Page 11 | Shit items that you never replace.

Frenulumetta · 07/12/2022 12:05

We have a dog bowl with a heavier grooved bottom so not to slide all over the place when on the floor, water kept getting trapped between bottom of bowl and bowl when put in dishwasher so husband helpfully drilled a hole in bottom to let water out. Now the bottom of the bowl fills completely with water and you have to hold it up like a fountain to drain for about 5 minutes before using it. Why we dont just buy a new one thst probably costs about a pound I don't know

autienotnaughty · 07/12/2022 12:09

An old broken shoe rack, my sister suggested replacing it. I wasgob smacked

viques · 07/12/2022 12:11

viques · 07/12/2022 11:54

I do hope Santa’s elves are reading this thread, and making notes!

This is something that I have recently retired from use, but won’t ever be throwing away. It’s the egg cup I have had since I was 2. I am now 72. I noticed the other day that it is getting a bit crazed and discoloured so he has been retired to the top shelf. No one else has ever been allowed to use him.

Sorry, I know he doesn’t quite fit into the thread criteria as he is technically still fit for purpose.

2tired2bewitty · 07/12/2022 12:12

MrsVeryTired · 07/12/2022 11:14

One of the large plastic shopping bags I use to carry laundry
Both handles are broken but I still use it!

I carry my washing in what must be one of the last Jane Norman carrier bags in daily use! Handles went long ago and more holes appear each year, but it still does the job!

peaceandove · 07/12/2022 12:22

I'm fascinated by this mind-set because I love new stuff.

Can I ask, is it general apathy that stops you replacing worn out items? Or do you genuinely dislike new things? have noticed over the years, that DH is highly reluctant to replace anything worn out around the home and has to be gently encouraged to use anything that is new (especially clothes).

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 07/12/2022 12:24

I just never notice. I like new stuff too. But you stop thinking about it l think.

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CaptaNoctem · 07/12/2022 12:27

We wedged the dishwasher door shut with a chair for years before we got around to replacing it

petridishmystery · 07/12/2022 12:31

TwoOwlSocks · 07/12/2022 11:55

The desk drawer that is so heavy and full of stuff it falls off one of its runners. I got so fed up I propped it up on one side with a random bit of wood. If I want to sit at the desk I have to shimmy the chair in at weird angle to get past the post. The desk is old and beautiful but the drawer was probably designed to hold blotting paper and a few visiting cards, not 20 years worth of redundant chargers and mystery cables which weigh as much as a small child. Because I can't possibly throw those out. Oh no. It's the law.

Oh god I keep seeing posts that remind me of yet more stuff

as a kid I had a chest of drawers with three drawers, I kept over filling it and one by one the drawers broke and now it’s a table! I have wicker stacking drawers I keep in the gap where the actual drawers used to be.

i must have had it coming up to 30 years now…I keep meaning to replace it but then it works fine as a table…

Retrotowel · 07/12/2022 12:32

JudgeJ · 07/12/2022 10:08

Weakling! We have a bath towel that my late OH was wrapped in after his baby baths in the mid 40s and apparently it had belonged to his grandmother so it must be from 1910s though it's really just a piece of muslin with no towelling left! My beach towel is a Maclaren F1 car, as my daughter tells me they've changed their livery so many times since, think that came from Zante too!

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Towels are obviously the unsung heroes in the fight against climate change. Is only everything was as durable and endlessly reusable as a towel. Explains why interstellar hitchhikers rate them.

Sorry your OH is no longer with us 😘

petridishmystery · 07/12/2022 12:34

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 07/12/2022 12:24

I just never notice. I like new stuff too. But you stop thinking about it l think.

Agreed - you get used to things very quickly, especially if the time a broken thing is being an inconvenience is not a good time for you to go online and look for a replacement. So you might be cooking and think oh this spatula is useless, I must replace it but then by the time you’ve finished cooking and sat down, the spatula is forgotten, until the next time you go to cook and you’re like oh this spatula is useless I must replace it….

Elphame · 07/12/2022 12:45

batchainpuller · 06/12/2022 23:55

This thread makes me feel so much better about life. I love it. I also have a 4 slice toaster with only 2 slices working.

Me too.

IWannaKnowWhatHappensNext · 07/12/2022 12:47

goldpendant · 06/12/2022 22:13

Remote control whose back falls off and batteries fall out all the time. No idea why I don’t get another.

a spatula with half a handle.

For some reason, that half-handled spatula has really made me lol! I'm wondering whether it's now a short stubby handle or whether it has a super skinny one 😁

goldpendant · 07/12/2022 12:52

@IWannaKnowWhatHappensNext It is a short handle, but still quite skinny because it used to get wider at the end.

Moonatics · 07/12/2022 12:53

petridishmystery · 07/12/2022 12:34

Agreed - you get used to things very quickly, especially if the time a broken thing is being an inconvenience is not a good time for you to go online and look for a replacement. So you might be cooking and think oh this spatula is useless, I must replace it but then by the time you’ve finished cooking and sat down, the spatula is forgotten, until the next time you go to cook and you’re like oh this spatula is useless I must replace it….

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Yup, same with my tin openers. So rarely used anyway but obviously I'm cooking when I try to use them. Make the meal, sit down, eat it and then I've forgotten to buy new, until the next time. I have three tin openers all useless.

IWannaKnowWhatHappensNext · 07/12/2022 12:53

Haha @goldpendant now I know! 😂

SkylightSkylight · 07/12/2022 12:56

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 06/12/2022 22:01

We have 2.

A washing up bowl bought 7 years ago for 3 quid. Part of it’s melted. It’s bleached and cleaned properly every week. The other day Dh suggested we buy a new one. We were both staggered by it😲

A shit mirror we took from Dmil house when she died. We painted the mahogany frame white. But it looks shit. You can see the mahogany. It’s just shit. And l like my interiors. But this peiceof shit hangs there. I suggested we buy a new one tonight. Again we were shocked that we hadn’t thought of it before.

A plastic seive that’s melted and broken . Yet we continue to use it🤷🏼‍♀️

You two seem like a bit of a liability 😂how do you keep melting stuff?? You understand how that works right??😂😂

BloodAndFire · 07/12/2022 12:59

SisterAgatha · 07/12/2022 08:47

I have a patterned beach towel I took to Malia in 2001 that I bought from Topshop of all places for a ridiculous amount of money for what it was. My mum laughed at me.

it’s still the cutest thing and my daughter uses it for swimming class.

I have a plain black skirt that i bought from miss selfridge in the mid-90s. Still going strong. Still one of my regular 'workwear' items. It must have seen off hundreds of other long-gone clothes 🤔

SkylightSkylight · 07/12/2022 13:01

3peassuit · 06/12/2022 22:06

A toaster you have to hold the button down to properly toast bread. We just haven’t bothered to replace it. I might buy a new one if I’m near currys.

Or a decent size supermarket!

I just bought one for myself ( my '£12 this'll do' one I bought when I moved in, has only just died 12 years later'. I bought it because I love the unused blueish colour, it was £18 at Sainsbury's) I need to replace my kitchen, I didn't want to spend loads. I'd have bought the exact same one as my first one, but they don't make them
anymore.

SkylightSkylight · 07/12/2022 13:04

@3peassuit sorry, I went off tangent!! I was going to say I bought a kettle & toaster for my niece when she went to Uni. Sainsburys have a good range. Tesco in bigger stores too, no need to go to curry's.

SkylightSkylight · 07/12/2022 13:20

Youngatheart00 · 06/12/2022 22:58

I’m actually laughing out loud at this thread, so relatable!

Our ensuite loo toilets seat became loose earlier in the year and came off a couple of months ago. I’m ashamed to say we’ve just got used to it……..,

Weve still got the names of the previous owners children stencilled into our kitchen wall…..2 years from moving in 🙈

Oh dear, are these admissions going to give me slattern status??!

@Youngatheart00
is it a common size & shape??

my toilet seat works it's way loose, very quickly. I have an Allen Key in the bathroom to tighten it. It's a minutes job, but I put it off until it's at the point where I might fall off!
id get a new one, except cook & Lewis have stopped making that shape apparently. & I don't really want to replace the whole toilet because the hassle of getting a plumber (and one that can tile well!)

might do it when I have a plumber doing the kitchen, maybe.

SkylightSkylight · 07/12/2022 13:26

bumblebeemumma · 06/12/2022 23:14

My bathroom light. The pull cord snapped about 3 years ago so the only way to switch the light on or off is to carry a step ladder into the tiny bathroom, climb up to flick the switch on, then move the ladder back to the landing as the bathroom is too small to leave it in there. Will get round to sorting it one day...

@bumblebeemumma You do know you can buy one on line, dirt cheap, and they're easy to replace no matter where they've broken??

CafeCremeMerci · 07/12/2022 13:30

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 06/12/2022 23:25

Is it just me who feels bad for my old pyjamas when I buy a new pair? Half my PJs are older than my kids! I can’t bring myself to chuck them out 😂

I feel like this about everything it's bloody tiresome, I just want to be normal & attached to every single inanimate object in the house!!

Roominmyhouse · 07/12/2022 13:32

I have a wicker laundry bin I’ve had since I was a child. I’m now 40 and it’s been years since it had a lid after the cat collapsed it. Everyday I pick bits of it off the floor and bin them, it’s slowly disintegrating. I often think I should just get a new one but I never do!

VenusClapTrap · 07/12/2022 13:35

GratefulCheddar · 07/12/2022 11:19

I remember many years ago starting my boyfriend at the times car with a teaspoon, the lock barrel had broken and he removed it but as the car was on its last legs he didn’t see the point of replacing, he had been a recovery mechanic in the army and could repair all manner of vehicles.

When I was a small child my mum had a beaten up Ford estate car that had to be started with a firm tap with a hammer on the starter motor. My mother was quite adept at this, and the hammer lived on the floor of the passenger footwell. The number of times that passers by would come rushing over at the sight of her, bonnet up, hammer in hand, thinking she was about to do a Basil Fawlty. 😂

We had that car for years.

BloodAndFire · 07/12/2022 13:38

SkylightSkylight · 07/12/2022 13:20

@Youngatheart00
is it a common size & shape??

my toilet seat works it's way loose, very quickly. I have an Allen Key in the bathroom to tighten it. It's a minutes job, but I put it off until it's at the point where I might fall off!
id get a new one, except cook & Lewis have stopped making that shape apparently. & I don't really want to replace the whole toilet because the hassle of getting a plumber (and one that can tile well!)

might do it when I have a plumber doing the kitchen, maybe.

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@Youngatheart00 still got the heights of the previous owners' children on the doorframe and we've been here FIVE years. It's because every single thing in the kitchen needs to be torn out and replaced (including the giant double oven that doesn't work at all and is just used as storage, and the plug sockets that only work half the time) it hardly seems worth doing the little jobs. Still annoys me seeing that Billy was this tall on 3/5/14 though!