It was bound to happen (fluff)

DH bought one bag of red starburst jellybeans for me....and I ate them all. I will go tomorrow and get the Easter candy for the rest of the family.

If there are Robin Eggs in the house.. forget it.. they are MINE..... all mine.

Target has been out of them for a week already. 

2 Halloweens ago I purchased snack size Kit Kats and eat 2 per day. It is my treat for myself.

We have not purchased any Easter candy this year. Usually we get some fot the school age children around us. They are getting older, so may not buy any.

Just wanted to point out the humor regarding this post landing in my feed just above one titled, "I like kale!"

Reese's eggs are one of my top 7 culinary wonders of the world.

Considering the first Easter candy for the year appeared in DH's Christmas stocking, I have still managed to keep myself in check.

I don't usually do a huge amount of candy, and the only "Easter" type/wrapped candy I get is a chocolate bunny for each person and Reese's eggs.

I usually get each person a box or bag of a candy they really like: twizzlers, the GOOD gummy bears, etc.

I usually do more non-candy things, like a t-shirt or 12 pack of microwave popcorn.

The only candy I will likely get is a bot of good dark chocolate and some peanut MnMs.

Now that the kids are adults, and only one is still at home, I hardly buy any Easter eggs. I will probably get one big gift box for DSO and DS, if there is anything left at the supermarket on Saturday. DD is going away to the beach over Easter, and I won't see her, so I won't bother buying her anything.

I kind of miss setting my alarm for 4am Easter Sunday, to get up and hide the eggs all over the backyard for the egg hunt.

I have enough other chocolate lying around the house at the moment, so even if I had bought Easter goodies, I wouldn't need to be sneaking into the stash. My willpower is non existent. The other day I bought a tub of fairy floss (cotton candy) and I ate half of it in the car on the way home, and the other half later that day. 

I am not sure what to do. I want some good chocolate for Easter Sunday and I probably will be eating bagels and cream cheese as it is. Do it get a big box of dark Belgian chocolate for us? It’s one day.

Normally I have everything together by now but this year I have literally nothing. 😳 I wanted DH to go to the store with me two weeks ago. He complains when I get too much candy so I thought he could come with me and pick out the stuff he wanted, but he didn’t want to go. Then I was busy for the rest of the week, so I thought I’d sneak out Friday and go to Target. DD was off school, so I added some extra stops (including Michael’s which she hates, LOL) so she wouldn’t want to go, but then she said she DID want to go anyway. THEN we had about a foot of snow dump down between then and now and I haven’t left the house since then. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have a chance to grab some stuff either when DD is at the dentist getting a chipped tooth fixed, or after I hit the chiropractor in the afternoon, otherwise I’m not sure when I’ll be able to do it.

I got a small amount for my son and promptly forgot where I put it. This thread made me go check and luckily I found it!

I don’t make baskets anymore so I shouldn’t even be in that candy aisle at all.  But the darned Walmart tricked me.  I avoided the main Easter aisle and headed down the large wide aisle to the back of the store.  This aisle usually has small kitchen appliances  and some decor items.  Well somebody decided it was a perfect spot to put the one Easter candy that I cannot walk past - Cadbury mini eggs.  The ones with the hard shell and chocolate inside.  This year they had both pastel eggs and a darker jewel toned variety.  I had to purchase those to see if they tasted different than the pastel shelled eggs.  And I haven’t tasted the pastel eggs since last year so I had to purchase both kinds for a fair taste test, right?  And since there was zero reason to wait until Easter since I am not making any baskets, I opened them as soon as I got home.🫣🥰🥴

I don't buy candy for Halloween, Christmas, Mother's Day or Easter. I wait until the day after and get it on sale.

We always have candy in the house, but there’s no particular Easter candy we buy.

ETA: That’s a lie. Our gumball machine had pastel m&ms that I bought at Easter last year, which clearly were not eaten. I swapped the candy out last week.

I have this habit of putting notes I need for next year in the last few planner pages each year. That way I can transfer them to my new planner in the new year.

So if I have any holiday related tips for myself (or notes such as "We'll need more wrapping paper in 2025.") I write those there.

Many, many years ago I was forced to write a note to myself for the next Easter saying that any candy I wanted for my own basket needed to be purchased at the very last minute. I'm fine with not touching candy meant for our egg hunt or candy for the kids, but the candy for me I ate more than once before I finally gave up on buying that in advance.

That reminds me...[off to the store]


Curse you enablers!