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🤷🏼‍♀️

Try unscrewing the filter and then screwing it back in again - could be that it's cross-threaded

This has been the most uplifting and comforting thread I've read for a long time. I cried laughing last night at some of the posts. I can relate to so much.
I have a dishwasher and dryer both with broken doors that have to be yanked open with a spoon handle. 30 year old blunt grater, pan's without handles my kettle has a hole in so can only fill the thing for 1 cup. A cupboard full of past its best dry food and a underwear draw full of knickers with holes in. Nice to know I'm not the only one.

We have a handleless sieve, ragged oven mitts which I have replaced, but DH still prefers the ones that can burn your hands.
DH also still uses the bath towel that he had when I met him 46 years ago, now frayed all round and saved for pools and beaches.

Not something to replace but my fridge door opens the wrong way so I've got to walk round to get in it. Keep meaning to swap the hinges over......5 years later!

I've got an ugly coffee table that was from my former inlaws' house. The style doesn't fit anything else in my house and it's a bit scratched with mug circles on it. Occasionally I think about replacing it, but for some reason I don't ever do it. Not sure why.

I have three butterfly tin openers that cannot ever just open a tin. It's not as if they are used often, most tins now have a ring pull. Inspired I have just ordered one off Amazon total 99p

I have two plastic mixing bowls, one was melted slightly on the hob. I sanded away the big lumps of sharp melted plastic and it's the most used. Despite being misshapen.

My kettle has been kept working by using the sugar jar to keep the button down for about 8 months, I didn't want to get rid cos it matches my toaster. Given the fire risk a pp mentioned, I've just ordered new matching toaster and kettle set. The old toaster will be given away.

Also melted spatula, I dont even know how it happened, but after reading this thread and thinking about it, I've ordered a new one.

However the chopping boards are staying, ok they are stained and warped a bit, but they definitely still work as intended.

I am very slowly throwing out some horrible cutlery. DP moved in with a whole canteen of cutlery which is horrible to use, unbalanced, and badly shaped with large bulbous ends that stab into you. Whatever I try, like bending out of shape, leaving outside in the garden, it's not working. So I've taken to lobbing one piece out every 4 months or so. DP hasn't noticed yet, but there will be a tipping point.

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!

Oh me too! Over the years I've collected them from my Mother's and Aunt's houses when they died, many are souvenirs they'd been given from holidays so there are two of each. I bought a new pack of them over a years ago but I don't want to use them as they'll get dirty!

As ot is the festive season, maybe you could refashion a suitable bauble! 🎄

A stupid Pyrex measuring jug that doesn't pour correctly. You measure 300ml of milk and then it pisses an unknown amount of milk down the side and onto the worktop

Back in the day, 60s/70s every car we had was held together with tape, plastic padding and scrunched up newspapers!

This applies to nearly everything I own

Or maybe that's the reason you're not poor!

Even better idea! My tree is half the size this year, so I have loads of spare baubles

This is a very refreshing thread. Discovering that most people on Mumsnet are, in fact, totally normal (and just like me).

My email address. It was a great idea in dying days of the 20th century but has aged a lot. The problem is that it's registered to so many things and usernames that my brain can't cope with swapping to it to something more mature.

DM's sofa. People were falling through it 20 years ago. She hs solved the problem by not inviting people round and sitting comfortably on the chair that works.
Most of her stuff is either worn out and long past redemption or was aquired through someone else. There are whole rooms filled with hoarded, redundant crap or things she makes-do with, but is never proactive at sorting out. I suspect being a war child has a lot to do with it.

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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.

Procrastinators could well be it. The cost is so small in most of the examples! Though I too have things like a partially melted spatula which functions perfectly fine and seems a pity to throw away.

Procrastinating is definitely me anyway, and explains why I mooch around on Mumsnet rather than doing something else I ought to be doing.

All the people with melted spatulas, be careful about throwing them out!

Ours has snapped, yet every time I go into a supermarket (mostly shop online) and try to buy a new one, they are out of stock! I refuse to pay ££ for one from Amazon.

The plastic knob on the toaster snapped off about 5 years ago. Since then we have to push down hard on a stump of serrated metal to lower the bread. For 5 years toast in this house involves sore grazed fingers. We eat a lot of toast.

I've kept the two halves of the plastic knob. They live in the Drawer of Doom. I tried gluing them back together around the metal stump four and half years ago. It didn't work. I put them back in the Drawer of Doom.

Our kitchen is large, light and bright. In one corner sits a massive, grubbysquatting toad of an armchair that came from a charity shop years ago. Suggestions we take it to the tip are met with howls of protest, it’s so nice to sit in with a cat and breakfast , looking at the garden.

I have two plastic mixing bowls, one was melted slightly on the hob. I sanded away the big lumps of sharp melted plastic and it's the most used. Despite being misshapen.

😂This is just classic!! The determination to make them useful rather than buying some more.

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I have wardrobes with no doors... Been this way since I put them up 4 years ago. It was a huge house renovation and the wardrobes were one of the last jobs and I built them (ikea) and bought sliding glass doors and they looked complicated and I thought I'd come back to them later... and never did. The rest of my house is lovely! Maybe I should pay someone to come and sort them out....

Ditto :)

We just bit the bullet and replaced our 15+ year old utensils that were cheap as chips and bought only with the intention of getting me through university. We did splurge a bit and went with mostly OXO good grips and the satisfaction now from using things that just work is well worth it.