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 😩

Seems to be a theme about ripping kitchen flooring by moving freezers!

A melt? 🤣

@Whatmonth what make/ pattern is it? You never know a mumsnetter might have one lurking in a cupboard that they no longer use.

ClownsFear · Today 14:12

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

I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculated that it's a gold plated, copper bottomed, cast iron wanker. I may be wrong, of course...

You should have had it replaced on his insurance. He'd be insured for accidental damage.

Surely the normal amount of damage is ZERO ?

We bought a new coffee table, and a ceiling fan. My husband stood on the step ladder, hammer under arm, moved arm and the hammer fell, making three dents on the coffee table. Despite following all the hints to repair it, the marks remained. I never liked it since!

An ex's older sister, many years ago bought a brand new car and on her 20 mile journey home with it, whilst waiting to turn right, into her own street, a car rear ended her at 30-40mhp and wrote it off. She made a full recovery some months later.

Brand new carpet in the bedroom - I knocked over the hot wax pot after waxing my foof and despite heating it with an iron and attempting to blot it up with a towel there is a side plate sized patch of waxy flattened gunky carpet there.

New wine glasses. I shit you not, I broke one on the way back to the car.

I also dragged a piano over brand new Karndean flooring and scratched it.

Back when microwaves where a new thing my mum decided to get one. We where a fairly hard up single parent family so it was a real splurge. I decided to make a baked potato -I read the instructions (they where that new you didn't know how to use them) - 15 mins - fab - except it was 15 mins for FOUR - so yes it caught fire and melted the insides. I was the first one to use it.

My mum must have played a blinder in the shop because they replaced it free of charge. I was not allowed near it again!

EdithStourton

Similar, many years ago, I bought a giant cafetiere and it was shattered, when I opened the box, in the kitchen.

So many things over the years! Bought a white gloss coffee table and whilst cutting open a parcel with a sharp knife, it went through and cut a small gash in the table.

Once bought a new bed and drilled holes in the wrong side of the wooden headboard. It looked awful.

Brand new living room rug - cat threw up on it overnight so it had time to dry in and couldn't get it clean.

Also bought DW a new phone as a surprise. She was delighted, was on the phone to a friend whilst walking to the shop the next day when a dog jumped up at a gate she went past and she jumped so hard that she threw the phone, which shattered upon landing 🙃

Also a cat - my lovely black and white cat died and I missed him so much - we have 4 1/2 other cats but I saw one on the RSCPA website that was the image of my old black and white - 3 years old, good with other cats - fab.

Got him home and he was a dream, sat at my feet while I worked, loved cuddles - but when he finally met the other cats - turns out - not so great with other cats! He used to body slam them and actually spun one of my most nervous cats right round the kitchen floor!

I cried all the way back to the RSPCA with him

This happened just a few days ago and I am still very sore about it.

Was listening to music on my Apple pods when my boisterous puppy started acting up. Quickly took out the pods and popped them into the dish of my wax melt burner, went to deal with naughty puppy.

Guess who forgot she'd left them in the burner and went to light it later that night? Cooked them to death. RIP Apple pods.

@RJ2023 You need to get a solicitor involved. If neighbours know in the long term it is going to cost them money and hassle to keep using your space they may decide to back off and leave you be.

Perhaps also start a new thread in the legal section.

Good luck.

I'd wanted a vintage leather Chesterfield sofa for years - finally managed to get one in an absolutely gorgeous oxblood burgundy with metal studding down the back of the sofa as well as down the arms. It had been fully restored, polished etc before it was delivered and I'd had to wait a couple of months for it and then it had to be delivered 200 miles to get to me.

The delivery guys were really careful with it bringing it in (covered it with chamois sheets to protect it). I totally fell in love with it when I put it in place - then all of a sudden, my two very giddy Border Collies came bouncing into the room, up onto the sofa and left a huge deep scratch across one cushion, having somehow managed to move the soft throw that I'd placed there to stop the sofa from getting scratched.

I've given up being precious about my sofa now as one dog gets over-excited and literally uses the damn thing as a giant skateboard across the floor if he gets too excited.

I did that 20 years ago and still haven't replaced the carpet.

@ghostyslovesheets body slamming cats made me laugh!

We waited until our DD was 13 before letting her have a beautiful new pale grey carpet in her room.

The day after it was fitted, she dropped a whole pot of bronzer on it, then because she was scared to tell us, tried to clean it up with makeup wipes, which just rubbed it into the pile.

Stain still evident despite several shampoos, and that room won't be re-carpeted until she moves out!

picked up my new car and had to take DDog to vets later that day. she obviously took a dislike to the new environment, and shit all over the boot! she had even scraped away the blankets I had put down for her, so the shit was all on the actual interior 20 miles in. lovely 🤑

Years ago,I was a skint single mum
Ds really wanted a new aftershave for Christmas,and I saved for months-odd quid here,odd 50p there
I finally had the £45 it cost and rushed to boots
Proudly wrapped it up and put it under the tree
The big day arrived,he picked up the bottle,didn't even get as far as unwrapping it when he dropped it
Bottle smashed all over the floor and our house stank for months

Same ds,(much younger at the time)I bought a sofa from my mother's friend-her adult dd bought it,decided she didn't like it and sold it to me via her mum after 48 hours in her house

My father and I managed to get it in through the door and put it in place
Ds sat on it (stupidly with no nappy on) and pissed all over one of the seats
Paid to get it clean,and a few weeks after that,he got hold of the sudocrem (that I thought I'd put out of his reach)
My lovely black sofa was white-it still had white marks on it when it went to the tip a few years later

Bought lovely rattan garden furniture for a newly decked area in our garden. While putting the packaging in the bin one of our children smashed the back of a new chair in with a broom they had just decided to play with.
Husband bought me an exercise bike and set it up in the garage. While he came to get me to excitedly show me his purchase the youngest of the children got in it and smashed the controls.
New tv in the lounge, one of the children found a wooden ball and threw its straight into the middle of the tv.
There are so many. Me and husband have decided it's easier to just live in a hovel 🤣

He was a real thug - he span my little cat across the kitchen like a top - but he was such a cuddle bum as well - I know he would have gone to a lovely, cat free, home.