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

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I usually don't spend much for Easter. Reuse Easter baskets from year to year (my parents taught us that. Our baskets would be left out for the Easter Bunny to fill and put back in the closet high up where we couldn't see or reach them with a bag over them so they wouldn't get dusty.) Reduce and reuse paper shredded paper and envelopes of different light pastel colors from snail mail for the Easter "grass" in the basket. That can be packed away in the baskets or separately for next year). Or cut up pastel-colored plastic bags to use as grass. Or a combination. Reuse plastic eggs from last year. They can be refilled. Or just for decoration eggs: recycle chicken or other eggs by poking out each end of white eggs, blowing the eggs out to use for scrambled eggs, use the outside of the eggs for to dye. Beat juice, cabbage juice, onion juice, etc. can be made from the peels of those veggies or if you don't add the regular juice to soups or stews, you can use them to dye the eggs. Some people boil eggs for Easter, they cam be dyed, too. But kept them in a fridge until peeled and eaten. Don't use for Easter egg hunts as someone often forgets to find one and the rotten egg smell catches up to you eventually. Those are all old ideas for me. The new one that I found on the internet, make a rabbit, chick, a cross a soft stuffed egg or whatever, anything out of old socks or whatever you have at home. Now there is a neat idea. So other than buying a chocolate or candy bunny and jelly beans or chocolate or pecan eggs, there isn't much to buy. Maybe celephane if you can't find something to substitute for that like a see-thru partially colored bag, but we were never into the cello stuff on the outside. A ribbon if you don't have one or if the one you have doesn't look so good. So what do you do for a frugal Easter?