I keep seeing people post their kids Easter baskets. Am I the only one who has empty baskets so my kids can hunt for eggs and that's it?

We had both. Easter baskets with stuff usually candy and small toys but they were always prepackaged not like going out and puttin big ticket items in it.

I got my kids swim suits, a few outfits, shoes for my daughter and a book.

Everything but the book was needed. You’re not bad for not doing anything. I wasn’t going to get anything but I figured we needed these things and couldn’t make it to their birthday with what we had so an Easter basket was nice here.

I don’t do Easter baskets. He gets an empty one and we do an egg hunt. I think people overglamorize Easter nowadays and have totally lost the plot with it by treating it almost like another Christmas time.

A wee egg hunt and some chocolate is more than enough!!

We do usually one or 2 small gifts and some candy and treats. My parents did the same when I was growing up and I am kind of following their example. I still have Halloween and Christmas candy around the house, so we definitely don’t go overboard. Too much candy just gets thrown out.

I don’t think it’s fair to label it consumerist.
My daughter’s Easter basket cost less than £12 to fill with things like chocolates, colouring pens, bubbles. I do it because I thoroughly enjoy seeing her full of joy.
You don’t have to do it. Easter egg hunts are joyful enough! It’s just something extra I like to do and a lot of others do too.

I don’t do Easter baskets. I don’t want my kids to expect presents for every single holiday. (We have had some issues with this and we’re working on it so more presents right now isn’t a good idea.) This holiday is about Jesus being risen. We do an Easter egg hunt at my friend’s parents’ house every year so they do get candy and small items in those.

We did Easter baskets and a egg hunt 🤷🏿‍♀️

No Easter baskets here.

In the morning she gets an empty basket and has to find the 10 plastic eggs I’ll fill tonight and hide. That’s plenty for us, she got an Easter colouring book this week that she’s been doing.

My little guys 4mnths, my step mom made him one, but it was sleepers and a personalized teddy + teether. Next year he’ll be a year old. Definitely gonna do a hunt but eh on the useless things in baskets more things he’ll love or use

I think a lot of it is just amplified by social media. I’m 41 and I’ve always gotten little gifts in my Easter basket but it’s not like anyone knew that outside of our family back in the 80s lol. We still do baskets for everyone including adults. We are holiday people 🤷‍♀️

My kids have different Easter baskets for Easter morning than they do for egg hunts (well only the toddler is old enough for egg hunts).

This year I'm just giving them an empty Easter bucket . Since my boyfriends family are giving the kids stuff like toys and snacks

I don't think either thing is true. You're not a bad mom for not making a whole Easter basket and it's also not consumerist if you did 🤷‍♀️ Growing up, we got Easter Baskets filled with little toys and also did an egg hunt. I filled little Easter baskets for both my kids. Nothing huge, my son got a coloring pack, a monster truck, some rubber ducks, and a stuffed bunny and ty dog. My daughter a blanket and a lovey.

They also both got baskets from the grandparents 😂

Depends on their age. Everyone does it differently and that’s okay!

My youngest is 16 months so we’re doing eggs and a basket that has bluey pajamas, bingo stuffy, bath ducks and books. My oldest(7 yrs) got 3D printed dragon eggs, Harry Potter goldfish, Barbie jellybeans, membership to the zoo and passes to imagination station. We usually just take our kids to church for egg hunts instead, less hassle.

Definitely not a bad mom. Everyone does things different. Growing up we always got baskets on Easter. As my siblings started having kids, my mom would do an egg hunt for them and then years later started doing one for all her adult kids as well. Last year for our baby's first Easter we did a basket with a stuffy, new outfit, and a bubble machine. This year we got some coloring things, a book, and a football that his dad already gave him 🤦‍♀️ we will be going to my parents and doing the egg hunts there. For us personally, I don't like the big baskets on Easter. Just little things that are needed and will be used. I like the idea of a little egg hunt at home instead of a basket as my baby gets older.

Not a bad mom. We do both. But it’s because I enjoy doing it. Not because I think everyone should 🤷🏼‍♀️

I do Easter baskets, Easter eggs & Easter egg hunt.
Always have & always will.
Couldn’t give a shit what other people think or say, they’re my children!🥰

I dont do easter baskets just 2 eggs each and a little hunt later on

My oldest is 10, this year he has a fidget toy and 3 (1 big, 2 medium) eggs from me, and sweets and smaller chocolates.
My youngest is 5 months and she has a moana teddy, carrot chewy and peter rabbit Easter book, small sensory toy and letter from the Easter bunny.

I used to go overboard like 10 eggs and toys for my son but the toys wouldnt get played with apart from the day and the chocolate wouldn’t all be ate.
So we do easter treats also over the holiday instead and spend the time together

My kids get 3 filled baskets each but we don't do egg hunting. Just not a tradition of ours

Egg baskets are a US thing. The UK is more about the chocolate.

You just reminded me... I haven't even thought I need a basket I think I may do a toy this year and like you said eggs

girl Easter is tomorrow. You best hurry up lol

My son is having an egg and a book from us, then he has a bag to do an egg hunt at my parents' house with his cousins. We never had baskets as kids. We keep it pretty low key

I knowww 😭 mom brain

I’ve never bothered with Easter baskets, I set the eggs / chocolates out the night before Easter for them to wake up to; then we do an egg hunt in the afternoon at their grandmothers x

Easter as a child was never gifts, it was a chocolate egg and a Sunday dinner, that was it. I don’t like this expectation that social media has made to buy stuff constantly, what with boo baskets, Easter baskets, Christmas Eve boxes, it’s all got ridiculous.

I never did growing up, but I have for my daughter, nothing crazy though. A small egg, a couple of little bags of chocolates, 2 books and a toy (£10) no need to go crazy

I don’t do egg hunts. I got my son a scooter so he quits trying to steal everyone else’s at the playgrounds haha

As a kid I would actually paint the shell of boiled eggs. The eggs would then be hidden by an adult and we'd go and hunt for them! I loved painting eggs!! We would get some small Easter eggs, not the huge ones. Things are definitely over the top nowadays!

Our son is only 13 months, and I'm certainly not planning on gifts?! What is all that about?

I didn’t do fancy Easter baskets, but I bought some Yoto cards in the sale when it was on a couple of weeks ago, and bought a little cuddly toy for each of my girls and an Easter book for them to share. We only got eggs growing up, although I think I was given Pocahontas on VHS one year 😅 we’ve done a couple of National Trust Easter egg hunts this week too. I haven’t bought them any eggs as they’re only little. You’re not a bad mum at all! I do think social media makes you feel like you need to buy things all the time when it’s really not necessary. They’ll have way more memories from the egg hunts!

So what my parents did when we were kids, we colored real boiled eggs the night before and set them out on the table and at night the Easter bunny would hide those eggs and put candy and one toy in our Easter egg baskets and hide those too. When we woke up first we had to find our Easter egg basket and then after we find our baskets we start looking for the eggs around the house. After all eggs were found we ate our candy while mom made deviled eggs out of our Easter eggs and we ate them after they were done. Loved that tradition and will continue it with my kids. 🥰

The struggle is real, I’ve always done Easter baskets this year my baby is 6mo & I have a 10yo was debating making one for 6mo old but I just threw some things in there I normally buy honestly stuff laying around house even food pouches swimmies a rubber duck whatever, he won’t remember this one single mom no child support making it happen

This is the first year I've done an easter hamper for my boys. They get a lot of easter eggs from family so their basket is mainly easter books, bubble bath and a new towel. No toys or anything over the top as it's mainly necessities that need replacing.

We don’t do much chocolate at home, we just got her a little chocolate , a toy and some Easter craft thingy

Just a plastic egg hunt and I may put some of her old toys and books in the basket. They’re toys I bought recently because I saw them randomly and gave them to her right away. I rotate her toys and books so she’s not overwhelmed and they don’t get old. She’s only 14 months old.

I did Easter pjs so they got them last night lol and a basket with a toy they really wanted and candy

We live in a consumer capitalist society, and it always gets bigger until one side decides it's no longer sustainable or profitable.

We do empty baskets and a trail of chocolate. It's a bit of fun for our kids, but it can easily blow out if you get swept up in the hype and influence.

Kids don't remember things you get them as much as how you make them feel and the experience they have not doing a basket never makes you a bad mom unless you are giving it to one kid and not the other lol

I have a 8 month old and I bought a Easter book and I’m filling it with toys he already has 😂😂

I can't even afford an Easter basket for my daughter 😔

Our Easter basket has one toy and one book. As he gets older I might forgo and let it just be about the chocolate but he’s not really at a chocolate stage of life yet 😊

Easter was never a big deal when I was wee so I’ve not made it a big deal in my house (and my girls don’t know any different yet). We’re going to visit a farm today to see the lambs and they get Easter eggs from us, grandparents and great-grandparents but that’s it. No basket, no egg hunt.

We got candy and family time lol me and my fiance are making sure our kids aren’t expecting and are okay without the material things (hopefully)