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To be sick of critters ruining Easter

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AnnaBanana2020 · 19/04/2019 00:30

So.. three Easter’s ago I hid all of my 3 kids Easter eggs under the stairs. Come Easter morning I go to get them out to hide them and they’ve all been half eaten! We discovered a family of mice hiding under some old carpet... Easter ruined!

Last Easter I got up at 5am to hide the eggs, climbed back into bed and waited for the kids to come and get us. We all go downstairs. Kids squealing with excitement only to find a bunch of squirrels feasting on our eggs up in a big tree. I shit you not I could almost hear them laughing at us. Cheeky squirrel bastards!!!

This year.. (luckily I have time to fix this but still! Ffs!) I had hidden the eggs in a bag inside our enclosed front porch. Under a pile of coats and umbrellas. The kids are older now and I have to get crafty with the hiding of Easter eggs. Someone had left the sliding door slightly open and when I went to lock up before bed I discover our coats strewn across the driveway, along with all of our Easter eggs! All of them ripped open and lying on the street. Bloody foxes got into the porch and sniffed them out!! Wtf?!

The only thing keeping me from crying right now is knowing that a fair few of the chocolate bunnies were full of popping candy 😂

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Nearlythere1 · 19/04/2019 00:58

i'm sorry OP, that's funny :)
I know it's not, but it is :)

SweatyUnderboob · 19/04/2019 01:08

Where do you live, in Snow White's cottage?!

Orangeballon · 19/04/2019 01:44

Why bother hiding them?

BinkyBaa · 19/04/2019 01:45

Yanbu, but I think you might be the only person this happens to.

How did the squirrels get in?

mokapot · 19/04/2019 03:26

Why hide them? You mean a hunt? What a load of faff

Alicewond · 19/04/2019 03:34

This sounds like when I used to ask dsd whi messed up her room, her excuse would be “a squirrel climbed in the window...”. She was 4 then so a slightly more amusing lie 😂

CSIblonde · 19/04/2019 03:38

Sorry but that's really funny. Chocolate should not be hidden tho. Ever. And who has time for hiding & hunting. Just eat them already.

brizzlemint · 19/04/2019 03:48

Sorry but it is quite funny.
One year the dog we had at the time found the easter eggs but it only ate the ones (one from us, one from GPs) belonging to DC2, it left the ones for DC1 and 3 - luckily they voluntarily shared theirs.

WhenZogateSuperworm · 19/04/2019 03:55

Make sure next year you watch out for pesky raccoons- they’ve taken the eggs in my house and also seem fond of the chocolates on the Xmas tree!

ShinyShoe · 19/04/2019 04:00

That’s such bad luck! How about putting them in a Tupperware airtight container and hiding the container? Nothing will get in. I also want to know where you live because it sounds like you live in a forest! We’re lucky to get an occasional bee in our house!

Shiraznowplease · 19/04/2019 04:29

Share your pain with the squirrels, last year I did an Easter egg hunt for my dc only to discover several eggs taken by squirrels who frequent my garden (house surrounded by wood). My eldest then googled if ok to eat and apparently not for squirrels resulting in my dd sobbing that the Easter bunny had killed her pet squirrels 🙈

Alicewond · 19/04/2019 04:33

Don’t forget your to add to your story chipmonks, I’m sure Alvin, Simon and Theodore are partial to a chocolate egg

FenellaVelour · 19/04/2019 07:06

Oh blimey, that’s bad luck.

Chocolate is toxic for many animals, though, so I’m guessing the critters will have a worse time of it for eating your eggs.

adaline · 19/04/2019 07:16

Why not just leave them in the boot of the car?

WhoWants2Know · 19/04/2019 07:28

I am also a car boot hider, but the creatures in your neck of the woods sound persistent. Your car would probably be stolen by a bunch of badgers.

BlueSkiesLies · 19/04/2019 07:34

Unicorns will be after them next year

AnnaBanana2020 · 19/04/2019 07:56

Believe it or not we live in a London suburb! Our garden backs onto a big park though with lots of trees and greenery. For those that think I’m telling fibs, I assure you every word of this is (hilariously) true!

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SammySamSam09 · 19/04/2019 07:58

Seriously?! Hmm

My DC got given Easter eggs yesterday by nanny and when I walked in the lounge the DC were eating them and had clearly forgotten Easter isn't until Sunday Grin take after their mum.

Alb1 · 19/04/2019 08:03

Sounds like a ‘my dog ate my homework lie’ that I would be tempted to tell my kids, code for ‘I ate all your eggs’ Grin bad luck OP!

cricketmum84 · 19/04/2019 08:15

Where do you live, in Snow White's cottage?!

Actually spat out my tea at this 😂😂

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 19/04/2019 09:19

Big tuppaware is your friend! I sympathise because I lost a box of beautiful valentines chocs to mice before. I'd hide eggs in the boot of your car or under your bed/in your wardrobe from now on.

krazipan · 19/04/2019 09:21

I once left the eggs in the boot of my car but it was a warm week leading up to Easter and they all melted!

ladymariner · 19/04/2019 09:32

That's brilliant, op Grin

As an aside, what's with people letting kids eat their Easter eggs before Easter? I thought I was pretty laidback when ds was xmall, letting him have them for breakfast erg on Easter Sunday, but he wasn't allowed them beforehand. It's not Easter till then! It's like opening Christmas presents before the 25th of December....

And to the pp who asked why hide them, well obviously it's because the Easter bunny brings them and hides them round the place!!! 🐰🐇🐰🐇🐰🐇

ladymariner · 19/04/2019 09:34

And I have no idea what the random 'erg' is all about!!

GummyGoddess · 19/04/2019 12:59

DH hid them one year and forgot about them. I found them in August while the house was being packed up to move.

At 7 months pregnant I really enjoyed sitting around eating them all while the movers packed for me.

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