New things that got instantly ruined

[DevilsKitchen]

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 😩

Just fyi Brabantia used to have a lifetime guarantee on their bin lids. ~We've had a few free ones over the years...

As I was reading this I dropped ketchup from a double cheeseburger on my brand new white Ted Baker top, dry clean only 😩

in joking @wtfissummer

that poster said i was miserable for daring to question

I've thought of another one - this time from 44 years ago! Got married in 1980 and we were broke newlyweds. My ex loved dogs and we got a little rescue dog - 6 months old who was quite destructive. Anyway I got a new dress as a present and I wore it once, really liked it. I washed it and hung it on a hanger to dry along with about 3 of (nowXD)H's shirts. The dog homed in on my dress - completely ignored the shirts which wouldn't really have mattered - but she shredded my dress - I couldn't believe it. I was so upset as we couldn't afford to replace it, and ex just kept saying this sort of thing is bound to happen with pets. I had never had a dog before so I wasn't used to it.

Lots over the years but the most recent was my new phone. The case I wanted for it couldn't be delivered for a few days so I was storing it in a clutch bag with a wrist strap. Day 2 of owning said phone, i was walking over the patio with it in my hand with the strap securely round my wrist. It slipped out of my hand and even though the bag didn't fall because it was on my wrist....it promptly undid the zip and the phone slid out and smashed 🤦‍♀️

Saved up for a beautiful large pure wool rug in duck egg blue.
Night one... cat systematically scratched all around the edge of it.
Night two... vomited up not one but two hairballs and catfood.
Night three... more puke. (She rarely puked!)

It lasted 2 months before I gave up...now have a cheap ikea rug!

Drove away in my new-to-me Mx5, and went to pick up DS2 where I promptly reversed into a concrete post.

bought new dinner service from Ikea. Mysteriously ended up ordering a lot of other things I didn't need.
Man comes with delivery and I take the box clearly marked "fragile" out of his hands. And then I need to sign for everything so I casually CHUCK the box on the ground. There's a sound of pottery breaking and the man's face is just😯
I don't know why I did it. Why??

New car - new to us anyway, paid for it outright. Day 3 - smacked a pillar in a tricky under ground carpark, £500 to get the rear door working again…

Another labrador one, about 25 years ago.
I very rarely bought new shoes, except as replacement, partially due to needing a really wide fitting, but I found a shop which had some lovely ones which fitted. I treated myself, bought three different pairs, court, sandal etc.
Our gorgeous lab, entering the teen stage, chewed just one of each pair...😁

I scraped my new (to me) car along a wall. Scratches still there 10 years later!
I keep cars a looong time!

I feel your pain with the commando strips. DH is really in to them, but we've had five pictures come off various walls without warning, resulting in various amounts of damage. We always used extra strips too. Some lasted a few years before failing. I don't trust them at all and have secretly replaced some of them with nails whilst DH is out.

We ruined a new coffee table within weeks by putting a coaster on it which had a piece of gravel on the bottom. Scratched a massive scratch across the top. I am sad every time I look at it.

Bought a new phone. Bought a protective case for it, but it wasn't due to arrive till next day. Took my phone to work next morning, went to the loo, and put the phone on top of the hand drier (like I always did with my old phone). It fell off whilst I washed my hands and the back of it smashed.

After you have tried the other suggestion, sunlight is good at bleaching out the remains of tomato stains. (Hopefully some sunshine will turn up at some point this summer so you can try this out. I’m currently wearing a huge jumper.)

I have lost count of the stuff that got damaged on the way home, nevermind in the home. Christmas eve I went to Tesco and the to Asda to get what I couldn't get in Tesco.

I opened the car boot at Asda and all my Tesco shopping fell out onto the car park, including two bottles of wine, which of course smashed.

I've had irons I've knocked over as soon as I used them, that one seems to be a recurring thing. Also floors that have been chipped even before they had finished being laid.

There have been so many things, I just can't recall them - I guess I blot out the pain, though none so painful as that memory of a friend who replaced her broken pine bed in the spare bedroom with an almost identical new one...so similar was it, when taken apart her husband sawed up the new bed by mistake and took it too the tip.

My teenage daughter was in bed, having eaten something on a plate which she left on the bed. She then forgot the plate was there, got back into bed which flipped the plate smashing a nearly new TV screen and a brand new iPad.

Brand new beige armchair. Dh sits in it wearing brand new dark jeans. He has form for this sort of thing.

I bought a new car for £20,000. I had it for 4 days when I went away and my husband was left to drive the children to their clubs. He drove down a road that turned out to be narrower than the car, and scraped the entire left hand side along the wall, bumper to bumper. Dents, paint off, scratches on the wing mirror. Just perfect!

We’d had our new leather sofa for 2 weeks, replacing an old one we’d had without incident for years. Put flea drops on the cat who promptly rolled on the new sofa taking out the dark red/burgundy colour. Cost me £100 to fix!
New vacuum cleaner. Ran over the flex on first use and tore it. Had to wrap insulation tape round it that stayed on there for years.
Had 3 small cafetières on a shelf in the kitchen. Went to put one away when it slipped out of my hand. In trying and failing to catch it I somehow knocked the other 2 off the shelf!

@Fireangels New vacuum cleaner. Ran over the flex on first use and tore it

Been there, done that.

Reminds me also, going back almost 30 years, when I left school I had a job in a local shop vacuum & washing machine shop that was a repair agent for a very well known brand of vacuum cleaner. A customer had been backwards and forwards for months with her very expensive cleaner that had one problem after the next. Eventually, she got her money back (either from the retailer or manufacturer - not sure who), and then bought a new cleaner from our shop.

She came straight back with it, almost in tears, having vacuumed straight over the flex, and now having to pay for a repair. Bless her.

Bought a new car. Driving home from a night shift, a guy was flagging me down so I slowed. He tries to get in my car then punches the A pillar. I was furious so I ended up driving after him as he runs off slowly while I'm on the phone to the police
Police arrive and arrest him. Over a grands worth of damage to my car
He had to pay me £5 a month
I lost all my no claims as the new car had free insurance for a year but they didn't say/I didn't check my no claims weren't protected

@whirlyhead Tell me he was insured and you claimed against him?!?! That made me feel a bit sick, I would have been so cross and upset

@tothelefttotheleft Lord Sheraton leather balsam is my go to leather cleaner ( bags & shoes too)
@ohyesido elbow grease spray before washing, dry outside , sunshine's great with tomato stains

I’m howling at this; sorry for the carpet but that’s quite the dramatic scene! 😂

Oh really? I've found that with a lot of the other polishes and the worst things are those leather wipes.
I think I might look for another type of polish as come to think of it, there are patches of my sofa where the top burgundy layer has become more red a lot quicker than I expected.