New things that got instantly ruined

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I have just spent £315 having some pictures framed (I know, it’s crazy expensive). I wanted to put the smallest (A4ish size) one up near a light switch so bought command strips which I have used successfully before on similar sized pictures which have been up for several years so didn’t think it would be an issue. Used extra as I always do, 5 minutes later it fell down onto my tiled floor and now the frame is scuffed. Apparently the paint in our kitchen isn’t very good for sticking stuff on.

Make me feel better and tell me about your new stuff that has got ruined? I feel like everyone else gets to have nice stuff and mine always has a problem or gets spoilt 😩

I melted the corner of our new tv with a slightly too tall candle 😬 still works but is all warped and makes me sad when I look at it 😂

Brand new carpet been down 5 days and I knocked the hot iron over and burnt a big iron shaped hole in it

My husband bought a new splash back for our kitchen to go behind the cooker etc. made to measure, cost £500. He brought it in through the utility room and hit the edge against the side of the kitchen counter. Smashed into a million pieces 😭😭

Brand new pristine new-build house - stayed that way for all of 20 minutes until the removal men tracked mud all over the carpets, broke two of the doors, took a chunk out of the kitchen countertop, and scraped the wall all the way from the front door to the bedroom upstairs.

Our new cars alloys got scuffed on day two when my DH curbed it. Something he has never done in all his years of driving and they are big wheels so it's all I see

Not super expensive but one year we decorated the Christmas tree (real) and had put new lights on it. Hoovered afterwards to clear the dropped pins and went over the light cable and broke the lights!

This is how long I can feel resentment ... 29 years ago we had our downstairs loo completely redone and fully tiled. It was lovely. Within the first month (nowXD)H put his fag end on the window sill while he went to the toilet 😡🤢and forgot it. He left a burn mark on the plastic trim on the edge of the tiles. I only had the bathroom redone two years ago and it annoyed me every day of those 27 years (and it still annoys me now when I think about it).

how much was the frame?

Not my own possessions but I used to work in a gallery shop and we got some new, beautiful blown glass vases. £100-400.
I unpacked the first one and immediately dropped it.
There followed a very stressful call to my boss.

When I was a teenager, my sister decided to borrow my new cream wedge sandals with ankle straps (without asking) to go in to town. They were extra long, canvas type straps that criss-crossed above the ankle.

She decided that the ankle straps were too much of a faff to do up (no idea why she took them off), so walked home with them undone and dragging through the dirt.

Despite my mother trying her best to clean them, the stains would not come out. I was gutted as I couldn't afford to replace them at the time.

@itistooeasy I’m not sure the £315 was for all 5 pictures we had done and the other 4 are larger (A2 ish size). I’m not sure what the price break down was.

Thank you everyone for your tales of woe - why can’t things just be nice and stay nice?!

Brand spanking new car, less than 10 miles on the clock and on the way home from picking it up from the showroom I broke the wing mirror.

Spent hours installing a gorgeous ceiling fan in our bedroom last weekend. Two days later, DH opened the door of the wardrobe that we never use while the fan was on and it broke one of the arms in two places. Plus the whole thing is now wobbly 🤦🏽‍♀️

We still need to use it at night but I'm always in fear of an arm shooting off in my face while I'm sleeping.

@Anxietysux your carpet story is absolutely devastating - DH has said we can get it reframed if I can’t get over it (I will, I usually do) but a carpet 😫😫😫

DH got me a 100 ml bottle of Dior Addict edp. Dropped it on the bathroom floor 😭

Beautiful new (and eye wateringly expensive) stone bathroom floor. The plasterer knocked over a bottle of loo cleaner and the top came off and the contents went all over the floor. And he didn’t notice and left it. The loo cleaner had vinegar in it which bleached all the colour out of the stone.

I could have killed him!!

Beautiful Boden cashmere top, got washed at 40 degrees first time in the wash & came out as felt & half the size. I used it as a hot water bottle cover for a while, but it just reminded me of the pain, so I then donated it to a community rag rugging project. Apparently shrunk woollen clothes are perfect for rag rugging. Every cloud, eh?

I did this in our first flat. Cue strategically placed rug.

Half an hour after we had our new bathroom suite put in, DH dropped the bathroom cabinet (the very expensive one with speakers that he insisted on) and it landed on the new sink, kind of bounced off, then hit the new toilet. Toilet and sink both cracked and cabinet completely done in. I was absolutely thrilled. 😂

We brought a lovely new sofa when moving into our new house. Within a few days of having it our cat decided to pee all over it. So had to pay to have it cleaned. Still annoys me thinking about it now.

This cracked me up. Am so sorry though, what a nightmare!

Ah, my cats ruin absolutely everything. I’ve given up having nice things. One of them even shags my clothes and drags them round the house.

Teenage me bought some lovely flared jeans for £40 - all the money I'd saved from birthday and previous Christmas. Wore them out once, then my mother cut 3 (wonky) inches off them because "they drag too much on the floor darling". They looked silly after that and I gave them to a charity shop.

Funnily enough we don't have the best relationship these days.

I bought coffee filter with a glass carafe. You put the ground coffee into the metal filter and it dripped into the carafe. It was really pretty, but if I'm honest a bit impractical as it made two cups but by the time I'd drunk the first cup the remaining coffee was stone cold. TBH I had little confidence that anything delicate would last long in our household, and it was the filter that I wanted most. About two weeks after I'd got it I went into the kitchen to make coffee and the carafe had disappeared. I checked the cupboards then asked the family. DH said "It got broken". He is a blame avoider so when he uses the passive tense it means that he did it, if one of the DC had done it he would have said so.

It's a minor thing but it's depressing to buy things knowing they will probably be destroyed, so I just admire stuff in shops and then walk away. If I didn't have DH and DS (DD is much less clumsy) I could have sofas in nice colours without worrying about stains, a glass bowl for the table (I love pretty blown glass and have been tempted so many times). Even my Brabantia bin has several dints in it and the touch release top is permanently released, the DC occasionally offer to get me a new one for Christmas but a) why? the new one will also be ruined and b) fuck that for a Christmas present.

I would have been raging! Did they apologise and offer compensation?