Easter seems like it is so late this year. It’s kind of nice, though because it gives us more time to prepare. Recently, Ryan & I were talking about what we would do for Easter this year and then got talking about how Easter traditions from our childhoods. My family is pretty big, my grandparents had six children and as a child all of my aunts and uncles and their children would go to my grandparents’ house for Easter. I was the youngest of all of the cousins, and there are roughly 15 of us all together. My aunts and uncles would all stuff plastic easter eggs and bring dyed eggs to hide across my grandparents yard for us to find. They would all go overboard by filling tons of eggs so each of the kids would get a grocery bag full of eggs. After all of the eggs were found, we would come inside and sprawl them out on the floor. Then someone would call out questions like “Who has a polka-dotted egg?” and whoever had that type of egg would get to come up and pick a prize. The prizes would be cheap little toys like coloring books, jump ropes, sidewalk chalk or bubbles but it was exciting for us kids. My little sister was born when I was 12, so right when I was getting to the age of not participating myself, I got to watch her enjoy the fun.
Clearly, my family made a big deal of Easter for the kids so I was surprised to learn that Ryan never got to do easter egg hunts as a kid. His extended family didn’t get together often, and his brothers are 7 and 9 years older than him so by the time he was old enough to search for eggs, they were almost too old. He said he knew that his friends at school did, and he said he always wished that he would have been able to. Both of our families did easter baskets with candy and small toys, but my family required us to place our shoes on the coffee table the night before. The Easter bunny would then leave our basket next to our shoes so we knew which basket was which. Ryan thought this family tradition was silly because he had never done that as a child or heard of anyone who did.
We don’t have kids of our own yet, so it’ll be several years before we get involved with real life Easter egg hunts again. This year, I will still be doing an Easter hunt – but for deals instead of eggs. Even though I don’t have kids of my own, I’ll be using Coupons.com easter savings to get deals on our Easter clothing & gifts for our nieces and nephews. I always check coupons.com for coupon codes before buying anything online. Almost all online stores have coupon codes that you can use to save money. Whether it’s free shipping, 10% off or a BOGO offer, it’s just silly not to use coupon codes to save you money (or get you more bang for your buck) when shopping online – it’s so easy.
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Hi there! I am Emily Evert, the owner of Emily Reviews. I am 28 and live in a small town in Michigan with my boyfriend Ryan and our two pugs. I have a large family and I adore my nieces and nephews. I love reading memoirs, and learning about child development and psychology. I love watching The Game of Thrones, Teen Mom, Sister Wives and Veep. I like listening to Jason Isbell, John Prine, and other alt-country or Americana music. I created Emily Reviews as a creative outlet to share my life and the products that I love with others.
Wow what a great blog bc I can so relate to what you were saying about Ryan. There are many things we have in common in respect to not having many traditions to the holiday. Nice to see you more than make up for it though.
I would use the Macy’s Coupon for their Great Shoe Sale The 20% Off 1 Pair and the 25% Off 2 Pairs would be perfect! I need to buy my kids shoes for a wedding they are in!
I would use the Target Buy one get 50% off deal because I have 2 grandbabies and this would definately come in handy seeing as how much I am always spoiling them both and always buying my granddaughter cute little dresses.
Save 20% Off Body Care, Candles, Wallflowers, Soaps, Gifts & More. We have to do some bathroom remodeling and I’d love some nice bath soaps to relax after it is all done.
Id love to use the Save $5 Off $20+ Barbie Purchase, i have some nieces who are all after barbies instead of eggs for easter this year. when did kids get so good with bargaining lol
The “Save 20% Off Body Care, Candles, Wallflowers, Soaps, Gifts & More” deal from Bath & Body Works would be wonderful for items to fill up my children’s Easter baskets!
I would consider using the Kohls Save $10 Off $30+ Kid’s Apparel & Shoes coupon. My son is gonna need some new clothes and shoes soon. That coupon could come in handy.
The Forever 21 30-50% Off Sale Items one. I love that store so much and always buy things for myself and gifts for friends from there so it would definitely be put to good use!
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Wow what a great blog bc I can so relate to what you were saying about Ryan. There are many things we have in common in respect to not having many traditions to the holiday. Nice to see you more than make up for it though.