to want someone to volunteer to come and eat a load of chocolate and sweets

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I thought the DCs got a lot for Christmas. No, they got enough to fill a small truck. It is rationed to them. I had this bright idea I would stick it all in a large cadbury heros tin - it doesn't all fit. I am on a strict diet. It is calling me...

I gave mine away and replaced it with Mini Eggs

I left ours on the staff room table at work
It didn't last long

it does keep though, if i give it away I will end up buying more in my weakness. It is mostly the DCs' as well, though that doesn't stop me eating the ones I deem unsuitable, like the curly wurlys and the dairy milk

Gave a load of ours to mil who works in a care home; the residents were really grateful.

OH is a teacher so we always get shit loads of chocolate

Oh the care home idea is a lovely one. (hopes no one noticed my selfish greed )

My need is great, only chocolate can heal my heart.

kurri I forgot to mention only the shit chocs went to care home (liquids, coop own mints) the nice stuff was kept back for me to scoff us both (thorntons, heroes, lindt)

Me me me me!! What have you got to go with my Irish coffee?

godisadj I hope your dh is more appreciative of the chocolate presents than you seem to be. My daughters spent their own money on presents for the teachers and would not be happy.

I read the title and immediately thought "At last, my ideal job"
I will happily volunteer to eat them, and any others that you accidentally buy. :)

I am also on a diet and craving chocolate like mad! Poor you. I also give my son occasional sweets and he got heaps for christmas (he is only 18months old not being a dreadful mother by allowing it am i?). Yummy. I would share with you, and the guilt afterwards. x

We have loads, we also still have easter eggs we bought none of it.

HELP!

[OH is a teacher so we always get shit loads of chocolate ....

...only the shit chocs went to care home (liquids, coop own mints) the nice stuff was kept back for me to scoff us both (thorntons, heroes, lindt) ]

I read this with a pang -thinking of 8 year olds going excitedly to the shop and choosing a little something for 'sir' -only to have sirs wife denote them as shit and give them away

MIL is a teacher and she saves all the present opening to Xmas day. We were all roped into helping unwrap all the presents and there was a LOT of chocolate, a few bottles of wine and some smellies. She kept the smellies and as she's tee total gave us the wine and regifted the chocolates elsewhere.

I'd hate to be given that much chocolate! It's scary!

May I say that I was deprived of chocolate this year- not a single box. Not even a crappy selection box. I am absolutely skint to the point that chewing gum has had to be added to the ever expanding list of unaffordable luxuries so, you know, if you can't find anyone to take it I would happily receive it. Probably through the post because no one on MN lives anywhere near me, but I would pay postage

FFS the 8 year holds don't know the stuff gets given away. Drama, much?

I have all of Ds in a cupboard and have so far resisted. But he is only 2 so won't be able to eat the crunchies so I guess I could help tonight!

I've just found 80% of a Lindt santa that DD has obviously forgotten about. She is out..........

I made cakes with all of my DC choc and then sliced and froze the cakes so that I would not eat them I would have cake for visitors
Now what to do with the crisps and nuts

Dwpantx I'm sorry, I thought this was a lighthearted thread? didn't think my comment would be taken so seriously!

I'm far from unappreciative of the effort and expense most children put into presents, hence me giving some away to a care home as I knew the residents would appreciate more than us (ie 30x children = 25 boxes of chocs normally that are not eaten and thrown in the bin 6 months later). You and your children may put effort into presents but believe me, OH also receives gifts which have been repackaged, normally chocs and biscuits which no one likes and are even out of date! Kids are very thoughtful and oh always opens his presents on Xmas day the same as the other posters mil.

A teaching friend received a box of chocolates from a child in her class (aged about 9). Child's mother commented as she handed them over that she was sure the teacher would understand that they had eaten some of the chocolates, as they had got peckish the night before!!

The box was about a third full!!!

GodisaDj -no need to apologise for my 'pang' -it is a light-hearted thread and I just reacted to the word shit in reference to a childs present.

I know presents for teachers can be decidedly iffy and have passed on a fair few myself. But I probably wouldnt have said they were shit in public.

Ignore me - just a maudlin moment definitely not dramatic on behalf of unknown and unsuspecting children.

ok ok form an orderly queue! Kurri stop dribbling it's a slipping hazard.
Twll, where are you, seriously?