Woman Has No Idea She Took Home Target Basket Until Husband Spells It Out In Hilarious TikTok

Let's be honest, we've all accidentally taken something somewhere it doesn't belong.

It could be something as small as carrying a spatula with us into another part of the house while we're cooking, or accidentally walking out of the store with a small bag of peanuts that we missed during the checkout.

But it could also be something as conspicuous as a shopping cart...or even a shopping basket.

Chris of the hilarious TikTok pair @chris_erin was tickled pink when his wife Erin came home from shopping at Target, eagerly placing her purchases on the counter and showing what she'd purchased.

But she didn't notice that what she placed on the counter wasn't a bag, a reusable shopping bag, or even a laundry basket. It was one of Target's hand-held shopping baskets!

Giggling through her show of the items, Chris began to prompt Erin to see how long it would take for it to click in her mind what she had done.

Puzzled, the wife repeatedly showed the olive oil she'd purchased, as well as the "comfy" travel pillow she'd already hooked around her neck.

But it took her the entire video to realize what the item holding all of her purchases actually was, and only after Chris spelled it out for her.

Bending at the waist in laughter, Erin seemed to try to hide herself behind the basket, and her sunglasses hilariously played along by falling from the top of her hair and landing over her eyes, giving her a more incognito look.

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Fellow TikTokers could not stop laughing over Erin's slip-up and how long it took her to realize her mistake.

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Despite how far-fetched of a mistake this might seem to some people, other TikTokers shared their own shopping fails.

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And Target stepped in with the perfect response to the whole ordeal:

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After the shopping mishap went viral, the couple filmed a follow-up video, featuring the shopping basket and their return to Target. The pair pretended to fight in front of Target, clearly debating whether to return the basket to its proper home or to take it home and put it to good use like fellow TikTokers had done.

Since they wrote in the comments that they were returning it the same day, it seems that the basket has probably been returned to its rightful place, but the couple quipped in the parody video: "Judge away, [but] she's keeping it."

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Based on the comments, the couple would be far from the first! But whether or not they kept it, it seemed like a harmless and hilarious mistake. They were not the first to have made such a mistake, and they will surely not be the last.