# Should parents get Easter baskets?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-parents-get-easter-baskets/237480>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 31, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-parents-get-easter-baskets/237480 "2004-03-31T06:13:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-parents-get-easter-baskets/237480/21 "2004-04-01T17:30:31Z")

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The parents don’t get Easter baskets in my family, but a chocolate bunny is sometimes given. The kids have an Easter egg hunt, and their baskets are left in their doorway. It’s been many moons since we’ve had an Easter egg hunt!

I’m just looking forward to having Good Friday off from work. 🆒

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-parents-get-easter-baskets/237480/22 "2004-04-01T18:25:43Z")

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> [@burundi](#):
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> And what’s wrong with undeserved choclate, I’d like to know?

Honey, there ain’t no such thing as undeserved chocolate! 😃

Robin

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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-parents-get-easter-baskets/237480/23 "2004-04-01T18:43:37Z")

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> [@notquitekarpov](#):
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> No pressies, no traditional other foodstuffs apart from Roast Lamb on Easter Sunday, Hot Cross Buns anytime and Simnel Cake - which is scrummy.

But… but… how do you stand not having jelly beans. (The good kind, not those over-priced-obnoxious-flavored-pretentious-taste-like-crap gormet ones.)

Seriously, my folks never had a basket, but the easter Bunny always hid one for each of us kids.

One of my friends as a child would have a treasure hunt for his basket. There would be a note by his bed when he woke up with a clue as to where the next note would be, and so on until he found the basket.

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**Author:** ![Limbo\_Donni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Limbo\_Donni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limbo_Donni)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-parents-get-easter-baskets/237480/24 "2004-04-01T20:41:47Z")

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I don’t think parents should get Easter baskets, and we never did.  
But we didn’t go in for birthday presents for adults either, an I know some of my friends still do that.  
To me, once you’re coving your own expenses all gifts are odd. I don’t like swapping Christmas gifts with coworkers, for example.

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