What is your Gen X childhood memory for Easter Baskets?
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Chocolate Bunny with the Psycho Candy Eyes? Eating the ears first? Hollow or solid? Peeps? Chicks or Bunnies? Easter Eggs died with the little plastic bottles of Food Coloring and vinegar? Green grass in the basket that tasted brutal if you ate it with a Jelly Bean by mistake? Jelly Beans? Cadbury Easter Eggs? Shredded plastic grass?
Did you have a traditional Easter basket kept year after year? If so, were you foolishly jealous of the kids that got the pre-made plastic ones from the drug store? What's your story morning glory? Happy Easter Nostalgia!
MaximumJones@reddit
I just remember the time I woke up and actually saw the Easter Bunny.
It kind of fucked me up for life.
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JenMartini@reddit
I got an Easter basket in high school I think from Sam’s Club. It had a stuffed gorilla wearing removable bunny ears. Wish I still had it.
tanhauser_gates_@reddit
My mother hid them. Sometimes we had to beg her to tell us where it was.
Sees chocolate bunnies.
Reader47b@reddit
My mother made Easter baskets out of needlepoint kits. One year we got giant Easter bunnies she made by hand. That one stuck. Loved that bunny. Used to ride it down the stairs holding onto its ears.
udaami@reddit
My parents are awesome.
My father made clues and hid the clues about the house leading to your basket.
4 kids. I recall usually 5 clues so 20 total he’d write and hide.
But he’d hide them Sunday morning. While we sat in the car for 20 minutes before leaving for family visits. While me and my siblings were whiny jerk kids complaining about where dad was and why we are all waiting and can’t we wait inside and so on.
I only realized it years later.
saxdiver@reddit
IIRC, Easter baskets usually had hollow chocolate bunnies, malted easter eggs (like Whoppers), and some Peeps. Always ate the Peeps last because ew, gross, but now I love them, although as I've gotten further into my 50s my sweet tooth isn't what it once was. Afterward, there was always at least one family get-together where ham was served. I seem to remember Easter being one of the holidays besides Christmas and Thanksgiving that my grandmother and aunts would make lefse with butter, sugar, and cinnamon (big Norwegian-American family.) Church wasn't prioritized, and it definitely wasn't until I was older (teens, maybe?) that I even knew the Passion Play
robbynkay@reddit
I got Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrew’s in my basket and finished reading it that day! As a teen I received a Cure CD:)
BeBopBarr@reddit
I always got a new Disney VHS , it was my favorite part of my basket.
buzburbank@reddit
Not getting mine one year because I misbehaved in church. Such trauma.
fireflypoet@reddit
We had the usual, peeps, jelly beans, creme filled eggs, chocolate rabbits, etc, but the best thing was that my mother somehow got the idea to get my sister and me some tiny glass animals for our baskets also. I started collecting them in a minor way, as she kept it up for a couple of years.
When I got into literature and first read The Glass Menagerie, I went nuts!
I no longer have any of my original animals, but after a visit to the Corning Glass Museum in NY state, I got a few at the gift shop.
Gisselle441@reddit
I remember I would leave my Easter basket outside my bedroom door along with a carrot. In the morning the basket would be filled with candy and half the carrot would be gone.
Mouse-Direct@reddit
I loved the psycho candy eyes and solid chocolate all the way. I also loved black jelly beans. My dad was the president of the local Jaycees chapter, and they hosted an annual hunt when I was a kid. Dad always put the prize egg (a large paper mache egg full of money) in a cow patty. Growing up country was fun.
whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit
My dad bought me a pre-done one from the supermarket every year. My favorite had a pink speed boat in it that I played with in the bathtub for years.
Sense_Difficult@reddit (OP)
So cool!!
Flat_6_Theory@reddit
Mom made ours so. She was nutty about making the perfect basket for each kid. She was at her insane best putting together Christmas and Easter.
Hey-buuuddy@reddit
It was definitely a morning candy meal. My mom was so good about it, she always did the “grass” and put in a few toys or something. As I because a teenager, she tried to think of things I was using- once she got me motor oil. My family is Swedish and Easter was a big holiday, but it started with candy breakfast before you had to do church and at least one possibly two family functions afterwards. You were wearing your finest outfit too.
Bidrick@reddit
Yellow and blue clamp on roller skates…..they hit every pebble in the church parking lot but we had fun.
PahzTakesPhotos@reddit
After we deemed ourselves too old for baskets, my mom still made up a large platter with the plastic grass and the candies arranged on it for us. It would be on the table in the morning. I remember that more than I do the baskets we got as children. The pre-teen through to adulthood platters were awesome.
Sense_Difficult@reddit (OP)
That's such a great idea. On a Lazy Susan to make it more "actiony!!"
PahzTakesPhotos@reddit
She did do that a couple of times!
When my kids got old enough to understand holidays, she would make them up their own smaller-sized plates of grassy candy. She really liked holidays and having three grandkids let her continue doing stuff for each holiday.
Beneficial_Pickle322@reddit
That damn green grass everywhere and gross jelly beans stuck to it. Anything Reese’s was my jam though
gemgirlshari@reddit
Eat those psycho delicious candy eyes first! I haven't spotted them in years. No pun intended.
Sense_Difficult@reddit (OP)
We were evil little minions without even knowing it!
nakedonmygoat@reddit
I loved coloring Easter eggs! I'd write on them, maybe draw some little pictures, then see how creative I could get with dyeing them. In my family, we'd write each other's names on them sometimes, too.
As I got older, I got involved in helping hide the eggs in the yard for my younger sibs. It seemed that every year, there was one egg that wouldn't get found until it started stinking in summer, lol!
Sense_Difficult@reddit (OP)
LOL. You can't forget where you hid them! I loved when I figured out how to use wax on eggs to double and triple dip them for different types of art.