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New things that got instantly ruined

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DevilsKitchen · 13/07/2024 12:04

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 😩

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Lolaandbehold · 14/07/2024 19:43

Brand new car, a lovely angry black colour. Scuffed by a white van on one side (I think)and a white car (motorway) on the other. Both sides have now got white scratches/scrapes over both back wheels. Been quoted £1600 to fix which we will probably pay because its isn’t worth losing our NCB.

Santina · 14/07/2024 19:43

Spend £1800 on a bag, wore it with a pair of new blue jeans and the dye from the jeans stained the bag 😭

exaltedwombat · 14/07/2024 19:48

minsmum · 13/07/2024 12:56

I had saved for years for a new kitchen, used all my savings.My mum came to have a look the day it was finished, I went to answer the door and she put a hot saucepan down on the wooden work top. Devastated

Bless. But what’s the point of a kitchen surface that you can’t put hot things on? Ok, a bedroom table (though even that ought to survive a coffee cup). But a KITCHEN?

MoonWoman69 · 14/07/2024 19:52

Was going to post my own... Until I read your post @TiroirSousLeMiroir
Everything else on here seems really trivial in comparison. I am so sorry. Absolutely heartbreaking ❤💐

NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/07/2024 19:55

Spent a fortune on a large, hand knitted baby blue lambswool blanket as something nice for me.

The then boyfriend visited on the Wednesday and said 'this is lovely, can I take it home with me? I get cold at night'. No. He didn't look happy about it at all.

By the end of the week when he was due to go home, I walked into the kitchen to find him 'doing my washing'. Except my lambswool blanket was in there on a boil wash, the malevolent little prick.

tuvamoodyson · 14/07/2024 19:59
Falling Down Film GIF

I’ll send my husband round…he isn’t called The Destroyer for nothing 😩

Bignanna · 14/07/2024 20:15

dutysuite · 13/07/2024 14:07

New plastered and freshly painted wall damaged when granite worktop was installed,
bath chipped when tiler dropped a tile in the bath, shower surround dented when plumber dropped it on his head…I was just glad he was ok with this one! Dent still there. Bathroom sink cracked by carpenter when he cut the units of which he also cut too big! Alloy wheels damaged and two tyres punctured on new car when driving out of my road at night and a kerb stone had dislodged. Alloy wheels further scratched when having new tyres fitted. Freshly painted walls scratched when carpet men decided to put their tools up against the wall…same with new worktops workmen love to put their tools on them for some reason! Asked workman to hang a huge mirror, rather than using the holes already in the mirror he decided to drill the back of the mirror to insert screws, basically he totally f**ked it up, although the drill holes can’t be seen it was an antique mirror! Most of these things I’ve had to pay myself for the repairs.

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Didn’t the workmen put things right?

JennyFromTheBlock238 · 14/07/2024 20:32

@DevilsKitchen Thank you, but they were "poor pensioners" by this point (I had an older Mum) so that was never a possibility... have never been brave enough to purchase an equivalent, even now, 15 years later - it still cuts deep!!!

tommyhoundmum · 14/07/2024 20:40

whirlyhead · 13/07/2024 12:24

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!!

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whirlyhead Your buildings insurance should have covered that accident.

MaidOfAle · 14/07/2024 20:41

Whatmonth · 13/07/2024 12:57

First year of marriage I started to buy one piece a month of a very expensive dinner set. (£5 per saucer in 1979)
Second year I was able to purchase the teapot.
Got it home and placed it on the window ledge while sorting out the cupboard.
DH decided to open the window and knocked it off.
Third year mum bought it for me as a Christmas present.
Opened it on Christmas morning and placed it on a low table.
1 hour later DH broke it again.
Then children came along and other things needed to be bought.

We are into the 30th year it had been discontinued.
Found one on eBay second hand.
Arrived and you guessed it DH dropped it.

We have been married for 45 years and I have found another on eBay big question do I get it or not.
The rest of the dinner set which we use everyday is still in good condition.
Only thing missing is the teapot.
Maybe I don't need a teapot but it will go in the wall unit by the coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl.

Buy the teapot and keep it in its shipping box surrounded by bubble wrap until the divorce comes through.

MaidOfAle · 14/07/2024 20:44

exaltedwombat · 14/07/2024 19:48

Bless. But what’s the point of a kitchen surface that you can’t put hot things on? Ok, a bedroom table (though even that ought to survive a coffee cup). But a KITCHEN?

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If you put a hot pan on melamine, it would scorch. And a hot pan on granite would likely crack it. You can buy these metal grid things that you put on the worktop to protect it.

ilovegranny · 14/07/2024 20:44

My first brand new car. Evil stepdaughter pulled into our drive to drop off her daughter and dog for the weekend. Pulled huge dog crate out of her boot and whacked it against my new car door. Laughed her head off, told me I was being dramatic, (I was actually silent, if stony-faced) and too attached to ‘things’.

greenwoodentablelegs · 14/07/2024 20:53

White and black Liberty silk dressing gown, birthday present from DH, £250 about 20 years ago. Put it on and go sit outside on the edge of our pond. Somehow gets massive oil stain on it. Ruined. Get it dyed grey, mainly hides the stain - still using it and it is still beautiful

VK456 · 14/07/2024 21:05

Got a new (to me) car and even paid extra to have a lifelong shiny coating applied.
Took it to show some friends who’d asked to see it. The car has a much longer bonnet than I’m used to, so when I was leaving, I asked one of them to guide me off their drive. They did. Straight into the side of a neighbour’s rockery.

Mylifesadrama · 14/07/2024 21:05

Brand new car. Within 5 days I’d managed to scrape all of the black paint work leaving huge white scrape marks down the side, by misjudging the garden wall to the driveway

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DevilsKitchen · 14/07/2024 21:17

@MaidOfAle @exaltedwombat most kitchen worktops can withstand a reasonable amount of heat but I thought it was common knowledge that you don’t put things straight from the oven onto the worktop. I have a solid wood chopping board that I leave on the counter to put hot things on - leaving it out means it is always accessible and I find it easier to serve from than a trivet (the silver grid things).

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MaidOfAle · 14/07/2024 21:23

DevilsKitchen · 14/07/2024 21:17

@MaidOfAle @exaltedwombat most kitchen worktops can withstand a reasonable amount of heat but I thought it was common knowledge that you don’t put things straight from the oven onto the worktop. I have a solid wood chopping board that I leave on the counter to put hot things on - leaving it out means it is always accessible and I find it easier to serve from than a trivet (the silver grid things).

Thanks for the object name. I had no idea what they were called, I just saw them in ProCook and thought "I need those for under my pans".

bumbledeedum · 14/07/2024 21:35

Funfaxfan · 13/07/2024 12:58

Every single thing we own gets ruined within minutes. Now I just see it as better to get it over with. We just got a new car. I'm tempted to just drive it into a wall on purpose so I don't have to worry about ruining it.

😂😂😂😂that made me chuckle

Howdidtheydothat · 14/07/2024 21:38

New car, stone chipped windscreen less than 2 hours after purchase (I took it for a motorway run), puncture on day 2. It stopped feeling like a new car immediately.

gleefulstar · 14/07/2024 21:40

KreedKafer · 13/07/2024 12:58

I bought a hedge trimmer a couple of years ago and, within five minutes, accidentally cut through the power cable.

I did this too. A friend fixed it for me and it did the same thing again 🤦🏼‍♀️

Lyraloo · 14/07/2024 21:43

I bought a brand new double oven, I unpacked it on the kitchen floor whilst waiting for the electrician. Thinking I’d just have a look in the main oven, I opened the door and it hit the tiled floor and literally exploded into a thousand tiny pieces. 😱

Ilovecleaning · 14/07/2024 21:47

Miloandfreddy · 13/07/2024 12:08

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 😭😭

Did you kill him?

CandidHedgehog · 14/07/2024 21:48

NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/07/2024 19:55

Spent a fortune on a large, hand knitted baby blue lambswool blanket as something nice for me.

The then boyfriend visited on the Wednesday and said 'this is lovely, can I take it home with me? I get cold at night'. No. He didn't look happy about it at all.

By the end of the week when he was due to go home, I walked into the kitchen to find him 'doing my washing'. Except my lambswool blanket was in there on a boil wash, the malevolent little prick.

I hope you dumped him on the spot.

Ilovecleaning · 14/07/2024 21:48

JustPleachy · 13/07/2024 12:09

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.

OMG. I hope you made a claim!

ColinMyWifeBridgerton · 14/07/2024 21:49

Myfairyhanny · 13/07/2024 13:22

Saved hard to buy a beautiful brand new plush three piece suite. It was delivered on Xmas Eve. It looked beautiful with the tree, the lights and our lovely sofa which was everything we wanted. That night husband came home with friends after being to the pub. One of his less salubrious mates shat himself. Whilst sitting on the brand new settee. Although it was sponged off to try and clean it was never the same and I never forgave the friend. I cried for ages every time I thought about it!

Oh my god, the shit of a friend should have paid!!