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🤷🏼‍♀️

My broom broke about a year ago, since then I’ve been using my daughters toy broom which is about 3ft long, not great for the back! I’ve just not got round to buying a new one.

I love household quirks like this!

@ScarierThanBoo don’t bin your lovely clock. If it’s one with a proper mechanism (ie not digital) look for your local model engineering society, they’ll probably have a member or know someone who can take a look at it.

My grandad can mend clocks (& belongs to his local model engineering club) and my grandma volunteers in a charity shop, so when they get donated a broken clock she brings it home, grandad tries to fix it then it goes back to the charity shop to sell.

My mil has those round door knobs that you turn to open, except they don't open unless you turn it a full turn and then a little extra. That's annoying in itself because it only works some of the time (for me, she has knack to it after all this time) but also for some reason, I can't remember why, but part of the door frame has been cut away, just in that area, so when you're straining to turn the damn thing you're also catching your knuckles on the frame too. She has a joiner in the house and plenty of sons in law but... She can work it so it's fine...

I think other people would struggle to use my hob without some trial and error. The markings for which ring is which have completely gone. One of the knobs is on upside down so the marker is 180 degrees out, and I can't work out how to get it off to turn it around (and I invariably only notice it when I'm using that light anyway).

I did finally buy a teeny-tiny Allen key to undo and re-set a doorknob that had been annoying me for seven years, so I might eventually get around to it!

We’re just on 5 years (ish) - could be a bit less, I suppose. Definitely 3+. And I’ve even looked up the tiny part we need and still…

We have a dedicated screwdriver that lives on top of the tumble dryer so you can prise the door open because the handle fell off. You can’t get a whole new appliance because of a broken handle!

A toaster that has evolved to dealer's choice, so you either get bread that has been run through a warm room or a carbon frisbee.

A spatula with a big chunk missing so you have to use it on a ninety degree angle.

I also have an alarm clock. Purchased by Dh from Morrisons pre smart phone era. It was £1.99. The buttons have fallen off. Dd bought me a new one for my birthday.

But the £1.99 one keeps ticking away. The new one needs batteries……

My plugs have broken on the kitchen sink, bathroom sink, and bath! None of them have been replaced

To all those saying about broken door handles on washing machines/tumble driers - you can buy the part on ebay and follow a video. My mum did mine (I have arthritis in my hands or I'd do it myself). I did have a white catch on a silver washing machine for five years, but no way was I paying £2 more for the silver one 😁

Last week I binned two splatter guards - those gadgets that go over a frying pan when you're cooking. Both had large holes in so that the fat splattered through. Why? Why did I carry on using them for a year?

I have a masher that doesn't mash. I don't know why I bought it, there are about 3 holes in the bottom so it was never going to work! It is also plastic rather than metal so it bends if you mash too hard. But I bought it and it has been hardly used so I can't replace it. Every time I need to mash something I try to use the unmashing masher, get angry when it doesn't mash and then switch to using a fork.

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.

To the people with toasters that won't stay down, it's usually because crumbs are shorting it out where the lever comes down. You can take the cover off and clean them out, or if that's too much effort a bit of vacuuming and turning the toaster upside down can sometimes dislodge the crumbs.

I have a few but a lot of it is because we moved during covid whilst I was doing an MA and dp was made redundant so we have a lot of free Facebook stuff, to be fair I really like most of it especially the stuff I’ve painted / cleaned up myself.

but one thing I’d say is a crappy tiny mirror from home bargains I struggle to do my makeup in every day. Why do I not just get a decent one I ask myself every day.

my car and my phone Haha. I could upgrade both I’m sure without actually incurring much more cost as I pay for them both monthly and my phone is sim only and still expensive. In fact I know I could get a Samsung or something g for the same price every month. But I stick with this shitty thing because I cba with the faff of upgrading

Actually realised My DP is annoying about this stuff ! He buys clothes and trainers, and spends extortionate amounts on Kiehls skin stuff and getting his hair cut every Friday. And on getting his car valeted. But if I suggest I invest in a new frying pan because the handle has come off ours, he says no I’ll sort it and goes and gets some old one from his mums house as apparently she has ‘loads’ - yeah she has loads because she buys shit cheap ones they don’t work properly (she always leaves stuff unsupervised so it sticks, she needs proper heavy duty non stick) then won’t throw them, so we end up with them! See also tin openers, scissors. I’ve just bought myself a nice corkscrew because I don’t want his mums from 1998!

I live in leggings and hoodies albeit quite nice ones ha, and haven’t had a hair cut for about 18 months. But if I buy some nice plastic storage boxes - ‘you could have just got a cardboard box’ . I want nice ones!!

A wooden dish drainer that was unbelievably inconvenient, because it had nowhere to put cutlery. I'd have to block the gap on the lower level with a veg peeler and then the cutlery could rest on top of it. We had it for YEARS. Every time my DM visited she'd say 'Have you still got that awful dish rack????' and for about a minute it would occur to me that maybe I should replace it, but then I'd forget about it again. I did finally replace it, but we must've had it a decade

And speaking of towels - I have some with my name tag still on from school. I'll be 50 next year

But you can get a whole new handle.....

We did after, errrm, about 8 months. 🤔

I also have two washing up baskets held together with duct tape. And the one footrest of my manual wheelchair is held on with medical tape (it broke while we were away and that was the best thing available at the time to fix it). My powerchair has no knob on the end of the steering thingy, so I use it with just the metal pole (kind of hard to explain this one - in fact today I think I will try to fashion a knob out of duct tape for it... 🧐)

Nodding along at all of these. I melted a chopping board into a most peculiar shape, and it's still going strong, complete with a kind of mountain of meltedness at one end.

@maranella my nephew is 16, he was born abroad and attended a toddler swim school in the town he/my sister lived in, he still has the towel with his first swimming badges on and the name of the swim school, I was round the other day and he came out the shower with it round his shoulders. My sister said she can’t bring herself to bin it but it’s also never made it to the ‘memory box’ either so it’s still in use. It’s been through about 3 different countries and 5 house moves 🤣

Plug in the bath that has no chain or any way to grip it and pull it out to drain the water. So to get the plug out, you have to force once side of the plug right down to make the other side stick up a bit, then use your nails to pick the plug out really awkwardly. Takes about 3 attempts on average.

5 years, and many many baths due to small dc.

@BeyondTheLetterOfTheLawTheLetter woman at my work has a mini tennis ball for a nob ! If what you’re talking about is the same! Like a small gear stick type contraption?

Yeah but it’s only been 6 months. Can’t rush these things

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