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'm sorry but this has made me lol🤣🤣🤣 I had two boys a year apart and this is exactly the sort of thing they would of done , my nan would say , it shows they have a brain and are inquisitive minded , however I would be so upset when they would take remote controls apart or drag my yoga mat in the garden and make mud cakes on it 🤣 if I had a yoga ball... they would of done this , I'm sure of it!

Nothing so dramatic, just green-eyed insecurity on my part!

After a month of comments from DH like “These are nice mugs, (your friend) has great taste.” I decided they had to go.

My glasses (varifocals so quite pricey) were new and I was very pleased with them as the optician had suggested that for my unnaturally small face I might try children's glasses and she was right - I loved them, for the first time in ages I had a pair of glasses I liked. Anyway I needed to get a stepladder from the garage, dh had hung a bucket on the end of it (so tidy!) and I managed to drop the bucket on my head, which dislodged my new specs onto the floor where I immediately stepped on them. Completely broken. Happened so fast!

I feel slightly better about my ancient carpets and need painting walls now. If the cat does something accidental on the carpet, well it doesn't matter. DS does a vertical fountain of ketchup (as in this morning)? its not the end of the world.

Even though I'd love new carpets and decorating.

Previous home, had just decorated before we moved out and bodger the builder scraped paint all along hallway fitted cupboards as he brought new kitchen counter through. I could have cheerfully hit him over the head with the bloody thing.

I was made redundant one Christmas and my lovely employer bought me a beautiful Waterford crystal decanter. DH took it to show our Christmas Day visitors while I was making lunch. There was a sickening crash… He’d dropped the stopper onto it and it smashed into hundreds of tiny pieces.

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Astonish took the colour off my brown sofa.

Anyone have recommendations for good colour leather polish?

Bought a gorgeous new £££ handbag in cream leather and tan.
Put it on the kitchen floor while I put the shopping away.
Opened an overhead cupboard, a bottle of Nando's Hot marinade sauce fell out, (the large bottle) bounced off the granite work top where it's head was guillotined off on the way down and it landed upside down in my bag while spraying the cream leather and staining it red 😤😤😤
The bag was ruined inside and out as well as most of the contents of my handbag.

I was flying off with clients on a very exciting project and had just bought myself a brand new macbook pro (had always had secondhand before). I was going to show the client some work on the plane so rested it on my bag at check in while getting out my passport.

A moment later the laptop (without a case) was rolling along the conveyor belt along with the luggage for the hold and the check in clerk refused to pick it off of the belt for 'security reasons'. I was so upset and had to put a brave face on in front of everyone.

At the other end it came down the carousel in arrivals with a fist shaped dent in the top but surprisingly still worked. I wanted to cry but had to pretend to be cool about the whole thing.

(It actually got stolen in a burglary a few weeks later and I could finally claim on my house insurance - I hadn't had accidental damage so couldn't claim before)

sure you were 🤭

Oh God, Waterford Crystal reminds me. We got a set of Waterford Crystal wine glasses as a wedding present (over 33 years ago). They were stored at my Mum's house for a few years and then we brought them over to London after we moved into a long term home. We had people over for dinner and DH set out the glasses because "there's no point in having nice things if we don't use them". I was fine with that but made sure he realised that they had to be hand washed and were delicate so couldn't be put rim down onto a hard surface. After dinner he was hand washing them and I put a tea towel down for them to be put on after they came out of the sink. Left the kitchen, heard quite loud clinking and came back in to find he'd moved the tea towel away and put the glasses down heavily on the metal draining bit of the sink. Every single one of them chipped after only one use.

So quite early in our marriage, before we even had kids, I modified his saying to be "there's no point in having nice things". This is also the reason that I have never fixed the Brabantia bin, thanks to those who have pointed out that I can get replacements but there's just no point.

@itistooeasy Yes that actually happened to me. So miserable that you should post that.

I can cope with me breaking things but not if it's someone else who is a serial offender. I just want everyone to be a bit more careful.

I would buy the one on Ebay and stash it away for a few weeks 😆

Many years ago now but dh picked up our brand new diesel car...and filled it up with petrol on the way home.

Adult dd dropped a really expensive iron (ones with big steam base thing) that I’d had for about a day . It cracked the base .

ex husband went into the back of another car in a car we had bought the day before - took 5 years to pay off a wrecked car that was barely drivable (we only had 3rd party insurance so couldn’t get it repaired)

We had our living room carpeted in a lovely new cream berber wool and popped to our neighbours for a drink. Our cat (who was tiny and not exactly a predator ) had somehow caught an enormous rat, dragged it alive through the cat flap, though an boot room, up some stairs, across the kitchen and hallway into the living room and then must have nicked its jugular. We stood transfixed looking through the French windows at this rat flapping around on the floor like a fish, spraying blood everywhere. It was like a Tarantino movie. Cat looked pretty stunned too! I overzealously cleaned the carpet so we had white patches on the lovely cream. Thanks cat!

Oh no - you've just reminded me of an anniversary present ex got me - a beautiful white leather bag with bright green leather interior - we were away overnight and when I came home I was with the kids and unpacking - bag on the table - DD1 had just learned to write her name - she had access to a blue biro - you can guess the rest!

Not one, but 2 lovely lambswool jumpers that I'd got in the sale at a great price. Washed at wrong temperature and shrunk to a child's size. On the plus side, daughter's teddy bears now look dandy.

A week after we'd put up a brand new pair of curtains, I was trying to write something for work, when an annoying fly kept buzzing around me. I irritably flapped my hand at it - yep the one with the pen in it - and hit the new curtains with the pen. Only a tiny blue mark, but I knew it was there.

Was it attached to the bag? How did it get on the right plane without a tag?

misery guts for asking!

Beautiful new toast cardigan from my mum. £250. DP broke her knee and so I was doing all of her washing and housework. Imagine my horror when I looked into the hot wash and saw my gorgeous new cardigan in among all the socks and pants and sports gear at high temp. Shrunk down to tiny felt jacket and made me so sad I had to sell at a car boot as couldn’t even look at it

Years ago, ds2 got into one of the local selective grammar schools - not the one his older brother was in, so no chance to use hand me down uniform. We bought all the uniform they said we needed, including a blazer. We got a good discount on the blazer because we bought all the specific school stuff at one shop.

Before the end of the first term dh found ds2 had got custard down the front of his blazer, so helpfully sponged it clean and ironed it dry - massive iron mark right on the front.

I had to buy a new one, just before Christmas, and it cost £45! The worst part is that the blazer would have dried in minutes in the airing cupboard.

Years ago I had brand new white Levis, thought I was the DBs.
Sat in the pub after using hand cream and lifted a pint of cider and blackcurrant, which promptly slipped straight out of my hand and over my jeans.

@itistooeasy I was just trying to understand the logistics

I had a beautiful new fireplace installed as the centrepiece of a room.

My 3 yo goddaughter wrote her name in the hearth with a wrought iron candle snuffer.

I cried silent tears whist her mother urged us all to admire her writing.

I cried silent tears whist her mother urged us all to admire her writing.

Why on earth wouldn’t you say ‘Well that’s lovely Debbie, but now mummy has to pay for it to be replaced’, or something?