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 😩

Had lovely new curtains hung up. (EX) bf decided they would look better steamed as they were a bit creased. I said to leave it as would probably drop out over time.

he proceeded to wave a very hot iron at them to steam the crease out and melted a burnt edged massive hole. of course where did he start - right on the centre edge so it was bleeding obvious.
the design meant I couldn't switch them round.

I was very pissed off. I mean who melts a hole in curtains.

Bought a beautiful and expensive wooden bed frame and a lovely, expensive orthopaedic mattress to go with it. Between running to the bathroom cupboard to get the new sheets and back, the very large puppy did a very large piss right on the centre of the mattress.

I bought a car and collided with a bus less than 5 minutes later. My dad once bought a brand-new very fancy sports car, picked it up on a horribly stormy night and drove it straight into a central reservation.

Before I could even ride my new bike, my husband dropped something on it and took out some big chunks of paint and dented it, £3500 ruined!

I split with my partner and furnished my new house on a shoestring budget. Was using my very old 32 inch tv that my now deceased mother had bought me for university. A few months in, the screen went - I was quite upset but thought ‘you know what, I’ll treat myself to a fancy tv since everything here is second hand’. Got a lovely big screen, full 4k smart tv. It lasted 3 days out of the box, my toddler pushed it over from behind and the screen smashed beyond repair. Lesson learned about wasting money (and not having a solid/tied base to a tv - for how much it cost it should have more than little feet!).

Bought a light fitting I’ve wanted for ages, so excited to have something trendy instead of the plastic circles with white wires. I was giving the glass lampshades a clean before installing and gripped one too tight, it just shattered in my hand 😭. It cut my skin and I had to pick all the glass out the carpet. I bought it second hand and the manufacturer hasn’t responded about a replacement so it’s useless now 😭

New dyson v12 scratched and dinged up within 1 week of purchase. I blame build quality and not us
Jumper from hush shrunk after 1 wash and fit my 6 yr old as did not read care instructions. Washed at 40. Was meant to be handwashed.
Husband dented the boot of 2 new cars within 2 weeks of purchase.

Ohhhh that's a sort of comment my mum would make. I would have to leave the room and silently scream. 😂

Ordered a new car in 2019 but rather than just getting a grey/silver one as I usually do ordered a really unusual limited edition blue metallic that had a wait time of 15 weeks as it was a factory order. Pick up day arrived and I went to collect it from the dealers on the way home decided to pop into the supermarket walking round I though the registration number being announced on the tannoy was similar to the one on my new car then realised it was actually mine. Went to customer services to find that a HGV driver delivering an order to the shop had hit my car with his trailer causing £000's of damage it had to be recovered on a transporter back to the dealer it had left less than an hour before.

Small claims court would at least allow you to recoup some money, most big companies can't be bothered to contest there and pay up.

Our neighbours have form. Bought a new car and proudly drove into the garage, completely removing both wing mirrors as the car was too wide to fit. First outing in another new car; drove into a parking space and scraped the underneath of the front on the raised pavement. Did even more damage reversing the car out again.
Brand new conservatory, bird pooped on the window sill, so neighbour rushed out with some abrasive cleaner and scratched (deeply) a two foot length of the UPVC.
Had a new kitchen fitted and got an extremely expensive glass hob from John Lewis. Unpacked it and somehow knocked the corner off. They told JL that it had arrived in that condition and it was replaced, no problem. Once fitted, neighbour dropped a pan lid on it and it fractured the whole way across. Also, she put down a hot pan on the new wooden worktop and burned a ring into it. This was all within 24 hours of the kitchen being finished.
They were very difficult customers, always finding something to complain about (possibly to get money knocked off). They got a new three piece suite and had the manufacturer out multiple times to sort out all the 'issues'. Neighbour told me she was finally satisfied with the furniture and that evening her husband spilt a whole bottle of red wine over it!

Cat climbed the curtains we’d had made. They looked rubbish afterwards. When we moved I insisted on all Roman blinds to avoid a repeat.

cat also got to my fancy wicker laundry basket. It looks 100 years old now. 😠

Brand new kitchen fitted, cost over 20k, the day after the fitters left an upstairs shower decided to spring a huge leak and brought down the whole kitchen ceiling, insurance covered it thank god but after weeks of mess we were gutted to have to start again and rip out a bathroom as well🫣

You can get new lids for Brabantia bins, and for free, too, if they are new-enough. Brabantia are great IME.

Almost exactly the same scenario except we had had some fairly expensive vinyl flooring laid. I told OH to wait until I got the couple of pieces of laminate flooring from the garage which we used to move things easily, we'd used them even to slide it out on the old vinyl! Of course he didn't wait, gouged a massive tear and we had to have the whole lot replaced!

My house in Ipswich. Nothing was wrong when I viewed it.

However, the day I got the keys I excitedly went with my Mum and Dad to collect the keys from the estate agent, we drove up to my house and the neighbour had a car up on ramps being worked on in my parking spaces so we couldn't get in.

They now park cars right in the middle of the access to my parking spaces.

I posted a while ago about wanting to buy a car (debating between a manual or an automatic) but decided against it because of the hassle I am going to have trying to access my property.

I worked so hard to buy the place - commuting from Ipswich to London from 6am and getting home at 10pm every day. I feel hugely depressed and at times suicidal about the whole thing :(

I am really sorry for the highly depressing tone of the above but I just wanted to write down something that has been upsetting me for years. If anyone has any advise on what I should do I would really appreciate it.

Beautiful large rug, circa £500 down one week, dog had diahorrea all over it. Did in fact clean it and still have it, but was a pain to do.
New hob, it's a while ago but around £600 I left a plastic mixing bowl on it and hob was warm, it melted, ruined hob, still have plastic mixing bowl.
New TV, I put a candle too close, ruined.

I put gothic candle sconces above a fireplace, used for years no issues. One night I looked up and the wall was on fire. Scared the shit out of me, I've never used candles since. Cost loads to clean, repaint, fill in holes from sconces etc.

Bought a new weighted blanket, dog got urine infection, pissed on it, again washed it and just fine but it had to go to launderette which is a pain, it was heavy, think 11kilos so no chance in my own machine, and getting it to launderette and paying almost as much as it cost me new argh.

Brand new kitchen, finally fitted previous day, I took a bottle of wine out and proceeded to turn round super quick and shatter that bottle on the edge of the worktop. Left a tiny gash that pisses me off every day.

Brand new sofa, my first ever brand new, I'd always had second hand before, sat down with pint of lager, yep, dropped entire pint on sofa.

Theres way more but I cant remember them all right now.

We have such a similar story. New ensuite, DH putting up the last over sink mirrored cupboard with fancy LEDs and demister. Dropped it and cracked a corner and left a dink in the new sink 😠. Still put it up, but the crack and dink aggravate me every time.

Sounds like you have multiple depressed cats. Do you lock them inside without outside access a lot?

I spent several months with bare concrete for a kitchen floor after a leak. It took us forever to save up, and then decide on, the new flooring.
It was finally fitted then, that same afternoon, DH and I manoeuvred the fridge freezer back into place and promptly ripped the new vinyl flooring. In two places.

Bought a beautiful dress, a black on with a lace overlay, wore it once....my husband put it in the dryer and completely ruined it! 🤦🏼‍♀️ He was absolutely devastated to be fair.

New UPVC French doors and I put a patio heater too close and melted one .

@Whatmonth made me laugh!

Wore a brand new dress the other day. Lit a match to light a candle, head of lit match flew off and burnt a big hole in the dress. Dress now in the bin.

New sofa. DH leaked ink onto protective armcap, he then soaked the armcap with water while it was still on the sofa. Grey sofa now has a blue arm.