Nice things that have immediately been ruined

[riverpebbles]

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.

Very expensive treat to self post pregnancy- shining cashmere dressing gown. Most expensive item i have ever bought myself from new. Reversible, delicious, handmade, last a lifetime etc etc.

First time I wore it, snagged it on stupid fucking sharp edge sticking out of office desk. Sobbed.

Not an expensive thing but I bought some lovely tiny battery operated fairy lights on silver wire for the shelving over my desk. I hardly buy anything for myself and I just wanted them to brighten up my wfh space. About 3 hours after I put them up, bastard cat came downstairs with something in his mouth, I wrestled it off him to find it was a section of my lights, he'd chewed through the wire and they were in pieces. I was irrationally upset by it.

Brand new cream cashmere jumper. Thought “I really shouldn’t eat a curry wearing this”. I proved myself right.

Brand new beautiful blackout thermal curtains for our redecorated living room.

Hung them Thursday. Came down Friday morning to numerous holes in them from dickhead cat who is now shut in the kitchen overnight for FOREVER.

New pale carpet laid on Friday - on the Saturday a friend popped in and her son vomited something bright pink all over it.

Two things both fridge related:

1.) We had pils and bil and toxic ex sil round for Boxing Day years ago, a few months after moving into shiny new build house. Had lovely shiny new fridge freezer but sil was pissing about and knocked over a chair and put a huge dent in the freezer door that's still there now. Rage. She thought it was funny. Glad she's ex sil.

2.) In house we're in now early last year just had v expensive lvt flooring in the kitchen / family room and just like pp when moving the fucking dented fridge back it scraped a giant wedge out of the floor. We callled the floor guys up and they just replaced the tile thank god. But jeez it was tense.

@ImplementingTheDennisSystem

We got a £1000 carpet fitted on our stairs and landing. The DAY that it was fitted, our terrier 'dug' at it and ripped a 20cm by 20cm hole in it - right in the middle of the landing. We had to do a patch up job with a bit of off cut and it looked awful the entire rest of the time we lived in that house. Said terrier is currently napping next to me, 6 years later and a lot calmer!

Similar here, had our new lounge carpet fitted. Dog, who has never done this previously, starts to go crazy ripping up big chunks. Also had to do patch up jobs and wizz over fast when hoovering to avoid it getting sucked up. The worse part for me is my husband is a floor layer but refusing to put a new one down because he thinks she will do it again 😔

In my late teens I spent months knitting a sleeveless jumper - very complicated pattern in 4 ply. My mother decided to wash it before I wore it for the first time. She threaded a pair of tights through the arm holes and pegged the ends to the washing line. No idea why. When I rescued it, the arm holes had stretched so much they practically reached down to my legs. Lots of tears....

Brand new iPhone when DS was a baby, in my dressing gown pocket. DS sick all over me, dressing gown complete with phone in the washing machine, not yet insured.

Brand new leather shoes, put on and caught on something sharp by the front door, massive hole in the front, literally burst into tears on the street. 😭

My great grandmother gave my mum a bottle from the 1800s - nothing valuable, except sentimental.
I put it on a shelf, and put a sprig of plant in it with water and it was growing beautifully.
This morning, I walked by and my hair caught on the plant and pulled the whole thing down.
It shattered on the hard linoleum…
It was only 175 years old.

First house, just married, and bought new cooker, washing machine, fridge/freezer. They arrived all packaged up in boxes. Idiot husband uses Stanley knife to cut adhesive, despite a “Do not use sharp objects” (or similar) text in big letters, and scores a huge slash right across top of f/f ☹️

We have a wooden floor in our kitchen diner. Our fridge freezer packed up a few days before Christmas and it was full of food. We dragged our garage one from its home down the bottom of our garden in the garage and badly scratched the wooden floor in the process. I had not long had prolapse surgery so it was a disaster for my pelvic floor and the kitchen floor.

And the fucking fridge wasn’t broken, the light bulb had gone🤦‍♀️🤣

Those scratches serve as reminders some 10 years later! Still not got it replaced.

The jumper of doom

I bought a lovely Hugo Boss jumper when I was a skint apprentice. Saved up for it and it looked great. Carefully hand washed it and hung it to dry flat. The dye from a pair of jeans or something had run onto the heated airer and as my lovely white jumper dried it gained a massive, black/grey line of dye across the whole front. It never came out and my £100+ jumper was ruined after one wear.

The wooden floor of hatred

Moved into a new build with wooden floors. The cleaner we hired to give the whole thing a blast down moved the sofa and scraped an enormous gouge out of the wood.

Bought a new pair of wired headphones, struggled to get them out of the plastic packaging so got some scissors to cut through it and then also cut through the wires. Brand new totally useless broken headphones.

@Boood

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.

You could still have returned it probably because it was structural damage not just because you didn't like it.

Our daughter, aged one, had her first haircut. So cute!

Until her brother found some scissors and decided that he could improve upon it

Brand new laminate put down in hallway and living room, all furniture pushed to one side whilst floor fitted, moving furniture back into place left a long 4ft scratch. I think I screeched "pick it up , dont slide" it far too late. It's still there.

I am not usually a careless or accident prone person. But when I decide to do something stupid, I do it spectacularly....

Exhibit 1. Mum had reversed Dad's car (which was, admittedly, the size of a tank) out of the driveway and straight into the neighbour's tree. Dad was furious, but off it went to get fixed etc. Gets it back. I borrow the car for some reason and... you guessed it, reverse it straight into the neighbour's tree.

Exhibit 2. Brand new, super duper, top of the line iPhone. Picked it up Friday. Saturday I left it in my jeans pocket, went to the toilet at a softly and it flew straight into the bowl. [I am also famous for the time I superglued the buttons on an older, less fancy phone.....]

Exhibit 3 (this one still makes me sad). wore a beautiful brooch that had belonged to my mother for the first time after she died.... and lost it and the jacket it was attached to. I remain 100% certain it was left at the restaurant and they just couldn't be bothered to look for it. Never stepped foot in that restaurant again and secretly cheered when they shut down!

Ex put my brand new silk dress in the washing machine and ruined it. He then did the same with one of DS lovely wool jumpers.

Also Dh colleague got stuck in a car park and hit not one but two bollards in a very nice car! Damage to the back and front and completely lost his cool which wasn’t good as he was chauffeuring a VIP who was in the back. He had to get another car to take the passenger to the destination and handed in his notice soon after.

My mum and dad had finally finished their lovely new extension and were particularly pleased with the new conservatory.

The same week, dad bought a new car. They had a sloped drive and the car's brakes failed, it rolled down the slope and crashed into the new conservatory.

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.

My mum stopped growing blackcurrants after that.

@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.

I did exactly this a couple of months ago. It had only been down four hours. I was gutted.

My DS discovered that holding a magnet close to our new TV made the pictures go funny. Damn right it does! There's still a bit of a 'burnt' patch, size of a (old) 50p piece.

@TeachesOfPeaches

Bought a new pair of wired headphones, struggled to get them out of the plastic packaging so got some scissors to cut through it and then also cut through the wires. Brand new totally useless broken headphones.

Sorry, that’s really funny. I would have cried though🤣🤣

Moved into my new flat, which had a lovely brand new induction hob. Cooking a few days later I pulled the extractor hood out too hard and the whole thing fell onto the hob below, smashing it to bits.

I wouldn't mind, not exactly sentimental, but I'd just that week replaced ALL my pans with induction ones, when I could have just replaced the smashed hob with a non-induction.

Spent a lot of money at the time on the most beautiful dress in French Connection - wore it to a Christmas party and it got caught on a chair and ripped massively, beyond repair. I was gutted, kept it for years and tried to get it repaired a few times, but had to part with it. It was timeless and I would have worn it loads I’m sure.