Shit items that you never replace.

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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🤷🏼‍♀️

We had to close our oven door by leaning a chair against it for nine years before we got round to replacing it. Nine years. We are not poor. Just procrastinators.

@VenusClapTrap awww, the stupid dish sounds like it holds lovely memories

A very cheap serrated bread knife that my husband was bought when he went to university at 18yo… and then proceeded to somehow partially melt the handle of. So if you put it through the dishwasher the safe way up you have a pool of manky water left in the handle.
We are now 32yo, in the 3rd property we have lived in together, and also have a much nicer solid metal bread knife that we always use. But the broken one is still there! It even cut me the other day due to ‘someone’ putting it away in the wrong drawer. But I honestly don’t know how you throw away a sharp knife?!?! If anyone knows… 🤷🏼‍♀️

The plate rack in my dishwasher has to be snapped back into place every time you fill it. I looked at replacing it but decided it wasn’t 80 quids worth of annoying (yet).

Mahogany? You painted mahogany?! Yes that is shit.

I bought some anti-stab knives and they're terrible! Thought they'd be a good safety purchase with having a child and me being paranoid about accidents. Well they are so crap, I only have one left - that is one large knife for all preparation of food! Yet for some reason I just won’t buy proper knives 💁🏼‍♀️

A kenwood chefette that may be older than me. Everytime I use it I'm half hoping the motor will burn out so I can throw it away. The goblet for the blender part crumbled because it was so old and I've lost the cover. But it belonged to my mum and she was so proud of it because it has a Pyrex mixing bowl. Aside from one photo it's all I've got of her.

That just made me 😂😂

My dad would sooo do this.

I have a pair of silky pants that are 30 years old. I’m hanging on to them until they disintegrate.

Actually yes, I do remember it with fondness.

Love this! Honestly so much of the stuff in our house is like this now, I’ve lived here all 33 years of my life and it’s just me and DM here now and we are Lazy. The whole place needs fixing up.

the one that blows my sister and BIL’s minds is the hall lights - we have a long hallway with rooms leading off of it and there’s either 3 or 4 evenly spaced lights. One by one they have blown over the years and I guess it’s something my dad used to sort but he’s been gone 11 years and I think the bulbs have been gone a little less than that 😂. We’ve just never gotten around to changing them!

honestly we don’t even notice, it’s a narrow hallway so there’s no furniture to potentially walk into and there’s always a light on in one of the rooms anyway so you can always see where you’re going. I only really notice how dark it is if people come round at night and I see it from their perspective.

My late Mum was a very practical woman.
Aged 11 I was given an enormous dark green towelling robe from
John Lewis for Christmas. The size has rubbed off but I would guess it's size 18/20.
(I was not size 18/20 when I was 11).

Imagine Mum thought I would keep & use it for life and at some point I would be either pregnant or fat and this towelling robe would see me through.

I have a million things in my home passed down to me since my Mum died, but the towelling robe I especially cherish, and yes, I think it will see me through.

Mantlepiece clock stopped working ... last year but I refuse to throw it away because it took me months to find a clock that I liked. It cost £10 from a local animal rescue charity shop and it has a cute little drawer that I keep emergency cash in for the hospital. Visitors comment on it and they get the scowl face so they shut up now.

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.

Can you not fill the holes with a sawdust and glue mixture and then re-drill the holes?

This Christmas I'm wearing an M&S pair of pull on black velvet wide leg trousers and matching mandarin type jacket that I wore when 5 months gone 24 years ago. Over the years they've been loaned out to all my pregnant friends but tvis year they are coming out because post menopausal me is fatter than full term me. Glad I kept them.

I forgot my bathroom lights. My dad picked them, same lights for both bathrooms
In order to change the bulb you have to
Remove 3 washers plus 6 rubber washer protector things for each glass ring
There are 3 glass rings
Then a glass dome
The glass dome is too big to hold with one hand so you have to thread the glass rings over your arm, pray you don't drop any of the tiny washers while trying to hold the glass dome with one hand and your head propping it up
Change the bulb and do the whole fucking thing in reverse

I showered in the dark for 2 weeks as the thought of changing the bulb made me want to cry and my mean dad won't do them any more either

So many things….Rusty ironing board, a rotary washing line that snapped and is proped
in the hole, but hobbit sized so only good for small items, a measuring jug so old that the measurements are too faint to read so it’s largely guesswork and an old electric handwhisk from my ex mother in laws neighbour in an unattractive brown colour which must be over 32 years old! Towels get given to the dog when past their useful life and so much pointless bedding including patterns I now hate which fit bed sizes we no longer own.

Heavy glass bowl with plastic lid that has 1/2 inch cracks in 3 places. Got it with tesco stamps probably 20 years ago and it is a good size/shape, nothing wrong with the glass so don't want to bin it. Keep meaning to greek to find new lids for it, but last time I looked they were too expensive.

The best shit thing I've seen is from my boss who rents a housing association home and he is deathly ashamed of it (he shouldnt, its very nice). He prides himself on his Instagram grey home with black glass furniture and corner sofa in faux leather, he proclaims that he is very ocd and won't have anything out of place in his living room and slags off everyone who doesn't follow his example.

He has confessed to wearing the same pants that his mum bought him 18 years ago and admits they are falling apart. His mop has 5 strands left on it and he still uses it because its a Vileda ...

My dressing gown.. my mum bought it for me to go to university in 1994 so it's 28 years old .. I sometimes think of buying a new one as its starting to look a bit worn but I like the one I've got..

We have TWO remote controls with missing backs. A vacuum cleaner that chokes on dog hair (and DD x2 hair). A bikini trimmer that umm… bites? (Will bin that today. It’s dangerous and it’s summer here - nothing worse than a bleeding bush!) Split hose attachment that dribbles. I keep dragging a bloody heavy hose from one side of the house to the other instead of remembering to buy a new one. Salad servers - chucked out the broken half of the set and for some reason decided to keep the useless fork thing. Why didn’t I bin it? I still haven’t replaced them, even though I bloody love salads!

LOL, well...my second husband, and while I DID pitch him in the dust bin several years ago, I haven't bothered to replace him. I'm doing SO well without!

A fish slice with most of the handle broken off. We have a couple of others but always use the broken one as it's got the best 'slice' bit.

Old laptop that's incredibly slow but I feel quite attached to it and it genuinely doesn't bother me to wait on it to do things (I do have a fast one for work though).

3 spatulas without handles and I think if anyone saw the bottom of my wicker and broken and mouldy laundry basket, I'd be hauled away by a baying mob. I don't know there is always something better to spend money on.