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.

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Good call .

Like you have always bought basket one from M & S usually very pleased with it, but thus year it is already dead, last year's lasted until March

I was going to say crimpit but had forgotten rhe name of them. There was a bogof offer so I got a few of them thinking I could give tjem to friends. Basically they don't work. The crimped slices of toast just open up and ruin your toaster. I still have them as they are so bad that I can't give them to anyone.

I bought a gluten free Yule log from M&S which was disgustingly sweet and more buttercream than cake. I buy one every year because it’s normally lovely but def wasn’t nice this year. Very disappointing 😞

Are you on the App or the website version ? I can't find it on the App, but on the website there is definitely a place where all the abbreviations are explained.

Yes the sleigh bit went in bin

OkayLetMeKnowHowItGoes

Ha ha are you on another thread where you damaged Dyson Hairwrap you borrowed from your sister and won’t replace it ?

We have one that Netflix doesn’t work on but Disney Plus does from Tiktok shop. Maybe try that if you have a Disney account x

Till date I have found the one from co-op to be the best yule log. The rest are either too sweet or too dry.

We bought a tub of heroes and all the Twirls tasted absolutely vile!

I think must people, including me, use those little square ‘thins’. Works well especially if you have a toastie bag to pop the prepared thin into prior to popping it into the toaster

Can I ask re PlayStation portal, are you able to use without wifi? We are considering getting one for DS but DP is not convinced it will work well. Can he still play games that he has the disc version of? DP is old school so we don’t have many digital downloads

Similar to the OP, I treated myself to some Egyptian cotton bedding from John Lewis. First disappointment was the border only went round three sides which was craftily hidden in the photos. Secondly, it felt freezing and crunchy when I first got into it. The feeling wore off fairly quickly but the damage was already done. Finally, over the first night a black stain appeared (like felt tip pen) right in the middle. It appears this may have been spider poo and no amount of washing, Vanish, bleach or hanging out in sunshine has got it out. It makes me sad every time I look at it.

Turn them into make your own crackers! I buy cheap ones (cheaper than the make your own kits) and put my own jokes (funny to me!) and small personal gifts e.g. earrings, lip gloss, cuff links, ear buds, mascara.

Gluten free bought cake seems to be tooth achingly sweet these days. Often the bread is too. No idea why.

Lava lamp for one of the kids. Broken and a faff to return

Whipped Brie 🤢
Like a little pot of dipping semen for the table.
Absolutely repulsive 🤮

Who on earth irons bedding?

Moths cannot eat pure cotton. Cheap cotton yarn made of short fibres snaps easily.

Disappointing for me but moreso for my brother who was the one who bought them all:

A ton of Japanese sweets/confectionary/drinks etc that he bought from an asian food shop near him - almost ALL of the products were sold to him veryyy out of date. He was understandably upset as he was excited to give them to us since we love trying new/interesting foods. (I assured him it was ok and not his fault ofc).

If it had been 1 or 2 things, then yeah no big deal, as I know things can get missed in a shop, but he'd bought TONS of stuff for me and my partner each, and it was almost every single thing. I feel like the shop surely must've known 😕

Where from please? My daughter got some too and I am now nervous to put them in as her ears are sensitive anyway, hence going for the hypoallergenic.

I’m sorry it was repulsive, but this really made me laugh.

Robot hoover
Carefully considered,.well researched for the best value product. Reviews all top notch.

It's as useful as dog shit

Won't link up.to the app, doesn't really suck anything up, constantly crashing into stuff, obsessed with spending most of its time concentrating on just one particular small area, when it ventures beyond this area it aims for where wires are, needs persistently rescuing from being tangled in said wires, can't ever find its own docking base to recharge itself, can't program it to perform 'cleans' at scheduled times because it wont link up to the app

It was supposed to help make the household chores easier. But it was just a massive expensive waste of my secret santa gift as it needs constant supervision and assistance. It's like a baby just learning to toddle.

Be careful to check. If it's rated for USA power supply at 120v, they'd also need something to bring the UK 240v supply down too (transformer? adaptor with step down convertor?). Just using a plug adaptor could cause a fire.