What did you forget this past Yom Tov?

Pooh

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 5:40 pm

to do lists, shopping lists, menus... we all make them but comes Yom Tov (or shabbat) and we remember that we forgot something!!!!

I was thinking to make a thread of all the things that went wrong this past yom tov so that when the next one comes by we can bump it and better prepare ourselves with the most common or least common things others have forgot in the past.

For me it was:
a)forgot dh's favorite drink
b)forgot to leave a candle lit to light for shabbat.

Fabulous

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 5:47 pm

forgot to have dh light extra candles before the zman and blow out to "prepare" for next nights' licht bentching.

pinktichel

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 5:48 pm

I forgot that ppl don't eat as much as I wish they would. Lots of food went to waste!

Chocoholic

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 6:48 pm

Don't laugh... my DH forgot the cheesecake!!! embarrassed

supermama2

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 7:21 pm

Forgot the Oriental Salad in the back of my dark fridge! Sad

Clarissa

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 7:27 pm

I forget that if I make way too much food, we'll get sick of it after days of leftovers. Strangely, nobody has gotten sick of the desserts.

mimivan

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 7:32 pm

I forgot to light a 24 hour candlefor the next night (shabbat)..but we went to the home of an elderly Kohain to get some fire before Shabbat and he blessed all my kids..so I guess it was a good thing I forgot!

greenfire

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 7:35 pm

forgot to make 2 quiches - there was a midnight monster who ate most of one ...

forgot an eruv tavshilin ...

forgot to make kiddush friday night ...

Chocoholic

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 7:37 pm

Clarissa wrote:

Strangely, nobody has gotten sick of the desserts.

Strange, isn't it, but in any case, feel free to send desserts to me.

NotInNJMommy

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 7:37 pm

forgot to get fleish (red meat) for yom tov. Found a chuck steak in the freezer and did something to cook it erev yom tov....I always have chicken around, but fleish takes special effort...

Clarissa

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 7:38 pm

Chocoholic wrote:

Clarissa wrote:

Strangely, nobody has gotten sick of the desserts.

Strange, isn't it, but in any case, feel free to send desserts to me.

You're going to have to fight my 10 year old, and when there's sugar at stake, he can be pretty scrappy.

d l

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 8:34 pm

Great topic!
Forgot that my milchig oven turns off automatically after being on for a bunch of hours, so I had no oven to warm up the lasagna. Instead we double wrapped everything and put it on the blech. It worked ok.
Forgot to buy more milchig serving pieces and knives.- used plastic, t-spoons etc.

Pickle Lady

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 9:26 pm

Forgot the tabouleh for shabbos. My kids eat it every shabbos.

ra_mom

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 10:16 pm

I too forgot to light my 24 hour candle.
Thank G-d we lit our candle on Yom Tov at our neighbors house.

greenfire

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 10:45 pm

I leave on a burner with fire ... if all else fails you can go to the basement and find a pilot light on the water heater or furnace ...

QUEENY

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 10:56 pm

Remembered to make eruv tavshilin so I'd be able to light Friday night (I didn't need to cook ate out)
remembered to keep burner on to light candles friday night

FORGOT TO LIGHT CANDLES FRIDAY NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ashrei

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 11:02 pm

I forgot to say yizkor. Sad

But dh was on top of things and decided that I wasn't going to any bc I had to stay home w/dd, and yotzi-ed me.

rachel

Tue, Jun 02 2009, 12:08 am

Put on my air condition timer but forgot to press the on button. So no air condition for my bedroom.

RachelEve14

Tue, Jun 02 2009, 1:18 am

we forgot to eat the evev tashilin. We wound up going out for seuda shishit and got back after skia and then remembered. Ooops.