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Original poster

to just say fuck it and embrace my mistake?

279 replies

Ivechangedmyname1 · 18/08/2016 05:09

I did an online shop but had no time to complete so booked my slot, put £40 worth of knobbly bobbly ice creams in the basket and checkout!

Went to complete my shopping and it wont let me change the order as I checked out at 2 mins past midnight!

So now I have 160 ice creams being delivered between 9am and 10am.

I thinking ill just accept the order and we can live on ice cream for a week.

AIBU?

I now have to go actually shopping with 2dc, fuck

OP posts:
Galdos · 19/08/2016 20:09

Don't shop online too much, but do when I get discount offers to encourage me. So not very supermarket-online-savvy. Happy though that - so far - my worst mistake was ordering 6 jars of pesto (it may have been the wine stained keyboard playing up tbh).

Love this thread!

MommaL · 19/08/2016 20:19

I have a slightly similar story. A few years ago my rather weird husband changed his surname to Marmite. As part of the publicity at the time the promotional company wanted to do a photo shoot with him, but needed to boost the size of his collection.

One day we get a knock at the door with a very puzzled looking Sainsbury's manager and a delivery driver with 77 jars of 250g Marmite. The original order was for 100, they only had 77.

The look of relief on the managers face when he realised it was a genuine order!

We had marmite for ages, so much so we ran our own little "End Marmite Neglect" campaign by tagging and leaving jars in public places, and gave some away to friends and we still had jars from that delivery till 3 months ago.

TT10677 · 19/08/2016 20:34

Lol. I do this too but usually with nappies or toilet roll. You can reject items when they arrive with most supermarkets but I have had to call the store and change/ cancel first thing before my delivery arrives. It's been ok.

VicsterB · 19/08/2016 20:43

Has anyone mentioned that you can set up a shopping list of regular items and add the whole list at once? Not as exciting as all that ice cream coming.

Original poster
Ivechangedmyname1 · 19/08/2016 20:52

victster I never knew that!! That would of been so much easier!!

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Lovingit81 · 19/08/2016 20:54

Flipping hilarious you've made my night. Enjoy the ice cream you deserve it Grin

Peggyandemma · 19/08/2016 21:48

Ha! Love this! When I need to reserve a slot it's always a £40 bottle of champagne......often hope I forget to go back and change it!

BikeRunSki · 19/08/2016 22:55

I do that with whiskey peggy !

Notquitewhatiexpected · 20/08/2016 08:38

I did the same once, but with two bottles of Bollinger. I totally forgot about it, the Sainsburys delivery guy turned up with two bottles of champagne (sadly not on ice). After almost wetting myself with slightly hysterical laughter, I begrudgingly asked if he could take them back and give me a refund.

Redglitter · 05/09/2016 23:30

I know this is an old thread but I just had to thank the OP for introducing me to nobbly bobblies

How did I manage all these years without them Shock

JacquettaWoodville · 05/09/2016 23:49

I'm so dull, I hold the slot with dishwasher tablets - pricey and don't go off

Champage sounds better!

Bedsheets4knickers · 07/10/2020 06:54

to just say fuck it and embrace my mistake? http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/2710598-to-just-say-fuck-it-and-embrace-my-mistake

Circe32 · 07/10/2020 07:33

I had a Tesco delivery of one packet of sausages. With the minimum delivery charge they were the most expensive sausages in Yorkshire! Grin

RayCarling · 07/10/2020 07:39

@Bedsheets4knickers

to just say fuck it and embrace my mistake? [[http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am]]iibeingunreasonable/2710598-to-just-say-fuck-it-and-embrace-my-mistake
You've posted on a zombie thread
FortunesFave · 07/10/2020 08:09

Ray so she never put the photo on!!!

BumbleFlump · 07/10/2020 08:22

🤣😂🤣😂

Honestly guys, please don’t hold the slot with loo roll alone

StCharlotte · 07/10/2020 08:42

@LellyMcKelly

My friend once accidentally ordered 9 kilos of broccoli. She couldn't believe it when the delivery guy kept handing her bag after bag of the stuff.
As opposed to my friend who ordered 1 "unit" of sprouts and was indeed delivered 1 lonely sprout.
DemolitionBarbie · 07/10/2020 08:43

Ha ha, you'll be really sick of them before you get through that lot. Can you donate them to an old people's home maybe?

gurteee · 07/10/2020 08:45

This is making me feel better about my 48 unwanted batteriesGrinGrin

PlonkItDownNOW · 07/10/2020 08:50

I did that once with champagne and Ocado cancelled the order for me a few hours before delivery.

ajandjjmum · 07/10/2020 09:04

My automatic hold is a bottle of scotch and a bottle of gin - so if I do screw up, both DH and I will be happy!

notanothertakeaway · 07/10/2020 09:07

I know this is a Zombie thread, but v funny

MrsToothyBitch · 07/10/2020 09:09

My place holder order is 100 cigarettes. They hit the minimum spend to bagsy my place and I then go back later to do my real shopping and delete the cigs. They're a strategic choice though. I deliberately buy the ones my DF smokes so if I forget to remove them or forget to amend, my parents will buy them off me!

NataliaOsipova · 07/10/2020 09:13

I did this at the weekend....ended up with two bottles of champagne. Figured it’d come in for Christmas....🥂

NataliaOsipova · 07/10/2020 09:14

(.....my kids would definitely have preferred knobbly bobblies though!)