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?
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?