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.

I took 2 weeks off work, completely redecorated the living room, plus new carpet fitted, new fireplace, new sofa and new curtains. Within a month our two DS had a fit with each other and and open pot of glue... which was thrown across the room... Glue was everything - literally spatters on ceiling, walls, sofa, curtains. We've moved (it was about 12 years ago) and the other day I still found some dried on glue spatters on a DVD case.

Fight! no fit.

Oh another one which sort of fits the theme.

The queen had come to open something near us (about 30 years ago) and my mum was very excited as she was going to meet her as part of the welcoming committee. It was a big event for our small town.

My mum recorded it off the tv (on a video).

Unfortunately, not long afterwards I recorded over it with coronation street. Never did own up, just hoped she’d never notice!

Recent one. Treated myself to two beautiful merino wool jumpers from M&S. stupidly pulled the tag off and it ripped a hole in the jumper. right at the back of the collar. Tried to repair it, but have to cover it with a scarf now.

As a kid I was a flower girl at a family wedding. Had a brand new pale dress, it was lovely and was little big so
I could wear it for a while to come. Went to wash after the wedding and there was a stain on the pocket. A piece of confetti had got in the pocket and the dye had run. Mum managed to sew some frilly things in to the pockets to hide it but I still knew that the stain was there

Ah there must be a lost jewellery matrix thing.
I too at about 11 begged my mother to let me wear her charm bracelet for some school event or other. She let me and I lost it.
It was heavy and looking back far too big for me, I couldn't count the charms on it, and I believe it had been her mothers previously. So a proper antique thing.

Not even the worst thing, I never told her I lost it, I knew she didnt get her jewellery box out often so I was safe telling her I'd put it back.
If she ever discovered it gone, she never said a word.
The utter burning shame I feel now.

Oh gaaah I like this thread so I can get this off my chest.

Brand newly painted & decorated house just before lockdown .. finally fresh paint from floor to ceiling (well not floors, but woodwork, walls etc). High ceilings as an old house.

DD comes home from a birthday party with one of those sort of sticky stretchy things you are mean to throw at the window and it sort of falls/ climbs down, in her party bad. Promptly throws it so it lands on the ceiling and it sticks. So high I couldn't get it off, even with a broom. Had to wait 5 hours for DH to come home. Finally get the buggar off and it pulls all the new paint off leaves a grey greasy splodge in the middle of the the new white kitchen ceiling.

Is there to this day as it's too high to paint.

These are making me laugh. Years ago my sister sold her car and she was driving it to the buyer and thought oh I’ll get it washed, that will be nice. Parked wonky in the car wash and the machine dented all along the side panels 😱🤣

New kitchen and utility. About a week after it was finished, the washing machine leaked in the utility because the seal in the door had come loose. The new cupboards soaked it up and blew at the bottom. Not completely noticeable and in the utility, but I know it's there. Every time I do the washing I see it!

@teaandtoastwithmarmite

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.

Dropped phone again today. Another massive crack on the screen. At least I didn't get it fixed yesterday

As per the OP, I bought a nice mid thigh length down coat from M&S. Not too expensive but just enough. Had a walk down a lane near our house and caught it on brambles that hadn't been cut back. Gouged small holes in said coat and it leaked feathers, and still does. Not enough to affect warmth but a source of annoyance.

New car, took for a spin on ana Road, stone chipped my screen. It was literally 30mins old. Two day later got a puncture. Really took the joy away :(

When I was a teenager my mum bought me a red dress that I adored. The first time I wore it was out to dinner with my parents. At one point my dad accidentally spat out a tiny bit of meat that landed on me, and left a greasy stain, but I was way too polite to point it out. To add insult to injury, later on my dad noticed the stain and tutted about me having been careless with my new dress. I still couldn't bring myself to put him right and probably wouldn't have sounded credible anyway! It still rankles 30 years later.

New car , living in Ireland , had to meet a stonemason to pick up a shelf of granite. Directions were I am in the grave yard drive straight in.
So did so and there was me parked on a one way grass rod with our lady giving me the evil.
Reversed a bit and realised I should try a 3 point turn. So now I am reversing and going forward over people graves - eek ( very old cemetery- not that , that matters) dinged the exhaust and a decorative bit fell off.
Stone mason came to my assistance and I had to reverse all the way out.

I am still raging - haven't paid for the car but it might get sent back before I do !!!!

Parents had decorated my tiny box room, new carpets, new wardrobe with a drop down table top where I could sit down to do my homework.

They’d also decided to buy me a fancy pen and an ink well (this was the 70’s but still, an ink well?) no idea what was doing but from memory you put the pen (or something) in the well to draw up the ink, my hand slipped while doing this and the full ink bottle fell onto the new carpet!

I can’t actually remember my parents reaction, which is mad but my Dad In particular wouldn’t have been happy!

When we cleared out the house after my Dad had died we ripped up all of the carpets and you could see the ink spill on the lovely wooden floor underneath, it was mad seeing the stain all those years later!

Bought dd a new bed and new mattress. She nicked my eyeliner and drew all over the mattress while it was breathing 🤦🏻‍♀️

Not really nice and immediately ruined but I was about 8 and was gifted with a beautiful jewellery box, I said to the gifter 'it's a lovely box but it will get ruined eventually' sure enough one of my younger brothers broke it shortly after I received it but my family still laugh that I had such a realistic take on life at such a young age.
Saying that the first gift my dad got me after we met for the first time was a Nintendo gameboy SP and within a week of owning it one of my brothers had snapped it in half and it had to be sent for repair.
I also remember by 'dad' (my younger siblings dad who helped raise me for several years from a very young age) buying me a pikachu Nintendo 64 and my brothers smashing it with a hammer.
My brothers were horrible as children if you can't tell

@Hellorhighwater I'd had my beloved AirPods for two days when I fumbled putting one in my ear and it fell, with a resounding plop, into my cup of tea.

I gave it a quick rinse and once it dried out it was fine.

I've also washed two ipods that have survived. Kindles don't fare so well though...

Decided I should be using roll-on deodorant because it's more eco friendly (is it?). Opened the new bathroom cabinet and it fell out and cracked the new sink beneath. DH said he could fix it and it has looked horrible ever since.
When supposed professional was laying the vinyl tiles in said new bathroom, he got tile adhesive on the shower tray. DH insisted he could clean it off and tile layer disappeared. Unfortunately the adhesive in the shower never has.

2022?

Many many years ago my Mum was taken by my Dad to buy her first new coat after the end of WW2. It was about 1953 or 54. We were left with a neighbour. Parents came over to collect us. On returning home the dog had chewed a hole in the front.

My grandmother gave me a diamond ring when I was about ten. A few days later, my parents let me wear it, although it was a bit loose, to visit another relation. Messing about on some waste ground, I lost it.

Cadbury's chocolate - as soon as Mondelez bought it.

I needed to see this post today to know I’m not alone! Bathroom refurb finished 10 days ago. Saved for ages and love it. Cleaner clipped cabinet with hoover and it’s chipped. Total accident but I could have cried. Hopefully can patch it up. Previously had our kitchen refurb done and quartz worktop was chipped by cup dropping out of wall cabinet but this was a few months later. Was annoyed but don’t even notice it 6 years on.

@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.

This makes ME sad and it’s not my teacup 😢 I