major disaster of the xmas variety, and I am actually crying, please help (involves mice and advent calendars)

[psychomum5]

wanking cunting mice had my decorations earlier:(

I have just gotten the fabric advent calendars and stockings out, plus the santa sacks, due to fill advents now obviously.

I am actually sobbing, and DH does not understand why.

bastard mice have had them:(:(:(:(

I now need to go shopping urgently for fabric calendars, seeing as I have the stuff, but only have £25 budget for 5 of the things.

can you help??

I am going away for 10mins, need to eat and drink and calm down, and rant at the uncaring husband.

TIA

Psycho - can you not patch them? I'd patch them. They now have charm and history and your children will always remember the year the mice ate their advent calendars.

Patching is the way to go. Don't fling them

embrace it

make lemonade

There are proper paper ones in WHSmiths for about £3.99.

I feel your pain, however with a bit of luck some of the fabric ones might be reduced tomorrow anyway as it is December.

Could they share one? I have 3 DC and they fell in love with a wooden one in Laura Ashley last year. It was £35 but I waited until it went half price in the sales and told them that if they wanted that for this year they would have to share it between the three of them.

unless they are completely destroyed. Mouse wee won't kill you. uick rinse and patch any nibbled bits. With mouse shaped patches. and stick pins in them

Mwa ha ha ha

right havent read the whole thread....but.....here's an idea that may or may not have been suggested already -

when I was living abroad on a volunteer trip, my danish room mates lovely dad sent us each a homemade advent calendar. They were made of string, with an envalope closed over the string in a line, one for each day, with the day written on it, a gift inside each envalope.

It was brilliant! Particulary since he put ridiculous items in each envalope

Could you do something like that? do you have string and hundreds of envalopes??? We strung ours up on the wall above our beds!

aha, yes, patching, now there is a plan.

do I not need to wash them tho, they have felt on them, hwo do I wash them??

have i spelt envalope/envelope wrong?
sorry about that

there is light from this dark dark place, bless you all.

the envelope idea sounds a plan too, altho I would feel the need to prettyfy them with stickers, and I don;t have either (envelopes or xmas stickers) as yet.

all these ideas, they may end up with thousands of the damn things yet....:o

Nah I would not wash unless desperately wee-y.

How bad are they? I would prob in fact squirt with some antibac (kills 99.9% of all mouse wee related germs) and get on with it.

Rats would be different.

You could do little cotton whiskers on a mouse face patch.

Oh no you poor thing - I am going through an Advent Calendar disaster too at the moment (see my other thread!) Hope you can sort it out tomorrow. Do you think your mice ate my Playmobil elf? [smm]

I do indeed think these mice ate elves, they seem to be famished, going on the mess with my stuff:(.

I will hunt down fabric squirter tomorrow. TBH, the santa sacks and stockings are the worse for the wee, there is poo on them too, but they are not felt, just plain fabric and fur, so washable and savable IYGWIM.

the advents are the worst hit (due to them actually not being fully emptied it seems, one of them still had some chocolate inside, and have holes and three of them have pockets missing, but mo more than two pockets each.

on has been eaten down the side......maybe I could do white fur material (I have some from dancing shows), make it look like snow??

seems tomorrow will be spent prettyfying them worst hit, cleaning the rest, and then be calm with wine again.

and they can start opening in the evenings:)

Psycho, you could get both envElopes and christmas stickers at tesco or sainsburys......you could get them tonight, thus enabling you continue with advent as planned!!!

Bugger. I have TONS of christmas stickers here. you cna also get very cheap packs of xmas stickers in poundland (and envelopes come to think of it)

Mice are bastards.

Last year our garage population what they ate included a paddling pool, a water slide, a bike pannier, a garden chair and half a sack of Royal Canine dog food. Well, they hadn't eaten it all but made stashes in corners of the garage.

You need to get plastic storage boxes for your xmas stuff to keep for next year and - this is important - put weights on the lids else the feckers will get in .

Hope some of the creative solutions proffered work out!

not going out tonight. the children and husband are not being caring enough for me to rush about for them.

and its snowing

and I am a bit poorly still

and I want to be mean, and make them wait, and realise the disaster that it really is

grimma, we did use plastic boxes.

failed to lid them tho!

and the stockings and advents were actually stored in my old fabric sack, so eatable thru from the bottom.

they haven;t just had the advents, they had the decorations too!! cunts

I feel your pain. We went to move the lounge furniture around, only to reveal that the mice had eaten the curtains (behind the sofa) and the carpet moths had munched the carpet

Hope you find a solution tomorrow

oh crispy, that would indeed be worse, having the furniture and carpets.

mine I guess are replacable easier with less expense.

PSychomum I don't know if this will help, but last year I made DS an advent calendar by pegging his baby socks up on string on a wall and putting a quality street chocolate inside each sock.

Rahter than buy/make new fabric advent calendars, you could make use of all the odd socks you have (every house has odd socks right?) and make advent calendars that way?

We just shoved the sofa back over the carnage

I now have curtains and carpets which contain no natural fibres AT ALL, which thankfully seem less attractive to rodents and flying things

you have my sympathy.

Don't agree with posters who suggest getting a cat will solve your woes. Last year my mum made the most beautiful Christmas cake, it took her weeks of loving care to make.

The icing was artwork, the handmade decorations a joy.

She brought it to our house with pride and it was going to revealled to all on Christmas eve.

We woke up to find the sodding cats had got into the basket the cake was in and had spent an elicit night sprawling and sleeping on it.

crispy, that is a FAB solution to hiding the damage, feel no at all:o

OMDB, I am LOVING that idea. I have more odd socks than you can dream of (a whole sodding basket), they would work a treat, and I also have two packs of those dolly pegs, and golden string.....I feel a fabulous day coming on tomorrow:o:o:o

goodnight, that is awful. your poor mum:(

Allocate 1 sock per advent calendar recipient and decorate as required (or involve individuals in decorating their own, depending on age/willingness to be involved/your preference to do it)

Find a clip on christmas robin decoration (or santa or elf or snowman or whoever you fancy) that will change location each day, and can hold (or sit on top of or very close to) the 5 socks with presents

Every evening - have a christmas treasure hunt for the next advent location...

If any of the presents are food-related, they need to go in at the last minute in case the mice decide to have a second go at advent goodies!

glad I could be of help!