Reduce, reuse, recycle Easter or how to not spend much for Easter.  

I make all of our candy from scratch, I tell my kids that the Easter bunny has too many kids to buy candy. Marshmallows are cheap and easy to make, as well as chocolate covered pretzels and dried fruit. I also give practical items that I would need to buy any how so that I get to use them as gifts as well as for what they are meant. Socks,pencils, crayons etc. I have been teaching my girls to sew so they are making their own dresses this year both fun and saves money. We use just cheap food coloring for our eggs we dye.

In my country, it is the custom to do Figolli for Easter. They are made in the shape of religious symbols such as a lamb and fish but other modern figures such as easter bunnies etc.

Figolli are essentially almond pies done in different shapes to be eaten on Easter Sunday. Originally decorated with fondant, now-a-days you may also find ones decorated with chocolate.

Although modern additions to Easter such as chocolates eggs and the Easter bunny can be found in most shops, Figolli are still very popular.
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Usually we do recycle cards not only to save money but also to save the environment.

When I was young I remember the 'angel blouse' was the fad and I finally got my mother to buy me one. It was lovely with lacey sleeves and all a pretty white. We reuse the plastic eggs and baskets as you do. My mom lived during the depression and so she was very frugal. About all we get are eggs and a little candy. We make deviled eggs with the eggs and I look forward to it every year. Oh, and we like to buy a dying kit just because they have such cool ones now days and we all like to mess with them.

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Well, I have to be blunt here..I just forget that it is Easter and I don't have to bother with it.
If I stay out of the shops, it doesn't phase me.
So of course, I mostly do stay out of the shops.
When I do have to go, then I may pick up a couple of little Cadbury Eggs for myself and my son..or a Cadburys Fruit and Nut..that is it.

I have always recycle easter baskets and now my kids does the same thing for their kids. I did not use easter grass it is too messy and gets all over my carpet and my kids doesn't either.

i buy stuff after easter to save for next easter (like plastic eggs and whatnot) and since we dont really go in for a lot of easter stuff (like baskets), i start buying gifts for my daughters right after Christmas (i hide small gifts for them throughout the living room). i got them each a pair of earrings for $2.99 each, that sort of thing.

We have always reused the plastic Easter eggs from year to year. In fact, I think that my mother still has some eggs that are left from when my siblings and myself were children and she now has four grandchildren ranging in age from one-year-old to seven-years-old.
Another thing that we did when I was younger was that my mother and later my siblings and myself would help her pour chocolate molds instead of buying the chocolate bunnies that they sell at the store. These tasted better in my opinion that the stuff that you buy.