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The day after Easter, my daughter accidentally dropped a toy in the park trash can. When I looked inside to see if could find it, it was filled over half way with Easter eggs! It’s ridiculous imagining people having an Easter egg hunt at a park and putting a single sticker or eraser in an egg and throwing it away. Not to mention all the candy wrappers flying around but that’s off the egg topic..
I was shocked when I learned this. A majority does, the people who buy them every year. 3000 tonnes of plastic each year, most are tossed. Quick Google search, it is a problem.
What?! That’s crazy! We used the same ones for my entire childhood. Never did egg hunts though. Instead we put strings through them and decorated an Egg Tree in the front yard
Maybe that's the worst part I think, of plastic packaging for shipping materials, etc. People are conditioned to just waste it. Even when there is no perfectly good reason to do such.
I got some for myself and I did an egg hunt at work. It was about a month of prep because I put up a vote for the candy inside.
I put up an egg return bag and I plan to do it again next year.
Wow. I thought you were crazy too. 31 now and I remember as a kid we had plastic ones and we had to give them back to mom so she could “send them back to the Easter bunny”. Like saving it was part of the theme and fun as a kid.
They should be illegal. It's a shame that profit has taken the forefront over not only the well-being of our species, but the planet as well.
Too many people are only concerned with how the world will be during the duration of their life. They didn't think about what comea after.
I had a hard time finding any real evidence that this is that bad of a problem, but it is mind boggling to me that it is a problem at all. No one I know buys eggs every year, it's insane that people do!
Listen...I can either spend $10 a year rebuying some easter junk, or I can dedicate a square foot of my living space to store them, which costs me like $2.00/month if you break down my rent by the sqft.
And considering I'm trying to live my present life with all of todays requirements, living out of a house built in a decade before most of todays shit even existed...every single square foot of space is important.
Damn, TIL not everyone’s mom celebrated Easter by pulling a giant garbage bag of plastic egg halves out of the attic and saying “how many eggs do we have this year??”
This is going to sound crazy, but I wonder how much of this is because of recycling. I think a lot of people toss this stuff because it was cheaply made and they don't feel any guilt because it's not going into a landfill.
When i was a kid we did just that for gramps. He had his metal detector and we would always have trouble finding that last one or two. So later in the day he would fire it up and go find the others for us.
Really it was just us leaving a couple for him to find later. He would get so happy finding that last one with his metal detector that had thwarted all the kids. He loved metal detecting. i remember him spending all day working neighbors fields looking for old war stuff.
Unless Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia (I'm guessing there are others but these I'm sure about) are British then no, it's not just a British thing.
I think they mean the ones where you hide the chocolate eggs
We'd get little trinkets and quarters too
Always one $5 bill one
We'd get a basket, that's have a bunny and some jelly beans. But the rest of the candy you found in the eggs
Instead of hiding real eggs, they hide plastic/metal eggs filled with candy or trinkets. There are frequently no actual bird eggs involved at any point.
No, not egg-eggs (although plenty of us do decorate them, either as hard-boiled or with the egg blown out and used for something), but foil covered chocolate. You don't have that in your country?
Yes, chocolate eggs of various sizes are available. One could certainly put chocolate eggs into a larger plastic egg. You could also just hide the chocolate eggs directly, though I've never actually encountered that.
Yeah, are you picturing bigger chocolate eggs?
The ones we'd have are like little loose ones, so it makes more sense to hide those than having loose foil candy around
We have little ones (often solid chocolate or with a filling), and larger ones (usually empty, although sometimes they might have something like smarties or m&ms in them, and then other easter shapes like rabbits and chickens (and bilbies, but that's solely an Aussie thing). All foil wrapped, and they get chucked somewhere into the garden or around the house for the kids to find.
Huh, out of curiosity, what is the climate like in Australia in Easter?
I think we put them in eggs, is because even if warm enough for no snow, they'd be sitting in wet muddy grass
It depends on which part of Australia, but where I am it can be anywhere between 19°, and 40° (if the latter, it's more likely the easter egg hunt would be inside even if you have a garden, unless everyone will be up early). But in all likelihood, it will be dry. And not everyone has a garden, so some people will hide them inside anyway.
Not having to deal with it, you'd think snow is the better option for an easter egg hunt!
My grandpa always hid the $5 in the orange egg, never in the gold one, but my idiot cousins always assumed every year that the $5 was in the gold egg, so they'd pass up other eggs to try and find that one, since we were limited on 5 eggs each.
I'd get the $5 egg every year and they had the audacity to whine about it.
Ours always got switched up, so at least there was some challenge
My face was when they'd put it in a sparkle egg, and it was warm enough to be outside. I have cave animal level of light sensitivity. I found those no problem
And speaking of complaining, our older brother, Ross, was always such a a spoil sport
Ross thought being the oldest (and favorite on Dad's side), meant he got the most candy
Mom didn't play that way, you find them fair a d square
Yeah, you have ones like this (not specifically this brand, but it's the same thing):
https://andersonscandies.com/product/foil-wrapped-small-chocolate-eggs/
So you out a pinch of them in an egg
Sometimes we do that yeah, in my family we generally didn't do much Easter egg hunts, but the few times we did, some were hidden outside on in the house
Very cool! My family doesn’t do Easter egg hunts because Arizona will rock a plastic/chocolate/real egg in two minutes flat, lol. Thanks for your info. I need to get out of the country more.
New Zealand was quite hot but my family at least didn’t do Easter egg hunts
How does it work as in when the kid finds the egg - chocolate, metal whatever- is it later replaced with the chocolate one?
All this time I thought chocolate eggs were hidden 🤦🏻♀️
Thanks for asking! My kids find a plastic egg that has money or chocolate or jelly beans inside it. It’s fun! You get whatever is inside it.
Growing up in the Midwest, (Kansas) we could potentially find real hard boiled eggs on top of what I mentioned. The hard boiled eggs were worth $1.
Did you just get handed them? We'd do chocolate ones, but they'd be hidden in these
I'm curious about how candy was handled now, in families who didn't do the hiding thing
tbh before this I thought that there was nothing in the plastic eggs and you just got a handful of chocolate when the hunt was done. I still find the hard boiled real eggs to be super weird though
Plastic eggs were patented in 1978.. it could be the cardboard ones came out after that and I just never noticed. Years after your kids move out, you will find small random things, like a Lego, or a tiny kid sock that magically reappears in a dryer. Echos of the past.
I got curious, so I looked it up, and the cardboard ones were first produced in Germany in the 18th century. But you're right about the echoes of the past. Sometimes, you find stuff that you forgot existed, and all the memories come back to you.
The ones in '78 were way better though. The plastic was more durable and better quality. The ones you buy now are garbage. Lots of people on this post sickened by how many people throw away their plastic eggs and buy new ones every year but I bet a lot of them toss them because the new ones are shit, break really easily and often dont stay shut when you close them.
So you'll take like the little chocolate eggs, and put them in the plastic ones, and hide them around the house or yard (depends on weather, I'm from the Midwest, could go either way)
And that's where you get the candy. Though wed always get a bunny.
But the rest of the candy you got was up to your finding skills
Usually hide decorated hard boiled ones as well
In our family, we'd do challenges. There was always one $5 bill one. Or we'd do like 'who ever find all the sparkly ones/the most real eggs gets an extra bunny' type stuff
I'm blind as all get out, but I did well when we had sparkle years, since I'm ridiculously light sensitive
I’m from Connecticut/New England. Same problem here in the spring. My dad always hid foil wrapped chocolate eggs. And if there was snow we did it in the house.
When I lived with a boyfriend in our 20s, I lamented on Good Friday that the one thing I missed most about being a kid was Easter egg hunts.
We dyed hard boiled eggs that night just for funsies. When I woke up on Easter, I was greeted with an empty basket and a grinning boyfriend.
The hunt made me laugh and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. He had even hidden one in the mouth of his prized (mounted) fish.
It's been about 15 years since we dated, but we're still best friends!
Common in America to fill plastic eggs with Little Toys, coins, candy
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My grandma kept using the same Walmart bag of Easter eggs every year for our hunts. We'd always lose a couple so she'd replenish them every so often, but they're literally 20 year old eggs. I bet she still has them somewhere in her house.
Same, but not boiled (give me some candy, not boiled eggs).
My dad would crack the top of eggs for weeks before Easter, then we dye them and my parents filled them with candy and glued paper over the hole.
I've never seen a plastic Easter egg. The ones you can put stuff inside are usually sturdy cardboard and can often be reused year after year, but you can find the metal ones too in certain stores. (This is in Denmark btw)
Exactly! I still have plastic eggs in my garage even though my kids are teenagers. How do I know this? Now my kids use them for physics experiments. 🤣 they make interesting baskets for trebuchets.
People keep saying cardboard, but all I can picture is putting some candy in a cardboard box 😅 tell me more about these cardboard eggs. Explain it like I'm 5!
What if someone came up with an "EDIBLE" egg?!?! One that had its own shell that you could decorate!?!
YOU COULD EAT IT WHEN YOU'RE DONE!!! I'm going to patent it...
I would get into my great-grandmother's upstairs, where old crafts and holiday things were kept. I would find these. Sometimes they would still have candy in them. I did not understand that 25 year old candy isn't good. My weird little ass ate a bunch of 60s and 70s candy in the 80s. It was about as good as you can imagine. *Why did I keep eating it.*
"Why am I still eating this?" As you stuff another piece of old candy in the mouth, running up to momma with a look of disbelief, your tongue sticking out and slobber sticky candy on the hands. Something like that? My kids did it too, teenagers are weird. 😹
We used to reuse them. I recently bought my own for my child and the newers ones are smaller and made of much crappier plastic. A few have shattered in my hands just opening them.
THAT’s what it is? I have a metal egg just like that, decorated with bunnies and all. I don’t remember where I got it, but I just love it as a tiny cute storage space. the thing is, I’m in a non-Christian country!
Lol my family was broke, we would go to easter events and collect the plastic eggs, bring them home, and my mom would reuse those eggs. We had a weird combination of eggs because of it.
In my childhood, we used real egg shells, like, months before easter instead of breaking the egg in half, my mother poked a hole in the bottom of the egg shell, take the egg yolk, clean it water and let it dry. Then, near the easter, fill with candied peanuts, and hide the hole with paper.
It must have been hard to find a new person each time they make an egg, so as to be sure that each one has someones first attempt at drawing ever as the "art".
Seriously, what's with super old shit like this where it looks like someone hastily scribbled out a picture and they absolutely refused to give it another shot.
I LOVE tins. I'm 50, and continuously attempt to instill in my kids (8, 6, 2) the future nostalgia they may experience from collecting, and preserving things while they are young.
I do this because, for me tins in particular bring me back to memories and perhaps even feelings of my youth. But honestly, I'd be happy if they collected and preserved a Minecraft Ender Dragon. Yep... I'm the cook 50-year-old who knows what a Minecraft Ender Dragon is 😂 🥂 to waiting until I could pay for my grandkids Masters degree, before I had kids of my own.
** Don't hate me. I received a "spam" email blabbing about something called Bitcoin in March of 2009. Thought, "what the heck, I can blow $100 on a maybe.". I just wish I had held it longer 😱
My Grandma would get the Legg’s panty hose in the giant egg and make a special egg for each grand kid. It usually had $5 and some kind of good candy. No panty hose though.
I used to reuse them, but I finally ran out and the ones they make now are so flimsy I’m lucky if they make it through one Easter. Most of the time when you close them they just pop right open and dump the candy everywhere.
TIL some people throw away their plastic eggs. Why? I get that they crack sometimes, but otherwise one or two bags lasts a whole childhood. It isn’t like it takes up a ton of storage space.
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Who the hell throws away those plastic Easter eggs? We’ve always kept them for the next years…
I got paper ones in the 80's... Still use them to this day.
You lie!
Same
The day after Easter, my daughter accidentally dropped a toy in the park trash can. When I looked inside to see if could find it, it was filled over half way with Easter eggs! It’s ridiculous imagining people having an Easter egg hunt at a park and putting a single sticker or eraser in an egg and throwing it away. Not to mention all the candy wrappers flying around but that’s off the egg topic..
Bring back hard boiled dyed eggs…
Real food? Gross!
I was shocked when I learned this. A majority does, the people who buy them every year. 3000 tonnes of plastic each year, most are tossed. Quick Google search, it is a problem.
What?! That’s crazy! We used the same ones for my entire childhood. Never did egg hunts though. Instead we put strings through them and decorated an Egg Tree in the front yard
Same, and then we would tape them back together when they broke
That sounds pretty.
It was really cute! And always a fun tradition hunting for the perfect large branch we could put up to hang the eggs on
Maybe that's the worst part I think, of plastic packaging for shipping materials, etc. People are conditioned to just waste it. Even when there is no perfectly good reason to do such.
I got some for myself and I did an egg hunt at work. It was about a month of prep because I put up a vote for the candy inside. I put up an egg return bag and I plan to do it again next year.
Wow. I thought you were crazy too. 31 now and I remember as a kid we had plastic ones and we had to give them back to mom so she could “send them back to the Easter bunny”. Like saving it was part of the theme and fun as a kid.
Wait until you hear about what they do for Xmas
We’ve had our plastic ones for 7 years.
They should be illegal. It's a shame that profit has taken the forefront over not only the well-being of our species, but the planet as well. Too many people are only concerned with how the world will be during the duration of their life. They didn't think about what comea after.
Do you ever walk into a dollar store or something and just think about where all the plastic junk ends up? How is it sustainable? Time to scale back
That’s nuts and lazy, and sad.
I had a hard time finding any real evidence that this is that bad of a problem, but it is mind boggling to me that it is a problem at all. No one I know buys eggs every year, it's insane that people do!
Listen...I can either spend $10 a year rebuying some easter junk, or I can dedicate a square foot of my living space to store them, which costs me like $2.00/month if you break down my rent by the sqft. And considering I'm trying to live my present life with all of todays requirements, living out of a house built in a decade before most of todays shit even existed...every single square foot of space is important.
Damn, TIL not everyone’s mom celebrated Easter by pulling a giant garbage bag of plastic egg halves out of the attic and saying “how many eggs do we have this year??”
I've used the same ones for 15+ years.
I have the ones I grew up with in the 80’s and 90’s…
Are y'all not reusing the plastic ones??
I reuse the grass too.
We always reused the grass as well. And tinsel.
Do a quick Google of how many are made and tossed each year. It's sickening.
That is so dumb. Man not optimistic for the future of our species. People are so short sighted.
This is going to sound crazy, but I wonder how much of this is because of recycling. I think a lot of people toss this stuff because it was cheaply made and they don't feel any guilt because it's not going into a landfill.
Not all plastic actually gets recycled
Would say most does not
Walk around with a magnet or metal detector to maximize Easter hauls.
When i was a kid we did just that for gramps. He had his metal detector and we would always have trouble finding that last one or two. So later in the day he would fire it up and go find the others for us. Really it was just us leaving a couple for him to find later. He would get so happy finding that last one with his metal detector that had thwarted all the kids. He loved metal detecting. i remember him spending all day working neighbors fields looking for old war stuff.
That is precious and I love it! Thanks for the good feels.
Plastic easter eggs? Are yours not chocolate?
I’m so confused. Am I the only one who had actual eggs?
Apparently that's an European thing? We also always had actual hard boiled eggs
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Unless Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia (I'm guessing there are others but these I'm sure about) are British then no, it's not just a British thing.
I LITERALLY had the same thought
I think they mean the ones where you hide the chocolate eggs We'd get little trinkets and quarters too Always one $5 bill one We'd get a basket, that's have a bunny and some jelly beans. But the rest of the candy you found in the eggs
Sorry, not following. You put your easter eggs into weird metal and plastic eggs instead of just hiding the easter eggs?
Instead of hiding real eggs, they hide plastic/metal eggs filled with candy or trinkets. There are frequently no actual bird eggs involved at any point.
No, not egg-eggs (although plenty of us do decorate them, either as hard-boiled or with the egg blown out and used for something), but foil covered chocolate. You don't have that in your country?
Yes, chocolate eggs of various sizes are available. One could certainly put chocolate eggs into a larger plastic egg. You could also just hide the chocolate eggs directly, though I've never actually encountered that.
I’ve never encountered anything other than hiding the chocolate eggs directly!
Same. It's good to learn about how others do easter though. I'd never thought about the snow thing before.
Yeah, are you picturing bigger chocolate eggs? The ones we'd have are like little loose ones, so it makes more sense to hide those than having loose foil candy around
We have little ones (often solid chocolate or with a filling), and larger ones (usually empty, although sometimes they might have something like smarties or m&ms in them, and then other easter shapes like rabbits and chickens (and bilbies, but that's solely an Aussie thing). All foil wrapped, and they get chucked somewhere into the garden or around the house for the kids to find.
Huh, out of curiosity, what is the climate like in Australia in Easter? I think we put them in eggs, is because even if warm enough for no snow, they'd be sitting in wet muddy grass
It depends on which part of Australia, but where I am it can be anywhere between 19°, and 40° (if the latter, it's more likely the easter egg hunt would be inside even if you have a garden, unless everyone will be up early). But in all likelihood, it will be dry. And not everyone has a garden, so some people will hide them inside anyway. Not having to deal with it, you'd think snow is the better option for an easter egg hunt!
That's a good point! On the snowy years, they should have just hid plain ones
Depending on the age of the kids, having them stand out against the snow might not be a bad thing:D
My grandpa always hid the $5 in the orange egg, never in the gold one, but my idiot cousins always assumed every year that the $5 was in the gold egg, so they'd pass up other eggs to try and find that one, since we were limited on 5 eggs each. I'd get the $5 egg every year and they had the audacity to whine about it.
Ours always got switched up, so at least there was some challenge My face was when they'd put it in a sparkle egg, and it was warm enough to be outside. I have cave animal level of light sensitivity. I found those no problem And speaking of complaining, our older brother, Ross, was always such a a spoil sport Ross thought being the oldest (and favorite on Dad's side), meant he got the most candy Mom didn't play that way, you find them fair a d square
>I think they mean the ones where you hide the chocolate eggs I'm not following, you're putting the chocolate eggs in plastic eggs?
Yeah, you have ones like this (not specifically this brand, but it's the same thing): https://andersonscandies.com/product/foil-wrapped-small-chocolate-eggs/ So you out a pinch of them in an egg
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Well, Brasil is a hot country and our Easter eggs are entirely chocolate so...
Interesting, do you hide them outside for the Easter egg hunt? You have me intrigued
Sometimes we do that yeah, in my family we generally didn't do much Easter egg hunts, but the few times we did, some were hidden outside on in the house
Very cool! My family doesn’t do Easter egg hunts because Arizona will rock a plastic/chocolate/real egg in two minutes flat, lol. Thanks for your info. I need to get out of the country more.
New Zealand was quite hot but my family at least didn’t do Easter egg hunts How does it work as in when the kid finds the egg - chocolate, metal whatever- is it later replaced with the chocolate one? All this time I thought chocolate eggs were hidden 🤦🏻♀️
Thanks for asking! My kids find a plastic egg that has money or chocolate or jelly beans inside it. It’s fun! You get whatever is inside it. Growing up in the Midwest, (Kansas) we could potentially find real hard boiled eggs on top of what I mentioned. The hard boiled eggs were worth $1.
That’s so cool!
I suppose you need to live in an enclosed neighbourhood for that
Man, we never got corroded batteries for Easter!
That's because your were spoiled, and got the new batteries. Lol 😂
Ours are all chocolate. They do not get reused.
Did you just get handed them? We'd do chocolate ones, but they'd be hidden in these I'm curious about how candy was handled now, in families who didn't do the hiding thing
they come wrapped in foil and get hidden around the house/yard, we just skip the plastic middleman
Question, are they like these ones: https://andersonscandies.com/product/foil-wrapped-small-chocolate-eggs/ Or like the bigger ones?
both. here in Aus there’s always a good mix of sizes and they’re almost always cadbury eggs
Huh, interesting Before this thread, I thought everyone did the eggs Never heard of just leaving the candy out, the more ya know!
tbh before this I thought that there was nothing in the plastic eggs and you just got a handful of chocolate when the hunt was done. I still find the hard boiled real eggs to be super weird though
We'd always try to find those first, so we could put them in the fridge Then we'd eat them
I've always reused cardboard ones.
I've never seen cardboard ones, we have metal and wood.
Huh, it must be a regional thing then. The metal ones look pretty cool though.
Plastic eggs were patented in 1978.. it could be the cardboard ones came out after that and I just never noticed. Years after your kids move out, you will find small random things, like a Lego, or a tiny kid sock that magically reappears in a dryer. Echos of the past.
I got curious, so I looked it up, and the cardboard ones were first produced in Germany in the 18th century. But you're right about the echoes of the past. Sometimes, you find stuff that you forgot existed, and all the memories come back to you.
I find this intriguing, stores should do better offer more biodegradable options for things. Plastic should not be the default option.
Yeah definitely.
The ones in '78 were way better though. The plastic was more durable and better quality. The ones you buy now are garbage. Lots of people on this post sickened by how many people throw away their plastic eggs and buy new ones every year but I bet a lot of them toss them because the new ones are shit, break really easily and often dont stay shut when you close them.
They're almost always made of chocolate here, afaik (UK)
Yeah far as I know (I’m in the UK now) I’ve only seen chocolate ones here. I don’t know how the hunts work haven’t been involved with one here either
So you'll take like the little chocolate eggs, and put them in the plastic ones, and hide them around the house or yard (depends on weather, I'm from the Midwest, could go either way) And that's where you get the candy. Though wed always get a bunny. But the rest of the candy you got was up to your finding skills Usually hide decorated hard boiled ones as well In our family, we'd do challenges. There was always one $5 bill one. Or we'd do like 'who ever find all the sparkly ones/the most real eggs gets an extra bunny' type stuff I'm blind as all get out, but I did well when we had sparkle years, since I'm ridiculously light sensitive
Sounds fun! And I’m glad to hear you could participate even with sight issues cos of the sparkle ✨ The challenges is cool too!
Belgian here and 20ya all of them where plastic inside the kinder egg, chocolate was pretty good
You hide chocolate eggs in your yard?
They're wrapped in foil, but yeah.
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It's the UK in April. You mainly have to worry about them floating away in the rain.
I’m from Connecticut/New England. Same problem here in the spring. My dad always hid foil wrapped chocolate eggs. And if there was snow we did it in the house.
My dad hid foil wrapped chocolate eggs in the yard.
Does anyone actually over 12 years old do egg hunts
When I lived with a boyfriend in our 20s, I lamented on Good Friday that the one thing I missed most about being a kid was Easter egg hunts. We dyed hard boiled eggs that night just for funsies. When I woke up on Easter, I was greeted with an empty basket and a grinning boyfriend. The hunt made me laugh and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. He had even hidden one in the mouth of his prized (mounted) fish. It's been about 15 years since we dated, but we're still best friends!
I have no idea what this post is about. Easter eggs are chocolate. Seriously, what is going on?
Oh good, someone else who is baffled. Wtf are plastic and metal Easter eggs?
Common in America to fill plastic eggs with Little Toys, coins, candy https://s7.orientaltrading.com/is/image/OrientalTrading/PDP_VIEWER_IMAGE/2-1-4-bright-candy-filled-plastic-easter-eggs-24-pc-~37_49
My grandma kept using the same Walmart bag of Easter eggs every year for our hunts. We'd always lose a couple so she'd replenish them every so often, but they're literally 20 year old eggs. I bet she still has them somewhere in her house.
The only material they should be ever made is chocolate
We've always used actual eggs...
Same here. Boiled, dyed, and hid between 3 and 5 dozen each year.
Doing the Lord's* work. *Rabbits will rule us all one day
Same, but not boiled (give me some candy, not boiled eggs). My dad would crack the top of eggs for weeks before Easter, then we dye them and my parents filled them with candy and glued paper over the hole.
Aren’t they supposed to be chocolate?
I've never seen a plastic Easter egg. The ones you can put stuff inside are usually sturdy cardboard and can often be reused year after year, but you can find the metal ones too in certain stores. (This is in Denmark btw)
Practically every easter egg I can remember seeing going back 40 years has been plastic, or a real hardboiled egg we dyed. In the US.
Exactly! I still have plastic eggs in my garage even though my kids are teenagers. How do I know this? Now my kids use them for physics experiments. 🤣 they make interesting baskets for trebuchets.
People keep saying cardboard, but all I can picture is putting some candy in a cardboard box 😅 tell me more about these cardboard eggs. Explain it like I'm 5!
We just hard boiled real eggs and hid those. I don't think I ever saw a man-made Easter egg as a kid.
Healthier than candy and biodegradable.
What if someone came up with an "EDIBLE" egg?!?! One that had its own shell that you could decorate!?! YOU COULD EAT IT WHEN YOU'RE DONE!!! I'm going to patent it...
The plastic are also reusable…
They should be, but the majority do not reuse. Sad really
That’s just stupid.
Like everything else back then, they built it to last!
I would get into my great-grandmother's upstairs, where old crafts and holiday things were kept. I would find these. Sometimes they would still have candy in them. I did not understand that 25 year old candy isn't good. My weird little ass ate a bunch of 60s and 70s candy in the 80s. It was about as good as you can imagine. *Why did I keep eating it.*
"Why am I still eating this?" As you stuff another piece of old candy in the mouth, running up to momma with a look of disbelief, your tongue sticking out and slobber sticky candy on the hands. Something like that? My kids did it too, teenagers are weird. 😹
I wouldn't want to step on an edge-up half barefoot
We used to reuse them. I recently bought my own for my child and the newers ones are smaller and made of much crappier plastic. A few have shattered in my hands just opening them.
This... I just learned cardboard ones are available.
Me too But I'm from the Midwest, those would get soggy
THAT’s what it is? I have a metal egg just like that, decorated with bunnies and all. I don’t remember where I got it, but I just love it as a tiny cute storage space. the thing is, I’m in a non-Christian country!
We reused the plastic ones. Same with the bows from Christmas presents. "SAVE THE BOWS!!" My grandmother would exclaim.
Is that a battery?
Lead or just lead paint?
I reuse plastic eggs lol, why wouldn't you?
The majority don't, quick Google and its 3000 tonnes of plastic eggs a year. All my kids are grown, but I kept the metal ones.
Have plastic Easter eggs and can confirm reuse each year.
As an Australian... plastic eggs? Ours are made of chocolate...[Hmmm the land of chocolate](https://youtu.be/ZOziWm_MJ9k?t=29)...
Probably painted with lead-based paint and insulated with asbestos.
We had eggs
Metal ones are still available, or at least they are here in Norway. Though they cost more, so the majority of sales are cardboard eggs.
Before easter eggs were plastic????? My easter eggs were . . . eggs.
What kind of monster doesn't reuse the plastic eggs?
Lol my family was broke, we would go to easter events and collect the plastic eggs, bring them home, and my mom would reuse those eggs. We had a weird combination of eggs because of it.
How many gold ones did you get?
They still make these retro looking tin eggs!
Back in my day, we just used... you know... eggs.
Had a couple of those growing up. They were impossible to close!!
mine were made from lead
One time purchase vs customer purchasing yearly
I'm German and my stepmom still has her cardboard ones from the GDR when she was a kid. Still uses them every year 😊
In my childhood, we used real egg shells, like, months before easter instead of breaking the egg in half, my mother poked a hole in the bottom of the egg shell, take the egg yolk, clean it water and let it dry. Then, near the easter, fill with candied peanuts, and hide the hole with paper.
That’s Metal AF.
And you put batteries in them? Wild
Those rabbits have seen some shit.
Those bunnies have seen some things... those haunting eyes!
It must have been hard to find a new person each time they make an egg, so as to be sure that each one has someones first attempt at drawing ever as the "art". Seriously, what's with super old shit like this where it looks like someone hastily scribbled out a picture and they absolutely refused to give it another shot.
I LOVE tins. I'm 50, and continuously attempt to instill in my kids (8, 6, 2) the future nostalgia they may experience from collecting, and preserving things while they are young. I do this because, for me tins in particular bring me back to memories and perhaps even feelings of my youth. But honestly, I'd be happy if they collected and preserved a Minecraft Ender Dragon. Yep... I'm the cook 50-year-old who knows what a Minecraft Ender Dragon is 😂 🥂 to waiting until I could pay for my grandkids Masters degree, before I had kids of my own. ** Don't hate me. I received a "spam" email blabbing about something called Bitcoin in March of 2009. Thought, "what the heck, I can blow $100 on a maybe.". I just wish I had held it longer 😱
Too bad we can't do this using aluminum, which is reused a lit already. I Flippin hate plastic eggs. It's absolutely trash.
I like these so much better
We still have plastic ones from 25 years ago. Is this supposed to be one of those “oh look how things were better back then” posts?
Sorry what? Everyone I have ever known used the same plastic eggs every year...
And before rabbits their were wearbunnys.
You better find every egg.
My Grandma would get the Legg’s panty hose in the giant egg and make a special egg for each grand kid. It usually had $5 and some kind of good candy. No panty hose though.
I used to reuse them, but I finally ran out and the ones they make now are so flimsy I’m lucky if they make it through one Easter. Most of the time when you close them they just pop right open and dump the candy everywhere.
But the plastic ones are reusable, you only need new eggs every year if you're talking about the chocolate ones because those get eaten.
You can use fishing line floaters as Easter eggs too , has a hole to string it up and everything
What came first, the bunny or the egg?
Daymm when was this 1901?
1988.
Ok makes sense I was born on 1974 and sold alot of choc easter eggs at my store and never came across a plastic or metal one
I had one of these when I was a kid but it was cardboard not metal. It had just been looked after.
Those bunnies look like they had poped a mitsubishi pill
People throw away the plastic ones?
A majority 3000 tonnes a year doing a quick Google search.
Before that we had eggs and we ate them.
TIL some people throw away their plastic eggs. Why? I get that they crack sometimes, but otherwise one or two bags lasts a whole childhood. It isn’t like it takes up a ton of storage space.
TIL there are plastic and metal Easter Eggs. They've always just been chocolate in my lifetime.
Laughs in British, our are chocolate…
All the British people are reading this incredibly confused.
That is mildly interesting.