Happy Easter 2024! Here’s a snapshot of our amazing collection of chocolate this year. Mostly thanks to my eldest’s visit to Cadbury World, but also I’ve been dropping an egg or two in the weekly shop for a while now.
Before you think we are greedy, please remember there are six of us here! Hopefully these will take us a while to get through. It’s quite a few more than my collection in 2021.
Many years ago when I was a single Mum, I was struggling for money. I only had two of my children then. I hadn’t bought them an egg, not even one. I wasn’t talking to any of my family at the time so they didn’t get any off family either. I felt so bad. I had just five pounds in my purse and I had to buy dinner, so I went into the supermarket and bought some food, walking quickly past the chocolate eggs. Then I went to pay and I was expecting just a few pence change but the cashier gave me change for £10 instead of £5. I had another £5. It didn’t click immediately but as I was going to buy them a bar of chocolate from the sweet shop next door I noticed the £5 note.
I didn’t go back to the shop and tell them of their mistake. Instead I bought my kids an Easter Egg each. Quite a big one as we are going back a long while and prices were different.
I have always, always, felt guilty about this, it felt like stealing. But it wasn’t deliberate on my behalf. I’m not even sure if the cashier in the supermarket had done this on purpose as I was a regular and she had seen me struggle to find the right amount of money and end up putting food back because I didn’t have enough.
So, while I look at my impressive display, I’m thinking about all the people who are struggling right now. I’m not exactly well off myself, I can’t afford to go on holiday this year and I’m desperately saving everything I can for a much needed new wheelchair. But at least I can afford eggs for my kids (even if my eldest bought most of them and we do have family now that add to our collection.)
Whatever your Easter 2024 looks like. I hope you have a peaceful day. I always like to think of Easter as a day of peace, joy, love and hope. ❤️
I egg each is enough after that you get sick of them. Happy Easter
I’m inclined to agree, but they don’t eat more than 1 a day.
Oh wow! That is chocolate heaven! I was going to say that is a lot of eggs until I remembered there are 6 of you.
Aww! I think I would have done the same with the extra change from the shop. The cashier might have done it on purpose. x
There are still quite a few left. The Little man is not so much a chocolate lover so his are barely touched. Eldest son treated himself to 3 eggs and then complained that I’d bought the others 3 eggs and him only 2, he’s the greedy one! (I did buy him another one) Eldest daughter started eating hers before Easter…naughty.
We always overbuy candy for Easter, sigh. Store sales encourage it!
I was told the eggs were half price in the supermarket yesterday. I didn’t tell my son who bought 90% of these eggs to share.
Hope you are all still enjoying your Easter eggs! What a lovely story. It reminded me a bit of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! I know a couple of times when I was younger the cashier gave me the wrong change. I think it was quite common then, people were bound to make mistakes with handling so much cash.