Husband spoiled Easter bunny surprise

[Sleepingallday]

I bought an Easter egg for my DS weeks and weeks ago. Purposely bought it during a supermarket shop when he wasn’t with me. Saw a dinosaur themed one and had it in a Tesco carrier bag in the utility room on top of a cupboard. Was looking forward to doing a little hunt and the look on my sons face when he found it.

husband has taken it off the top off the cupboard to get to something and didn’t put it back up. DS just went into utility room and found it on the floor, spoiling the surprise.

AIBU to be gutted and pissed off

In my lifetime, I would say the UK has never really 'done' the Easter Bunny, so I can't get worked up about this.

We had Father Christmas and Easter eggs that were given by our parents on Easter Sunday. Just don't bother with this tradition and your DS will be none the wiser.

I get it OP, regardless of whether he'd believe the Easter bunny brought it or not, you as the person who planned and bought it and hid it so he wouldn't see it would have liked to see his face Sunday when he found it following a little egg hunt. I suspect it's more about being the one who plans these things that your child will enjoy whilst your husband isn't that arsed and instead of thinking ah yeah best put it back just leaves it.

Ah I see! You are going to have to say that is a gift from you.

Tgen, I’m afraid, you need to replace it with something else and be very surprised when Easter Bunny brings it.

Oh I had Easter bunny. It was soo exciting. We had a big garden and I still remember how magical it felt seeing the coloured foil wrappers twinkling in the grass.

Fair enough @Calliopespa 😁

I do always do an egg hunt... and remember them from my childhood too. I basically do everything 'Easter bunny' but I don't pretend it's been arranged by them 😂

It’s just an Easter egg and it’s not the same as Santa.

It is mildly annoying but it’s just an Easter egg. Can’t you give him that one from you and buy another from the Easter bunny?
We ’do’ the Easter bunny in that we have an Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday where eggs are hidden in the garden ‘by the Easter bunny’ and they find them, but they don’t actually believe that a giant bunny has delivered them to our garden.

kids have a wonderful ability to practice cognitive dissonance 😁.

When I was little we used to dye Easter eggs then the Easter bunny would hide them. Never really entered my mind that the Easter bunny allegedly broke into the house overnight, stole our eggs , and then hid them. On years we didn’t have a hunt they would show up in our Easter baskets.

you’re over thinking this one. Give him the dinosaur egg from you and do something else from the bunny.

I’m mid 40s and easter bunny was definitely a thing

OP, I feel for you. It was a careless (not malicious) act that ruined something you'd been looking forward to. It mattered to you.

Me too. I was actually slightly afraid of him because I figured that to bring the larger eggs he must be an astoundingly large rabbit. I pictured him like a hobbit/ large toddler.

… with teeth.

I think it would be good to thank your blessings if this is your biggest problem right now. Not meaning to be unkind, but I would give my eye teeth to have this be top of my list right now.

I hate posts like this.

@Kitchensnails Sorry.

Your DH is thoughtless

If he would have bought the egg, he wouldn't have done that

Your husband made a mistake, he didn't do it on purpose. Chill out.

The Easter bunny isn't a thing btw, the shops are full of eggs, surely no kids believe the eggs come from a giant bunny delivering them, when you can get the same eggs at Tesco?

I suppose the same logic applies to Santa but gifts come from other places at Xmas too, not just Santa, and shops have toys all year round.

Didn’t you know he supplies Tesco?

I think on the whole most people don't try to pretend the Easter Bunny is real. It is make believe fun.

The fewer unlikely things you make out to be real the more likely the Big Secret will continue to be believed.

I don’t know any kids who believe in the Easter bunny! A random bunny that breaks into your home to give you the chocolate you’ve seen in the shops for weeks? You sound a bit ridiculous. If you were that bothered you should’ve hidden it better.

well I’m sorry but i did.

And he doesn’t break in: he leaves them in the garden.

YABU to tell kids there's an Easter 🐇

I so want your next post to say DS is 17 or something…

@SpringIsSpringing25
Just out of interest how do you make your husband do something? You write 'I would make him go out and buy another".
Do you threaten to punish him or tell him off very forcefully? Do you believe husbands and wives should have the power to make their partner do something in order to punish them?
He is an adult. He presumably didn't do it on purpose. There is another thread currently about a SAHM wife looking after her nine year old daughter and the daughter and friend drew on things that belonged to her husband. I am sure the mother didn't intend it to happen. Accidents happen. Do you think the husband should 'make' the wife go out and replace them?
You cannot make another adult do something because you believe that you are in charge.