Easter Poll!

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So my mom thinks I'm "no fun". Because o don't hide the Easter basket. But...when I was a kid I hated having to look for it because she hid it in the most impossible places and I could never fond it.

So what say March 17? Is hiding it a thing or is my mom making this up?

[jnow]

The actual basket?? I'm on tapa and can't see poll.

But no. You hide eggs. Not the basket.

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Apr 16, 2017 11:26:35 GMT -5 jnow said:

The actual basket?? I'm on tapa and can't see poll.

But no. You hide eggs. Not the basket.

Yes. She would hide the actual basket. I remember one time it was on the shelf in a closet and I didn't find it until one of my brothers helped me.

I was 7 at most.

[muskiefan]

Our baskets were always hidden. I loved finding my brothers' baskets ahead of time (all older) and watching them struggle to find them.

H never had a hidden basket, but wanted to hide them for our kids. So, they were hidden in plain sight. We lined them up on the table last night and the EB hid them overnight

[erinshelley21]

Baskets weren't hidden for my brother and me. I don't hide them. I hid eggs though.

[bookish]

I have never heard of hiding the actual basket. In our house, they are akin to Santa's stockings....always in the same place.

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Apr 16, 2017 11:41:29 GMT -5 bookish said:

I have never heard of hiding the actual basket. In our house, they are akin to Santa's stockings....always in the same place.

This is what DH and I are doing. We hide eggs.

I've always hated having to look for things. I still hate it. I'm kind of an organization freak.

[mosdub]

My family didn't hide baskets, just eggs

[elsmom]

Add me to the just eggs hidden group. Never heard of hiding the baskets!

[meggypoo1]

Baskets don't get hidden only eggs.

[amacbaby]

We are in the only hiding eggs camp

[jnow]

What is the point of hiding the basket?

[muskiefan]

Apr 16, 2017 13:31:09 GMT -5 jnow said:

What is the point of hiding the basket?

The same as hiding the eggs I suppose! We set the baskets out, empty. The kids look for them in the morning, knowing they're filled with goodies! They have egg hunts at the grandparents' houses with their cousins.

[jellykat2]

Growing up our baskets were hidden. It was always fun trying to find it. But, it was never impossibly hidden. We never did eggs growing up.

Last year, when dd1 was only a year and a half we had it in plain sight. This year we "hid" it on the bottom shelf of an end table - still pretty much in plain sight.

[kristhegirl]

We did not hunt the basket. We found it like you find Christmas presents.

[glb30]

My parents switched back and forth. Some years they were hidden, other years they weren't. I think my third sister requested they be hidden, and then we started hiding them....

[sterl724]

The baskets were always in the dining room table. We only searched for the eggs.

[jellykat2]

Apr 16, 2017 15:53:01 GMT -5 @justinslovo said:

Apr 16, 2017 15:27:41 GMT -5 corinne said:

I've never heard of this! Is it a regional thing?

If regional my input would be northwest Ohio.

We're in Minnesota

[muskiefan]

Apr 16, 2017 15:53:01 GMT -5 @justinslovo said:

Apr 16, 2017 15:27:41 GMT -5 corinne said:

I've never heard of this! Is it a regional thing?

If regional my input would be northwest Ohio.

We are SW OH

[skk]

We only hide eggs. I only heard of hiding baskets last year. This year I've been very lazy...no baskets, no visits to the bunny. We're coloring eggs today and that's about it.

[moutonrouge]

At Mom's it was on the kitchen table; at Dad's it was on the coffee table. The bunny brought everything, including the basket (which I think was different/new each year). We only did egg hunts if we went to see my stepmoms extended family.

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Apr 16, 2017 15:27:41 GMT -5 corinne said:

I've never heard of this! Is it a regional thing?

Idk. Mom and Dad are military brats.

[Quinstar]

My mom hid the baskets but didn't do eggs at all. I liked looking for the basket, and it was probably easier than loading a bunch of eggs and hiding them lol.

[ladytiffany24]

I'm late to the game but i grew up in Northeast Ohio and my parents always hid our Easter baskets.

[mikaela20]

Eggs were always hidden in my house. The basket was always just put out. Getting the basket is what starts the fesitivies of the hunt.

[obi]

I'd never heard of hiding the basket. We always hunted for the little foil wrapped eggs. My mom usually just set a few things (choccy bunny, stuffed animal) on our nightstand while we slept.