DH thinks he’s King Fucking Solomon

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DH just returned from 10 days overseas. He brought back one of those hotel-branded teddy bears you get in fancy hotel rooms. Just one. We have three young children who pounced on it like a rugby scrum. Cue screaming and wailing and bear tug o war.

I have maintained an unnatural level of demented serenity for the last 10 days but lost it at this point and binned the bear while DH made pathetic mumbles about the kids getting the bear on a weekly rotational basis. Which, as he works long days, would be up to me to enforce.

WIBU to bin the bear?

I would have declared the bear mine tbh. Then awarded said bear to best behaved/most helpful/whatever child of the day to have overnight.

They'd be bored of it within the week.

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Fucking hell what an idiot.

Bin the bear.

Argh that is so annoying! He needs to go out and return with four toberones as a gift for each person.

In my experience, they'll have forgotten all about it by next week. But your DH is a plank!

I would bin the bear too.

Or put it away and tell him to bring back another 2 next time.

Do NOT go with a bloody rota system.

Slightly disappointed that he didn't attempt to cut the bear in three 😂

Nobber. Poor you and poor DCs - unmitigated hassle.

Loved the thread title!!

He can't be that silly, surely?

Keep the bear and start a new family tradition of Family Member of the Week and give the bear to that person. We have a little chart on the fridge and whoever has been less of a twat than anyone else that week, their photo goes on the chart and they get to choose pointless things like "which biscuits shall we buy" and "which ridiculous family movie shall we watch on movie night". It's utter tripe and causes absolute panic, envy and hatred amongst the DC, but it's also become a bit of a tradition and when I suggested scrapping it they almost wept.

I'd have kept the bear for me. I wouldn't have used it for any twee 'family tradition'. I'd have verbally kicked seven types of shite out of the idiot who brought it home. I might have used his credit card to order three lovely bears for the children. That might still be an option.

Or make the bear into a sort of fugitive who turns up in odd places. Tell the children he's a free spirit who can't be owned. That if they set him free, he will come back and surprise them.

Aw it’s hardly your dh’s fault that he could only come back with the one bear. But he should have come home with a plan, ie given it to you as a gift to you to avoid this kind of stress. Unfortunately, (in my experience anyway), SOME husbands are not great at projecting ahead to the potential carnage that such an item can provoke, and I’d be using this as an example to point this out to dh.

Having said that I rather like Ajas suggestion

Your DH is a muppet. How could that have possibly ended well?

As a PP said, should have brought toblerones for all.

Hide the bear! Say it wanted to go back to the hotel where it lives.

A bear on a weekly rotational basis
That has made me weep with laughter!!

How is it not his fault? 😂

Airports are full of stuffed toys and sweets he could have bought.

He was utterly thoughtless.

I once heard a story about a dad with twins who got them one bike to share.

Time for DH to have some special one on three parenting time for a few days I think, while you disappear off to a haven of tranquility somewhere.

Hang on. FabulousTomatoes what makes you think the husband "could only come back with one bear"?

It's not like duty free and there are strict import regulations on the importing of plush animals :)

What happened was there was one in his room which he just took as a freebie and then thought no more about it. Had he even taken a cursory seconds consideration, he would have:

A) gone to the hotel gift shop and bought two more bears
B) gone to a different shop and bought two more gifts
C) left the bear behind

But coming back with one gift between three kids isn't some kind of unfortunate but unavoidable accident!

Family member of the week.?

Ffs! Could the bear be a reward overnight as pp said?

How out of touch can he be? I'd be pretty angry!

We take an.iPad on the plane for the kids to watch a film.dh suggested that this year we let them play games on it. Apparently one could watch, then they'd swap.they could have an hour each

Do men have no recollection whatsoever of be I.g a kid?

whoever has been less of a twat than anyone else that week

love this

I'm pretty sure this is grounds to ltb.

Make it I to a car bear.

Actually, I don't thinks it's a problem! Growing up in a big family, we frequently shared toys. We had a couple of bikes between us, shared dolls and teddies and board games. Yes of course we would argue over who's turn it was to play with things, but it actually tought us to share!
If he'd come home with a kitten, would you expect one per child!