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 😩

not money but blood sweat and tears. I cannot knit except at snails pace...never have been able to, never will. When I was still dating my late DH, I knitted him a sweater and he is was a big bloke. I did 8 rows a day every single bloody day all myself until it was done. he loved it, he wore it....first time I washed it it shrunk! thats some 50 years ago and it still stings.

I was waiting for a new (to me) car to be delivered to the dealer. On arriving to pick it up, the last car on the transporter had somehow rolled off, through the floor to ceiling plate glass and totaled another 3 cars (and desks/computers) inside the show room.

Mine was luckily fine...

DH did this - he put the fan from the wood burner on the carpet and melted it 😩 we can't even cover it due to where it is so we just ignore it, haha.

A few days after my Dad had died I was having a cleaning frenzy and picked up DHs laptop that was state of the art and dropped it. It broke in two the screen was all pixelated. I was horrified.

I don't get it.

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar I* *have a Brabantia bin and their guarantee is excellent - I emailed them when my bin clasp went and they sent me a new lid in the post for free. Was a few years later and I’d no receipt or anything. Worth a try!

I reversed into the side of my husbands 6 day old BMW because I was arguing with my nine year old about his spelling book! Gutted and £600 to fix the damage.

oh I do......

I'm a smoker but I fucking hate when people do that. Completely right to be pissed about it for 27 years 😂

My first induction hob. Beautiful black and shiny. First use dh slid something over it with rough edge and there was a huge foot long scratch on it. For weeks on end it bugged me and I'd give dh evil eyes every time I cleaned the hob. Still got the same hob 10 years on and can't see it anymore.

ds new £100+ football boots, told him to put them away safe. Ended up being a very expensive labrador puppy chew toy before he had even worn them.

Is it a Tesla? If so, same here 😩. We’re on our 2nd one and it’s happened to both of them. Never curbed any of the many cars we’ve had in over 40yrs of driving ……

Not ruined , but lost .

Years ago , when my son was younger and I was a struggling single mum I got him a school coat from Next. It was £40. At the time it was a lot of money for me - it was the same I spent on a weekly shop - I was really broke. I was even happy about the fact the teachers would see the next label ! It sounds crazy to me now . But I sent him in it on the first day and he came home without it. It was never found . I was so upset.

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!

@Whatmonth get your teapot, you've been waiting long enough. But tell your DH on pain of death to not even look at it, nevermind touch it😅

Many years ago my parents bought a brand new car (first and only time ) driving it home somebody rear ended them. Had 18 miles on the clock.

On more than one occasion I have bought new, reasonably expensive sunglasses and dropped them outside the shop taking labels off 🤦🏼‍♀️

I bought a green twirly pile rug (only IKEA, but still) to play indoor picnics on during rainy days when the DC were small. Went out to shops, came home to find DCat had diarrhoea'd all over it. Soaked right into the pile and I couldn't face trying to clean it.

As a teenager I saved up money from my Saturday job to buy a new pair of FU jeans( family had very tight finances). Wore them once and washed them. In a hurry to go after that and desperate to wear them, I placed them very close to gas fire and burnt a huge hole in them at the knees. I was sooooooo upset

My son got his first new iPhone .he was absolutely thrilled We got home from the Apple shop and he went down to our cellar which has open treads on the stairs .While running back up the stairs his phone fell out of his pocket and smashed .The following day we went back to Apple to have the screen repaired .Even they were gobsmacked at how quickly he had managed to smash it,

Husbands nearly new car..second time out hit a metal bar on road which made a big scrape on side. I reasoned with him that all London cars get scraped sooner or later..his was just sooner!

When I was younger I treated myself to an expensive (for me) handbag for £195.

On its first outing I put it down on the ground for a moment and straight into dog poo.

Ignore the scuff. I have lost new things just bought left them in bags somewhere while I looked at something else. They never even made it home. I used to stress over any imperfections in things but it’s not worth it. I had a watch mended the other day got it home and it has a scratch on the face could swear it wasn’t there before but can’t prove it so I wear it it works I am a blind old bat so can’t really see it. Enjoy your pics avert your eyes to the fault.

bought some stuff in duty free. £180, before we flew out for a week. Lost the bag in the airport and didn’t notice until we were abroad.

I’m bitter. I rarely treat myself. I doubt it will be in lost and found when we get back.

New (to me) car.

within a week a tile had fallen off the roof and dented the back bumper, and some cunt had nicked the hub caps.

I usually buy cheaper glasses but last summer I saw an absolutely beautiful pair. They cost £120 which is a lot of money for me. Got a free pair of prescription sunglasses too and wore those mostly.

Needed my glasses, asked my nephew (who was 7 at the time) if he'd nip out to the car and grab them for me. He opened the case on the drive and dropped them straight onto concrete, scratching both lenses badly. I hadn't even worn them.

(don't worry, I didn't tell him off or anything - it was a genuine accident and he was just as upset as me!)

2 spring to mind, the first was 25 years ago, we moved into our new (to us) home and obviously were skint. Discovered the previous owner had moved out and damaged the garage door so it was at an angle so couldn't move up or down, it was an integral garage so was a security problem, that was bad enough but we sent the DC out to play (3 yo and 9yo) in the garden and they smashed the kitchen window with a football. We were even more skint after sorting those issues out.

Second one was a couple of years ago when I bought my first ever brand new car. Due to pick it up at 2pm and at 1pm got a phone call to say whilst it was having its final clean a guy reversed it into a post and wrecked the bumper. Finally got it a week later, but they did throw in a few extras. I am far more philosophical about possessions now.