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

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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 sent my hubby shopping with a list that had 2 lettuce on it, he came back with 2 green cabbages!

Omg my husband did this a few weeks ago!!

Why are you all with such inadequate men?

Perhaps they're crap at shopping but shit hot in bed? I know which I'd prefer!

Hahaha great sub

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Hahaha excellent reason! Love it!

My bil once went out with a list for my dsis who just had a baby, in the days when mums stayed in for ages, in preparation for her coming out of hospital. He turned up with a sports car. He sent his mum with the shopping list. (Who took advantage to have a good old snoop and rearrange the nursery, but another story) He thought this would be a lovely surprise. It wasn’t. The ward sister refused to discharge them, my sister burst into tears and sent him back to borrow his dads car.
he was a useless fucker to be fair.

I'm not a journalist? I've been on here for years. It was just an an attempt at a lighthearted thread!

Thanks for the funny stories, it's really cheered me up!

Do you mean that having left the supermarket without the onion you went back in to get it but were mesmerised by the coat rack and bought another coat?

Easily done. It's why I have twelve pairs of plimsolls and no cherry tomatoes.

I went food shopping and bought a sofa. Also went for a stroll to nosy at some new builds and bought an apartment. I shouldn't be left unsupervised really

Not a sub as such, but years ago I asked DH to pick up something for dinner on a Saturday and he came back with 2 whole raw trout and a 4-pack of lager. Nothing else. I can’t fathom even now wtf he was thinking. To be fair, he definitely wouldn’t do that now!

Sent someone out to the feed store to buy straw, to use as bedding for the pets.

First, he got confused between hay and straw (hay is made from grass, straw from cereal crop stalks).

Secondly, he decided to go and ask for some grass for use as bedding. The people in the feed store were reportedly very confused, quite understandably.

The pets ended up sleeping on some rather expensive grass based horse food.

I sent dh to Aldi for some disposable bbqs, he came back with none as they'd sold out but he bought a wetsuit. He does absolutely no sport at all that might require a wetsuit but he just fancied trying it because it was cheap. So I made him wear it in the bath. Fucking Aldi.

I went for milk, got distracted and bought Flipflops. Tbf they were reduced, and cheaper than a pint of milk.

Loving these!

Not eh but sainsburys delivery have swapped my basmati rice for pudding rice and red kidney beans for green lentils.... I can't even...

Milk chocolate i got chocolate milk

Sent husband to buy peanuts for the birds (toddler likes to fill the bird feeders).

Came back with a carrier bag full of Waitrose finest mixed almonds and some harissa macadamias.

This sounds like one of those American Thanksgiving dinners.

Sainsburys online said my salmon was out of stock and apologised for not having any valid substitution. Then they apologised for being out of tuna, and sent me salmon as a sub for it. The same salmon they were apparently unable to supply.

still trying to work that one out.

I have a friend who went out for a pint of milk and came home with a 1980s VW camper van.....

My husband knows that if we go for a “look” somewhere then generally we’re buying something.

Car, TV, dog… all purchased when we were just looking.

@TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo glad to hear it's not just me!!

Went into Tesco for kids petite filous and came out with a 5ft Christmas tree and no petite filous.

Not a shopping randomness. I once asked DP to defrost some chicken for tea for the two of us, I was going to cook. So he did...

He defrosted two chicken wings 😂