What's one thing you've messed up in a silly way?

I've been playing Stardew Valley for a LONG time. Soooo many hours. However, I have these moments where I've messed up my flow of things in the game because of real life. My hilarious example of this is that I gave Clint my pick axe on a Thursday and I knowwww that in the game, it would be available in two days for pick up but having that be the weekend, my brain said, "nah, you can't get that because work can only be done on business days". Because of this, I missed out on good luck days for the mine on the weekend and it just had me thinking, how many other people have had similar things where they missed out on something because real life rules bled into the Stardew Valley world. I'm curious!
 

HaleyRocks

Farmer
I gave golden biscuits to many animals, before selling them. Because i forgot to stock up on small animal products range first (milks and eggs), before acquiring the animals i wanted for finalizing my design and "synching" them to produce at certain days, in groups.

I will find more biscuits and already have quite many, even for ponds, but those wasted ones would have brought me that much nearer, to feeding everything that can do that with a bisquit!
 

RedLotus

Greenhorn
I gave clint my watering can to have it upgraded to the golden one. Completely forgot about it for 3 in game weeks, so for me that was probably 4-5 real days. I looked everywhere for it when I finally needed it again, in my workshop, my house double checked my inventory a dozen times. Nothing. It wasn't until I went to upgrade my axe that I was handed it back 😂
 

450735

Rancher
Went to the egg festival in year 1 and forgot to buy the strawberry seeds. :(
One time, I tried the trick of passing out at 2am with 0 money in your pocket to save on revival fees, but I also did not place anything in the shipping bin, and since I always forget about festival days, I ended up with exactly zero coins during the Egg festival. I did not grow any strawberries that year :frown:

Another time I was at Clint's to upgrade some tool (maybe the hoe? I don't remember), but for some reason my brain focused too much on the area of effect increase and reflexively clicked on the watering can instead. No rain was scheduled. Luckily it did not mess up my harvests too much.

Also, on my first game on 1.6, I completely missed the Mastery Cave. I knew something was going on but I could not find out what. It's only by reading the forums and seeing people talking about trinkets and stuff that I gave up and checked the wiki. I was at mastery 3 or 4 by then. I'm pretty sure I would have never found that cave without help.

Plus the time I got greedy in Skull Cavern and got killed by a monster at 1:50am, woke up at Harvey's clinic with a bunch of inventory and 1000 gold missing, then forgetting about the time, getting out of bed, only to promptly pass out right then and there at 2am, and losing another grand in money :sweat:
 
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