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 😩

Nothing to add but just wanted to say all these things caused by pets is the reason I don’t have pets 😂

1. As a teenager, I was very proud of my brand new, red suede shoes. I dropped a raw egg on them the same day I got them, before DDad had had time to give me his full opinion of girls who wear red shoes.

1. The only time I've ever bought a brand new car, I drove it out of the showroom and got a stone chip in the windscreen before it got home.

1. DS's 4th birthday, he got a little china breakfast set with astronauts on. I went to rinse the mug out (dusty) for him to have his breakfast juice from, and smashed it on the tap.

1. DH used to work in an outdoor gear shop. He opened a delivery box with a pen knife and sliced through 6 down sleeping bags. Feathers everywhere.

from 44 years ago! Got married in 1980

when I realised that 1980 really was 44 years ago, rather than about 20.

Heard a story once of someone who bought a new ( for them anyway) car and hit someone driving it off the forecourt.

Literally everything. Freshly plastered and painted wall twin 2 had a meltdown threw himself back and dented the wall. Neely tiles bathroom floor son dropped the glass freshener bottle and chipped the floor. New carpet and dog weed on it and DH scrubbed it and it’s a wool carpet and it went frizzy. Delight of a daughter split tomato soup on her new carpet. Most things new get dinked within days 🙈

I learned my lesson with command strips. You need to thoroughly clean the wall with alcohol and let it dry a couple of hours.

I like this thread, makes me feel better about the relatively minor things such a kitchen vinyl versus fridge freezer!
Just remembered something, we decided, the day before our daughters' christenings, to repaper the chimney wall in the dining room where we were having the after-party. OH stripped off the hideous flocked and allowed the girls and their cousin to draw on the lining paper. Next morning when we came down the lovely new paper I'd hung the evening before had green felt pen oozing through it! Miraculously we had enough paper left to strip off the damaged paper with the coloured lining and redo it before going to church.

I let them 'set' on the wall, but there seems to be a peculiarity in my house (not damp, it's an inner terrace and these were inside walls) where command strips work on some walls but not on others. The wall my picture fell off has refused all other command strips, but I'm using lots elsewhere in the place!

Oh and I've remembered another one. Moved into my new house with fully tiled, fabulous bathroom (the house was a very high spec holiday cottage before I bought). Used my steam cleaner to clean the bathroom - cracked some of the moulded tiles that form the border.

I'm just living with it, but am REALLY pissed off that the steam cleaner was advertised for making bathrooms 'hygienically clean), but not mentioning that tiles might crack! I didn't think it was possible! At least it didn't crack the sink...

Given a new Burberry Mac. Worn proudly on first day, dropped in a puddle that had car oil in on the way home. Had to go back to Burberry and be completely reproofed. I never felt the same way about it, was racked with guilt

Bought a lovely new handbag last weekend, just over £100, I usually don't spend that much. Stupidly left it in the kitchen after going out for a few drinks on Saturday. Got up to two kitten scratches on the front of it 😥

Reversed our new car into a dry stone wall the day after picking it up...

Had the living room re-plastered and then painted. I managed to knock the radiator over (it had been taken off while we were decorating) and it gouged a massive hole in the wall 🙈

Years ago when my youngest was a baby, I bought two new lamps for our bedroom, I had other bags of shopping so I hung the two bags on the buggy handles. I got back to the car, and without thinking, took my baby out of the buggy to put her in the car, the weight of the shopping on the buggy pulled it down to the concrete floor and smashed my new lamps to bits.

I had a brand new BMW. I had only owned it 10 days and whilst driving on the M5 a large stone hit the windscreen and smashed the screen and bounced off the bonnet. There was a dent and paintwork damage in addition to the smashed screen which cost over 2k to fix 25 years ago. 😪

We had decorators in to redecorate the whole of the stairs and landings. We did this to save me and DH doing it as he hadn't been well, We then recarpeted. In under a week DS had dropped a very full cup of coffee and there was coffee running down the walls and soaking the carpet.

bobster31 · Today 18:49

Reversed our new car into a dry stone wall the day after picking it up.

Not to worry, drystone walls are easily repaired.

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I renovated my bathroom and splashed out on a really fancy soap dispenser. It was over £100! Within a week one of my DDs had knocked it into the bath and it was smashed. I decided in that moment that I wasn’t buying another daft thing until they grew up 😂

Purchased a Noguchi coffee table. Boyfriend decided to peel potatoes into a heavy steel pot on the table. Somehow managed to drop it and chip a 19mm glass coffee table. £2000 gone.

@godmum56 that story broke my heart! For Christmas before last I spent 6 months knitting each of my two children a personalised Nordic-ish style Christmas stocking. Christmas Eve, wee hours of Christmas Day even, I was still weaving in ends but they looked so sweet. I’d thought they needed blocking so I’d dampened/pinned them and then set them close to an electric heater to dry. By now, I was pretty tired… Managed to burn a charred, massive hole right over Santa’s face in one of them, ruined. But at least I didn’t burn the whole house down 😭🎄

This happened to me too! 4 photo frames each with 4 pics in on the stairs, one by one through the night fell and smashed completely.

My first ever grown-up flat, moving out from parents and sharing with various mates - standing on my own two feet, took me YEARS to save and afford my own furniture. Paying off all the big items monthly, as we had to do, but splurged on my perfect big, comfy CREAM coloured sofa, because it just looked so lovely and perfect; what I had always dreamed of!!!

So, I'm at work when the delivery is due to arrive - so ask Mum & Dad to wait in for it..... it arrives, and my Mum feels so sorry for the delivery drivers having to get it up one flight of stairs, she offered them all a coffee... trips with the tray in her hands and literally throws 5 mugs with milk in the bottom/ a full carafe of coffee/ bowl of sugar/ biscuits etc, ALL OVER my dreamy settee... by the time I arrived home, it was already totally ruined, and I remember the company offered me a voucher for just £5 off my next purchase, when I explained what had happened...couldn't afford a new one for YEARS, so it ended up covered in throws, looking much more knackered than the old hand-me-down it had replaced... I cried for AGES over that!!!

oh no! that's worse than mine! at least he got to wear it.

Some years ago I got a beautiful new phone, left it on table thinking our beloved dog was out of chewing stage, came back in and it was a mangled mess! Wasn't at all angry with dog, just myself! Xx

@JennyFromTheBlock238 that is truly heartbreaking! I can’t believe your mum didn’t replace it for you?