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.

@lurkingfromhome

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.

Hahah the last bit. Sorry but that just went from bad to worse and made me laugh out loud

I have a reoccurring one with new cars; I've scraped the tyre and wheel trim when parking, the first time I've driven our last three new cars (over the last 8 years). It seems to be a welcoming ritual that I have no control over. And I'm a pretty decent driver (at least I tell myself).

I bought a full-length chiffon gown for an awards ceremony in London.

I'd had it on 5 minutes, had to walk up a few steps from my hotel room to the main corridor, and... put my heel through the dress and created a six-inch slash through it.

I bought my first horse box, had it made all shiney and lovely. My fabulous kind dad collected it for me as it was coming from way up north to sussex and I had small children. It was hideous weather, he drove hundreds of miles through literal blizzards. Got to my house and drove it to the yard, at which point he misjudged the corner and scraped all down one side, massively. His face when he came into the kitchen to tell me , honestly thought he was joking. Just had to pretend not to even care as he had been so kind and I knew he would feel so bad .

@lurkingfromhome

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.

That jumper was not meant to be!.....

When we moved 2 year old DD got her own room for the first time. We got her a new bed with drawers underneath for her toys, she was so excited. First day it was set up I put her new sheets on, then popped into my bedroom to get a pike of her clothes to go in her wardrobe. Came back in to find she had opened the drawer, got in and jumped up and down, and gone through the bottom of the drawer. DH sort of cobbled it back together but it doesn't close properly and you can't put anything heavy in it

Neom pod, about a week after purchasing a teaspoon fell, hit it, and smashed part of the ceramic case. They sell replacements for £45 but the whole thing was about £100 so I couldn’t justify spending that proportion of the cost on a new cover. Glued it back on. Looks rubbish but I can turn it around and it’s not visible plus I stopped using it about a month later so it just gathers dust in a corner now anyway

Thought about arguing that it wasn’t fit for purpose if so fragile but it seems quite sturdy and obviously wasn’t designed to have rogue teaspoons falling on it

Very outing but when I was a tiny child, my dad had absolutely crippling gall stones that had him on the floor on his hands and knees, literally in tears, groaning in pain.

During one flare up, he was writhing on the (recently fitted, expensive and new) lounge carpet when he suddenly leapt up with a finger pointing at the carpet shouting, 'there's felt pen on here, who has been using felt pen IN the LOUNGE ON the CARPET??!!'

My brother and I quietly backed out of the room as my mum started yelling that if he was in so much pain to be curled up on the floor, how had he managed to jump up and make a fuss about a tiny, tiny dot of a pen mark?

The 'ruined carpet' was never spoken of again...

Um, this thread, by the typo in the title?

Two spring to mind. Brand new house (new build, dream home all that type stuff). FIL was fitting washing machine to connections under sink. Leaned on the cupboard door to stand up, ripped the hinges and door clean off. Had literally been in the brand new house 20 minutes. Door still isn't right now.

Treated myself to a fancy new car. Needed paint at b and q. Bought a 10l tub of white paint and popped it in the boot. Got home to discover the tin had fallen over and somehow lid had come off and paint literally coated the whole boot. Had even leaked into the spare tyre compartment and coated the spare. Boot is now massively stained and I cry a little every time i look inside it.

DS moved into his own place. Invited me and DH round to help him put a very expensive metal bike storage shed together. The kind that has eleventy million almost identical screws, nuts and bolts that all have to go in exactly the right place.

We laid them all out carefully and set about the task methodically. After three hours work it was looking excellent and very nearly completed then DS appeared holding one essential metal part that had somehow been overlooked. Never mind, we took it apart to the point that the crucial part could be inserted and rebuilt it.

Finally got the spring-loaded roof assembled and attached after a bit of a struggle and stood back proudly, high fives all round. DS wheeled out his new bike beaming.
Which was 2 inches too long for the bike store.

Bought a lovely soft cream lambswool coatigan kind of thing.... on its FIRST (only) outing I came across an elderly man who had fallen in the mud in the park and was waiting for an ambulance - he was covered with wet mud and leaves and was shivering so I had no option but to cover him up with it.
In the end the wife turned up; she waited with him for the ambulance so I felt a bit superfluous and left – but I could hardly ask for my new knitwear back!
The wife did contact me a week or so later and gave it back to me but it was ruined. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was brand-new as I'm sure she probably would've wanted to buy me another.

See, this is why I can never bring myself to buy the top quality version of anything, I go for low to mid range so I wouldn't feel so bad if a hypothetical accident occurred. Mad.

New dress. I used scissors to snip off the tags but I snipped too far and cut a hole in the skirt. Hadn't even put it on yet!

Bought the most beautiful cashmere jumper on ebay

I spent a fortune on products to wash it,hand washed it in the expensive products and laid it on the table to dry it

Went off to work and my partner came home,saw the clothes in the washer and thought he'd put the whole lot in the dryer-fair enough

Only he saw the jumper on the table so he grabbed that and chucked it in with the rest of the clothes-and turned it to the highest setting to dry

I came home to a beautiful cashjumper that was the size of a crisp packet

Honest to God,someone had looked after it for 20 odd years

20 odd hours in his company and it was ruined

I'm still sore about it

@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.

Oh Helenahandkart I feel for you with this one.

My grandma has a lovely vase that I remember took pride of place in her living room. When she died I asked if I could have it and proudly put some daffodils in it as she'd always liked them.
Once the daffodils were past their best I picked it up to empty the vase and it slipped through my hands and smashed into tiny little pieces all over my floor. I was and still am gutted.

1 week old LVT flooring totally naffed up by plasterers.

Our fault for doing things not in order, but we only decided to get ceilings skimmed when the floor was finished and when we asked them to be careful we didnt think they would cut the protective plastic they put down with a fucking stanley knife straight onto the floor.

Long slouchy jumper I’d actually knitted in pure new wool, which cost about £80. First wash, hand washed it as per yarn label, and put it to spin in the machine. Only the bloody machine was new, and didn’t have a ‘just spin’ function like my old one. You have to faff with the ‘rinse and spin’ (not remotely obvious and no instructions in the manual) so of course I mis-faffed and my long-laboured-over jumper came out a third of the size, in felt.,😩

Went a bit crazy when DC1 was teeny and decided she had to have a pair of ridiculous Baby Bogs for new wellies. Wore them about 3 times when I picked her up early from nursery one day. Almost at home I realise she’s only wearing one of them. It’s less than a 10 minute walk so I immediately turned around retraced the route thinking I’d find it as it’d only been a few minutes. I walked there and back multiple times but it was no where to be seen.

Kept the single welly because it seemed weird to throw away something still so new and expensive, silently taunting me every time I opened the cupboard but eventually chucked the useless thing away in a rage.

I’m still pissed off about how much more annoying it is to lose ONE of a pairs of shoes 4 years later.

@StopStartStop

Insisted my very elderly dad bought a new kitchen carpet (part of a campaign to rid his house of the smell of old age). Chose a near-indestructible 'you can scrub this with bleach' kind. Near £800. Looked beautiful. A few days later, burned my hand getting something out of the oven, dropped the hot tray - the carpet isn't heat-proof and will forever bear the outline of that tray, in melted synthetic fibres.

It's a few months ago now. Still hate myself for it. House, though, smells 'normal'.

A carpet in the kitchen was doomed from the start @StopStartStop Don’t feel bad about it. It was only a matter of time until splashes from cooking or something like that ruined it.

Long time ago, but bought a new big wooden kitchen table. One day later our normally extremely well behaved daughter had scribbled ’Dad’ with a heart around it, with her knife. I didn’t even know she could write, so wasn’t sure if I should be proud or angry..

Moved into our house, there was a brand new cream wool carpet in the living room and within a day one of my nephews walked all over it with muddy shoes and skidded about making a right mess. We never got it clean and now it's covered with a fugly brown rug.

This thread is making me really stressed but also glad that I’m not the only one to ruin nice new/ expensive things straight away!

my wedding dress. put it on when I got it home to show my mum and my stiletto tore through the bottom of it

Had a new phone. Dropped it straight away and chipped the side. Got over it. Had another new phone last March/April time. Lost it on Boxing Day. Used an old one and dropped it. Screen broke. Had it fixed then dropped it again today and screen broke again.
Had a new car. DH crashed it two weeks later.