/candies. They each get one bigger thing as well (a barbie, transformer, etc...) Prob $50-$70 per child.
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yes They also get baskets from each sets of grandparents that have just as much or more. I enjoy spoiling them for easter, christmas, birthdays and grading day. These are the only times that they get new toys. You should see Christmas at our house LOL.

Good for u! Hey, they are only young once! I'd do it if I could too

 

[monorailsilver]

I don't spend much about $20 a basket and I keep the baskets from year to year..there is one little detail we do that most don't and it started with my mom..when were kids one year it was raining so hard that mom didn't know what to do so she hid our baskets in the house and it became a tradition that I have carried on with my kids

this is the part that is so much fun ..we have made it into a scavenger hunt...I make up clues and they have to follow them to find their baskets..one year I had poems in the color of their baskets so they would know which was theirs..(we had to buy new one that year) but it was so much fun...

now that they are teens I don't know what to..I need a creative idea

I do that for my kids too. I put the first clue in the living room, well the Easter Bunny does & then clue #2 is in my bed this way my kids don't go snooping around the house to find their baskets & I can tell them to go back to sleep. They love it.

I also throw a lot (like a medium size plastic storage tote) of eggs on the grass. I get up at about 5 to do that while my husband sleeps.

Oh & I was in Walmart today & I got my kids a small little kite. By small I mean about 3 inches. The girls got a butterfly one & my son got an airplane. They can fly those in my yard easily vs going to the beach with the bigger kites.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I usually intend on spending about $20 each, but I always spend more. Last year I think I spent about $30-35 each.

 

[elmo2wdw]

Another big spender here...but it is my choice! Candy is a waste of money and not good for the teeth...so they get a few select favorites and then it is clothes and spring/summer toys (bikes, nerf guns, water guns, sport supplies and pool toys). I have 3 boys and I spend anywhere from $300 - $500 at Easter.

I know it is not what others do but that is what my parents did and I love the smiles on my kids faces Easter morning! They are very aware that this is not the normal Easter morning that most kids have.

Plus I do an Easter Basket/Present for my niece and I spend about $50 on her.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Another big spender here...but it is my choice! Candy is a waste of money and not good for the teeth...so they get a few select favorites and then it is clothes and spring/summer toys (bikes, nerf guns, water guns, sport supplies and pool toys). I have 3 boys and I spend anywhere $300 - $500 at Easter.

I know it is not what others do but that is what my parents did and I love the smiles on my kids faces Easter morning! They are very aware that this is not the normal Easter morning that most kids have.

Plus I do an Easter Basket/Present for my niece and I spend about $50 on her.

I've got to keep this one to show my husband. Thanks for making me look good.

 

[elmo2wdw]

No problem...LOL It drives my husband crazy too! "It's not Christmas....basket and candy...nothing else". He just rolls his eyes Easter morning when he sees what I really bought!

 

[Trish Bessette]

Another "big" spender here. Two DD's 16 & 13 and I spend around $400 total. I get some spring clothes, iTunes gift cards, gas cards for oldest, perfume, nail polish, DVD's, DS games for youngest, sandles, pretty much anything but candy

Heck I used to hide the plastic eggs everywhere with $10, $5 in them!

Holidays are when I love to splurge. I was brought up with big holidays and I do the same.

 

[dansamy]

Another big spender here...but it is my choice! Candy is a waste of money and not good for the teeth...so they get a few select favorites and then it is clothes and spring/summer toys (bikes, nerf guns, water guns, sport supplies and pool toys). I have 3 boys and I spend anywhere from $300 - $500 at Easter.

I know it is not what others do but that is what my parents did and I love the smiles on my kids faces Easter morning! They are very aware that this is not the normal Easter morning that most kids have.

Plus I do an Easter Basket/Present for my niece and I spend about $50 on her.

Wow! I only spend about $150 per kid for Christmas! (That means $450 total.)

 

[stsomewhere]

oOOOOOh I get those same looks but I got your budget beat by miles... Its about 150$ per kid.. Yes Yes I know I know I'm crazy... but what is a kid going to do with a bike in December in PA? So we wait til Easter to buy that kind of stuff. This year they are begging for Flip Cameras.

My kids are getting new bikes ,too.

 

[Familyof4lovesDW]

I really like Easter, even more when it does not snow on that day and is warm enough for an Easter egg hunt and does not rain. I try not to go too crazy. Last year they got new ds games because we were driving to wdw 2 weeks later. I like the beach towel idea, they are starting to outgrow the characters on the ones they have (dora & diego). I do not get much candy, DS is happy with a bag of plain m&m's. This year I hit the target bin after christmas and got them somethings. I actually cannot remember what all I got, it is hidden at my moms. We do an Easter egg hunt at my aunt's and DH's aunts house. Plus my mom hides eggs at her house and she get them a basket with a little candy and sandals for summer. Plus my other aunt buys all the nieces and nephews a little something (there is only 4 total). We usually have candy until summer comes lol. Easter = Warm Weather Coming Soon

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Well I start with a $25 Disney gift card. DDs - lots of perfume and bath products (Justice, B&B), summer pajamas, sleep masks, jewelery, hair accessories and a little big of candy. DS - Wii games, basketball jersey, basketball and baseball cards and a little bit of candy.

Probably about $100 a basket. I do wait until I have the 40% discount card (just got one) to do the shopping at Justice.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

bump

 

[lillygator]

I don't keep track but this year they will probably get a dvd and a wii game (for all of us really) one or so things of candy, a spring outfit, and whatever else cathces my eye!

 

[sksjasams]

We use the same baskets each year. One for DH and me, on for DS, and one for Nana who visits on Easter. Candy only for us and Nana. DS gets candy, plus around a $20 gift.
I bought too much for Christmas this year though, so I am using some of those gifts now. He got a lego set for Valentines day and he will get another for Easter. The one for Easter is a $50 SW lego set that I got with a borders coupon for $30. Too good of deal to return, so its hiding in my car trunk.

 

[cristit14]

I would say that normally between 20 -30. Usually some candy and a movie or a game. This year I won't be doing baskets at all because we will be flying home from Maui that day.

 

[quentina]

I do a season pass to DOrney park ($100) and one bunny. So, around 110 for each kid (plus my pass).