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He threw my beautiful cake tin away!!

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beholdtheidiot · 09/01/2026 22:25

My daughter bought me a gorgeous cake tin for Christmas and so I filled it with stollen and other Christmas treats.

I came home from work earlier, made a cup of tea and went to get a piece of stollen and the tin was no where to be found. Husband came home and I asked him where was the tin - in the bin he said!!

Apparently he thought the tin was a tin that came with the stollen and once empty would go in the bin! So he’d bunged it into the bin where it’s git a bit dented and looks a bit shit as the lid is bent.

Hes remorseful but absolutely thinks that the tin was a single use item. What a fucking Idiot!

He has ordered me a new one as DD told him where she got it from as I was raging but who throws cake tins away!!

AIBU, is it really such an easy mistake to make????

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Bluffinwithmymuffin · 17/01/2026 01:36

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 16/01/2026 23:55

I think some people are missing the fact that the tin, empty, was OPs gift from her DD. Not the stollen, OP put that in there.

It wasn't packaging OP was saving to reuse because it was pretty - her DH has done the equivalent of throwing away the bread bin because he used the last of the loaf!

That’s what I thought when I first read this thread about a week ago. If her DH hadn’t thrown the tin in the first place he wouldn’t have had to buy a replacement. The pointlessness of it, plus the wastefulness, would have annoyed me too.

TumbledTussocks · 17/01/2026 09:59

WinterWooliesBaa · 10/01/2026 01:04

Washed in hot dish water. Rinsed in boiling water.

shortbread
other biscuts
cake.
crackers
sweets

sewing stuff
gift tags
ribbon

Growing up, one of the old HUGE Quality Street tins was our 'first aid' tin. 🥰

everyone knows not to get excited by the presence of a quality street tin on the shelf means crafts and gibbons. you still get the flutter of optimism. I tricked the kids into thinking the actual chocolate was sewing stuff this year then sent them to get some thread, it was adorable!

WinterWooliesBaa · 17/01/2026 10:36

TumbledTussocks · 17/01/2026 09:59

everyone knows not to get excited by the presence of a quality street tin on the shelf means crafts and gibbons. you still get the flutter of optimism. I tricked the kids into thinking the actual chocolate was sewing stuff this year then sent them to get some thread, it was adorable!

🤣🤣😍

WinterWooliesBaa · 17/01/2026 13:22

letshearitfortheboy · 11/01/2026 17:37

You were "raging" after this, really. Get a grip. I hate to say it, but shit like this is why some men end up leaving all the tidying to their wives. They do it, get it "wrong" somehow, never hear the end of it, so never do it again.

So she shouldn't be mad at him that he threw away her Christmas present from her daughter?? (Proper tin, not just a cheap tin that came with the stollen)

Get a grip. That's just enabling 'learned jncomoetence'

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