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.

@HopefulElle do they keep out creepy crawlies - namely, all spiders?

@lucylulululu Japanese food might have a best before date 賞味期限 if it's long life but the date might be quite soon after manufacturing. It should be ok to eat although the quality might not be perfect.

The use by 消費期限 date is when the food is supposedly not good to eat. I've copied and pasted characters so Google shoumikigen if they don't display properly. Maybe you can still enjoy the food.

If the person is new to this, he wouldn’t be likely to know what a thread is, let alone how to start one!

Well, you and I and countless others all seem to have managed to work it out.

I bought a set of expensive fancy red bath towels.
Washed them before I hung them in the bath.
One towel has immediately frayed at the end.
You just can’t have nice things.

I'd take them back, it couldn't have been stitched properly

My 30 year old son left the plastic tray the chicken came in then put it in the oven. He ended up going out into the street and stopping a fire engine as he thought he was going to blow up his whole apartment block! The FB laughed at him. So did I.

Yes, we are au fait with it now but I expect we were just as befuddled at first. Give him a break!

😬

Thankyou! The hunt continues 😆

A Sweaty Betty hoody that I bought in the sale, washed once at 40 degrees and half the logo melted off.

Find these days that high price does not =quality.

Very useful thread. Was considering a few things to buy.

Hope you gave it back lol.

By putting more than the maximum weight of dry laundry in ?

Sounds delicious. If it’s 1970’s you’ve got to have quiche too, and also cocktail sausages on sticks !! I’ve gone back to similar at NYE get togethers for the last couple of years after some really disappointing (and expensive) experiences with the supermarket stuff. It all seems to taste the same.

Anything a supermarket delivers with a short date you should request a refund for. Can still eat it too!
Its against the law to drink anything whilst driving the UK. Even stationary in traffic.
My unfortunate buy. A Wensleydale cheese from Sainsbury's with dried fruit and peel. Tasted like Christmas pudding! When I fancied a bit of cheese 😥

Anything a supermarket delivers with a short date you should request a refund for. Can still eat it too!
Its against the law to drink anything whilst driving the UK. Even stationary in traffic.
My unfortunate buy. A Wensleydale cheese from Sainsbury's with dried fruit and peel. Tasted like Christmas pudding! When I fancied a bit of cheese 😥

I bought one of the old school weighted tape dispensers this year from a pop up Christmas shop for a couple of ££. Best buy of Christmas.

Another fan of a heavy tape dispenser. Mine is full of sand (can hear it sloshing around) and weighs just under 1.5 kilos 😍

Which side didn't have a boarder?! That must have looked odd indeed.

@SpongeKnobNoPants Nothing, just your name lol! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It is NOT against the law to drink/eat anything whilst driving.

Google it.

this one but i think thats the shop name not the make as they have them on ebay too. honestly it was awful. i could still smell it when i was eating later that day and i could not eat because of it. i felt so ill. i love the smell of candy cane and my local wax melt lady shut up shop early to spend time with her family and i couldnt get what i wanted from her so bought that.... i will stock up early next year to avoid disapointment because never had an issue with her melts and when i was burning them my teens smelt them from upstairs.

I bought DS1 a Crimpit as a little stocking filler. I agree with all of the PP who say it is far too small and dies not work.

I have just re-bought the Clarks Unlooped slip on shoes. I have had three previous pairs which were very comfortable and fit well. They must have redesigned the mould for the shoes because despite being exactly the same size, and width fitting as all of the previous pairs, my new pair are enormous and my feet come out of them as I walk. I am gutted.

I have just ordered a Shark Lift Away that was on sale for £129 from Asda. It arrives on Tuesday to replace my trusty twelve year old Dyson DC33. I am very worried that it will be a disappointment.

Hey SantaBakula
Thank you 😊