I suppose they were when I was a kid, it was never a huge deal.
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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.
My family did this. On top of hiding eggs all over the apartment, they'd also do little wooden baskets with treats where we didn't have to search for the treats, mind you, a lot less lavish than the video.
Was usually Dollarama stuff for the most part save for maybe a hollow chocolate figure from some major franchise. Stuff like a milk chocolate bunny, some chocolate loonies, and some gummy candies.
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!
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.
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?
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.