Sue me, I still enjoy making my adult children Easter baskets (none of them are parents yet).
If you make your college or above baskets, how do you fill them? I look at it as a round two of the Christmas stocking. I donāt always use a ābasketā - sometimes, but also Iāve used a new outdoor flower pot, a nice clear acrylic lazy Susan for the refrig (so the ābasketā becomes part of the gift) and other fill able things.
Candy prices this year are outrageous! You can go broke buying a bag of Cadbury mini eggs. .
So far types of items I have bought - Iāll split into baskets when itās time - many are food related as that is something my kids enjoy:
These little cans of olives I found at Costco ($11.99!)
Chick Fil A sauce
Graza olive oil(also at Costco)
La Colombe latte canned drinks
Powdered electrolytes (my son uses these post running)
Am I alone in the Easter basket game? What do you use or what do your recipients enjoy ?
What the heck, we need something light hereā¦if you make Easter baskets for little ones, anything you like to fill with besides candy, bubbles, chalk ???
Well, Iām not judging, last year was the first year without decorating eggs and an outdoor hunt for my kids (ages 22 - 28).itās hard because the 2 oldest are on their own, the next is living in Brooklyn for a few months before going back yo Boston for a couple of months before coming home, the next is graduating in May and coming home, and the last lives here commuting. I love the idea of grown up baskets, but Iād end up buying different things (and Iām lazy). They got travel lint brushes in their stockings years ago! I think I need those olives for myself.
Iāll add that all 3 of mine are ālocalā enough that they will all be here on Easter weekend. I donāt think Iād go to the trouble if they were not home.
I also bought some glass/straw smoothie type cups I like to use on Amazon.
I have been known to do them for the adult kids. My son said I have to STOP with the presents for a little while (he meant it in a good way), so I wonāt do anything for Easter. What makes the one happiest is a box of Seeās candy (special assortment of ones I know he likes) plus a can of Toffee-Ettes. I did buy a box of fancy sāmores when the Williams Sonoma at our mall was selling them for cheap a couple of months ago, and he will likely get those Easter weekend, just because thatās when we will likely get together for his bday. That and some hot sauce from Hawaii will be small gifts for his bday, which is today. His ābigā gift delivered to his home (Shokz headphone thingies, for anyone curious).
We do Easter baskets here too; basically a way to tell them we are thinking of them/theyāre still kids when it comes to holidays. This year I asked what each kiddo wanted (money, specific item, basket of yore).
Kid 1 - Moola, please
Kid 2 - Enormous stuffy for their bed (Peter Rabbit, so definitely on theme)
Kid 3 - Still deciding, probably will be earrings or something like that
I no longer do them but I love the idea and love hearing about yours. I will likely just do a Fannie May chocolate egg or bunny at everyoneās place setting.
My ākidsā donāt really want more āstuff.ā None of us are much into snacking. They prefer that we treat them when we are together so thatās the route we go.
I also bought them great tickets to the Met in nyc to see opera D has been talking and thinking about for months. None of us have ever been to Met so the kids are excited. We canāt make it but look forward to their reports.
First of all, I have to say @abasket I love all the threads you start! Including this one.
Second, no easter baskets here, but Facebook keeps showing me ads for gourmet chocolate (probably because I click on them!). If I had a need, and money were no object, I particularly like this Easter egg (itās sold out):
I did adult Easter baskets for many years, filling them with candy that I knew they enjoyed. In recent years, Iāve stopped ā¦ D has a child & they end up with more than enough candy on Easter (per D); S is very health conscious & would probably end up throwing it away. Both kids come over on Easter, so I put out a bowl with a selection of candy & they can take whatever they might want. Making a basket of candy & toys for GD satisfies my need to make an Easter basket - plus, I put together a small basket for H.
I like hearing the different ideas! And ways people celebrate the concept. I especially like the idea of setting an Easter treat at each place setting.
No more Easter basket, but I still give my DD a Lindt milk chocolate bunny.
And I buy my husband a Palmerās āchocolateā bunny each year (I donāt think it has enough cacao to be labeled real chocolate.) And a Palmerās Santa at Christmas. For some reason, he likes these-- even though he normally only likes better quality dark chocolate.
My kids can always use a container of some kind. I really like the decorative flower pot idea for DS. DD is getting three nesting woven cloth baskets with leather handles.
Both will get a variety of things. DD will get her Cadbury eggs, fruity jelly beans, and a chocolate bunny. She is getting hiking pants and so is SIL.
DS is getting coffee beans, granola, and some local jelly (we are visiting him and will just take it with us).
DH wonāt get a container, but he will get some dark chocolate candies, and jelly beans.
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