AskACanadian

I suppose they were when I was a kid, it was never a huge deal.

What in the hell?

I'm not sure about anyone else but I've never seen anyone here in Canada do easter. I think the closest I've come is the easter coloring books in kindergarden.

Since then all the easter stuff I've seen people come close to interacting is buying some chocolate eggs near the end of April when they go on discount.

As kids (living in the interior of BC) we did Easter egg hunts, but I don't think we did Easter goody baskets.

As an adult living in Saskatchewan I have a coworker who makes huge Easter baskets for her grandkids.

It could be a regional thing, or a religious thing, but some people just love going all-out on things.

Edit: just watched the video and I don't know anyone who makes Easter baskets like that....those are extreme. Usually it's dollarama stuff I think.

Ontario here. I grew up with easter baskets and an egg hunt every year, and now I do the same for my kids.

I've never seen crazy baskets like on the video! Our Easter baskets are small, around the size of a cooking pot. We fill plastic eggs with chocolates or other candies and hide them in the house; the kids use their baskets to hold their collected eggs (and to easily keep track of whose treats are whose). Usually there's just an extra treat or two in the basket, like a chocolate bunny. Nothing crazy and certainly nothing expensive.

Easter is first and foremost a religious holiday for us, so the egg/bunny stuff is just a fun sidebar -- definitely not the focus.

Easter basket as a gift living in Canada/UK for the past 40 years of my life.

Never heard of it, we had baskets put out like stockings at Christmas. You’d get a chocolate egg or some socks in it

They were when I was a kid (Canada), basically a basket with a bunch of chocolate and maybe 1 or 2 gifts like a new video game or something.