When Easter was Easter...its not freaking xmas

[daveswoodhauler]

Sorry for the vent..

Ok, ok....just my rant a bit with Easter Sunday coming up....I remember as a kid we would get a small basket with some candy and a few eggs with a nickel in it, etc...

I know, I know...that was a while back as I am 41 now, but whats with the second coming of xmas on easter. Easter baskets with freakin WII games, Lego Sets, toys, etc. ....this multipled by my wife, mother in law, then own mom makes the car ride home seem like its Xmas Sunday.

I know banks used to have Christmas clubs...I think they could stand to make a ton of coin by starting up an Easter Basket Club.

Come on folks, who's with me that this is just out of control? Its bad enough for xmas, but now easter???

Ok, feel better now.

 

[Delta-T]

completely agree Dave. I dont get it at all. I am a religious non-subscriber, so it makes no sense to me anyways, but does there have to be some giant marketing campaign to sell us crap for every single day on the calendar? Full moon tonight you know....better get some Full Moon Stuffed Wombat Toys for the kids....you wouldn't want them to be the only kids in the neighborhood without Wombat Toys would you??

 

[jimbom]

Out here in the sticks, Easter is one holiday that has not changed much to my knowledge.

 

[GAMMA RAY]

I totally agree Dave. I just got back from the grocery store and the clerk told me she has so much shopping to do for Easter...and not food shopping. The easter bunny is friggin bringing one of her kids a bike! WTF?
I used to get a small basket with candy in it and that was it.
I don't have kids so I am guessing this is the new thing...presents now from that stupid bunny.
What's next the freakin tooth fairy bringing something other than a couple quarters?

 

[daveswoodhauler]

I totally agree Dave. I just got back from the grocery store and the clerk told me she has so much shopping to do for Easter...and not food shopping. The easter bunny is friggin bringing one of her kids a bike! WTF?
I used to get a small basket with candy in it and that was it.
I don't have kids so I am guessing this is the new thing...presents now from that stupid bunny.
What's next the freakin tooth fairy bringing something other than a couple quarters?

Lol, gamma.
Just for haha's I just looked at the credit card statement online with the Mrs's recent visit to "Target" for a few "easter things"...was not happy to see the coin that was dropped on my 3 boys, but what am I gonna do as the mrs's never gives me any crap about spendin $10 for a sixer of dogfish....btw I need to run to the packie tonight.
The most ironic thing about the easter gifts is that my wife just showed me what they got, and all three of my boys received there huge flying fighterplanes that you have to put together....nothing like an easter basket filled with fighter planes, tanks, and other impliments of destruction

You know what...maybe just to prove a point (or not prove a point more likely) I am going to go out and buy myself an easter basket, and fill it up with a bunch of nonsense stuff for me ...I am going to hide it, and then place it outside my bedroom door before I go to bed that says "To David, from the Easter Bunny"...I guess I'll buy a few things I can actually use, and the rest just a bunch of useless items......this should go off like a fart in church......:man who fart in church sit in own pew"

 

[BrotherBart]

Why back when I was a kid we had to lay our own eggs and...

 

[daveswoodhauler]

Why back when I was a kid we had to lay our own eggs and...

Man, I can't imagine finding a dinosaur egg in my backyard, that would be really cool....I know, bd joke, sorry.

 

[GAMMA RAY]

Fill your basket with Dogfish Head Dave....

I hate those easter bunny costumes. All the bunnys I see in various malls all look totally cracked and dimented. I have to wonder what kind of individual is behind those bunny costumes. It was on the news recently that one just got arrested here for being a child molester and for child porn.
Nuff said there on that issue.

 

[daveswoodhauler]

Fill your basket with Dogfish Head Dave....

I hate those easter bunny costumes. All the bunnys I see in various malls all look totally cracked and dimented. I have to wonder what kind of individual is behind those bunny costumes. It was on the news recently that one just got arrested here for being a child molester and for child porn.
Nuff said there on that issue.

My Mom used to take me and my sis to the mall back in the mid 1970's to have our picture taken with the Easter bunny. Most times I ran the other way as I was scared of that thing in that suit/getup....the one time I didn't run cause my mom had me by the arm I did have my picture taken and I cried the whole time...never did go back to the easter bunny again....the easter bunny and folks dressed as clowns are in the same class if you ask my opinion.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

I'm for losing a lot of the superficial commercialism and plastic crap 365 1/4 days a year, but whatever people want to give kids in none of my bizz I guess.

That all said- they should have Cadbury eggs (candy coated, and cream filled) all year. Tried getting my rabbit to lay them like on the commercial, but hers tasted like crap.

 

[firebroad]

I'm for losing a lot of the superficial commercialism and plastic crap 365 1/4 days a year, but whatever people want to give kids in none of my bizz I guess.

That all said- they should have Cadbury eggs (candy coated, and cream filled) all year. Tried getting my rabbit to lay them like on the commercial, but hers tasted like crap.

Yes, but how did the jellybeans taste?

This is a GREAT post, by the way. Fighterplanes for Easter! Ha ha ha

 

[Mrs. Krabappel]

What's next the freakin tooth fairy bringing something other than a couple quarters?

To be fair, my kiddo has always been afraid to pull his teeth. The adult tooth would be growing in behind the loose baby tooth. The bribe was cheaper than the dentist.

 

[Delta-T]

I'm for losing a lot of the superficial commercialism and plastic crap 365 1/4 days a year, but whatever people want to give kids in none of my bizz I guess.

That all said- they should have Cadbury eggs (candy coated, and cream filled) all year. Tried getting my rabbit to lay them like on the commercial, but hers tasted like crap.

I gave up milk chocolate, and then Cadbury came out with Dark chocolate mini eggs (like crack for us chocholics). Need 12 step program now. Can't wait till they make the dark chocolate cream egg though, haven't had any cream eggs for a few years now (the wife eats them to taunt me). I will never understand the whole "peeps" thing though. Sugar coated marshmallow birds? Not so appetizing. That in mind, Dover, NH public library does some kind of competition every year called the "Peeps Show" where participants make dioramas pertaining to books using peeps for all the characters....pretty funny.

 

[GAMMA RAY]

Put some of those marshmallow peeps in the mic.....see what happens....

 

[fossil]

I find it all relatively easy to just ignore.

 

[PapaDave]

Been working on a friend's bathroom this week, and while we were there, his wife had to go shopping 3 4 of the 5 days to get stuff for Easter. Most of it was for the grandkids, and THEN she thought about the food. They might make it to church.
"Uh, I don't think so, Tim." (vague Tim Allen reference)
Consumerism and capitalism at it's finest.

 

[fishingpol]

Thanksgiving is about the only non-commercialized holiday that I look forward to. Sitting with the family and turkey dinner. Bliss.

 

[greg13]

Welcome to mass marketing 101, Make the people THINK they have to buy things.

 

[Dix]

When I was a kid, we got a semi smallish basket (saved from year to year, I still have one) with a hollow bunny, eggs, some jelly beans and a few other teeth destroying wizards (new tbrushes were placed in the bathroom as well

).

One thing my Mom did, and I carried on the tradition, was the egg hunt (after a family fun filled night of dying eggs

) was to put the obligatory egg in my slippers. Carried that one on with the Dixiette,. works wonders. As a matter of fact, think I'm gonna get one of those cheapo dye kits tomorrow, and hide me a slipper egg, or two

Can't wait to hear Erin's response

 

[begreen]

I find it all relatively easy to just ignore.

Yah, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, etc. have become opportunities to push more consumption instead of being a day of gratitude and reflection. Ignoring the commercial side is a very healthy start IMO.

 

[webbie]

Heck, I was just having my grand kid look for the Matzoh Bunny.......

 

[Dix]

Did she find it???

 

[firebroad]

We had the same Easter baskets, year after year. They sat in the back of the closet, with the original cellophane grass from year to year, and were replentished every Easter Eve with a chocolate bunny, some colored candy eggs that had a hard shell and a cream/nougat/marshmallowey filling(haven't seen them in years), peeps (my fav), a generous sprinkling of jelly beans, and lots of colored hard boiled eggs. We sometimes took one of those eggs to church to be blessed by a priest, not sure why.
The fun part was rummaging around in the grass stuff sometime in June and finding a stray jelly bean that had somehow escaped us in the spring--a real treasure!
When my own daughter came along, I didn't really want her to have so much sugar, because unlike my generation, Christmas, Halloween and Easter where NOT the only times she got candy, so I did what a lot of us did, and substitute non-sweet treats. So I guess the practice mutated into what it always does in an affluent society, overindulgence.

 

[firefighterjake]

Random thoughts . . .

Easter . . . heck any holiday . . . is only what we allow it to be. If you feel Easter or Christmas or National Nutmeg Day is too commercial then you simply need to take a stand and refuse to follow the lemmings who follow everyone else's lead (i.e. other parents, business, advertisers, etc.) and make your own holiday traditions. I suspect most kids would be unhappy in the short run . . . but in the long run when they can fully appreciate each and every holiday for the reason for the holiday -- whether it be religious, to honor vets, to celebrate family, to mark one's date of birth, etc. -- and realize that their holiday has its own special traditions (rather than doing the same thing that everyone else's family does) . . . they will be happier. After all . . . how many folks here are fondly talking about happy holidays where just some candy treats made us happy or how much we enjoyed searching for hidden eggs.

I think we sometimes are our own worse enemy as we try to make things so much bigger and better than our own childhoods . . . and in the end we sometimes destroy the very thing that made us appreciate and fondly remember our own childhoods.

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Peeps . . . my father loves those things. For the life of me I don't get it though . . . marshmallow covered in colored sugar in cute chicken or rabbit shapes.


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Shopping mall Easter bunnies are creepy . . .

Here you go Gamma . . . an assortment of strange wascally wabbits.

http://www.happyplace.com/15235/the-creepiest-easter-bunny-photos-ever-taken

And a picture from a friend of mine . . . taken up in The County. Is it me or does the rabbit look like it's been smoking some of that strange wacky tobaccy based on the eye lids and curled up whiskers?

 

[firebroad]

Random thoughts . . .

Easter . . . heck any holiday . . . is only what we allow it to be. If you feel Easter or Christmas or National Nutmeg Day is too commercial then you simply need to take a stand and refuse to follow the lemmings who follow everyone else's lead (i.e. other parents, business, advertisers, etc.) and make your own holiday traditions. I suspect most kids would be unhappy in the short run . . . but in the long run when they can fully appreciate each and every holiday for the reason for the holiday -- whether it be religious, to honor vets, to celebrate family, to mark one's date of birth, etc. -- and realize that their holiday has its own special traditions (rather than doing the same thing that everyone else's family does) . . . they will be happier. After all . . . how many folks here are fondly talking about happy holidays where just some candy treats made us happy or how much we enjoyed searching for hidden eggs.

I think we sometimes are our own worse enemy as we try to make things so much bigger and better than our own childhoods . . . and in the end we sometimes destroy the very thing that made us appreciate and fondly remember our own childhoods.

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Peeps . . . my father loves those things. For the life of me I don't get it though . . . marshmallow covered in colored sugar in cute chicken or rabbit shapes.


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Shopping mall Easter bunnies are creepy . . .

Here you go Gamma . . . an assortment of strange wascally wabbits.

http://www.happyplace.com/15235/the-creepiest-easter-bunny-photos-ever-taken

And a picture from a friend of mine . . . taken up in The County. Is it me or does the rabbit look like it's been smoking some of that strange wacky tobaccy based on the eye lids and curled up whiskers?View attachment 65079

Well said, Jake!
Yeah I agree--somebody's been planting something strange in the carrot patch.