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DP ate the entire box of Xmas roses yesterday- it’s going to be a long few dayd

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Blackcelebration12 · 23/12/2020 18:28

Aibu to be really pissed off. I bought a large box of roses chocs for xmas day & DP ate the whole fucking tub yesterday. I haven’t had any and the kids had 2 each.

I know it’s petty but it’s just fucking greedy/ selfish - it’s going to be a looooong few days 🤪

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hansgrueber · 23/12/2020 22:14

@Gobbeldegook

Luck escape they're horrid 😂 Tell him to get you some lindor
Or something actually edible, send him to queue in Hotel Chocolat for the biggest box he can find.
1950s1 · 23/12/2020 22:14

If you know what he's like you should've got him his own tub

Sparklfairy · 23/12/2020 22:18

@Treeerex

Hang on OP, you need to be more specific here. Was it a TUB or a TIN? Because the tubs are actually farty and pretty small. If it was a tub, I'd let him off. That wouldn't last two minutes in our house.

The tins are twice the size of a the tubs. If he's managed that alone he's a greedy sod.

Farty?! Was that a typo? Grin if so I can't work out what you were trying to say but now picturing a tub of roses that farts loudly everytime you open them Grin
justasking111 · 23/12/2020 22:18

I used a Roses tub for the advent calendar. 25 chocs and it was still half full.

openallthetime · 23/12/2020 22:20

to be fair if he's eaten a whole tub in one day that's some food issues going on right there. what's he like outside of this incident - does he do emotional eating? have a weight problem? we all binge once in a while but this sounds next level. might be worth showing some sympathy as he might not consciously be in control of his eating.

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ivfbeenbusy · 23/12/2020 22:24

@Worriedandabitscared

I also did this Blush but but but I'm 34 weeks pregnant so I get some sympathy points, right? Like it was the baby's fault, baby's aren't reasonable and have no self control Grin
Ooh I'm going to try this one! I'm 32 weeks with twins so that means I should get the tin of roses for one baby and the tin of celebrations for the other one right? (I also have A tin of heroes stashed in the boot of the car.....for emergencies obviously 🤣)
ivfbeenbusy · 23/12/2020 22:26

And just to say in my present twin pregnancy hormonal state if my DH ate the tin of roses it would be grounds for murder and I'm confident that no court in the land would convict me!

PandemicAtTheDisco · 23/12/2020 22:27

My ex used to do stuff like this with treats. I found it extremely selfish and inconsiderate especially as I had paid for them and shopped for them and they'd all be gone before I'd even have a chance to grab one for myself.

I've loved being single but I've found my daughter does the same now she's a teenager - I've asked her time and time again to leave me some, not eat them all and nothing works. I have to not let her help herself and hide them so she can't sneak any more. My friend has a locked kitchen cupboard now for her son as he is tall enough to reach the top cupboard she used to use. I used to think I'd never have the same issue with my daughter.

The one thing that works is just not buying them. I've not missed them because I never get the chance to eat them anyway.

windturbines · 23/12/2020 22:28

This is funny. Surely you have more chocolate in the house? He can always go and buy another tub tomorrow!

Hiphopopotamus · 23/12/2020 22:30

The rhetoric and language being used about this man is awful! Disgusting, greedy, pig etc etc. Yes it was thoughtless and annoying but the not worthy of all this heaping of moral judgement. I notice the pregnant women who have also eaten full tubs haven’t been jumped on in the same way. It’s Christmas. He ate a lot of chocolate. He’s replacing it. No need to flog him in the street while he repeats ‘I’m a disgusting scoffer’ over and over.

Mypathtriedtokillme · 23/12/2020 22:31

Dh ate half of the unfilled but iced chocolate eclair shells I made last night for breakfast before work.

He has agreed that I will be giving him the recipe book and ingredients and he will be trying to make more when he gets home.

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spaceghetto · 23/12/2020 22:34

Yabu Roses are gross. If he would have eaten Quality Street...

OhToBeASeahorse · 23/12/2020 22:44

@Hiphopopotamus completely agree. If this was reversed MN would be up in arms and LTB would have been wheeled out faster than the big purple ones disappear.

He's going to replace them. I really dont get the problem on this one.

Dogscanteatonions · 23/12/2020 22:52

[quote TheMagicDeckchair]@Dogscanteatonions no-one in our house cares for the toffees but we fight over the strawberry and orange creams, the other orange one and the coconut chocolates.

There ought to be a Quality Exchange for this![/quote]
Those are still left in the tub at the end of January in our house!! Agree about the exchange!

Cherrysoup · 23/12/2020 23:00

I can’t understand why some pp think it’s ok, he can replace them. He ate a whole tin of chocolates. Who the fuck does that and more importantly, who doesn’t think to save some for their partner? Or check to see if they should be kept for Christmas Day as apparently planned? He has zero self control and demonstrated fuck all consideration for the rest of the household.

StopSquirtingBleachOnCaneToads · 23/12/2020 23:01

I'm amazed that he likes every kind of chocolate enough to do that. I don't think I've ever known anyone who likes all the varieties of roses chocolates.

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MrsJBaptiste · 23/12/2020 23:03

The fat fucker!!! 😯

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mellicauli · 23/12/2020 23:04

It's been a tough year. It's a tough Christmas. Sounds like an unhappy husband. GIve him a cuddle. Tell him you love him. Then tell him to get his coat and get some more from the garage.

MrsWooster · 23/12/2020 23:09

Try the Sainsbury’s fake Roses-seem slightly more like real choc than modern Roses or QStreet... palm oil is in the I gradients but lower down so maybe less?
I realise that’s not the point of the thread and your DH should definitely go and get more but I can’t wholeheartedly condemn him as I’m not blameless in the XmasChocShame stakes...

caringcarer · 23/12/2020 23:11

I hide our tubs of chocolates and chocolate oranges at the back of the wardrobe, on my side, with shoes in front of them. I find they are safe there.

Iamthewombat · 23/12/2020 23:11

For me it’s more the fact he ate something that you had planned to have on Christmas Day (and you didn’t get a look in) rather than the fact he polished off the tin

Yes, this. I bet he’s only buying a replacement tub because the OP told him to.

Men are like children in this respect. If there is something nice to eat in the house, they just scoff it and never consider leaving any for the other members of the household.

If I think, ooh, I could just fancy one of that three pack of twixes in the cupboard (for example), I regularly find that DH has scarfed the lot. Excuse: too busy to take notice of how much of things he’s eaten. If I ask him to only eat half of a box of Lindor and leave half for me, I’ll find that there’s a single ball in the box. Excuse: assumed that I’d also been eating them and too busy to count how many he’s had etc etc., thought he was being nice by leaving me the last one.