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?

Oddly enough have never managed to keep chocolate up to its use by date

Notquiteusual, I sympathise. I'm always doing this with Christmas and birthday presents -- I see the perfect gift for someone, buy it and put it away, forget it and buy something else when the time comes. By the time i find the once-perfect present it's too small or too young for them. Off to the charity shop ...

I've done something similar at Easter and Christmas. It's an occupational hazard of being well prepared yet forgetful. No medication to blame on my part. Don't worry about it.

Everyone has a lot on their minds at the moment.

I'm forever finding presents I've hidden in my wardrobe and then not located at the time I'm actually giving out presents.

There's some Halloween chocolate in there right now that I think I might just eat myself. There's also a hot water bottle that was supposed to be a Christmas present for DD that she will now get for her birthday next month (if I remember it's there by then, of course).

Not quite the same but I bought Easter eggs for family who were supposed to be coming to stay. Put them in a cupboard and forgot about them. Found them on Friday while clearing out. Clearly the kids aren't coming now, and it would be a shame to waste them :)

Mine is: “Oh, we’re running out of washing liquid, better buy some more..” x2 over the time it’s running out.
It’s got to the point where I no longer trust my own judgment about washing liquid!

I do these sorts of things all the time. Don't know whether it's age, having a hurricane of a child, busy-ness or medication; probably all 3!

Best one was when I bought two identical blenders. Not a particularly cheap item, we're not loaded and I'm not into cooking or gadgets, so it's something I would have put thought into. Bought it just weeks apart from the same shop and have receipts to prove it!

I’ve done this with stocking fillers on more than one occasion. It’s because you hide them, then it’s easy to forget. Also stocking fillers are one of myfavourite things to buy.

OP the stuff of dreams for kids!

Made me chuckle!

I once told my DH that I would really like a pair of PJs that I'd seen for Christmas, he asked me to show them to him next time we went in that particular shop, which I did, and I saw him go off and purchase them. On Christmas day, I was given my PJ's and thought, that's funny, it was the right set, but the wrong top, (there were two different styles to choose from), so I thought oh well, at least he got the right size. Imagine my surprise, several months later when I went to put some shoes away in the bottom of his wardrobe, spotted a bag and being nosey, had a look inside, only to find the same PJ's but with the right jacket. You've guessed it!! He bought the right set on the day, forgot that he'd got it, so went back and bought a second set a few weeks later. Gave me the second set he'd bought, and never realised he'd bought them twice over until I showed him my find from the bottom of his wardrobe. We had a right old laugh about his brilliant memory!!

Contact local Foodbank or school - they will know of kids who will appreciate Easter Bunny Extras.

I failed today - DS said he was going to check outside (last year I put treats on stairs in hall)...he was so excited until he realised that the Easter Bunny had not come! (he did get Easter treats but no mystery ones outside).

Easter bunny will now have to figure out how to amend the situation...

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

I'd think most people, unless they don't like chocolate. An Easter egg, a bar of chocolate, a box of chocolates or a chocolate Santa, it's all chocolate .

We still have Easter eggs from last year and they’re still fine!

I do this all the time, I once sent my dad two Christmas presents.

I once drunk bought over 300 pairs of foam earplugs, actually turned out to be useful as my DH has recently starting snoring like a freight train so I wear them every night.

I've been known to buy the kids the same present twice. Oh and I ordered a butt load of dishwasher tablets off Amazon the other week forgetting I had a subscribe and save on already for a butt load of tablets. So now I have two butt loads of dishwasher tablets 😆. Still, with everyone home all day the dishwasher is going on twice a day so maybe not a bad thing?