Tell BleepBleeps the ridiculous sleep-deprived things you've done - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

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Everyone knows that having children and getting a good night’s sleep don’t go hand in hand, and that in a sleep deprived state we can do some pretty silly things. Obviously sleep deprivation is not fun to deal with but it does cause some pretty amusing situations – even if they may not seem funny at the time...! BleepBleeps would like to hear about the most ridiculous things you have done due to your DCs keeping you up at night.

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So what stupid things have you managed to do when in dire need of some decent sleep? Have you gone to the supermarket in your pyjamas? Have you put your keys in the fridge? Managed to use face cream instead of toothpaste? Or even tried to use the TV remote as a phone?

Whatever silly things you have got up to, add your story below and you’ll be entered into a prize draw where one Mumsnetter will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Having started work at 9am, it was not until 4pm that I realised I was wearing odd shoes - not even the same colour! :0

Put the shoes polish in the fridge, after cleaning my shoes that were a total disgrace from the "party after the meeting" and run outside because I was very late that morning!

My son was a poor sleeper, when he was a year old I was so tired I got into his cot with him hoping to settle him and fell asleep only to be woken with him hitting me with a teddy!

after I had my fourth baby, I dropped the kids off at school with my husband who was driving and opened the car door and sat down in the passenger seat, waiting to go, until I looked to see that it was another man and another parent waiting for his wife. I apologised quickly and went to our car. To be fair the cars were both white!!!

I don't think I've had many sleep-derived problems, but I used to sleepwalk, and once went into a wardrobe and was found about to do something unmentionable in my sister's shoes (well, not THAT, but the second worst!)

Just lots of little things, put the bread in the fridge, milk in the cupboard.

Made a cup of coffee using gravy granules

I once unscrewed the light bulb from the bedside lamp and placed it on the bed, I found it in the morning and put it back in.

I went to pay my landlord his rent using online banking. The amount is well over £1000 but I had literally just woke up having slept very little (maybe a couple of hours tops)in the night. The payment was late so I hurried to do the transaction. It was only after I pressed the submit button did I realize it was my hairdressers that I had sent the payment! Both her name and his looks very similar, and I never pay him normally using this method, but it was only because I was late. I was almost panicking when trying to phone her because I remember her saying she was away on holiday in Antigua for a few weeks so didn't know if she was even in the country. Relief flooded me when she answered the phone and I explained what had happened. She said she'd go to her bank and return the amount, but told me off and said to erase her name so that it doesn't happened again. I'll never do an online transfer ever again when I've not had any sleep!

Washing powder in fridge, keys lost in a miriad of places, fell asleep in the bath.

Forgot to turn off the oven ... more than once....

Put fridge stuff in the cupboard ....

Went to lunch (for the first time in what felt like forever).....with my dress on back to front!

I went to an interview not realising that I had on two different pairs of shoes, both were black but unfortunately not matching, too late once I saw my mistake..... I didn't get the job!!!

Loads of silly things like putting milk in the cupboard rather then the fridge or pouring cold water over a teabag because I've forgotten to boil the kettle first. No embarrassing things outdoors thankfully!

Poured the older kids banana mikshake in my coffee and on my cereal and didn't realise what i'd done until after i'd eaten and drunk both. Thought they had a very strange taste!

I don't think I have done to many crazy things because I was sleep deprived just the odd putting stuff in the fridge that didn't belong there. But I was so sleep deprived when I had my twins I can actually hardly remember anything from when they were babies, I must have functioned on automatic pilot.

Put my phone in the freezer

Went to work on the bus, when I got to work my colleagues asked why I had my slippers on...

Sent an email at work to completely the wrong person.. it wasn't good!!

My LO loves me making up stories to help him fall asleep. I snuggle up with him in his bed & start telling him a story - usually an adventure featuring him & his nursery friends.. the problem is that I am so tired, warm & cosy in his bed that I'll start falling asleep & talking absolute gibberish! I usually end up being jolted awake by my son shouting 'No mummy! That's how it goes!' - bleary-eyed, I'll try to remember what the hell I was talking about before drifting off!
This tiredness isn't exclusive to the evenings though.. one morning this week I was lying on sofa next to LO, trying desperately to stay awake & he handed me his cup of water & asked me to hold it, which I duly did.. However, I drifted off once again & woke myself up by spilling the water all over myself. It did the trick of PROPERLY waking me up though & LO found it highly amusing! :)

I remember making cups of coffee and then falling asleep before drinking them. I also remember falling asleep with baby still latched on during breastfeeding.

Fallen asleep on the tube and ended up at the end of the line.

Complete mis-dressing in various guises, missed stop on public transport after falling asleep, burnt many meals, putting things in the wrong places and never finding them...

I have an 11 week old baby who feeds every hour and a half, even at night! I've never known exhaustion like this. I've lost count of the number of sleep-deprived acts I've committed. We have an under-stairs cupboard where we keep our coats and jackets - rather than looking in here, I recently opened the fridge door to look for my jacket. Only yesterday I tried to use my car keys to zap the front door open! And last week I woke up in a panic in the middle of the night, as my baby was not in the co-sleeper on the side of my bed. I yelled at my fiance': "Where's the baby?" He looked over at me with amusement and said "On your breast!" before rolling back to sleep!

One christmas (in the days when all the shops used to shut) I was on what I call "auto pilot/zombie mode" and made myself a cup of tea - but poured the boiled water into the tea caddy instead of my mug. Had to dry out those teabags so we could use them all over christmas