Hopefully you've finished paying off the Christmas credit card bill. Maybe you've even thought long and hard that spontaneous purchases aren't the way to go. Perhaps, the sting of working overtime to finally get in the clear has scorched your purchasing patterns like a branding iron marks a steer.

And then again, maybe not!

Maybe you're already pouring over the shopping catalogues perusing the easter eggs on display and circling them for your spouse to conveniently find laying around. The kids have already been talking about their desired eggs and the relatives have hinted that they will be buying easter eggs again this year. Does the circle ever change?

Maybe I'm just the Easter Grinch but I happen to think that perhaps buying easter eggs might be a little over the top - or at least we tend to take it that way.

An egg is no longer an egg. It has to be the biggest, best quality, packed with a novelty, packaged in my favourite team's colours or shipped in from Bonn. The Red Tulip 100g egg no longer cuts it.

To impress, this year, it's going to take a bigger effort than last year. Unless it comes with more than the easter eggs I bought last year - how can I expect that my loved ones will feel loved?

Wasn't easter about a guy dying on a cross to save the world from their sins? And easter eggs have What? to do with that....

Oh, that's right. They symbolise new life. Or at least another reason to increase my credit card...