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.

Yes it is a Helios. Maybe I’m just picky or weak and you’ll love yours 😆

Just noticed the refund amount is now £28 too 😑 ffs

I sadly lost the receipt, guess I got a dud.

I did think of this but my laziness got the better of me, I'm not bad at repairing seams so may give it a go.

You could have put two of the meals in the freezer until you wanted to eat them. You could have cooked them from frozen or they would have been fine defrosted in the fridge for 24 hours then cooked straight away.

Have you measured the cover? Because king size is different across brands.
Even with Christy the king size can be 10cm different.

My own kingsize quilt is 225 x220, yet most covers come at 200 x220 annoyingly.

All gifts this year were a hit. Food as well aside from M & S Very Jelly munch. Nice tin but contents did not taste great. Will reuse the tin and fill with own contents going forward.

Samsung 2 in 1 hoover/ mop thing. Over £300, I've had it less than 6 months and it no longer sprays water so it now only functions as a hoover. Piece of absolute shite.

Thanks , I have bought one now .
It's still annoying tho , why sell to the UK market if you can't provide the goods .

You can return a faulty item up to six months from the date of purchase. A faulty product is separate from the standard returns window which is for people who just don't like the item, changed their mind etc. You need to contact Amazon Customer Services to get it sorted.

One of those manual vegetable chopper things

You have to cut onion in half to fit then press down really hard. Never works for me
Okay with cucumber as softer

Quicker using a knife

We use a firestick in our projector for netflix etc

Check your washing machine. Sounds like something is sharp in there

Dog ball that freely moves around randomly- dog picked it up with his mouth and it instantly disintegrated. £30 and he used it for precisely 15 seconds this morning.

Have you tried ones like this? I buy them every few years and they are a God send for me. I hate chopping onions and garlic. Can finely chop 5/6 onions in less than 45 seconds. Even fake them on self catering holidays. I don’t rate the ones that are popular on TikTok. The other type also take up too much space in cupboard/dishwasher.

My knife skills have massively deteriorated since owning one

I also bought that from Hamleys a few years ago and it was fantastic. We used it loads, it must have been a faulty one.

Attachment would be helpful

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Can't help but wonder if you are involved in the other ' Should she replace it threads ' 🤔😄

Jeans from Zara - washed once and they’ve gone bobbly. FFS. This is after I carefully checked they were 100% cotton with no sneaked-in elastane (droopy) or lyocell (freezing cold). How can denim be this crap?

No way. I've been wearing that every day for decades!

I love the cheese bakes! I haven't had that one though, usually just get the plain

I kind of agree with you although there was a warning on the inappropriate ones, they were labelled “ adult content” or “ over 18” - can’t remember exact wording. My family, mixed ages with some older parents and young adults, found most of these hilarious especially if the person who guessed it was too embarrassed to say it out loud!

I felt it was an expensive, one off game as once you had worked out a card, I’m sure you would remember it next time you played. We also worked out how to
“ read” the card to guess the phrase - most of the cards used the same technique to jumble up the phonics. I’m not going to give it away but I used to be a teacher and taught phonics so maybe easier for me!

Sainsburys Coffee and salted caramel pudding- yak! synthetic coffee taste and teeth meltingly sweet- unredeemable- binned after one mouthful

Neom room diffuser and luxury candle.
Absolutely no smell at all from either.

So disappointing as it was a gift for me to celebrate a special occasion

I know, same here! Supposed to be this classic, iconic 'suit anybody' colour and looks really rubbish on me and makes my lips feel dry.