Not a-fucking-gain!!!!' Ordered stuff by accident from supermarket!'n

When I was off work ill my 2ic did the end of term order for the following year, he ordered 300 exercise books. Luckily I got a call from them, did I really want 6000 exercise books this year, 300 packs of 20, or my usual 15 packs of 20? It's really easy to do when you're rushing an order.

Early on in my online shopping career I managed to order 1 single lonely mushroom. At the time I just chuckled to myself but now I’m really bewildered - mushrooms weigh virtually nothing. Surely I’d be more likely to accidentally order 1kg or something and get fucking loads of the things? I must have ordered 0.01g to get just one.

One Christmas I bought some cans of coke (something I don’t ordinarily buy) and they were on a good offer - 3 for £1 or something like that. Turned out they were teensy cans that are meant to be used as mixers for vodka/Bacardi. Still, it was fun to hold them and pretend like I was a giant.

The screen on the tablet has cracked, so it is difficult to get it to register touch at times. Posh sausages were in sale with the milkman, so tried to order 2 packs. Much stabbing at the screen later and it wasn't adding them. Only when I went to pay I realised there was a time lag as it was over 60 quid and I had 22 packs of sausages in the basket! Luckily I realised before I paid as that would not fit in the freezer.

I recently ordered the wrong type of toilet roll. We prefer ‘soft’ in our household, but are powering through! (12 pack)

The funniest online purchase mistake in my family came from my sister.

For a throwback fancy dress party she ordered a pair of ‘fashion’ leggings from ebay. Think 90’s clubbing and iridescencent shine.

When they arrived it turns out the leggings were for a barbie sized doll

I have 5 bags of frozen carrots in the freezer. Every time I shop! I’m convinced we need some.

With my husband it is onions.

Hah!

I arranged delivery of a mega shop...to a holiday cottage we had booked a few weeks before we were due to arrive.

I had been tinkering with the app to work out if we could get basic scoffs delivered for the night we arrived. Duly done - great bit of household management I thought. But the supermarket app automatically scraped up the last addressed used & yrs truly did not notice until I went to make a last minute addition before the order deadline.

Frantic ringing of supermarket’s customer service & throwing myself on their distant mercy got the erroneous order to Cornwall cancelled by the skin of the proverbial teeth.

Brings me out in a hot sweat thinking of the whole sorry episode.

I may have been partly to blame for flour shortages. Before I go any further I have to tell you DH has been making bread for years and we haven't jumped on the lockdown bandwagon.

I do the shopping from my favourites and don't always check what we've got, I just rely on my memory. A few weeks ago DH took unpacked the shopping delivery and asked me would I please not order any more flour for the foreseeable future as he was running out of room to store it! He's also trying to eat around 60 packets of ready salted crisps.

It's a family trait I think. DM died 3 years ago and we're still using up her bleach stash!

Turns out Tesco app can’t handle my DH adding bits to the order as I’m lovingly adding items from the meal plan. For weeks he’s been accusing me of forgetting to add things but it’s because he’s faffing at the sale time!

Six packs of six bananas here. Taught us a thing.

My dad assured mum that he was perfectly capable of doing an IKEA order on his tablet rather than using the laptop as she had advised, after listening to him complaining about how bad the app is.

He managed to order 6 identical rugs instead of one! And was adamant that the quantity must have 'changed by itself' 😂

I don’t normally do online shopping, I did after my caesarean because I couldn’t drive . Ordered 10 of the share bars of milky bar instead of 1 .. I didn’t mind that mistake 😂

At the very least, he must have thought I was completely bonkers!

I pick customers shopping. You'd be amazed how many times it happens.
We also get people ordering 40 tins of peaches, it's not an error haha

@SparkyBlue reminds me of when I called tesco to ask where my shopping was. It comes every week on a Thursday 8-9. Only when you actually order it though

I once ordered a single mushroom, which was delivered to my door in a small plastic bag. I was charged about 40 times its cost for its delivery.

I had 'reserved' my spot with the smallest item I could think of, and then forgot about it. This was in another country where online grocery sites were a new thing and there was, as yet, no minimum spend requirement.

My husband once ordered 22 6-packs of beans instead of 2. It was funny but I did then have to find space for them in my workshop which was less amusing.