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I asked DH to pick up "x" from the supermarket and he bought "y". What bizarre swaps or substitutes have you had?

151 replies

ItsAliveItsElectric · 01/05/2022 18:45

Asked DH to pick up short sleeved school blouses. He claimed there were none and came home with several reduced Easter eggs instead!

What strange or inappropriate things have you had substituted?

OP posts:
NigelFaragesfrontroom · 01/05/2022 19:19

Husband went to collect some money from a customer and came back with a cockatiel in a cage . The customer had no money and gave him the bird so to speak .
Early days of online shopping I was sent lemon squash instead of lemon cleaning liquid .

Gagaandgag · 01/05/2022 19:21

NigelFaragesfrontroom · 01/05/2022 19:19

Husband went to collect some money from a customer and came back with a cockatiel in a cage . The customer had no money and gave him the bird so to speak .
Early days of online shopping I was sent lemon squash instead of lemon cleaning liquid .

Hahha!!! Gave him a bird?!

Funkyslippers · 01/05/2022 19:28

My oh went to buy toilet rolls. They had no 3 ply, what we normally have, so he bought 4 ply for the upstairs bathroom and 2 ply for the downstairs. Guess which one I use?? 2 ply is completely useless as I found out!! 🤣

Glorieta · 01/05/2022 19:31

Asked DH to get bread
He came back with 4 heads of broccoli!

Maydaysoonenough · 01/05/2022 19:33

Making salmon and watercress fishcakes dh added the ingredients to The List.
Came back with salad cress.
Didn't know there was more than 1 type of cress.

Manon10 · 01/05/2022 19:34

Asked DH to buy sesame seeds for the recipe we were cooking for that night’s dinner. He came home with a big bag of bird seed!

Sharrowgirl · 01/05/2022 19:35

There was a thread on here once where the OP had written ‘dairy milk’ on the shopping list, meaning chocolate, and the husband came back with two pints of milk.

The debate on whether he was unreasonable raged for pages….

Hutchy16 · 01/05/2022 19:41

Bookmarking for later - have to see the funnies

Blarting · 01/05/2022 19:44

Blatantly bookmarking......

stimpyyouidiot · 01/05/2022 19:47

I needed almond flour and he brought me back a huge bag of whole almonds. I had to blanch them and make the flour myself. Not the biggest fuck up but I really wanted to bake macarons that evening!

MrOllivander · 01/05/2022 19:47

Not a sub really but my dad went shopping for me after I had an op and needed easy to cook food
He went to M&S and said he would get ready meals and desserts, so you can imagine I was daydreaming over chocolate goodness, crumbles etc
What delicious dessert did he get me? Diet lemon mousse Confused

titchy · 01/05/2022 19:48

To be fair I went to a supermarket for an onion and came out with a coat. Twice.

RightOnTheEdge · 01/05/2022 19:48

Oh no! I feel like I would have done the watercress one 😳😳

pizzaand · 01/05/2022 19:49

There's the old classic that pops up on these threads of

lOO Rolls

Maydaysoonenough · 01/05/2022 19:49

Not quite the same but I asked adult ds for some flannelette pj's for Xmas.. Our house is freezing..
Opened some lovely tartan pj's and a pack of 2 flannels...
Ds was very chuffed he found a 2 pack!! Took some explaining what I had meant..

Hawkins001 · 01/05/2022 19:51

Reading with intrigue

bloodywhitecat · 01/05/2022 19:54

I text DS and asked him to get loo rolls while he was out with the car. He misread the text and came home with 96 bread rolls as it was the closest he could get to I00 rolls.

SmallPrawnEnergy · 01/05/2022 19:59

ItsAliveItsElectric · 01/05/2022 18:45

Asked DH to pick up short sleeved school blouses. He claimed there were none and came home with several reduced Easter eggs instead!

What strange or inappropriate things have you had substituted?

But he didn’t sub the shirts for eggs? He said there wasn’t any shirts and also bought some eggs that were reduced. Why does this also read like journo fodder?

LapinR0se · 01/05/2022 20:01

I sent DH out for dinner one day and he came with a chicken, broccoli and marshmallows.
Was 8 months preggo at the time and I just cried.

muddyford · 01/05/2022 20:06

I went to a local carpet shop for an offcut to use as a doormat. Salesman persuaded me to recarpet the whole house...ten days before I got married.

StCharlotte · 01/05/2022 20:06

A friend of mine was going to France and asked what perfume I'd like her to bring back for my birthday. I told her which one and I said if she couldn't find it to get "something else".

In true Victoria Wood style she gave me a hot water bottle.

Glassesmare · 01/05/2022 20:12

I asked DH to buy a nursing chair as it was getting tricky to feed DS as he got bigger. He came home with a swivelling office chair!

Crumbler · 01/05/2022 20:14

Quite recently Sainsbury's substituted AA batteries for AAA.

fairylightsandwaxmelts · 01/05/2022 20:16

ItsAliveItsElectric · 01/05/2022 18:45

Asked DH to pick up short sleeved school blouses. He claimed there were none and came home with several reduced Easter eggs instead!

What strange or inappropriate things have you had substituted?

I mean, that sounds normal to me?

He went to get shirts - they didn't have any, so he had a look round and got some reduced Easter eggs instead. That's not a substitution, that's just a "ooh, they're cheap, I'll get some while I'm here" purchase.

Autienotnaughtie · 01/05/2022 20:17

Asda substituted a lettuce with a cucumber. I had also ordered a cucumber on the order.