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 😩

Built an office/workshop in my garage. Chose lovely cushioned thick vinyl flooring. So pretty and comfortable.

The day after it was fitted I wheeled a chest freezer over it. The floor tore like tissue paper, I cried. Since then I’ve dropped things and every single thing I drop damages it more. Completely impractical.

@DevilsKitchen I actually frame pictures in my lovely workshop with the torn floor. I tell people not to hang them with command strips. They often ignore me. I make a lot of money from command strip repairs and replacements!

Had our new car for 4 days when I scraped it down a bollard in the gym car park

Absolutely gutted

I know it can be fixed but still
What a muppet.

I had this (at the time) amazingly cool faux snakeskin coat from Karen Millen, in a kind of teal/bluegreeen colour. Birthday gift, I think it was more than £100 which was a lot for me and my family back then. (Late 90s)
On the second time I wore it some utter cunt burnt a hole the size of a 2p coin in it with a fag. I was too pissed to realise at the time, so next morning awoke to the evidence and bawled my eyes out!
I also had a gorgeous faux fur and lambskin cream and white trapper style hat, another gift. Lost it on the first night out. Waaahhh!!!
Cried a river and got an exact replacement (happy days!) only lose the second one within 2 weeks of use. 🙃
That's more, but believe me you're not alone.

@Whatmonth buy the teapot!

Got a Leaning Tower of Pisa glass for my Dad, carried it for over a month interrailing round Europe.

Dropped it just before going into their house.

Guess it wasn’t ruined instantly. But before I could actually give it as a gift!

Got a guy off Facebook market place to wallpaper a wall In my living room and the bottom half of the dining room. Living room wall looks awful, not straight under the coving. Big dirty mark at the top of one sheet. I'm waiting for them to finish the dining room and leave so I can strip it again and get someone else to do it. 😵‍💫 wish I'd waited for the guy we know is good to do it but I wanted it done asap 😱 I could've done it better myself

Our new car. Picked it up from the dealer. Drove home. Parked up while we figured out what all the controls were for, Next door neighbour reversed straight into it and stove the back in. Great!

I reversed my car over all my birthday presents once.

@AppleCream In all these past 45 years the only damage is to a coffee mug which has a small chip and one of the lids to a casserole dish disappeared when we moved.
Both I've been able to replace.

I have just purchased the teapot and told DH do not go near it.
Ok it might never be used but it's the only piece of the set I don't have.

I bought a really expensive bottle of perfume as a treat to myself (cost about £120), Got it out but my hands were a bit slippery from using moisturiser, dropped it in the sink and the entire thing smashed and most of it went down the plughole.

The bathroom did smell lovely for a while though 😡

When DearSaluki was a puppy...

New pair of RocketDog trainers... asked DP to put them out of reach (I cannot reach the 'out of puppy reach' shelf)... he said 'yep I'll do it in a sec...'

She ate one of them.

Bought another pair, same design... repeat, this time I tried to insist he did it there and then. His PDA kicked in, we had an argument about it, he swore she wouldn't eat them.

She ate one of them (same one too so I couldn't make a pair with the other!)...

I bought three pairs, all told... she ate them all, then they stopped doing that particular colour-way. I did get a pair in a similar stripe but slightly different colour... but they just weren't the same.

And now I can't wear trainers anyway, I have to wear bootee type slippers...

She's never touched a single one of those. Mmm.

New TV about 12 years ago, one of those plasma screen ones - one week in, and toddler unleashing his inner Morrissey swinging a plastic microphone round his head cracked the screen. Wasn't covered ( subsequent one was! ). The worst thing was knowing that if he'd done the same thing to the milk-bottle glass screen of the old TV, it would have been fine!

DH buys you it!!!

How about an old irreplaceable thing in addition to a new thing? My dad had an aunt who did the most glorious fairisle and he had a jumper from his youth that I was given. My mum-serial.shrinker of clothes, washed it one day when I was at school. Needless to.say my niece had a very well dressed doll. Then-years later- I made myself a lovely unstructured blazer in camel wool crepe. It was gorgeous. Again the curse of mum struck. It didn't even need washing!

Not exactly "ruined" but just before I gave birth I bought a brand new laptop. A couple of weeks later my husband and I went to visit family and the train arrived at the station we needed to get off at whilst I was mid-breastfeed. I was still getting to grips with positioning etc., so it was really quite difficult to unlatch, do up my buttons enough not to be indecent and grab all our bags, all the while with a very angry newborn in my arms. It was only when we were on the platform that we realised the bag with the laptop in it was still on the train. We did try to get it back but somebody must have decided finders keepers.

@IWillBeWaxingAnOwl it's a joint account so in effect he has paid half.

My own fault. Ruined stainless steel effect fridge freezer by cleaning it with bleach spray

Get the teapot.

Just make sure you don’t leave its side until its locked away. (Which dinner set was it? I did the same back in the 80’s with a Wedgwood creamware set, sadly all gone now, one way or another.)

For my 40th, H bought me a BMW convertible (second hand but it was my dream car). The first time reversing it out of our narrow driveway I scraped the entire right hand side and knocked the wing mirror off. I was so embarrassed that I drove it straight to a garage then told him I was going out for birthday drinks after work so would have to leave the car at work and get a taxi back home. Picked it up the next day after it was fixed and he never did find out.

Bought a lovely standard lamp base which had the wiring built in. Was about £300.
My son ‘helped’ me unpack it by snipping through all the many ties that were attaching it to the complicated packaging. He had to cut really hard for one of the ties. Yes it was the cord to the plug 😭. Had to get an electrician to repair it and cost loads.

Our brand new car parked in our driveway. Our fencing/back gate there was very rickety. One night we had a storm, so we made sure the gate was closed properly when we saw it was forecasted.

Unfortunately, during the storm, the entire structure loosened, and the blew wide open. The metal latch scraped against the car door, making a lovely dent/scratch on the paintwork 😩. That structure was ripped down the following down by my husband!

DH and I bought our first house and kept back money from the deposit to get ourselves a couple of nice bits. We forked out for a brand new American fridge freezer in brushed chrome. The grill door was left open by DH and fridge door swung into it leaving a very noticeable dent and scratch. The same week I managed to scratch our new TV whilst we were putting it up. Several years later and I still see the scratch every time the screen goes a bit dark.

Like a PP I also managed to kerb my car recently for the first time in my life. The place we bought it from had repaired and resprayed the rims just before we took it home. Gutted.

Went to pick up a brand new VW Golf, it was the first time I could drive after having had a C-section with DD. Pulled onto our drive and managed to scrape the whole passenger side on the gate post. Horrified, I re-corrected, reversed away from the gate post and managed to scrape the whole driver's side. I burst into tears! DH was very sweet and just put it down to sleep deprivation.

About 50 years ago I bought myself a lovely long length leather coat. The shop reserved it for me and I was able to pay for it weekly every pay day which took a good while as it was expensive. The week after I made the final payment and collected it I wore it to watch a carnival procession. It rained heavily all evening and I got drenched. The collar and lapels of the coat wrinkled because of the wet and remained that way permanently. I was gutted.

Brand new carpet installed in the morning. In the evening DH decided to rearrange the coals in the gas fire as it wasn’t burning properly. Dropped one on the brand new carpet where it left a burn mark.

Xmas day and my present was a kitchenaid. DS1 switched it on to show it to my mother but it hadn’t been switched off at the appliance and the beater destroyed the whisk attachment. I hadn’t used it at this point.

I found the front basket from my old bike which was rusty and tired but I’d never found one to replace it. DH spent ages getting it into shape and then had it coated. I went to try it on my new bike, tripped over nothing and dropped the immaculate object, denting it and chipping a bit of the coating off

DS2 fitted a new toilet for us. He dropped his drill when tidying up and smashed the cistern.

We are all as bad as each other