Things you have bought that were immediately shite (Christmas/New Year Edition)

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Bought beautiful new bedsheets. Reduced in the sale, gorgeous colours with toadstools on them, felt ok in the shop.
Got them home, washed them and they have gone shiny 🤬 like the kind of static shiny so that your duvet ends up in a weird shape and you're rolled up like a stuck sweating pig.

Am absolutely gutted (and furious 😠) and hoping a trip to Homesense will cure me of my wierd shiny-bedsheet-hate.

One thing I nearly bought - but didn’t, thanks to amazon reviews, for a little Gds for Christmas (he was still at the chuck-and-bash stage) was a dinosaur with light-up red eyes and a growl.

So I was very grateful to the reviewer who said it hadn’t even lasted until the turkey was out of the oven!

Agree that chocolates weren't nice. I had Heroes (not too bad) and Celebrations (disappointing) and M&S (not great either).

On the plus side, we still have a box of Lindor which hopefully will be good.

Or take the US plug off and replace it with a UK plug, we had to do this with a lot of European plugs when we returned from Germany.

Not the point of the thread but I love Avon's Incredible Lengths mascara...I try others periodically but always return to it.
Bet they discontinue it now 🤪

Try turning the engine on, one of my cars had to be running to get the compressor to work.

I just ate about 10 Quality Street chocolates from the Christmas box in quick succession, and now feel slightly sick.

There's a lesson there, but damned if I know what it is ....

That link has a CF who wants to sell one she 'borrowed' which encounter all sorts of mishaps!

They do if you use them right. You need to chill the drink you are using and freeze the inner cup beore trying. They work great. I've even done frozen Kopaberg (classy bird me)

Yes, I followed the instructions but it seems my socket is dead. I did wonder why the compressor that came with the car had to be attached to the battery!

if a ‘proper’ mathmos (I think) lamp, they take hours to heat up and blob.

A friend who we met 50 years ago still has the one she was using then! My daughter, now 44, was desperate for us to buy one, it's a Moulinex if that company still exists.

I remember buying those for our daughters who are now mid-40s and they didn't work then either.

Snoozeband. Rubbish won’t stay around my ears and I can still hear dh snoring. Breathing koala toy for dd, she loves it but if she rolls on it it starts up and wakes me up so then I’m listening to two things snoring all night.

Yes this is true

Sometimes your bra clasp causes these tiny holes in the washing machine. I always fasten my bras before washing. Not saying it's that, but it was in my case. Fabric is so thin nowadays, it's almost see-through!

Quality Street: disgusting and wtf is with the wrappings? The only nice thing about them was the shiny see through wrappers. They never tasted that nice anyway but at least the wrappers had that nostalgia feel, taking you back to when they were actually a treat. Now...I would not usually throw away chocolate but in the bin I am afraid. My DS won't even eat them.

A £16.50 chocolate roulade from "Cook" the frozen food brand. Looked lovely in the shop. But on eating, not a scrap of meringue to be found, and the rest was just an overly expensive, quite average gateaux. Ended up throwing the last third in the bin as no one wanted to waste the calories on it.

Exactly this. Never again.

M&S Yule log at about £20 😱
Didn't pay too much attention to the price at the time, but 3/4 of it is still sitting there uneaten. Kids won't eat it. Not surprised. It is far too sweet and sickly.

I buy from our local 'junk shop', a place that sells things you've not seen for many years, a pack of 4 rolls of double sided tape for £1.50, it's quite thin so you can tear if off easily. I can't bear seeing loads of tape on parcels and this holds like gorilla tape, according to my grandson!

Life's too short to wash brand-new items (bedding, towels, etc).

The Americans used to do a queen size, but perhaps that's our king, rather than super-king? Also IKEA bedding is differently sized to UK.

Years ago a friend made a rice ring for a dinner party and it was inedible. To get the pink colour as per the picture she used Tabasco, which was in the recipe as a flavouring, instead of food colouring as the recipe said.

A heated gilet. When utter met crap. Destructions were shyte, eventually got it working only for it to fail. Although the power bank was fully charged prior to use, it drained to a paltry 11% within seconds & refused to turn on. Back it's gone. Rubbish.

Oh we had this last year with a projector, v disappointed DD