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Post by Chips on Apr 3, 2021 17:31:52 GMT
Today I am prepping food for Easter tomorrow and on my to do list is stuffing and hiding Easter eggs for my teenagers. Is there an age that you stopped hiding Easter eggs fro your kids? I am doing baskets so they will have that - maybe I'll work on the eggs tonight and tomorrow  |
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Post by myshelly on Apr 3, 2021 17:35:27 GMT
In my family Easter eggs contained money, so my siblings, cousins, and I hunted eggs hidden by my grandmother until we had kids of our own and then they got to hunt.
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Post by cmpeter on Apr 3, 2021 18:20:03 GMT
We stopped after elementary school. Instead we would hide their Easter basket and dh would send them on a clue based scavenger hunt. We still do that if they are home (they are 25 and 20).
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Post by dewryce on Apr 3, 2021 18:22:16 GMT
My sister and I and our husbands would go to mom’s house and the tradition continued until well into our 30s. Nothing fancy in the eggs or anything, we just liked the hunt.
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Post by Neisey on Apr 3, 2021 18:25:14 GMT
My DDs are 22/20. We stopped the first year one of them wasn’t able to come home from University.
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Post by malibou on Apr 3, 2021 18:49:17 GMT
I have an only kid, who doesn't like eggs. I couldn't wait to hide eggs, he had no interest! When he was about 4 I started hiding eggs in the front yard for neighbor kids. Still my kid wouldn't do it. He's weird.
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Post by mlcmom on Apr 3, 2021 19:33:12 GMT
My DD’s are 33, 31, and 28 - two are married. We still have Easter baskets and do a big egg hunt! They are very competitive and the egg hunt has been known to get a little violent:)! Two of them have a baby now so I’ve warned them that next year the egg hunt and baskets WILL NOT be about them anymore!!! I’m really looking forward to tomorrow since COVID prevented us from doing it last year🐰🐰🐰!
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Post by rickmer on Apr 3, 2021 19:51:46 GMT
mine are almost 14, 15 and 20. i hide, tell them how many there are for each kid and whoever gets up first, find their 15 eggs... clearly getting up last means you have the hardest eggs to find.
they all seem to be happy continuing with the arrangement. because we have just been in this house (post separation for 1.5 yrs) i have been keen to keep create new memories while keeping old traditions.
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Post by leannec on Apr 3, 2021 20:00:02 GMT
My dd's moved in with ex and his girlfriend last year and that's when Easter baskets and egg hunting ended ... they are now 17 and 22 ... They also don't get Valentine's candy and gifts anymore because I was the one in charge of that too ... It's kind of a relief to not be pressured to deal with these holidays because Christmas is stressful enough  |
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Post by mich5481 on Apr 3, 2021 20:04:45 GMT
I don't remember when my mom stopped hiding eggs.
I do remember she color coded them - I got pink, and then each of my brother got a different color. She did this for several reasons- there is a 9 year age gap between my older and youngest brothers, so it stopped the oldest from claiming all of the easy ones; the boys would gang up on me; we are very competitive, so this cut down on arguments about who found the most eggs; and she could personalize the contents - example, Kit Kats for my eggs and Skittles for my youngest brother's eggs.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2021 20:19:07 GMT
We aren't doing an egg hunt this year. Kids are 13 and 9. I'm going to hide their Easter basket gifts around the house instead. I always put a few eggs in their baskets so I'll hide a couple tomorrow for them around the house.
We did dye eggs today, so other traditions are going on. I'm just not in the mood for all the egg hunt work and it's super muddy out right now--definitely a reason not to have the kids running through the backyard looking for candy.
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Post by huskermom98 on Apr 3, 2021 22:18:05 GMT
We almost always travel at Easter so we never did any hunts at home. One set of grandparents goes all out with a set number of eggs that are filled with money & candy (just money this year, probably because it was warm enough to melt chocolate). That hunt is open to anyone without kids of their own. Another set of grandparents has eggs for hiding, but they were never filled so once the kids got to a certain age they didn't really care any more, usually before age 10.
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 3, 2021 22:29:51 GMT
When my kids were young I hid the eggs and their baskets in the downstairs of the house. I had to put a limit on how many each could get because DS1 knew all the hiding places and that would send DS2 into tears. Last year I did eggs for my little DGD in my front yard and I am going to put them in her front yard tomorrow, just 12 of them that have candy in them. As she gets older I will put better stuff in them like coins and dollars.
I have always done baskets for my boys. DS2 moved to California and I send him a big box full of his favorite treats and gave him a fabric bin to use to put his mail in or something. I have his childhood basket here and I am going to serve bread in it tomorrow to have him here, as weird as that might sound.
I asked DIL if she wanted to fill the basket for DGD but she told me to go ahead. I do one for her and for my son as well, and I fill one for my husband, too. I would like to keep doing baskets as long as I can. I actually have my own childhood basket for DGD to use to find her eggs, and a bigger basket with candy and another larger bunny box with gifts in it. Her birthday is in January right after Christmas so I give a few more gifts at Easter.
I wanted DGD to color eggs so I boiled up about 6 for her, bought an egg dying kit and sent it over to her house so her mom could do it with her. I knew she would want to if everything was right there. They sent me a bunch of photos and I think 6 eggs was just enough for a 2 year old.
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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 3, 2021 22:37:29 GMT
A couple of years ago, when DD was 21 and DS was 14, I didn't bother doing an Easter egg hunt. DD has never let me forget it. So I guess I will be doing egg hunts until they day they move out!
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Post by malibou on Apr 3, 2021 22:44:39 GMT
I have 4 siblings. My mom did the colour code thing for us as there are large gaps in our ages. But still, my oldest sister would always find the golden egg that was the winner of a solid milk chocolate rabbit. We all wanted that Damn rabbit, but no one as much as my second oldest sister. She was constantly looking for a way to get over on the oldest. The last year of the solid milk chocolate bunny was when my second sister and I convinced the oldest to display her solid milk chocolate rabbit on the table in the living room window so everyone could see it and be cheered by him on our rainy Easter. My family took off to an art museum as we always did on Easter and when we got back, it had warned to a beautiful sunny day and that solid milk chocolate rabbit melted all over the table and living room carpet. My mom was pissed, and there was never a solid milk chocolate rabbit to win again.
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Post by SabrinaP on Apr 3, 2021 22:53:47 GMT
My 16 and 12 year olds still get Easter baskets with candy and a small gift but we don’t hunt eggs. If we were going to my parents house they would hide the eggs for the little cousins.
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Post by freecharlie on Apr 3, 2021 23:53:21 GMT
It turns out, 16 and 19, since I'm not hiding them tomorrow.
They will hunt at my mom's.
Eta, they will both get baskets with gc, lottery tickets and a couple things of candy
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Apr 3, 2021 23:57:02 GMT
I didn't plan to hide them for our teenager, but he was looking forward to it. I throw them away each year, I know it's wasteful, and all I could find today were the decorative eggs. He'll trade them for $. He gets a bag of snack goodies.
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Post by Jili on Apr 3, 2021 23:57:37 GMT
We were all home for Easter last year. Our kids were 24 and 20 at the time. Dh still hid the eggs for them! They love it.
This year we’re in different places. Dh and I are with younger dd in a hotel near her school. Just hanging with her for the weekend. Other dd is with her boyfriend in another state. No eggs this year, but if we were home, we’d be doing it.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Apr 4, 2021 0:33:11 GMT
Well, my oldest is 20+ yrs old and will still be egg hunting, so....... 😁
Youngest is more than a decade younger, though.
We haven't found the age when I stop yet.
All the kids get baskets, too.
If anything, I've been upping my egg game, and this year there are a dozen golden eggs with dollars in them. The colorful eggs have chocolate in them.
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Post by sean&marysmommy on Apr 4, 2021 1:14:49 GMT
My 7-year-old still hunts, and my 18-year-old has joined her sometimes...if there weren't any other kids around to hunt with her. I asked him if he's hunting this year and he says no, so we'll see. They both still get baskets, though.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 4, 2021 4:37:06 GMT
We still hide them. It’s my kid’s favorite part of Easter.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 4, 2021 4:47:46 GMT
We still hide. My son is 17. I’m sure at this point he is doing it to humor me. Last year he said he still wanted to do it snd today I said your looking forward to hunting eggs tomorrow snd he said OK lol. So he is humoring me. I’m not doing a basket just the eggs snd I have a couple of Tshirts for him as well.
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Post by ~summer~ on Apr 4, 2021 4:48:13 GMT
Maybe I am the odd pea, we stopped doing egg hunts once they were past "little kid" age. My parents stopped it with me around the same age too (I'd say middle school or so). I also stopped Easter baskets. I've done them a few years as they've gotten older, but my kids don't actually like sweets so it is kind of wasted on them. I might give them a book or a present instead tomorrow (the only one home sleeps in so I have time!).
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Post by myshelly on Apr 4, 2021 5:10:43 GMT
Maybe I am the odd pea, we stopped doing egg hunts once they were past "little kid" age. My parents stopped it with me around the same age too (I'd say middle school or so). I also stopped Easter baskets. I've done them a few years as they've gotten older, but my kids don't actually like sweets so it is kind of wasted on them. I might give them a book or a present instead tomorrow (the only one home sleeps in so I have time!). Our Easter baskets never contain sweets. Mine growing up didn’t, either. |
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Post by luckyexwife on Apr 4, 2021 12:40:19 GMT
My oldest son is 16, and they still get Easter baskets. My oldest niece is 23, and we still do an Easter egg hunt with everyone.
I got an Easter basket until my mom passed away when I was in my 20s.
I think things like this are fun, so we like to keep doing them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2021 14:30:16 GMT
I was 21 when it stopped because I had graduated college and moved out of the house. I'm 43 now, DH is 48, and my parents are hiding eggs for us today. I can't wait!!
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Post by simplyparticular on Apr 4, 2021 16:33:29 GMT
We thought we were done, as last year was the year we broke the news about our magical friends - but DS11 woke up at 7:30 wondering where the basket on the end of the bed was...
DH quick hid the eggs just for him and he found all 88. Then DS was bothered there wouldn’t be any for DD14 so he re-hid them! She wandered down at 10 and he played hot and cold with her to help her sleepy teenage brain.
It was adorable. Last Easter was pretty meh so early in the pandemic but this one is shaping up better.
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Post by chaosisapony on Apr 4, 2021 19:54:46 GMT
I got Easter Baskets until I was 18. But egg hiding stopped when I was 10.
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Post by milocat on Apr 4, 2021 22:26:15 GMT
My kids are almost 20 & 18 and I stopped years ago. We usually are gone for Easter and I couldn't be bothered to bring Easter candy in my suitcase and they were old enough to know and be happy with a beach holiday. Our spring break usually starts on Good Friday so we'd fly out that day.
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