When Easter is over, as it is about to be, what do you do with all the leftover Easter baskets? In my house growing up, my mom would stash all 10 Easter baskets back under the stairs, grass and all, to wait it out until the following Easter holiday. I’m not quite as organized as my mother, maybe because I’m free to wing it with only 2 kids instead of 8, which means each year is different than the next. More often than not, I forget I even have Easter baskets under my stairs, or I’m lured into buying new ones every year both by the children and myself.
What does one do with all the baskets of the world flowing everywhere? I’ll tell you what I do: after Easter half the time I send them to a thrift store and the other half I re-purpose them into something useful for the remaining 11 months of the year.
This year my little guy (he’s still little to me) is getting an adorable little monster basket filled to the brim with Peeps and chocolate eggs. And when he’s all done using it I’m filling it with toy cars to sit on his nightstand. Since he plays with cars until he falls asleep every night anyway, so his cars might as well stay corralled in an adorable monster basket close at hand.
My daughter is less willing to be organized (by me or herself) but she doesn’t have a choice about loving this Easter basket, the adorable is too overwhelming for her to turn down.
Seriously.
She’ll be extra excited to start with because the basket is full of wonderful goodness; a stuffed bunny, Peeps, a chocolate Easter bunny, and a whole passel of jelly beans and all the gummy treats a kid could ever hope for.
Then, like magic, the day after Easter her basket will turn into . . .
The perfect book basket for my voracious reader.
My daughter reads about 10-12 books a week and this basket is the perfect size to hold each weekly library trips’ loot. And look at the liner! Polka dots to match practically every color scheme your brain can imagine.
Do you love it like I do? I hope so.
I’m curious, if you celebrate Easter, what do you do with/for your Easter baskets? Do you repurpose baskets you’ve already got in your house or do you buy every year like me? (face palm) Do you repurpose baskets that end up in your house no matter what the season? Do tell! I want to hear how you’re running the organization end of things where you live. And Happy Easter!
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Allison
Hello there! I'm Allison Czarnecki, founder + editor of Petit Elefant, a blog all about style on a budget for every part of your life: style / home / travel / family. I do a lot of how-to beauty + style tutorials, travel posts, easy recipes, home remodel projects, and cool DIY crafts you totally want to try. I'm super happily married (to a hot Polish immigrant) and am the mother of two kids, a daughter and son, all of whom are featured here on the regular. We live in the country but we're a little bit rock + roll. Welcome!
