HAPPY EASTER 2025

As many of you may know by now, I detest a certain food sooo much that I can’t even speak its name! I refer to the group of them as simply “e-words.” They’re the white oval entities that omelettes are made out of. I don’t want to see them, say them, hear their name, and especially, smell them. If someone is eating a runny one near me, I have to put up a blockade between my eyes and their plate. Someone I adore once ate an e-word salad sandwich in front of me, and I’ve been silently holding it against him ever since.

Yum!

What does that aversion have to do with Easter, you may ask? Well, the shortage of those little buggers right now, which has resulted in incredibly high prices for them these days, will put a possibly-immense damper on two of the major Easter activities this year, which both involve e-words: coloring them and hiding them. That’s what!

This is the first year that I can remember in which coloring Easter e-words will be far from cost effective. But I’m really not sure what else you can use instead of them because everything costs more in these troubling times. And you need a substance that is similar in size and shape, and that will accept the special coloring dye that works on the porous e-word shells. And that kids will not be tempted to eat.

I think that somewhere on social media I saw someone trying to use balls of peanut butter as a substitute, but then you can use them only for snacks and table decorations, and not hide them for a hunt. Unless you’re hunting for critters in your yard! (If you come up with something else to use for the fun purpose, please share it in the Comments below! We’d all appreciate it.)

And gather the plastic e-words in a cute pail like this one.

What I suggest you use for an Easter E-word Hunt is those cheap colorful plastic ones. Those are actually the best even in a normal year. They’re actually perfect if you’re hosting the fete, and giving-out little prizes for the found e-words. You can put a number inside each, which will correspond to a gift. That’s so fun for the winners, but even for the planners. (But if the prizes are going to be from dollar stores, which can actually be good ones, you have to hurry and get them—I just read that the price of each item in those stores is going up to $1.50 now because of what Orange Hitler has done to our economy!)

Karen Salkin’s easter nails from a past year. Photo by Mr. X.

Back to the coloring of them. If you are planning on having a little party to decorate the e-words, as Mr. X and I have done occasionally, I have a good idea of how you can still do Easter art without wasting beaucoup bucks. You can have everyone do what I usually do by myself for this colorful holiday—polish fingernails appropriately. I paint each one with an individual Easter e-word design. And people love them! To do it with a crowd, you can have guests color each other’s nails! It could be a riot. And if you don’t have pastel polishes on hand, you can always buy some at the aforementioned dollar stores. They will be cheaper than e-words and you get to keep them after. (Just remember to take pix of all the creations!)

So, whether or not you get to celebrate with colorful e-words this Sunday, I wish you all a lovely, fabulous, and very Happy Easter!