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.

Was absolutely delighted with a pale blue wool coat I got in a sale - the first time I wore it a cup of tea got spilled on the front when I got jostled in a busy cafe - left a stain of course - I really wanted to cry

Brand new expensive leather sofa; phone rang, Dh ran to answer it whilst gloss painting, managed to get gloss paint on the sofa. Luckily he worked in the furniture trade and knew the best way to get it off but it was never quite the same.

[quote LoisLane66]@Cheshirecatwoman
Funny that you didn't notice he was wearing the new coats on two separate dog walking occasions.[/quote]
They were exactly the same coat, the second just in a bigger size!

I would have been busy sorting dog, plus it was early in the morning!

Now have 3 coats, 1 too small, 1 with big gash on elbow with sticky thing covering it and 1 with ripped cuff!

@Nocaloriesinchocolate

This is definitely not funny. Many years ago I reversed the car off the drive to go shopping and ran over and killed our beloved cat who was asleep underneath it. My wonderful DH didn’t speak a word of blame and never has

It's very sad.

My friend's brother did the same to his sister's cat. Sadly they like to sleep under cars.

went round to a friends brand new house to celebrate. had red wine, I was sat on the floor, tried to stand up with my glass in my hand and tipped the whole lot onto their brand new carpet.

We'd just moved in to our first home, most furniture was second hand apart from a lovely big mirror with a ridged frame that we'd bought from John Lewis with some vouchers we'd been given,
Hosted a Halloween party and had various tealights dotted around. Someone moved one of the tealights directly under said mirror and a large section of the frame melted. That was nearly 15 years ago and it still annoys me every time I see it.

My ex-H bought a large and beautiful picture frame for a painting we had brought home from a holiday. As he was carrying it home from the shop he dropped it and the glass front smashed into a thousand pieces. He had to go straight back to the shop to get another one. This time he did manage to carry it home successfully.

About 20 years ago I bought a brand new BMW. When it was 10 days old I went on the M6 and got stuck behind a truck laden with old bricks. One of the bricks came off the top of the load, bounced off my windscreen and then bounced off the bonnet 😑. Result : huge crack all across the windscreen and dent on the bonnet

@Minfilia

My friend bought a new Audi.

On the way home with it, an HGV driver hit the side of the car changing lanes on the motorway, destroyed the front and side and all the air bags went off. It was a write off less than an hour after she drove it off the forecourt!

Wow, I'd be totally gutted 😢 Puts my 10 day old BMW jaunt in the shade

She's dead now, but I still remember my mums anguish when my uncle (poorly) threw up in her brand new (that day) car. She was the kindest most compassionate person ever but I can still hear her saying she could never have anything nice. 😥

As a toddler i'd been allowed to help mum and dad strip off the old wallpaper from my bedroom...a few nights later they caught me standing up in my cot stripping the brand new paper from my freshly decorated bedroom wall.

Also my poor parents. My mum had bought a lovely light grey wool rug for the sitting room. Dd threw up blackcurrant crumble all over it. My mum managed to get the worst of the stain out and luckily the rug was reversible, so she turned it over. On our next visit, Dd puked blackcurrant coulis all over it.

Do you think your DD might be intolerant to blackcurrants?

Got myself a new iPhone, was really pleased. Got to work and thought I'll just put it in the bag with my lunch while I walk through the car park and up to the office. My drink had leaked. It drowned without ever actually properly being used. Sad day.

Beautiful cashmere jumper I splurged on. First time I wore it my parents dog jumped up to lick my face and caught his claw in the front and pulled a thread.

Brand new car (literally bought it that week)
Driving home and a guy is standing in the road making flagging down motions. I slow down, he tries to wrench my door open and then punches my car. I was that furious, I drove after him while on the phone to the police
Police arrived and arrest him. I spend the night at the police station doing an interview. Over a grand of damage
The shiny new car comes with free insurance - which doesn't protect your no claims. I lose ALL my no claims and have to pay the excess, he pays me £250. At £5 a month

Oh I have some of these!!

Yesterday, brand new mattress. It was vacuum packed so you have to leave it to inflate. Toddler ds climbs on it covered in chocolate, leaving big marks all over.

New coat, sat too close to a radiator at the drs, melted all the fur on one side of the hood.

Dh brand new iPhone, dropped it out of the box on the way in from the car, smashed the screen to pieces on the concrete.

My new phone, only 2 days old, ds grabs it in the garden, drops it on the patio and smashed the screen.

Brand new fabric sofa, DH spills an entire mug of coffee on it. I was totally gutted. Then a few weeks later I used the wrong cleaner on it and left lighter spots where it stripped the colour out. It just clearly wasn't meant to stay nice.

Happened a while back, I was broke and sold a few of my favourite clothes. Beautiful pure silk blouse was the most expensive item I sold. Packaged it then realised I hadn't included another item bought together. Took scissors to re-open at the top, and as the cut bit fell on the table, so did part of the blouse. I just sat there and stared at the package for ages. Then had to email the poor buyer to explain bit sending back the refund was so painful.

Oh loads of things, with my first pay packet, bought a pair of Levi's, leant again a brick walls, didn't realise a rusty nail was there, rust on jeans, ruined.
New carpet within 2 weeks rabbit ran upstairs and scratched a massive patch in it.
After our 18 year old sofa gave up the ghost we bought leather, electric reclining sofas, two sofas at an angle, both seats reclined slightly, friend went to put her sofa down, two deep gashes on the reclined part of other sofa.
Wedding dress dad stepped on it and ripped during wedding.
Car, alloys kerbed within a few weeks. And so on...

@3001signon

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.

We did this too putting our dishwasher back after our flooring was fitted. Absolutely broke my heart I blame my DH 😂

We had a bali style timber bedroom suite delivered and I went about furniture polishing it before moving into the final positions.

DH came home and helped with the moving. Dropped ''his'' bedside table on it's side and splintered the over hanging front corner.

@Saffrondoormouse try spraying hairspray on it when the tops are dry, should lift the marker pen clean off

I had to practically beg my landlord for two years, for new kitchen floor tiles. In the end he got them replaced and I was over the moon. The third night of them being down, I pulled a Pyrex dish out of the oven and I didn't have hold of it properly. It slipped out of my hand and smashed everywhere. Once I'd picked up all the glass.... I noticed a massive chunk of my brand new tile missing 😤☹️ it's still like it now 6 years on. Gutted!

When we got our first house we had a new flat pack kitchen from IKEA that DH fitted himself. Usually he's great at stuff like that and to be fair he did it all himself to a great standard apart from on one cupboard he drilled the holes for the handle in the wrong place. He realised straight away, filled them in and repositioned them but you could still see the original holes.

He thought it did not matter enough to get a new cupboard door but those two tiny little filled in holes in the shiny cupboard door bugged me irrationally on a daily basis for the next 10 years until we got a new kitchen. It was something about it ruining the symmetry of the run of cupboards that drew my eye to it.

And the time as a child that my dad sent me round to a neighbours house to use their food processor to blend some very posh lobster bisque he had been making for a dinner party. He is an excellent cook and he had been slaving over this soup all day making the fish stock from scratch and adding fresh lobster pieces and seafood. The final step was to blend it smooth but our food processor had broken so I was sent to the neighbours with the soup in a big bowl.

She duly blended it and back I came but my mum had been mopping the hall floor and it was slippy. I tripped over the front door step and went flying over and spilled all the soup all over the hallway. I remember just lying there covered in fish soup crying thinking what trouble I was going to get in. Fortunately my lovely dad just hugged me and cleaned it up and we went to Spa and got some tinned soup for the dinner instead and no-one was any the wiser.

DH bought me a lovely expensive wool jumper from Sweaty Betty. I accidentally washed it with a load of towels on a 60 degree wash. It came out the washer tiny and felted. I cried, then hid it under the bed.