Help me get away with this!

[MacInTheBox]

I was just cleaning the mantelpiece and knocked off one of DHs beloved Royal Doulton figurines. It hit the fireplace and broke clean in half

He's asleep upstairs (works nights). 3yo DD witnessed the whole thing!

Have managed to stick it back together, but the glue is only PVA and I'm scared to touch it. I'm thinking put it back where it was for now and try and get a new one off eBay or similar.

I can pull this off, right?

Not a chance. Your 3 year old will sell you out the second he emerges from the bedroom

See this is why I don't clean.

@MrsGarethSouthgate

I fear this will happen too. I've tried to play it down, told her I've fixed it and it's fine. She did keep loudly asking me why I broke it though!

I have looked it up and thankfully it's not worth hundreds of pounds so will be easily replaced whether I get ratted out or not.

Is it unethical to bribe a 3 year old to keep quiet?

@sackrifice

So many regrets!! I should have just let it be!

Move the kid to another room and busy her with something and hopefully she'll forget. Take all the stuff off the mantle and suggest the area needs a re-paint or something (maybe spill some coffee? 'yes, mummy broke her cup') and you've boxed everything else away. By the time he gets around to doing it (which if he is like most guys it may be a while) conveniently have misplaced the item box xD Or have bought the replacement xD

Just tell him and say you'll replace it.

I fear the child will dob me in!

Just washing her hands before lunch and she told me I am 'a pretty girl' and I said she is too and also started listing off all other things about her (kind, funny, smart).

She the proceeded to tell me that I am silly sometimes because I break Daddy's stuff!

@SoupDragon

I probably will. Be I am dreading telling him.

These bloody figures are the only material thing he gives a crap about, along with his extensive football programme collection!

Incidentally, I have no love for the figures, particularly this one. We also have the same one in a larger size! I've always argued that they shouldn't be out due to the risk of damage, seems I've unintentionally proved my own point!

Maybe this will cheer you up -
When my now exh split with his first dw he was very smug it was so amicable, friends for life blah bloody blah.
Until the day he realised she had sold the marital home that he wasn't named on and he got zero £££!!
And until the day his personal effects arrived via courier and he opened them....
His Royal Doulton figurines had all been decapitated and the heads super glued on -
Back to front!!
Oh I bloody laughed!!

This is going to sound 'holier than thou' and I really don't mean to! But I reckon it would be better to show your 3 year old that accidents happen and it's good to be honest about it and say you're sorry?

On the other hand... I understand where you're coming from. I'd be tempted to think about doing the same!

@Yellowweatherwarning

That is genius!!

If ever things go south, I know what I'll be doing

Don't try to bribe your 3 year old to keep quiet!

I remember DS at 3 or 4 telling his dad he'd got a secret - the secret being what I'd told him not to tell his dad in the first place - but DS wanted to tell his daddy his secret....

@shinynewapple and @Poppins2016

I have considered this, too.

All I've said is I've told her I've fixed it. I was very conscious that I probably shouldn't say 'don't tell daddy' or encouraging her to keep it a secret - I don't think it teaches a very good lesson.

No matter how tempting it may be

Just googled royal doulton figurines. Think you should knock them all down OP. You'll be doing him a favour long term.

Is there something of Daddys you can break that he doesnt care about? Then you can bait and switch if dc tells on you. Then start spring cleaning the room and put the breakables in boxes for safe keeping (and replace the broken one)

Or just tell the truth and offer to replace it. Maybe keep the broken one as a souvenir for dc of when telling the truth is the best thing to do, because the truth is more important than possessions..... the story can go down in family lore....

See this is why I don't clean.

Your DH loves royal doulton china ornaments? How unusual. What’s it a figurine of?

@fatandshattered89



I agree. Each to their own though, I guess?

Tbh, I've got off lightly as he only has a handful, but we stand to inherit a full house of them in the future as his love for them is passed down from PILs!

Just admit it’s happened and get it over with. Good example to your child, apologise to him, get a duplicate and then tell him you won’t be dusting anymore it’s now up to him, for the whole house

This is it...

His parents are big fans and I think his love for them has just been passed down.

We have a few dotted about here and there, but nothing like the amount the in laws have!

OMG, op! That is horrible! Sure you didn't do it 'action purpose'?!

Accidentally! Stupid phone!

@IkeaIsForWinners

And we have two of them!!

I wish I had the gumption to break them on purpose, but I know how much he likes them.

We moved before Christmas and I sort of hoped they would remain in storage. But oh no, within a day they were whipped out, unwrapped and put pride of place on the mantelpiece

We had them Blu tacked to the mantlepiece!
Looking the wrong way!!

I did that. I had to pritt stick Rupert the bear's bloody bugle back on and then order a new one off eBay.

Actually I've got a spare Rupert the bear without a bugle for sale if anyone's in the market for one?