Easter is almost here. did any of you believe in the Easter Bunny?

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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I think I believed in the Easter Bunny until I was about 10 years old. My Mom always hid eggs and my Easter basket for me to find. After I had collected all the eggs,easter bunny.jpg my mom would put them in a basket on the kitchen table. I'm sure they sat there all day. Today there are all kinds of warnings about leaving the eggs out. Kids hunt for the plastic ones filled with candy.Next to impossible to open.Just not the same in my book. The photo is of me at the age of 7 with my bunny.
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Nope, I believed in Santa and his workshop and elves, etc... but knew that rabbits didn't lay eggs! :) So for some reason or other, 'logic' played a role in that one, maybe because we raised a few chickens... but!!!! Santa was magical. I always loved real rabbits and stuffed toy ones, however!
 
What a sweet photo Ruth! :love_heart: Although we always dressed up for Easter Sunday, and got some Easter baskets and chocolate bunnies, we never did egg hunts and I never believed in the Easter bunny. We did always dye some hard boiled eggs and that was fun, although I never like to eat them.
 

Don't recall believing in the Easter Bunny, but, now I recall why I love dress up so much, the really early years we kids got to shop like nobody's business. I loved those bonnets and beautiful little decorative purses and the shoes, the dresses plus the matching coat. I'll never understand why the boiled eggs tasted so much better during this time
 
Yes, yes, yes ! I was taught to believe in the Easter bunny. My folks hid baskets of easter candy around the house for me to find. Everyone I knew believed in the Easter bunny too - friends and schoolmates. I'm surprised at how many here did not.
 
Could somebody please enlighten me?

The only Easter bunny I've heard of is either a chocolate one , or a wild one done in a pie!

I take it it's some sort of mythical childhood thing, like Tinker Bell (not that I'm suggesting you're a myth, Tink. Of course not) or Trolls?
 
Karen99 said:


The Easter Bunny was just a symbol of Spring to me..I didn't quite believe in him..but I liked the idea :)
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How I loved that song. After awhile the record skipped in places, but I still played it. Thanks for sharing Karen. There was another one I loved, it was on one of those little yellow records for kids. It was called, Egbert The Easter Egg, Rosemary Clooney sang it. Both bring back great memories.
 
Laurie said:
Could somebody please enlighten me?

The only Easter bunny I've heard of is either a chocolate one , or a wild one done in a pie!

I take it it's some sort of mythical childhood thing, like Tinker Bell (not that I'm suggesting you're a myth, Tink. Of course not) or Trolls?
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Yes, Laurie,I guess you could call the Easter bunny mythical. Some folks think people believed the bunny laid the eggs. He didn't lay them, he hopped down the bunny trail on Easter morning and hid the eggs and gave out candy to all the children. The song that Karen posted here explains the whole thing. Silly concept but so much fun!!!!
 
oohjarwatsit said:
Why? I was quite happy to receive Easter eggs, without having them hidden etc, which I would have thought silly.
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Me too, I think by the time I heard of this craze I was old enough to be proficient with the eyeroll, somewhere around age ten I think. I was happy with the perfectly placed eggs that sat on tables and mantles. I certainly didn't want to get my pretty dress dirty. LOL! But, really I seemed to never have been told the story of the Easter bunny or my brain is working hard to forget, like others I do remember chocolate and those gosh awful marshmallow bunnies. :D
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
How I loved that song. After awhile the record skipped in places, but I still played it. Thanks for sharing Karen. There was another one I loved, it was on one of those little yellow records for kids. It was called, Egbert The Easter Egg, Rosemary Clooney sang it. Both bring back great memories.
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That I remember, songs and fairytale stories of Peter cottontail.
 
I loved getting my fancy easter egg every year in one of those baskets with the plastic grass and small eggs in colorful tinfoil, but I knew my mother bought it, never an easter bunny.
 

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