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

[PandaChopChop]

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.

I would contact the retailer and send photos. There's a good chance if they see the photos they won't bother asking for you to return it and will just send a second.

We were also really disappointed with the pork belly bites! We’ve had them the previous Christmas and they were great but ours were the same as yours. We also got some dim sum from Aldi that had zero taste at all. The duck hoisin bao buns were fantastic though. Bacon wrapped halloumi with hot honey from M&S was disappointing.

Someone gifted my 7 month old multiple chocolate santas. She has CMPA so can’t eat them anyway but she’s barely eating regular meals properly let alone chocolate.

Catherine Lansfield has a sale with JD Williams, online - Forestall bedsheets, like the ones you're talking about (I absolutely love the patterns!), all different colours and patterns. Worth having a look. I've always found the quality really good and they wash really well! I also recommend the Teddy-Bear fleece sets they have in the sale - Sooooo comfy!

Poinsettias cannot survive in the UK. Day length is wrong for these tropical plants.

@TheFormidableMrsC Our daughter brought some for our Boxing Day buffet but they weren't needed so we cooked them tonight. Squeezed them out of the packet and they reminded me of the part on Poltergeist where the bloke tears his face apart (sorry). DH did eat them and said they were tasty, I didnt touch them.

The square one is meant to be used with the sandwich thins and the circle one is for wraps!

I think neglect is the way to go, as I did basically the opposite of all the advice here.
Once I gave up on my poinsettia it has been hanging on for dear life!
I’ll make it a personal challenge to keep one from shedding next year.

Dyson Airwrap. Curls just do not stay on long/thick hair it’s basically a very expensive hairdryer at this point

And Phillips Lumea hair remover, I’m very pale with dark hair so should be ideal for it but still hairy 🤷🏼‍♀️

Sorry hubby I keep wasting your money

Oh yeah. Did that a few years ago…and several times (3) as I kept hoping the next projector will link to an apple product as advertised on box 🤯

I am now fairly certain you need to be coming out from MIT to actually make it work.

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We got these M&S Christmas chocolates which looked absolutely exquisite and so festive, I was really excited to try them.

They tasted of bitter disappointment. The chocolate seemed cheap, and although they were different flavours, they all tasted pretty much the same. I only really enjoyed the large salted caramel star - we thought all the rest were very meh. I think they'd spent all the money on the beautiful packaging.

I'm also a bit obsessed with trying to find a decent yule log, but they are always a disappointment. Wasn't going to bother this year, but ended up getting a Sainsburys taste the difference one as saw some decent reviews. It was rubbish. Dry, and just tasted of sugar rather than chocolate, which I find is a problem with most supermarket chocolate cakes.

Mine was a poinsettia too - one I bought from M&S (large one in basket that was delivered). I buy the same one every year and they normally last well but this one's leaves started turning black within days. It probably got too cold in storage or during delivery.

Oh gosh @RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie we got one last year and it was absolutely horrid yucky! Completely inedible. My eldest who despite my best efforts has an insatiable sweet tooth and a couple of bites - even he wasn't interested!

Dd had the same with a Ted Baker set that was meant to be a "special" set due to the price. We now just get Titanium as that is what is used to pierce ears and can be left in.

Yes!!! Terrible! Dry and claggy and extremely sweet. Really disappointing.

Are you sure you are using your Lumea properly? Mine has been bloody brilliant. You do need to give it a few sessions, a couple of weeks apart. It can take a while to kill off the hair follicle. It won't just stop all hair growing from the very first use, but with regular use in the beginning, you will find the required time between uses gets longer and longer until eventually you don't need it at all.

I got given the Mark Hill Air wrap/styler/hairdryer for Xmas and it's brilliant. They were on offer in Boots for £80 recently. Even comes in a really pice pink bag.

Has anyone mentioned the Lidl Train yet? Heavily advertised, we were really anticipating it being great but our local store seemed to get about 4 in and sold out straight away.
I got one on Christmas eve from another shop, was feeling really pleased with myself but it was disgusting. Really thick tasteless chocolate shell, the salted caramel mousse inside had dissolved into salted caramel gloop, and the whole thing was ridiculously sweet.
Not even my nephew (a real chocolate lover) managed to finish his portion and my girls refused to even touch it

Thanks to @PandaChopChop for starting this thread. If it puts me off fancy Christmas pre-prepared party food for life, will save me a fortune.

For belly pork lovers, easy enough to make your own. I marinade pork belly slices in soy sauce, ginger, garlic and honey before roasting. I serve with lime wedges and they are delicious. Would be easy to cut into pieces and skewer with a toothpick for party food.

The over-priced box of crackers from Sainsbury’s that didn’t contain a toy or mildly funny jokes. We threw the spare crackers away.

What make was this one please? Just so I know not to buy as that sounds nice & something I'd buy lol

We bought this one and honestly still not that great

But doesn’t 100% cotton needs lots of ironing!

The Asda "Extravagant" one was amazing.

Here you go @GreySloth , this link will take you to a list of the most common used ones .
https://www.mumsnet.com/i/acronyms

USA is 120Volt.

UK is 240Volt

(Yes, it is!)