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Shit items that you never replace.

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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🤷🏼‍♀️

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pitterypattery00 · 07/12/2022 00:23

Oh and I'm currently wearing pyjama bottoms that I have owned for around 20 years. Nothing wrong with them (the top didn't last so long).

darisdet · 07/12/2022 00:24

Mamanyt · 07/12/2022 00:18

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!

😅

JeanMarie · 07/12/2022 00:26

I've a whole load of worn out towels, presents from my first wedding.....40 years ago. I've also got "the good towels" which come out when I have guests. Once the guests leave they're washed, put away and the threadbare ones come out again. For the life of me I don't know why. My sons threaten to throw them out. I wish they would....cos I bloody can't bring myself to. 😁

Feelinfestive · 07/12/2022 00:26

The pop up mechanism for the plug in our bath broke about three years ago - mid bath. After having to bail out the bath and lever out the plug with a butter knife we made a temporary fix by cutting out a piece of plastic carrier bag and poking the sticky out bit of the plug through it, creating a plastic border that you can grab to pull the plug out. The plastic has started to deteriorate and we were both inexplicably horrified at the idea that we might have to consider replacing it with a new bit of plastic bag, let alone a new plug

RemindMeAgain · 07/12/2022 00:27

This thread reminds me of the ‘Martin’s Hot Tap’ feature on Johnny Vaughan’s radio show 😂

OhChristmasTreeOhChristmasTreeFaLaLa · 07/12/2022 00:29

When we bought our first home my aunty gave us her old washing machine she was throwing out, just as a temporary measure as we were buying so many things at once, it's only a 5kg one but it was fine at the time. 9 years on we still have it, it has no digital display, the buttons stick and it intermittently doesn't spin so you have to put it back on on a spin cycle (it will spin then), we also had 3 children since we got it and I must do approximately at least 12 washes a week. We can afford to replace it and talk about it, but it lives on with its tiny drum and crappy spin.

There's been a cracked mug in the cupboard for about 5 years, I don't use it as its cracked, if my mum makes a brew she will use it and I say, it's cracked don't use that one. It isn't a special cup, we have far too many cups, yet it's still in the cupboard.

Ndd135632 · 07/12/2022 00:30

@goldpendant a bit of sellotape will mend that remote control. No need for new 🤣

Amybelle88 · 07/12/2022 00:30

My ironing board is rickety and wobbly and the cover is a disgrace and yet out it comes every single day.

elp30 · 07/12/2022 00:32

I have so many things in my house that are a bit crap that I've yet to replace:

The downstairs toilet has a broken seat and lid that we've been putting up with for the past five years. When you sit on it, the seat wobbles.
There are bath towels that are threadbare and bleached that I've had for 10 years, frying pans that stick and burn food, a toaster that burns toast on one side, the plastic bowl from the food processor is cracked and is held together by tape.

All these things can be replaced inexpensively but I just never get around to it because they're still a bit useful. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Baconand · 07/12/2022 00:34

Kettle, the on/off lever snapped off 8 months ago. We said we’d replace it when we moved house. Then when the new house had a new kitchen.

The new kitchen has been in for 6 weeks, the knackered kettle is covered in plaster dust as we’ve moved on to refusing to clean it too.

It’s vile. But DH wants one that is £90 and we can’t afford it. I don’t drink hot drinks so refuse to use it and don’t really care. I expect we will still be using it next Christmas.

WhirlyTwirly · 07/12/2022 00:38

Flymo lawnmower that literally mowed holes in the lawn. It was left by the previous owners of the house and I used it for 14 years before it eventually gave up. My new cordless mower (complete with grass collection compartment) is so so much better!

KohlaParasaurus · 07/12/2022 00:39

A "family heirloom" bread knife with the serrations worn away so that it doesn't actually cut. My mother gave it to me with a lecture about sentimental value and I won't be able to throw it away while she is alive. My vegan children won't touch it because it has a bone handle.

Towels that DH bought when he and his first wife divorced over 20 years ago. They're like well used sandpaper now.

LemonSwan · 07/12/2022 00:40

rainyskylight · 06/12/2022 22:18

The handle of one of the most-used kitchen drawers fell off - the screw holes had become too big. For over a year, in order to open that drawer you have to open the one above or below and sort of reach in behind and flick the broken drawer. It is a very uncomfortable movement. We use the drawer maybe 20 times a day.

I am sure many have already posted the solution. But here if not… get a plastic tube from an ear bud, cut the bud off - slot in the hole and then cut off the bit that sticks out. Now rescrew it in.

Can also use a bundle of cocktail sticks. Paper ear bud also works but not as long lasting. Plastic sheaf off some old wire.

Basically find something small, circular and thin an jam it in there! You can find something tonight.

Mince314s · 07/12/2022 00:41

We have a big pan that has one handle that always gets too hot. Every time I use it I forget and burn my hand. After years of just putting up with it and quietly fuming every time I saw the bloody thing I finally snapped and put it in the kids mud kitchen, only to walk into the kitchen a few days later and find my husband had brought it back in because it's (inexplicably and irrationally) his favourite. We have a virtually identical pan that doesn't try to injure me every time I use it but no we need this one.

We also have various other bits that need sorting but don't because young kids trash it immediately anyway so why bother.

DaisyChristina · 07/12/2022 00:59

When I bought my cottage in 2002 the living room was wallpapered.

I have seen it featured on 'Heartbeat'!

It was only stripped off last month because I am selling the cottage!

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/12/2022 01:02

A sieve. Seive? Sieve? Neither way looks right...

Anyway.... I melted one of the "rest" bits off it, the bits you use to rest it into a saucepan. I know that it happened just before March 202 0 because it was actually on the list to buy when lockdown happened so I just sacked it off as non-essential when you had an item limit on online shopping if you could get a slot and pasta cost more per gram than cocaine...I assume, never having consumed pasta Wink Grin

So well over two years later I still have it, which is fine. What isnt fine is that I forget EVERY SINGLE TIME that if I rest it on a pan, it will tip over and the contents will slide out. Every. Fucking. Time.
So I think the shit thing that needs replacing in this house is me!

DuchessDandelion · 07/12/2022 01:06

userxx · 06/12/2022 22:54

To kill any germs, I thought everyone does it 🤷‍♂️

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I bleach it daily, but as its MN someone will be along who does it hourly 😄

HerRoyalNotness · 07/12/2022 01:06

A leaking iron that had been dropped and cracked. It leaked so much it rusted the ironing board. H was the ironing person when home. While H was away working I thought fuck this shit and ordered a new one. I mean they’re less than $100!

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/12/2022 01:11

LemonSwan · 07/12/2022 00:40

I am sure many have already posted the solution. But here if not… get a plastic tube from an ear bud, cut the bud off - slot in the hole and then cut off the bit that sticks out. Now rescrew it in.

Can also use a bundle of cocktail sticks. Paper ear bud also works but not as long lasting. Plastic sheaf off some old wire.

Basically find something small, circular and thin an jam it in there! You can find something tonight.

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The earbud one is new on me but yes! I remember seeing my father getting used matches out of his ashtray (70's, all dads smoked in the house....) and using them to secure a screw. Basically you fill the hole with matches or cocktail sticks, hammer them in as far as they will go, cut off the excess and then you are good to screw in your handle, I have a box of matches in the "bits and pieces" drawer for this very purpose!

jennyofthenorth · 07/12/2022 01:16

cracked laundry basket, tv stand with door that falls off and nails feet, a door that has never shut properly (but could probably be fixed)

ArmyofMunn · 07/12/2022 01:22

A cheese slicer whose handle fell off. We went to Steamer Trading to replace it and it had been taken over by another, downmarket company. The replacement just can't slice cheese properly!

So we've carried on using the handleless old one for three years now...

spuddel · 07/12/2022 01:25

Feelinfestive · 07/12/2022 00:26

The pop up mechanism for the plug in our bath broke about three years ago - mid bath. After having to bail out the bath and lever out the plug with a butter knife we made a temporary fix by cutting out a piece of plastic carrier bag and poking the sticky out bit of the plug through it, creating a plastic border that you can grab to pull the plug out. The plastic has started to deteriorate and we were both inexplicably horrified at the idea that we might have to consider replacing it with a new bit of plastic bag, let alone a new plug

Laughing so hard at this. Was replacing both bathrooms at the start of lockdown so had to shop online. Nightmare trying to find a bath with old traditional plug but I was determined to as we lived with the plastic solution way too long in the past.

My wicker laundry basket has totally disintegrated at the base, sides are perfect so it's staying. Just can't be picked up and moved anywhere. I think we become blind to the most hard working items in the house for some reason. Still prefer the towels and bedding we received as wedding gifts twenty years ago, despite spending a small fortune in the White Company to replace them.

Twofurrycats · 07/12/2022 01:32

An incredibly ugly patterned pan with a slightly wonky handle. DP burnt some custard in it the other night and I found myself muttering about wrecking perfectly good pans. I didn't even buy it. It was left in a house I bought. In 1991. I have the bigger sized matching one as well.

OrangePomander · 07/12/2022 01:42

We have had a tea strainer in the bathroom sink to stop anything falling down the plughole. It’s been there for at least five years. The push-up plug mechanism broke and we never got around to replacing it (it was on the window sill until recently, when I moved it to the cupboard for safekeeping.

Wibbly1008 · 07/12/2022 01:47

casserole dish. Husband drops the lid, the button handle breaks off and he glues it….then repeat. He has done this multiple times with same lid and I’ve never bought another one. I think he just hates that dish, as he never drops anything else weirdly…