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How do you celebrate Easter?

How do you celebrate Easter

  • As a religious event with Church visits but no easter eggs

    Votes: 2 4.5%
  • As a religious event with Church visits, family and easter eggs

    Votes: 9 20.5%
  • As an extra day off work, with easter eggs and family fun

    Votes: 11 25.0%
  • I am a Jewish

    Votes: 1 2.3%
  • I do not pay any attention to easter at all

    Votes: 11 25.0%
  • other …........ (please explain)

    Votes: 10 22.7%

  • Total voters
    44

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Easter is, according to religious doctrine, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. But in countries with less religious tendencies Easter has become a long free weekend to have a short holiday or be together as a family.

How do you celebrate easter?
 
Easter is, according to religious doctrine, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. But in countries with less religious tendencies Easter has become a long free weekend to have a short holiday or be together as a family.

How do you celebrate easter?

We have a breakfast that has some sort of symbolism congruent with my family's tradition as Catholics in Poland. We don't go to church or anything though.
 
It was the first day of Spring for us and we got out the grill and grilled steaks (78 degrees.) :thumbs:
 
Just a fun gathering with family and lots of food. Probably gained like three pounds earlier today. :lol:

Though, this was the first year I didn't get an Easter basket. That's probably a good thing since I don't need the candy, but still, it's a little sad.
 
Dinner with family and watching Mencia's "hide the eggs" bit.
 
We go to church in the morning, and have the more "secular" festivities later in the day. We generally finish things off with a family dinner at the end of the day, like we would have on Christmas or Thanksgiving.
 
Easter is, according to religious doctrine, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. But in countries with less religious tendencies Easter has become a long free weekend to have a short holiday or be together as a family.

How do you celebrate easter?

Like most parents here, herding children until you are ready to drop dead from exhaustion.
 
I celebrate it by working. ;)
(I've worked every Easter since about 1998)
 
Woke up late, ate, cut some flooring, mowed the lawn, cleaned the pool, had a beer, celebrated the other holiday.

Pretty much every sunday...
 
I went out to dinner, went to Home Depot and bought some plants and got a little dirty. :2razz:
 
I fumed at not being able to go to the garden centre to buy plants because they were left out of the Sunday trading laws and have to stay closed!
 
I fumed at not being able to go to the garden centre to buy plants because they were left out of the Sunday trading laws and have to stay closed!

That stinks! :( It was a great day here for planting, nice and sunny and fairly warm.
 
I fumed at not being able to go to the garden centre to buy plants because they were left out of the Sunday trading laws and have to stay closed!

I think it is very good that on certain days there are official holidays on which shops are closed like Easter Sunday, First Christmas day, Whitsunday and New Years day. That leaves 361 days for shopping and that seems quite enough.
 
It's just another Sunday for me.
 
I think it is very good that on certain days there are official holidays on which shops are closed like Easter Sunday, First Christmas day, Whitsunday and New Years day. That leaves 361 days for shopping and that seems quite enough.

Yeah well, not everyone celebrates those holidays. Some people want to do other things instead, and when everything is closed up you can't do anything. I was glad that there were some restaurants and stores open yesterday.
 
I fumed at not being able to go to the garden centre to buy plants because they were left out of the Sunday trading laws and have to stay closed!
Here there are no Sunday trading laws, so everything is closed every Sunday. I found it frustrating at first, used to 7/7 opening in the UK. Now I kind of like the different feel to Sunday, like I remember it used to be in England before 1994.
 
Here there are no Sunday trading laws, so everything is closed every Sunday. I found it frustrating at first, used to 7/7 opening in the UK. Now I kind of like the different feel to Sunday, like I remember it used to be in England before 1994.

I can't stand it when everything is closed. :lol: I feel so cut off. Seems like those are always the times when I need something too, whether I forgot something or whatever the case may be.
 
My Easter celebration has always been completely secular. We have a big meal with the extended family and hide Easter eggs for all the little kids in the family to hunt. We also usually go visit my in-laws' graves since they died on Easter.
 
I can't stand it when everything is closed. :lol: I feel so cut off. Seems like those are always the times when I need something too, whether I forgot something or whatever the case may be.
Sometimes it seems like the only time the stores are all closed is when they are all closed.
 
My Easter celebration has always been completely secular. We have a big meal with the extended family and hide Easter eggs for all the little kids in the family to hunt. We also usually go visit my in-laws' graves since they died on Easter.

How sad! Sorry to hear that.
 
Easter is a perfect excuse to eat and drink till you puke, ay least for me anyway. :mrgreen:
 
I sleep, watch football, sleep, eat, watch movies and sleep some more. Nice to have 4 days of holiday. Never really celebrated Easter, but my family does with Easter lunch/dinner depending on which parts.
 
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