What are your Easter traditions?

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With Easter around the corner I'm going to be making some hot cross buns for a delicious snack on Easter and of course eat some chocolate Easter eggsWhat do you do for Easter?

Кураж · Accepted Answer

The local tradition here is šibačka.
Young men go around the town with buckets full of cold water and willow whips, stopping by every house demanding for the resident young maiden to come out so they can soak her in cold water and whip her ass with them willow sticks.
Whenever available, girls get thrown in a nearby body of water instead.
As per tradition, hat's how young women remain beautiful and healthy for another year.

I no longer participate, but my grandmother still expects me to visit on Easter and give her a misting with some bottled water.

Lliam · Accepted Answer

When my parents were alive, we would go out for brunch after Catholic mass. One favorite place in my mom's later years was the nice restaurant in the1930s era, Art Deco, Long Beach airport. The restaurant was situated on a large indoor balcony with floor to ceiling windows.

My wife and I continued the brunch tradition for quite a few years after we moved, but Easter brunch became more and more of a zoo, so we eventually stopped.

We don't have any plans for this Easter.

petitedollbabee · Accepted Answer

This Easter will be the first one I’ve spent with my nieces, who are all very young so I’ll be doing an Easter egg hunt for them. Hiding eggs and such, spoiling them 😊

melanieeeB · Accepted Answer

We don't have tradition and also don't really celebrate it

Anonymous · Answer

In our family growing up it was a huge holiday. My mother decorated the house. She had a little Easter village with Bunny figurines, she had a wreath on the front door with an Easter there - flowers and colored eggs and a couple of Bunny figures, and suchlike.

We would get up and look for the Easter baskets that the Bunny had hidden. These had always been hand made by my mother and were wrapped in colored celophane with a big chocolate bunny in the center - in the Bicentennial year of 1976, I still remember this, it was "Peter Patriot." The Bunny also brought us a few wrapped presents as well - and again these were all hidden all over the house and we hand to hunt for them.

Then we would go to church - which to be fair as little kids we were not all that keen on. Then to my mother's parent's house for brunch and --- guess what? ------ the Easter Bunny happened to have visited there and we got another smaller basket and a couple more presents.

Then after that to my Dad's parent's house where there was a huge dinner party - probably 60 or so people, friends and cousins - that would go fairly late into the evening.

On top of all that, in those days the public schools actually gave you an Easter break that ran from Good Friday through the whole week after Easter Sunday. So you got home late on Easter night but knowing that you had a whole week ahead of you to do whatever you want. The weather was finally - we lived in Michigan - turning warm after a long winter and as little kids we were out to run and play all day. When I was I high school, my friends and I would make day trips to local parks and such.

Suffice to say I have nothing but fond memories and my girlfriend and I do essentially the same things with our own children. Plus we have the extra advantage of living in the Washington, DC area so the weather is generally even better than it was in Michigan.

(We also added our own tradition of driving across the Chesapeake Bay bridge - and then back across - "breaking the seal on beach season" we call it - and then going to Annapolis to walk around and maybe take a bay cruise. Then we go to her parent's for a dinner party.)

As I say, it is all the fun of Christmas but without the blaring in your face television commercials, the lousy cold weather, and the garish colors. (I much prefer Easter pastels to Christmas primary colors.)

So as far as I am concerned we can dispense with all the other holidays. As to my kids, (ages, 9,8, and 6) I have to admit that seeing their excitement at any of the holidays warms my heart - but I still have to admit that when I think back, even to my own surprise, it is the Easters that I get the most sentimental about.

Subarugirl · Answer

My parents considered Easter to be a pagan holiday, so we never recognized it. Instead we celebrated the Passover. Easter in its origins was a pagan festival of spring in the name of the goddess Eostre or Ostara, the goddess of spring, the dawn, and fertility, that became assimilated into the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Christ. The reason rabbits and eggs are a symbol of Easter is because of how quickly they reproduce, the festival was celebrating life and fertility. Most historians believe that originally Easter was celebrated with sex rituals and orgies.

So in an eggshell, the ancient Christians kinda stole the Pagan celebration of Ēostre and the Spring Equinox. By adapting these ancient rituals into the Christian tradition, the story of Christ’s resurrection became embedded in the cultural consciousness through storytelling and symbolism.

Just remember: when you’re decorating eggs at the kitchen table with your children or crowding around the Easter Bunny’s lap at the mall, you’re actually paying homage to the ancient pagan rituals of the past.

Puppystarfish23 · Answer

On Easter we get given a new piece of clothing like a t shirt or something as a gift as well as a chocolate egg because if your not wearing something new the birds will poo on you. Whenever I tell people this tradition in my family they think I'm joking or making it up but it's been a tradition for years in my family. Then I met a older women at work who actually happened to live in the same town as me who happened to know a lot of my family and family friends and she said her family have the same tradition too. Maybe it's a traditional thing for just the ogs in my town

ohshee · Answer

Never had that before would like to try yours I bet it's very good. Most years my friends family. Well my brother and I go Riding *our dirt bjkes* but this year um just going to stat home and get some things done around my house my check engine lite just came on in my truck so I guess I better put a code reader on it and then fix it. It's going to be a quiet day for me I really would love to try your cross bun. Maybe you can send me your recipe if you have some time

yofuknutz · Answer

I think it will be a very wise idea to skip that tradition this year with bird flu going around the place enough with the wicked tradition especially with Calamity all around us.

purplepoppy · Answer

Usually there's a family roast lamb dinner, Easter eggs and hot cross buns.

MTC29 · Answer

When I was a kid, we always had a lamb on Easter which was prepared by my great grandmother. The entire meal was amazing. 40+ years later I can almost taste the lamb.

t-8900 · Answer

Used to have Easter egg hunts and tons of my favorite candies. Water candies are the best aroun Reese's eggs, Caturbury Eggs, Chocolate marshmallow rabbits, and chocolate coconuts!

FreyaRed · Answer

Egg salad with chives and beef rolls filled with onion, salt brine cucumber and bacon.

Still-alive · Answer

usually a ham with corn and potatoes and of course Easter egg hunts with lots of candy

Creampiekarl420 · Answer

Ari and Shay have a two for one girl Easter special 120qv 200hh 400overnight

Anonymous · Answer

We have a lamb and boiled eggs painted red or other colors and we would crack those eggs against each other , the broken egg would symbolize how Christ has resurrected

goosebump4444 · Answer

Umm... Just lying on bed with some chips & surfing on YouTube (watching shorts Vids🤭)

call_me_scar · Answer

Eating chocolate and that's about it

motownplayer2000 · Answer

Same as always. Sleep, eat, work, poop, repeat.

Kaneki05 · Answer

None because I ain't Christian

Secret6620 · Answer

Easter egg hunting and sleeping 🐇🤍

dreamstar72 · Answer

Gone, so it’s whatever

TacosRAwesome · Answer

Eating Easter cookies.

TallAnon · Answer

Nothing, was that this weekend?

KingofCups · Answer

Yea it's called 'working the night shift'.

Nahid1707 · Answer

Eat chocolate Easter egg

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Church and spending the day with family

exitseven · Answer

Eat a big dinner.

SignedAutographs · Answer

None. I'm jewish

flirtatiousgirl · Answer

I don't have

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