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Are Easter Baskets A Thing Where You're From? (lemmy.ca)

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I'm watching a video by Zac Rios about people buying lavish Easter Baskets for their kids and such:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDfCjp9fSGI

I know there's an Easter hunt in school and for kids and stuff, but I've never received or heard anyone receiving an Easter basket as a gift living in Canada/UK for the past 40 years of my life.

I googled and "Google AI" says that it is a thing in Canada, but I don't trust it.

Is this a thing that I've completed missed? If this is a tradition for you, where are you from and how long have you done this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you don't mind me asking whereabouts are you from? Feel free to be vague, we are on the internet after all.

I see my friends hide Easter eggs all over the house and I run my mum did it when I was young one year at most. Do you still do it every year? To whom do you gift a basket to, is it children or is your partner or other family members or friends?

I would hope that Dollarama and stuff would suffice. I think handcrafted stuff would be the best. The lavish baskets in the video, I would hope, are an exception!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Born and raised in Edmonton, but no longer live there. The basket was mainly given to us by our parents, never really a thing that was seen with partners or whatever from what I'm able to gauge.

I'm pretty sure I do remember schools doing Easter raffles though where there were Easter baskets to be won. Was typically a small fundraising thing the school did where the more tickets you bought, the higher your chances were in winning ofc.

Honestly even if you don't go with Dollarama stuff it's not really a huge thing. Normally just included a chocolate bunny (or equivalent since you could get like a chocolate transformer or Dora the Explorer when I was a kid, pretty sure they do the same thing with PJ Masks and Paw Patrol these days from what I recall seeing in stores), some jellybeans, some gummy candies, and on the rare occasion, Peeps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My dad's from what used to be a small town outside Calgary, but is now just a suburb. My mum is from near Portage la Prairie. My dad's side always did baskets and hiding eggs, my mum's side thought it was silly and had never done it or heard of it growing up.
I grew up in greater Vancouver, and I'd say it was a pretty solid 50/50 of friends who's family did it.

Edit: 🤔 Thinking about it further? My dad's family are/were Protestant and my mum's are/were Catholic. Might have something to do with that?