Nice things that have immediately been ruined

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I have loads. But two in particular come to mind.

1. Spent ages choosing a long down coat. Extremely indecisive but also v cold with ds playing football, so this was painful. Then within a week caught it on barbed wire and ripped it. Not badly, mended it invisibly, but the RAGE.

2. New kitchen installed (about 15 years ago) - always going to be stressful. Heavily pregnant, plus my DH got proper flu, so it was two weeks of hell. Within two weeks, I found a bag of potatoes that had rotted and the resulting revolting fluid had seeped right into the lowest shelf of the wall cabinet - you know, the bit that forms part of the structure.

Our new kitchen floor.
I lived with bare concrete for several months. Firstly because we were saving then secondly we spent several weeks deciding on the perfect flooring.
Manoeuvring the fridge back into the kitchen after it had just been laid … we ripped it. Annoys me every time I’m looking down as I walk over that bit & I see the bit of visible adhesive that squished out when we tried to stick it back down.

Oh I feel your pain

@3001signon we did EXACTLY the same. It ripped a triangular in the vinyl when we moved the fridge. I cried.

I lived with it for 5 years and it annoyed me EVERY time I saw it

We’d just had a lovely new bathroom fitted. I was putting all my lotions and potions back in when I dropped a glass jar of moisturiser onto the toilet and chipped the top of the brand new cistern. Jar of moisturiser survived intact!

Our new sofa got pen on it (accidentally) by DD within two weeks. Got most of it out but I can still see the spot. I’m ashamed to say I had a MASSIVE temper tantrum at the time 😳

We got a beautiful new sofa, much longed for after putting up with a tatty old ripped, patched one for years. Three days after we'd got it, DS ripped one of the seat covers with his blooming toenail. How he managed it, I do not know. It's only a tiny tiny rip and I've mended it from underneath so it's barely noticeable to anybody else, but I fixate on it every time I sit on the sofa. Currently waiting to see whether the sofa shop can provide a replacement cover, as we dithered for too long before contacting them and they don't sell sofas in this finish any more.

My Mum got a new bathroom fitted and then managed to get splodges of undiluted hair dye on her brand new sink within the week. It probably would've come off if she'd noticed it and rinsed it straight away.

Bought a fancy fountain pen.
As I opened it to put the cartridge in for the very first time I thought "I better nor drop this"
Dropped it.
Nib down.
Broken.

better not*

brand new laminate flooring from front room through to dining room , within a week my son came in on his bike and let it drop on its side. the pedal took a chunk out of the flooring, right in the middle. the only thing that covers it is having a large rug central in the room. I could have cried. I,d saved for so long to get the new flooring.

I never used to wear a watch. After months of dithering I bought a waterproof one. I wore it in the bath the night I got it. I smashed the glass on the side of the bath getting in. I put it straight back into the box and there it stayed for about 8 years. I couldn't even look at it. I just threw it away when we cleared out the cupboard.

Still angry. It was about 14 years ago.

This is one from a long time ago but I in secondary school I had a lovely pearly pink Parker pen, but found the standard nib too thick to write nicely with, as my handwriting had been problematic at school for years my dad took me to WH Smith and we ordered a smaller width of nib in especially for this nice pen that I liked, it was quite expensive and took several weeks, including popping back in every week on Friday to see if it had arrived.

When it did finally arrive, I attached it to the pen and was sitting in a science lesson on a high stool, and some annoying boy in my class bashed into me and knocked it out of my hand, where it landed nib down on a solid concrete floor and ruined it.

I was absolutely gutted and didn’t dare tell my dad because he’d have been so frustrated and disappointed (not angry or anything), so I just quietly reattached the old nib and carried on with my shit handwriting. Thankfully my writing has got much better as an adult and now I’m one of those people where someone will comment “ohh, haven’t you got lovely writing, it looks like a font”.

Spent over £100 on a dress. It was meant to be for smart-casual, out for lunch, not quite out-out occasions. The buttons up the front gaped over the bust, so I put in some extra press studs. Annoying, but fine, it fixed it. Then the first time I wore it, the fabric pulled and frayed under the arm. Didn’t think I could take it back because I’d put those press studs in, so managed to do a more or less invisible mend on it. Since then, it has pulled and frayed further under both arms every time I’ve worn it. It fits perfectly if I don’t move, it just hasn’t had enough give designed into it, and the fabric is stupidly fragile. Really annoying. And pretty shit given it was quite expensive.

Moved into our brand new build, shiny, clean house, bought a tv for the bedroom (never had one before) it had a flimsy stand but was ok because we were going to put it on the wall once the bracket arrived, sat downstairs and heard a big thud - both ran upstairs to find the bloody cat had somehow pushed it off the chest of drawers it was on, it had fallen and gouged a hole in the plasterboard wall and completely shattered/destroyed the screen - my husband sat on the floor and I'm almost certain he would have cried had our 5 year old not been stood behind him

I’ve told this story here before. Stupidly lit a candle underneath the TV and it melted the sensor so was useless. Went out and bought a new one the next day. That night thought “oh the candle’s a lot shorter now, I’m sure it’ll be fine this time”. I then sat watching the TV watching a huge smoke mark take over the screen.

I still to this day don’t know how I could have been so stupid. It was very tense in our house that night

I feel all your pain!!!!! Laughed til I cried @AlisonDonut! I’m sorry! 😂😂😂😂😂

This happened to my parents a very long time ago. While my mum was in hospital just after giving birth to my sister, they had a new carpet laid in the front and back rooms downstairs in their house.
They saved up for years as never had much money. My Dad dropped something on the carpet and used a cloth and bleach to clear up the stain. Still haven't a clue why he mistaken the bleach bottle. The patch of carpet was a brown and then turned a yellow colour. He thought it would be a good idea to put the sofa over the top which would of been a good idea if it wasn't blocking the entrance to opening the front room door. My mum was not happy at the time and still a talking point over 30 years later.

Newly sanded and varnished wooden floor in the kitchen/living area. A work colleague of DH and his wife came for lunch - new to the area and we were trying to be kind. Wife had a broken stiletto with the metal bit sticking out - was only at the end of lunch I noticed that there were circular dents all over the floor. I was so horrified that I flatly refused her offers to help wash up and hustled them out of the house as quickly as I could (smiling maniacally through gritted teeth). Didn't say anything as I couldn't imagine giving anyone the guilt of knowing they'd wrecked something like that but for the 15 years we lived with it I raged inside often. We didn't end up as particularly close friends but when I see her on social media it reminds me and I realise I'm yet to forget even though we don't even live in the house anymore

our first own home, bought a new all in one fridge freezer, pristine, our flat mate brought home a surveying tripod, lent it against the kitchen wall where it gracefully tilted sideways and put a deep dent into the door of the fridge. I lived seeing that dent for the 20 odd years the fridge lasted.

@bluedodecagon

I feel all your pain!!!!! Laughed til I cried *@AlisonDonut*! I’m sorry! 😂😂😂😂😂

Harrumph.

I now have fitbits which don't smash, they just have scratches all over the front.

I need this thread today!

DH once reversed my brand new car into a wall at a filling station. He'd taken it to fill it up with petrol, and was absolutely mortified when he got home.

Luckily for him I saw the funny side.

Inherited a beautiful 150 year old teacup from my grandmother - the one she drank out of as a child in the 1920s, and my ‘special’ teacup when I visited her. Unpacked it and immediately dropped it on my tile floor and smashed it into a billion pieces.

Found the perfect jumper for a skirt I’d bought and then discovered nothing went with. Perfect style, colour and fit. Wore it once and DH trying to be helpful doing the laundry popped it in the washing machine. It now fits my daughters Barbie doll.

Mine just happened a few months ago. Coveted a lovely oversized cream and black stripy jumper from Cos. It cost £90, so I ummed and ahhed for a while before treating myself, thinking it would last a good few seasons.

The second time I wore it, I got dark brown hair dye over the back of the neck of the jumper at the hairdresser.

Came home and immediately put it in the washing machine thinking it might wash out if a water-based dye. Didn't notice there was already a black jumper in the washing machine, which shed a mountain of fluff that stuck to every inch of the cream jumper and will not budge, so just makes it look really grubby.

Finally, put the jumper on to see how bad it actually looked, at which point the cat jumped on me and pulled two big threads out of the front.

It's fit for the bin.