When did the Easter bunny stop bringing baskets to your house?

When I left home. Or maybe when my sister did. But my mom still sent us care packages around that time, so in a way she never really stopped.

What do you mean? I’m 44 and he still does.

Mine are about the same age as yours and they still love their baskets. I do some candy, and other things, as you mentioned. Even when we’ve been on vacation over Easter, they’ve gotten their baskets. Once they realized the big bunny was getting a little help from me; I made the hunt for the baskets into a scavenger hunt. I leave clues and send them searching(last year it took 30 minutes for them to find them!)

It’s an act, kids love to get fun stuff. My Mom still gives me a small basket!

My parents still do, and I’m 22, and married lol

<sobbing> What do you mean? You make the baskets???

@SpatzieLover don’t worry, I’m just the bunny’s helper ! He still brings the stuff, I just put it together!

@everyone I really love your answers :-)

My mother stopped the whole easter basket thing 14 too. But she still gave me chocolate bunnies. My sister and I would always get miscelleous stuff, like squirt guns to shoot each other with water on easter morning(as soon as we got them everyone would bolt for a sink, and try to catch someone still filling up). I think a Bunny would suffice, or just get him something from that basket that he always like so it will be alittle more manly!

When I started finding more eggs than my cousins – then they whined. I was about 9 or 10, they are two years older. I can’t help it if I’m a better egg hunter than they are. And I couldn’t tell an egg had money in it just by looking at it. (I always found the money eggs.)

My daughter’s 20 and the Easter bunny STILL comes, only now he brings Godiva chocolate bunnies and iPods and stuff.

The kids know all about the Easter Bunny and Santa and all the rest. However, they totally love chocolate, as well as deviled eggs. So they maintain the fiction that they believe, just because it’s fun. We wish they would stop, because it’s a pain. Well, maybe I shouldn’t be such a curmudgeon. It’s kind of fun hiding eggs in our itty bitty back yard, and to see how long they remain hidden, and also, who finds more.

the easter bunny should NEVER stop coming the only way that should happen is if he dies of myxomatosis

Presents for easter time? I wish I was a part of your house.

The only thing my mum did for us on Easter was to hide those little chocolate eggs around the house, on top of picture frames, doorsills, etc, and we would hunt them down and eat them. The best thing was finding these months afterwards and daring each other to eat it :)

@dynamicduo , are you kidding? For many, Easter has become the second Christmas. That’s why Toys R Us puts out a big toy catalog right before Easter.

Our twenty something aged children still receive Easter baskets as does my sixty year old husband.

I’m 23 and the “easter bunny” still brings me one every year (:

The first Easter my son in law spent with us he woke up Easter morning to find a basket just for him. He said. “I haven’t seen that son of a bitch in 20 years and he shows up now?!”

@Judi: did he mean that humorously, or did he have serious issues with the bunny?

I STILL hope I’ll get a Playboy Bunny. So far, though, nothing.

—@Mr_M: Give us a chance, man… uh… monkey… whatever. We’re working on it. We’re working on it. Have you noticed the tits competition between Tits McGhee and Ronski?

Where?! Where?!!

My mom made them for me or gave me little Easter gifts even when I was grown. I usually make a small one for my husband. He loves chocolate.

@Mr_M: I finally got the link right above.

I never believed in the bunny (or santa, come to think of it) but I still will get an easter basket when I’m home from my mom. She made one for my fiance last year.

@daloon, when you get pictures, forward them to ME!

@Mr_M, Sadly I am not kidding, and I am so glad I wasn’t raised to believe in holidays as being times to give presents to each other. Sure a trinket is nice, but if you come into it expecting presents, you’re doing it wrong in my mind. The ridiculous outlandish unabashed merchandising of all holidays is just wrong. These times are for spending with family, not for showing your appreciation via spending money on gifts. If that’s what makes you happy, giving gifts, well sure go ahead and give a gift. But that’s not the point of the night at all. The point is to hang out with people you like, have a good meal, and have good times chatting and bonding. Or to do whatever makes you really happy, whether that’s hanging out with yourself, or whatever it may be.

It would be nice to see these recent merchandising attempts dissipate/die during the next few years, when people can’t or won’t spend $10 on a Hallmark card of a funny elephant with a sign, and instead just go up to the person and give their best wishes personally. Or make their own cards using whatever they feel like, showing how much they value the person to spend some time doing something unique and memorable instead of buying an overpriced underhilarious card from a rack in the back of a shop.

@daloon ; My son in law was joking but he has always been the quiet one in the family with a “What the heck did I get myself into” glare in his eyes. It was pretty funny!

He’s totally putting on the tough guy act. Tell him you’re going to stop his basket one year but keep his sister’s going, and see how tough he is. Ha! He loves them, I guarantee it. :o) My parents didn’t stop until I moved out. Now I make my own spectacular basket! And one for my itty bitty and one for hubby.

my mommy stopped giving them to me last year sniff sniff but she promised me this year that she would make me a basket! YAY!

I think it was because he was lured away from Easter celebrations by a company called Energizer. He found out he could earn more carrots by beating a drum and promoting batteries. To this day, he keeps going and going and going…...

My mother used to give me baskets that had Easter baskets and nice stuff that was put away the rest of the year, brought out for viewing for about a week at Easter, plus some candy and maybe a note from the Easter bunny about what a good girl i was that year. Never big gifts, just some trinkets and knick-knacks that were related to Easter (like chicks, bunnies, ceramic eggs). When I was 8, i guess she overslept, and i went to her in her bed and asked her “What happened to the Easter bunny?” She replied “You’re looking at him.” I started screaming “I hate you!” I was mad at the way she told me. Of course, that covered how I found out about Santa, too. Anyway, after that she continued to give me the baskets each year, anyway. Even to this day, and I’m in my early 40’s, she gives me a little one with some trinkets in it, and maybe a little book or something. Now i have a daughter, so the tradition will continue.