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.

@Helenahandkart

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.

I think I would have been heartbroken if I had done that (and ye si can see myself doing exactly that…)

First house, brand new build. Day 1 - dropped scissors point down, gouging clean hole in white marble tile kitchen floor. Day 2 - visiting child wrote all over the back of brand new light colored sofa bed. Day 3 - DH felt ill, went into glorious new double en suite. Fainted, pulling down towel rack, leaving holes in plasterboard and broken floor tile. Day 6 (we had a good break there!) DM arrived, polished her shoes, apparently also including the sole ???? and walked across beautiful pale off white berber carpet. All the way across the room. I sobbed.

Next house, we hemmed and hawed for ages, and finally decided on hand made Italian terracotta tiles for kitchen. Got master tiler in to install. Did a masterful job. We admired it for a few minutes, then began to drag the huge fridge into place. Broke 3 tiles right in the doorway.

Nothing too awful in this house yet, but I'm waiting. Currently having all new windows installed so there is plenty of opportunity for something bad to happen :(

7am DS’s 4th birthday he opened a box containing a very sweet china breakfast set (bowl, mug, plate). “I’ll just rinse the dust out of that mug for you DS, then you can have your breakfast juice from it” I said, 3 seconds before smashing the mug into the tap and breaking it beyond repair.

Brand new Mini - the only car I’ve ever bought new. Was overtaken by a quarry lorry on the way back from the showroom, and ended up with a chipped windscreen and dent in the bonnet.

I bought a gorgeous top that cost more than I've ever spent one one. Neighbour popped round with her daughter and I was showing it to her. Her daughter grabbed hold of it while eating an ice cream and left a big greasy mark on the front. I put in in the washer straight away and it came out like an old rag that would fit Barbie. I didn't realise it was dry clean only.

I spent many years with nothing breakable in my house, due to having three young boys. Furniture had to be solid and tough, no wallpaper, just easily replaced plain paint on walls.
When the last one was 16 I bought a real Christmas tree and loads of ornate hand-made glass baubles.
It ll be ok , I thought, they are all old now.
One evening my middle son brought his girlfriend round to meet me for first time, and there was a horrific crash.
Yep, another boy had knocked the ENTIRE tree over and nearly all the baubles were smashed.
Hence son's girlfriend witnessed me crying with utter RAGE
'its the FIRST NICE THING I've had in 18 YEARS!!!! '

we still laugh about it now. Me and her.

Oh my god, new phones are Satan to me too!

I got a brand new phone because my previous phone's screen was shattered.

I cracked the new phone almost immediately, purely accidental. Nonetheless the new phone was still workable albeit with a crack in the screen.

I decided after much deliberation to spend £££ on another new phone, very pleased, had better camera etc.

Two weeks later I had this (third, fourth) new phone in a zip up pocket of my hoodie, trying so hard to keep it safe from dropping and smashing, I get my zip hoodie covered in mud while cycling, throw it in the washing machine WITH MY PHONE zipped so carefully inside it 😩. Unbelievable.

When I was at university, I (stupidly) bought a beautiful cream coat. Wore it out for dinner with my parents and my mum spilt red wine on it. I was furious. She did pay to get it dry cleaned but it was never the same (tbf, by the time I'd worn it on my bike a few times at uni, it had mud spatter all the way up the back and was basically ruined anyway).

Not long after I graduated, I bought a pure woollen jumper from Jack Wills. It was a really lovely burgundy colour and fit perfectly: not baggy but a flattering loose fit. I accidentally washed it too hot and it shrank. I cried.

Newly installed beautiful and very expensive wooden worktops in the kitchen. Within hours, teen son had cooked pasta and put the hot pan directly on the worktop. Massive round scorch mark right in the middle. Luckily (for him) it sanded out.

We've just finished a massive house refurb. All in for about 90% of our savings.
The one and only indulgence we had in it all was to make the front entrance look nice with slate tiles.

Storm whatever her name was the other week, hubby put the wheelie bins onto the tiles. They're scratched like they've been there 30years.
Reader, I wept like my 2yo when he gets the wrong colour plate.
I am waiting for a scratch repair kit to arrive. If it doesn't work I'll cry again.

The blackcurrant crumble vomiting Dad has really made me laugh

I’m the third of 4 children. We were never that well off growing up. The week after the last child left home, DM replaced her bedroom carpet with something deep and cream. A week after that the radiator burst and covered it in nasty, grey, rusty water.

My mum was a sod for shrinking things. My dad had an incredibly intricate fairisle jumper that a great aunt had knitted him in the 30s, too small for him he gave it to me, mum shrank it. I bought some lovely wool crepe fabric and made a brilliant unstructured blazer which went with everything, mum shrank it. She did shrink loads of her stuff too.
My sister bought me a lovely top, think it was from a sample sale. I wore it Christmas Day, had to do urgent repairs to a toy with super glue...
Our new sofa, two days in the cat decides to have a mad half hour and run round the furniture, scratching the leather.
Dh was bought a tan leather bomber jacket by his parents, told not to wear it before Christmas Day, so he wore it, caught on barbed wire. His dad brought it up at least once a month till he died.

In December last year my car was rear ended whilst I was stationary at traffic lights. Needed a new back bumper, lights, parking sensors etc. with Christmas and supply issues, it was in the body shop for nearly 2 months. I only got it back 5 weeks ago. Exactly the same thing happened again last week.

I saved up for a dinner set. Always had mix and match but loved these plates- legitimately loved them! Exdp (aka idiot) gave one of the side plates to then 2 yr old ds with his lunch on. DS launched it and it smashed. I genuinely did go mad not at DS but at idiot exdp. My lovely mum went to a few shops and found me a random replacement (lucky as they'd discontinued)

@ramamamadingdong - we had similar, though it was a few months later. Wood worktop got knackered pretty fast - I begged DH not to get one, there was no way we were capable of looking after one (we use the kitchen a lot and are messy) and after having it for about two years he finally admitted I was right and that we should never get one again. It's covered in marks and worn patches because DH never oiled it enough when we first had it (I insisted it was his job seeing as he insisted on the wood one) and he does it about once a year now and I'm pretty sure it's still supposed to be more like 3 or 4.

I had a pair of pearl studs that my mum bought for my 21st, and I never wore them, kept them for special. Decided one day sod it, they just sit in a box so I'll start wearing them. Wore them to work, lost one that same day and never found it

Oh and a recent one. Spent £300 on a new screen for wfh setup. Put screen on desk, sat in chair, turned to pick up my pen that I'd dropped and the chair whopped the desk, made th screen wobble and topple off onto me. Whacking big bruise on my elbow and a fuck off massive crack in the screen. It had been in use for literally 5 seconds.

Dd bought me a really nice vase for a birthday.put it on the fire place for a photo.bloody dog was flung his toy and broke it

My neighbour. She saw a 6ft tall, 2ft wide beautiful glass sculpture that looked like ice from a frozen waterfall. The points were razor sharp. It was in a gallery in the US. Her dh bought it for her for a surprise & it was delivered to me in a huge crate. I had no idea. After her birthday, she invited me round to see it, it was going to be fixed up on her wall, but at the time it was still lying down in it's crate. She said, here, let me hold it up for you to fully appreciate. And she balanced it on it's points on the new sofa. It went schooooonk right through the seat All those razor sharp points... I felt SO bad for her...

I've also lost an earing after a nanosecond I put them . Thankfully I knew where they were bought and replaced them the giver doesn't know.

Bought a gorgeous, pristine 100% cotton broderie anglais blouse a few years back. Sat down in a restaurant and immediately ripped it on loose furniture staple protruding from the dining chair....

Spent a fortune re-upholstering an antique armchair in oatmeal white. Position in the sitting room for the mucky dog to climb immediately into it. Never bothered investing in anything precious since and when I get something new, ie, duvet cover, it’s a relief when it does get scuffed, scratched, stained in some way. Feel I can get on with my life.

Decided to treat myself to a long overdue bedroom revamp. Took absolutely ages putting up some gorgeous wallpaper with a very hard to match up pattern on it. It was down to the last 50cm of the roll but I’d managed to cover the whole wall and I was very pleased with myself. In comes 3yo DS to have a look, takes off shoes and throws one at the wall in excitement. Absolutely massive gouge in the wallpaper as the paste was still wet and no paper left to replace it with

We're redoing our kitchen soon and none of these stories are making me feel better about it! I just know we're going to rip the new flooring or something...

@AlisonDonut

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.

I feel so terrible but this one had me Laughing out loud 🙈