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.

My husband had the same issue with his last year and connecting it directly to the router via an Ethernet cable has totally fixed it, he loves it now

I bought new bedding in the sale too. Super soft 💯 cotton. It was horrible! Really rough and cheap feeling. It’s been returned already.

I am also the sort of person who walks away and forgets things are cooking. I find it use my "Clever Chef" for rice and pasta for this reason as it switches itself off and my Ninja Speedi for baked/ airfry etc. To solve my boiled egg issue, I use a pan on the hob, put the eggs in cold water and put on high. Once the water is boiling I ask Alexa to set a timer for 3 minutes. The eggs nearly always come out spot on and I get a good loud alarm for warning.

That’s your washing machine making holes.. are you overfilling?

Take it back to Aldi if you have the receipt, they are pretty good about returns.

Hi guys I'm new to this site, when I'm reading posts I don't know what the abrivations mean, I know mil. But the others I'm just guessing. Would be very helpful if someone could fill me in please 😊?

Card factory, £1.99 for one like they use in offices/at a florists etc. makes wrapping so much easier.

Nickel has been banned from use in jewellery in the EU and UK for many years now. There are white gold alloys that don’t contain nickel.

Alloys bought abroad (including US) or from cheap imports on Etsy, Temu etc may still contain nickel.

Maybe start a thread?

My husband bought me the new Apple Watch for Christmas from John Lewis. He bought it with gift vouchers because he gets a work discount when he buys John Lewis vouchers, so it saved a bit of money. As requested by me, he ordered the rose gold one with a blush pink small/medium strap. When I opened it in Christmas Day they’d sent a silver one with a denim medium/large strap. Have only just received the refund after sending it back, but the watch he actually ordered has been out of stock since Christmas and has gone up £20 since he bought it. Can’t buy it from anywhere else either because we’ll be stuck with John Lewis gift vouchers, so I have yet to have a Christmas present and apparently they have no idea when they’ll get more in stock. First world problems, but really disappointing on Christmas morning as I’d been looking forward to getting it since he ordered it in November. John Lewis refused to refund in cash so I could buy it elsewhere and didn’t even apologise.

How can you overfill ?

I was given one and love it! not red wine for me. I use along with my usual chapstick

I bought a pack of mirrors from amazon during covid times planning on decorating a whole bedroom wall as I'd seen someone doing online. I received about 7 mirrors made of plastic, each the size of a 50p

This happened to me last year with Tesco’s and the card factory’s wrapping paper but the I found the ones I bought this year from Sainsbury’s were really easy to open with no damage to my gel nails or wasting loads of paper.

Satin 'Elphaba' pyjamas from Asda for DD who's a massive wicked fan, she went to put them on first time and they'd split down the seam at the back. Luckily top still had tags on so returned them, didn't have the same ones so got the pink Glinda ones. Worn once, washed as per instructions and both the top and bottoms have frayed and come apart down all the seams. Absolute rubbish.

Agree! I adore mine. You need to be using a nice lip mask overnight to get your lips really soft and then it glides on like a dream. The colour also looks better if your lips are smooth and uniform I find. I use the Laneige overnight lip mask (admittedly I got this for free with an online order from Look Fantastic - I added it to my basket and then removed it and for some reason they still sent it to me along with my other items, I’d never pay for it as it’s so pricey lol).

I used to always buy a couple of white poinsettias from Dobbies, can't stand anything red, but this year they had none prior to their closure, however I saw some pink/white ones in Lidl and they've been fantastic, even thriving on my neglect, one especially is still going strong.

I agree with this , they take quite a while to get going.
Go careful when they are working at full steam , they get very hot .
My brilliant DB bought me a candle operated one , is small so gets going quicker . This has been lit for about ½ - ¾ of a hr .

I bought them and like you i was deeply disappointed, like a giant Walnut whip thingy, waste of money and very non-descript

Second this! I have had mine 18 months and it still keeps my drink hot for hours.

If I don't manage to get sausage meat form the butcher then I use ordinary ones with the skin removed and mashed up but in both cases I add a very finely chopped onion and something like smoked paprika. Puff pastry needs a hot over but make sure the 'seams' are well closed otherwise they burst open!

Didn't people say that M and S were massively reducing from the afternoon of the 23rd, which is probably why there wasn't much left on 24th!

I got sucked into buying this about eight years ago after reading rave reviews on Mumsnet and beyond - "suits anyone!" "best lipstick ever!"

Nope - dried out my lips and made my mouth look like a dog's bottom. Awful.

Anyway, I didn't buy or receive anything disappointing - but I've just managed to send back a return to the wrong company. Argh!

A new toaster that a normal slice of bread won’t fit in. It’s so annoying you have to keep popping it up and turning the bread round. It’s always hard and unevenly cooked by the time you are done. I want to throw it out of the window!!!

I got my toddler a mermaid costume as a Santa present. She wore the dress for an hour on Christmas Day and the hem started to rip. She wore it again on Boxing Day and it ripped even more, to the point she wouldn’t be able to wear it again. I want to return it but we’ve lost some of the accessories it came with so I don’t know if I can.