I'm an idiot. I somehow bought everything twice

[NotQuiteUsual]

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?

Going through our elderly mother’s cupboards last week, amongst the out of date tins, I found an Easter egg with bbd of 11/2006. She was always one for “putting stuff away” and forgetting about it. It still smelt, quite strongly, of chocolate, looked OK. Dropped it on my brother’s door step on way home. He later told me it tasted ok, but texture was a bit funny He threw the rest away.
OP at least it was found in time

Once bought an airline ticket twice.

now that's will be hard to beat!

I did this with tampons when I was pregnant. Ended up with a drawer full but everytime I went shopping I just seemed to stick them in the trolley out if habit.

As mistakes go that isn't that bad. My messiest mindless moment was emptying a tin of kidney beans into a sieve to drain them whilst I walked across the kitchen. It made quite a mess!

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who has forgotten they bought something, then bought it again. I did it with shampoo and shower gel last month. And yesterday DH said we were having stir fry and I told him we couldn't because we were out of soya sauce. He found not one but two in different cupboards that I'd bought separately and forgotten about.
That's lovely that you've managed to find a way to bring Easter chocolate joy to people who might not get eggs otherwise.

Not the same thing, but I bought Easter eggs for my entire family way before lockdown (the plan was to have a big family Easter with adult DC, their partners, children and my mother) and have been merrily giving them away to the postman, the Amazon delivery driver, the bin men, my neighbour's children - otherwise I'd be the size of a double decker bus if I ate them all myself. I have kept a chocolate Lindt bunny for myself though. The best before date was July 2020 - old chocolate is definitely unpleasant to eat.

I haven't been bad since 'lock down' but I have form for getting the same lipstick again and again. "Ohh that looks nice, I wonder why I haven't bought it before". Yes I have actually ...twice!

I did buy 2 containers of salt because I forgot I had already bought some. Not bad for someone living alone ...with high blood pressure!!!

Darling, why are we hoarding mayonnaise?

That one tickled me 😂

Glad they're going to a deserving home, OP.

Not quite the same but on one summer holiday as a child we all agreed that the snacks from the local french shops were far superior to the ones at home. My Mum had this clever idea to bulk buy a load of long dated stuff and we could have them at Christmas! Took them home and packed them away on top of a cupboard and forgot. Mid December time we hear giggling coming from upstairs and find Mum who'd just stocked up on christmas treats and had gone to put them away on top of her cupboard to find that there was no space... that was a GOOD Christmas and it lasted months!

I bought three tubs of gravy granules for the same dinner last week. I bought the second one having forgotten I'd already bought the first one, then bought a third when I couldn't find the one I knew I'd bought (it was in the bag I'd put away with easter eggs in).

Also bought huge £30+ bag of dog food twice earlier in the year - I'd been thinking that we needed to buy more for ages and kept forgetting, actually remembered to order some, but still had it in my head that I needed to buy it because I'd been reminding myself for so long!

Another way of looking at it.... you're just too organised for your own good

I am currently eating an Easter Egg that 'went out of date' in September 2015. It's delicious.

Chocolate doesn't go off, Keep them for next year (or the year after...)

I managed to buy my dd the same title book 4 different times. She was chuffed the first time, and er...mum? by the fourth.

@willowmelangell

Are you my mum and was the book We Need To Talk About Kevin?

@MagnoliaJustice hahaha no, it was a Ghostbumps. I've finally managed to forget which title.

Happy birthday - here's an easter egg?

You’re not an idiot. Cut yourself some slack! Extra chocolate always better than none.

ah that's good then, you've inadvertently done a lovely thing!

We finished last year's Easter eggs at Christmas and they were grand. We somehow had absolutely loads of them in a cupboard too. All good. Plenty of treats there for ye.

Oh god, this is so me. I go through phases of being convinced we need some random cupboard staple. Recently it was jars of ready-made curry sauce (which I don't even use one of a week), always the same sort. When number 6 was in the cupboard in our tiny kitchen DH had to intervene . Before that it was kitchen roll, then jars of soup.

I booked my holiday for the wrong year once.
Turned up at the holiday with my printed reservation and they were like “urm you’re a year early. Your booking is for next year.”
Oh the shame. DH hasn’t let me forget that one.

OP, if it makes you feel any better, I realised today that I have bought the same pair of shoes twice without meaning to

Just eat them FFS. At least its not 3 tubs of gravy powder, that sounds like a disappointment!

I did the same, 3 times! Have 2 kids, ended up with 8 eggs!!!