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What's the most expensive thing you have ruined in the shortest space of time.

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CheddarGorgeous · 07/04/2020 10:12

I spent £8,000 on windows for an extension and threw away nearly all of the keys with the packaging the day they arrived.

Can anyone beat my stupidity?

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BentBastard · 07/04/2020 12:36

Another car here.

Got the new car home then scraped the door with the car seat putting it in 😫🙄

happystory · 07/04/2020 12:42

Spent £100 on a Bennetton sweater back in the day (I know!!) Quick clean up before going to work, splashed bleach up the sleeve. First time on...

OhMy05 · 07/04/2020 12:46

Was given a lovely Hermes throw. Inexplicably I put it on top of a lamp to keep the cat from laying in it/scratching it, burnt a hole in it 😳😆

scaryreading · 07/04/2020 12:48

Car one- new car, heavily pregnant.

Went shopping and panicked in car park and pranged car trying to get through bollards. Just awful,. Couldn't face telling dh.

Untrained · 07/04/2020 12:50

Bought my first set of real wood furniture, matching bed, cabinets, wardrobe, chest of drawers etc. Lovely. As the delivery men drove away I stared putting my clothes and bits and pieces away in all this new furniture, including putting my TV on top of the chest of drawers. I should have waited until I had someone to help; the TV was too large and heavy for me to lift onto the chest of drawers but I tried anyway. Dented the front of the drawers and gouged a huge deep scratch all across the top of it as I tried to slide the TV on, then lost my grip of the TV which promptly fell to the floor and smashed. 😣😭

Paggelpops · 07/04/2020 13:11

I knocked my mil iron board and the very hot iron fell off and burned an iron shape into her new one week old carpet, I was mortified.

BikeRunSki · 07/04/2020 13:14

DH used to work in an outdoor shop. He open a delivery box with a penknife one day and slashed his way through several £1000s worth of down jackets and sleeping bags.

Daffodil55 · 07/04/2020 13:14

@TerrorWig

Kindlemangling is an arrestable offence I believe.

(sorry for the poor attempt at humour but my brain is not as it was)

BikeRunSki · 07/04/2020 13:17

Drove a brand new Mini out of the showroom. Went the scenic way home past a quarry and chipped the windscreen beyond any kind of legal use.

velocitygirl7 · 07/04/2020 13:17

I crashed my first car 10 days after getting it! Nobody was hurt, just my pride and the car.

Daffodil55 · 07/04/2020 13:20

My first car (second hand but cost a lot to me back then) and my first attempt at parking in a multi-storey park.

I was fine and so proud of myself. Did it again the next day but not so lucky. I damaged the paintwork of the car next to me and I knew the security cameras had got me, plus the park was manned by a man in his little booth and could see what I did.

I did the right thing and it got sorted amicably with the owner of damaged car but my embarrassment was the security man was the father of a friend. He would have told everyone what a bad driver I was. I am over it now but it was awful at that time.

PippaPegg · 07/04/2020 13:35

I've owned 2 camper vans.

First one scratched the shit out of one side trying to get out of a tiny car park, past a wall.

Second one massive scratch down one side caused by opening the side door and dragging god knows what along with it. Day 2 of owning the bloody thing.

Gorgeous rose pink matt satin trousers bought with Xmas voucher. Within 10 minutes they had cereal spilt on the crotch which I gamely wet wiped off.. and then 2 mins later a huge smear of Sudocrem down the leg caused by DC1 deciding to jump on me at the critical moment of changing the nappy of DC2. Fucking pointless wearing nice clothes with DC but I get so sick of feeling like a bag lady! I dare not put them in the washing machine as I'm scared even on delicate cycle they will shrink or something.

Got a gorgeous delicate silk top off Ebay so not that expensive to me but so lush and clearly cost a bomb new. DH chucks it in with everything else and washes it. Utterly shredded. The poor man was mortified!

And of course the classic expensive jumper which shrank to size of a 10 year olds.. kept it for ages as couldn't bear to get rid!

Moral of the story never wash expensive clothes in the machine!

MaMisled · 07/04/2020 13:42

I spent £160 on boots i hated on getting home. Sold them on ebay for £180 (!). Wrapped them for posting, forgot to put note inside, slit the parcel with a sharp knife, to put note in, sliced knee to toe of one boot!

HugeAckmansWife · 07/04/2020 13:42

I stood on a mac book laptop about a week after I got it
.. Cracked the screen but used it anyway for years. Every time I used it I was reminded

starsinyourpies · 07/04/2020 13:50

Massive bottle of my favourite Jo Malone perfume for Christmas. Dropped on bathroom floor after a week smashing glass and perfume all over the floor. On the plus side the bathroom smelt amazing!

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CheddarGorgeous · 07/04/2020 13:51

@BikeRunSki Shock Shock Shock

@MaMisled Sad

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JMG1234 · 07/04/2020 13:51

I was boiling some potatoes in a pan on the hob and had stupidly left a tea towel hanging over some of the hob. I inadvertently turned on the wrong hob, the towel caught fire which spread to the strap of my new SLR camera which then melted. In throwing the camera out of the back door, I put a permanent burn in our new Amtico floor. Very dangerous and learnt a lesson that day.
My husband put his laptop bag (with laptop inside) by the back of our car (no idea why) and reversed straight over it.
My father in law went to the Jaguar garage to buy my husband a mug for Christmas. In his words, all of his parking sensors were going off so he ignored them and reversed straight into a car that had just been resprayed for sale. The mug ended up costing £808, being £8 for the mug and £800 on the bodywork for his car and the other car.

slavetolife · 07/04/2020 13:52

It wasn't me, but I had a car crash - other car going way too fast round a blind bend on a single track lane, she ploughed into me. Her car was a write off, she'd had it a few days and hadn't made the first payment - it had maybe 100 miles or so on the clock 😱

slavetolife · 07/04/2020 13:52

Should add car was brand new off the forecourt!

AndwhenyougetthereFoffsomemore · 07/04/2020 14:00

Won a charity auction for a HUGE TV - much bigger than we would ever normally have bought. DH spent all afternoon figuring out how to put it up in pride of place and bought swanky brackets etc. Settled down to watch a film with (overexcited) kids; whole thing crashed to the floor and smashed in the first 5 mins.

Insurance guy came over to check that it was really broken - took one look and burst into giggles ....

puppypeach · 07/04/2020 14:12

Left my £1500 MacBook in the seat pocket of a plane 2 days after getting it. Never saw it again!!!

mumieone · 07/04/2020 14:14

Went to pick up a Chinese takeaway with ex's new range rover ..car park empty.
When I returned I had not noticed the low down jaguar parked behind and reversed into it and dented a portion of the bonnet that cost a few thousand to replace (he decided not to go through his insurance. That was the most expensive Chinese takeaway.

Gibbus · 07/04/2020 14:18

Myself and DP are unfortunately very accident prone Blush.

DP stepped on something which made him jump, resulting in his PlayStation controller flying out of his hand. The controller bounced on the floor and smashed into our 55inch Lounge tv. We'd had the tv less than 3 months.

On moving in day to our first house that we brought, I made us all a cup of tea in the kitchen. DP came downstairs to grab his to take back upstairs where he was building furniture. 3 steps up he slipped and threw tea all up the wall of our white new build house Shock. He's also tripped over something in the lounge ending up in a heap in the corner of the room. Making a dent in the wall and a hole in our lounge door. I don't know how that man gets through every day.

At Christmas my sister brought me a bottle of YSL Elle which I love. I sprayed it for the first time in the kitchen, put it back on the side and dropped it straight on the floor. It smashed into a million pieces but my kitchen smelt amazing for a couple of days.

Lastly, i was paining our garden fences. Had run out of paint and went to buy some more. Brought the pots into the house, put one on the coffee table so I could take them one at a time into the garden. Two fell straight off the coffee table and spilt all over the lounge cream carpet. Great! Called DM for advice who told me to use white spirit. After half a bottle it still hadn't budge but now our lounge was a massive fire risk. So had to pull up the carpet and underlay ASAP. Blush

Figmentofimagination · 07/04/2020 14:29

First day on holiday with my sister at Disney world, excited to be there, waving my hands around and knocked her brand new expensive prescription sunglasses off her face onto the floor. Cracked a lense. Oops

Not as expensive but took a bottle of gin with me to a wedding as the hotel charged a lot for drinks. Went into the toilet to poor some gin into my glass, accidentally dropped the whole unopened bottle onto the tiled floor.

FudgeBrownie2019 · 07/04/2020 14:30

Not me, but DS14. For Christmas last year his Dad had come into a little money so bought him a MacBookAir, it was just the prettiest thing and cost a ridiculous amount. I suggested maybe a cheaper laptop, but his Dad insisted.

A week or so after having it DS1 left it charging up on his bed, forgot about it and bounced onto his bed after his shower, bending his MacBook in half. I've never seen anyone so genuinely upset.