Easter Baskets - Conneaut,OH

I save them and reuse the same ones. Same thing for trick or treat bags. the kids have been using the same ones for years and years.

We use the same baskets each year. The Easter bunny refills them, just like Santa and Christmas stockings.

I have beautiful Longaberger baskets for each of my kids and one my husband and I share. We use the same ones every year and put them out for the bunny, just like we do Christmas stockings. I also have my basket from when I was a child and maybe my brother's ... Hmmm, I should look at that and send it his way. The baskets are special and I hope my kids will use them when they are adults.

We don't.
Our son uses the Easter basket I had when I was growing up - that basket is 53 years old!
It's horrible the amount of stuff people buy just to throw away every year!
A lot of it is plastic and ends up in a landfill.

Well, you use the same Christmas stockings every year, right? Santa fills them. The Easter Bunny is also environmentally conscious and doesn't waste them.

Or, set up an exchange with your neighbors/friends. Some of my neighbors do that with Christmas wrapping paper to maintain the secret - Mom/Dad wrap in Paper A, Santa in Paper B. The parents do an easy exchange during school hours. Works great.

When I was a kid, we reused the baskets every year. And the same grass, plastic eggs, etc.

I've been using cheap buckets instead. The kids will use ( and destroy) the buckets over the course of the summer making sand castles and mud pies.

We use the same baskets each year... We set them out then the Easter bunny fills them

My siblings and I used the same baskets every year for our entire childhoods. My mom probably still has them all. They are plastic and wire. Mine is pink, blue & white, and the handle has my teethmarks in it. :-)

I don't use baskets for my kids, I use Easter themed buckets that are sold for $1-$2. They look like ice cream pails. I've used the same buckets for 3 years now, I think.

Before that, after Easter the buckets would go in the car because my kids tend to get carsick. We have more durable buckets in the car now.

This spring I cleared out some excess stuff from storage and gave away five Easter baskets that I had acquired over the years as gifts. I put them up on Freecycle a couple of weeks before Easter so they got a second life in a new home.

Our baskets get re-used. Santa always fills our reusable felt bags as well.
We put them out the night before, empty, and they are filled overnight.
The kids are big into re-using things. They get thrown out when they finally wear out and then we go out and get new ones.

We keep ours in the attic. The night before the kids set them out for the bunny to fill. Not to different from stockings at Christmas.

I have a very nice large basket I purchased years ago and I use that basket each year. My daughter is 20 and I still filled this basket for her.

Are you talking about the prefilled cheap baskets?

We've never had one of those.

I fill my basket myself with her favorites. I've used the same Christmas stocking since she was born as well.

I reused the same basket for years until it finally fell apart. The next one I got is currently being used by the cat. It is one of her favorite places to sleep. This year, even though my daughter, at 18, is probably way to old for an Easter basket, I got another just like the one the cat took over, and now she has two to choose from. Yes, I am in training to be the crazy cat lady :)

If you kids are old enough to notice the same basket they are already questioning whether the bunny exists. Cool how that works out.

We still use the two baskets from my childhood Easters. My basket and my brother's are cute, vintage and at this point approaching 50 years old.

I am struck by how small they are and that they have held up perfectly for so long. I arrange some of the goodies around the baskets due to size. They are regular sized Easter baskets...for 1970. Hopefully someday one of my girls will use them for her kids, built to last.

I save ours & re-use every year.
Couldn't find one of ours this year so had to buy one for the egg hunt.
I store them so the Easter bunny has an easy time filling plus each child
knows which one is his/hers.

i like baskets. i keep and reuse them. the ones not being used by the easter bunny (whose visits are brief in these empty-nest days) are used as spring decorations.
khairete
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while my boys are 12 and 15 - they still enjoy an Easter basket and Easter Egg hunting - this year - after we hid the eggs for them? They hid the eggs for us - it was a blast!

As to baskets? We found camouflage baskets about 5 years ago - we use those every year.

We reuse. If the basket is a natural color, you can always donate them to those school fundraising silent auctions. They are always looking for baskets.

I use my mother's basket that she used as a little girl and other baskets that I have had for years.

I don't do baskets any more-- now Kiddo just hunts for eggs, a few treats and some presents in the garden. I think it's more fun that way. Cadbury eggs in the forsythia, presents in the rosemary, eggs on branches or hiding under the greens.... it's so much fun!

Our boy is nearly 8 and has more or less figured things out, but we don't force him to make a declaration and this is just fun for everyone. :)

I donate mine. Every year. I buy cheapy baskets at the dollar store. Living in an apartment, I do not have the space to save anything for a whole year that is not being used.
Sometimes I have bought buckets as baskets so that they can be used all summer and for carrying around treasures. We keep those. Needless to say, I have a LOT of buckets.
L.

We reuse the same one over and over......I didn't people threw 'em out unless they were falling apart

My daughter uses something that her kids use for the rest of the year. Often it's a plastic pail. This year they got goodies in a sand form. They plan to go to the beach later.

With my daughter I used the same baskets over. By the time she noticed it was the same basket she was aware the bunny was me and it didn't matter.

I save the baskets, grass (which we haven't used in years due to the cat), and a few dozen plastic eggs in a giant zip lock bag to be reused. I've made no effort to hide putting them away from my kids. I've told the kids that we store the baskets for the Easter Bunny, so he has less to carry, and keep extra supplies, just in case. I've equated it to us providing the stockings for Santa to fill. They're cool with that.

Not sure how old your kids are but we always told the kids ok we need to put these away so the easter bunny can use them again next year. then just like stockings we would set them out a few days before the holiday and wala they would be filled on easter morning.

Keep ours. I don't like chucking stuff that was only used once - I make room for them. Ours are tattered and well worn ... the kids LOVE pulling the same ones out year after year. Now they look ridiculously small in the teens' hands on Easter morning, but they wouldn't have it any other way. I even offered to get new bigger ones, Nope. Tradition is huge with my kids. I do wish they were collapsible though. Trying to shove them in my storage room is a pain!

Since the EBasket tends to stay our longer than the EDecorations, I just put it on a shelf in our bedroom closet til next year. New grass every year though.

I bought each of my kids built to last Easter baskets and we've used them all since their first Easter

I always use a plastic bucket they can use during the spring and summer at the beach. You can get cheap buckets that come with shovels for under $3. They usually break by the end of the summer, so we just throw them out and get new ones the following Easter.

Errr.. ummm yeah.. about those baskets...
I have a closet full of them and no idea what to do with them! They *belong* to the kids... When they were little, it was fun (for me) to get new baskets each year (especially since the first year or two I didn't care for the selections and didn't want to use those as their *permanent* one)... but then once they begin to expect a new one each time... wellllll....

Most of them *I* a probably more sentimentally attached to than they are. I did manage to toss some a few years ago, and since they are older and know that I am the person who does it all, I've been reusing for the past several years. But I still have a half dozen in the spare room's closet. Ack!
But throw them out? Never! Maybe donate them to Goodwill or Salvation Army or something. I just don't think I could actually throw away an Easter Basket.

I love that so many ppl use the same buckets every year. I don't. I don't even have space for Christmas decos (they reside in my son's closet since he has the least clothes).
I don't do grass and buy reusable containers-sand pails, shower caddys, reusable shopping bags, backpacks, etc. I try to make it a type of container that child needs. I don't do the crazy over the top Easter, though.
My friend made a "basket" out of jumbo sized candy boxes and two slim jims. That is waaaaaay more junk as a basket than what I put in my kids baskets!!

We re-use ours and its never been a problem.

My sister and I both had designated Easter baskets. We put them out each year and the bunny filled them up, kind of like stockings at Christmas.

We leave them out empty for EB to fill and hide.

I re-use our baskets. I tell the kids that the Easter bunny refill it each year. My kids are 6 and 3 so they haven't really questioned it.

I don't buy actual Easter baskets. I buy decorative baskets, buckets or other types of containers that can be re-used throughout the year. We've used them at the beach, for misc. toys, nail polishes, etc...

We don't throw them out, but if they are not a container we can reuse (the EB brings us buckets, storage containers...he's very creative) then I quietly put them aside and donate them to the PTA fundraiser (silent auction). Several friends got one nice basket and reuse it every year. Wish I'd done that sometimes. We do no Easter grass here. The cats would eat it and puke it everywhere. We don't do tinsel, either. After a while the eggs get lost or abused and she gets a new dozen to find the next year.

depends if they destroy them or not. My mom still has my basket from when I was little. The basket was used the day before Easter to take food for blessing and then left out and the Easter bunny put stuff in it. When I do get to save them, I tell the kids the bunny can't carry everything so he needs moms to help. Same when they see the plastic eggs I buy. Tell them the bunny comes for them to hide them.

Considering my three kids get a new basket EACH year from their grandparents, I was thinking about this same thing about a week or two ago. I have asked my parents to resuse the baskets but in laws just buy new ones. I figured I'll use them for decoration (outside, in the kids' rooms, bathrooms, etc) during April. I even think about putting a few in the kids' rooms for storage. Or what about using them to hold birthday gifts throughout the year? That is what I'm thinking about doing.

If it's a cheap plastic gross basket that has no cuteness or anything then yes, out with the trash. BUT I'd ask the kid first. The basket is a symbol of all of it and they may want to play with it a bit.

I have bought nicer baskets a few times and I use them as centerpieces sometimes with stuff in them.

Overall this year was the first time we'd ever bought one of the pre-made baskets. I've seek kids open those trashy cheap baskets and when they pick up the doll the head falls off or the stuffed animal is hard and feels gross or the candy is from last year and turned gritty.

Those baskets are expensive so you think they're better than you can do by buying the parts and making your own.

If you have extra money to buy a cheap basket with coloring books and a stuffed animal and a bit of gross cheap knock off candy then you have enough money to buy an Easter bucket and put your own grass in it then add the better quality group of items in it. You can buy the big bags or put the basket leaning up against something where kiddo can see it and then they can see it all piled up.

Go find a Barbie she doesn't have yet, find some hot wheels he doesn't already have, go to the coloring book section and find one they'll like, go to the Dollar Tree and buy all the toys and stuff then make your own baskets.

I didn't buy the cheesy Easter baskets. I bought a useful container and filled it up.

I always reuse the grass and baskets and buckets

I had 3 totally different baskets fr my 3 kids. I pack them up and get them out each year. This year one broke and I just packed up the remaining 2 today. I know I will not remember what happened to the 3rd (or what it looked liked, or whose it was) when I open the storage bin next year. Neither will the kids. I'll probably be annoyed that there are only 2 in there and I'll have to scrounge up another last minute!!

NOT the same with the Xmas stockings. Those are special and singular to each kid.

We save the basket (they are nice wooden baskets they have had since their first Easter) and the plastic eggs and they are put away with all the Easter decorations. When we get the decorations out the boys have their baskets and the eggs and then they leave them on the kitchen table the night before Easter for the Easter Bunny to fill up and hide.

We have buckets we got from Wal-Mart or something years ago and those get stored with the plastic eggs in them. We do not get new baskets each year.