being thrifty

There are 15 plus little cousins that meet at my sister’s each year and have a delicious Easter dinner and then a fun Easter egg hunt as a family.

We all bring plastic candy-filled eggs per child, to the event, for the big egg hunt.

This year we brought 24 plastic candy-filled eggs per child. Shew, that was a lot and those packages of eggs can really add up!

But, somehow we have managed to start a great routine for storing these eggs that I hope we are able to carry on for years to come.

Storing Plastic Easter Eggs

Last Easter one of my sister-in-laws offered to hold the plastic eggs that folks did not want and she stored them in her attic. She kept eggs from her family’s hunt and our family’s hunt.

This year, a week before Easter, she divvied eggs out to each family, delivered them and boom, we were set for Easter this year. We did not have to spend money on any of those plastic eggs, we just had to buy the candy and fill them. (And when you have to purchase close to 100 eggs, that is a pretty nice savings)

Then again this year after the hunt and after the kids had some time to devour a portion of their sweets and partake in the fun of the plastic eggs, we emptied the candy into each kids’ basket and dumped all of the plastic eggs back into the container for storage.

I am so exited about this! Totally a mommy solution and a money saving tradition I hope we continue for years!

How about you? How do you store the leftover plastic eggs? I also have a fun education game you can quickly turn some of them into if storing them is not something you’re interested in.

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