I'm an idiot. I somehow bought everything twice

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Just a little note, but I'm on medication that absolutely fucks my memory, plus I'm hormonal which always makes me forgetful too. It's a double whammy which is making me an absolute tit right now.

So last night the Easter bunny visited. He delivered the eggs for me and my husband to hide. All fine, all normal. Kids had a lovely hunt round the house, lovely roast dinner. Perfect day so far, apart from the obvious of not seeing family.

Except, as I was preparing the roast dd decided to look in the understairs cupboard, hoping to find an egg. I suddenly hear her yelling
"OH MY GOODNESS, GUYS COME HERE I FOUND THE MOTHERLOAD"

Dh and I look at each other thinking wtf has she found. She's found two bags for life with what basically amounts to doubles of their easter eggs. Turns out I bought everything for Easter as soon as it was on the shelves. Put them all away. Forgot about them and just bought them all again a few days ago.

If I'd of looked under the stairs earlier I could have had a lovely donation for the food bank! So annoyed with myself, what a waste of money too! I'll donate the extras somewhere, but dh is never going to let me live this down. Please tell me I'm not the only person to do something like this?

How is it a waste, just save them for next year. They're not going to go off.

How old are your kids? Tell them those are the ones you meant to donate to the food bank. Or explain the truth, and explain why it would be good to donate them?

This really made me chuckle!!
You could melt the Chocolate and use it in baking - Rice Krispie cakes?

@LoveIsLovely of course chocolate goes off! It will probably be out of date before christmas!

I did similar at Xmas. Booked a supermarket delivery for all the Xmas food except meat which I'd ordered from the butcher. Went to collect the meat on Dec 23rd v early and the greengrocer was open so I stupidly went and bought potatoes, carrots, parsnips, sprouts, a huge swede and a red cabbage. By the time I got home dh had taken delivery of the supermarket order and we had double final the veg. We had a lot of root veg soup over the xmas hols last year!

Sounds like something I would absolutely do. Have not done this but do similar things all the time. My short term memory is shocking.

Don't beat yourself up op. We've all had a lot on your minds.

It’ll go off eventually, but there’s plenty of time to eat them before then.

Obviously the Easter bunny is a bit stressed out with lockdown this year. But there’s no harm done so I wouldn’t stress about it.

The last 3 times I've been to the shop, I've bought a jar of mayonnaise fully believing I'm almost out. I have a nearly full jar in the fridge and 3 unopened jars in the cupboard. What am I doing??

Last week, my husband asked, "Darling, why are we hoarding mayonnaise?"

He must think I've lost the plot.

@Lazypuppy Oh give over, chocolate lasts a year at least.

Won't the foodbank still want it? It's just chocolate after all.

Once bought an airline ticket twice. Bought first with BA six months before. Then booked easyJet one three weeks out. Give some to neighbours living on their own?

Or keep them for birthdays or Christmas?

LoveIsLovely my sister used to save any chocolate which wasn't rationed out by our mother competitively when we were children - she only enjoyed having it/ eating it once nobody else had any. She saved an Easter egg the whole year several times and it went white and crumbly - distinctly unappealing.

Lazypuppy Oh give over, chocolate lasts a year at least.

How on earth did you figure that out? A week or maybe two, but how did you manage to leave chocolate for a year?

Either drive it and drop off somewhere or keep it and ration it over the coming weeks.

We're (hopefully) moving in the summer, so I'm definitely not holding onto the eggs till next year! I've texted the family worker from the local church(she's one of dds friends mums)she's popping round on her daily walk and is going to leave them at a few families doorsteps while she finishes her walk. So at least some deserving kids will benefit.

I feel a lot better knowing it'll hopefully make some people have a nicer day and that I'm not alone doing this! Love the double Christmas veg

Why would anyone want an Easter egg for their birthday or Christmas?!?!

I do this sort of thing all the time.

I unintentionally had 12 bottles of shampoo in the cupboard because it was on 3 for 2 and I kept forgetting I’d already bought it. Did the same with soy sauce, over the course of a month, I bought one bottle a week because I was convinced I was running out. I hardly ever use it either. I write ‘do not buy soy sauce’ on my shopping list to stop me buying it.

Oh give over, chocolate lasts a year at least not in my house.

chocolate does go off by a year later, imho.

I'd advertise them on facebook and deliver to doorsteps. Good deed in the neighbourhood.

Just the sort of thing I would do OP! I bet you have some very happy kids though!

@LoveIsLovely yes from when it is made! Not from when it was bought. my easter eggs all go out of date from july 2020 to dec 2020.

I once ordered two food shops from the same supermarket on the same day

Dark 70% + coco chocolate would last a lot more than a year if kept at exactly the right temperature in perfectly sealed packaging.

Easter egg chocolate will be revolting, if technically edible, a year after Easter (especially as it will have been manufactured in January) though!

i went to town to get some new nets for the windows and came back with the same ones i had already got

Just eat them🤷‍♀️