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.

I’ll second the Colin the Caterpillar comment. DH did the M&S run this year and bought one as he couldn’t find a Yule log and it tastes ok but the chocolate is far too thick and sponge dry.

I know Amazon say returns within a month or so, but if something is faulty you have longer, a year generally. They have always been brilliant something have failed three, six, nine months in.

They do a bread one https://crimpit.co.uk/products/crimpit-toastie-maker-bread-sealer - reckon you have bought the sandwich thin size

Thanks @LostMySocks @Thunderpants88 and @Freddiefan

I’ll have a look at the Smash & Ocean ones but might just use flasks for a wee old-fashioned vibe.

I have been practising drives out on my own working on fear of leaving house by self so was less for supping on way to shops and more towards enjoying a picnic in the car so I can go a bit further.

I’ve been thinking of a new toastie maker so glad to read the warnings there! I remember having a nearly non-stop production line with siblings when kids and entire loaves were used so a half a toastie sounds like a sad affair!

M&S mini Yorkshire puddings from their party food section.

Came in a plastic tray with individual "cups" for the Yorkshires.

Instructions clearly stated to cook in the tray (I checked)

The tray melted onto my large oven tray that came with my month old oven and DH spent a good hour on Boxing Day scraping off the plastic.

Nope, I too was disappointed by the Toastie crimpit. I have both the standard one intended for thins and the toastie one and it is barely any bigger. So much wasted bread. And the wrap one is pants too 🙄

@ifIwerenotanandroid you can generally go onto your order and request a refund for short dated/out of date items. The last 3 weeks have been dreadful for short stated items with my shopping delivery, I’m assuming because of temp Christmas staff.

Remington hair straighteners. The rigid cable has kinks in it and no matter how much I try to straighten it out it gets tangled around itself and any other electrical cable it is near. I hate it for this reason and have hated it every day for the last 3 years.

All of the Aldi party food! Have always got bits for the buffet from Aldi and it's always been nice enough on a budget. This year it was all tasteless rubbish, I swear it all tasted the same.
Got the New Year's day buffet food from Morrisons and it was so much nicer!

I was also disappointed by this after reading rave reviews…

Do you have stone worktops in the new house?

I get holes in my top when I wear them with jeans, the jeans button scrapes the countertop and makes a hole.

My neice got a Crimpit, I asked her to report bqck with results but I see some are already in from PP...what a shame.

Apparently, the Dyson Airwrap is good (see other thread parts 1, 2 and 3).

Moths? Or do gentler cycle in washing machine?

I’m quite pleased you posted that as I was going to buy one after my Revlon One Step started overheating in the last couple of days. Looked at the reviews for that and the Dyson but decided to go for a cheap and cheerful One Step dupe from Amazon with good reviews as I figured I would be less disappointed if I’d only spent £30!

My friend brought round the wrap version of the crimpit. She loved it, but I thought it was naff. It’s so easy to make a quesadilla, I feel like the crimpit just made it more complicated!

Then my in-laws always bring the mince pies for, and this year they went for quantity over quality. It was a big box from either Lidl/aldi and they were poor. Not even clotted cream on top made them palatable. There was still half a box left after a week!

Call customer service and they should refund (they have for me when it's happened on a weekly shop with chicken).
food deliveries are so hard these days as expiration dates seem so much shorter. Supermarket shelves always seem stocked with food which expired in a few days. It was definitely longer pre Brexit.

Yes we had that disappointment too.

@notedbiscuits no, definitely the regular ‘toastie’’ one. Same as others have observed, By the time you’ve sealed the bread & made the little toastie pocket, there’s a lot of wasted bread.

Interesting, I have had some similar experiences.

• Bought a crimpit years ago and it's useless and tiny.
• Christmas Colin was dry.
• Bought myself a Bio Ionic curling wand for easy curls/waves. They fall out completely after an hour and my hair smells singed for days after.

I did have the Aldi pork belly bites and they were tasty AF though.

Is it possible to have a link, I'm looking for something like this!

A sellotape dispenser I got from Ocado. It was tiny and I couldn't get it to work at all. Completely useless.

I had to borrow my dad's instead.

I've got keter, don't cover up, it has vents on both sides and my cushions never go mouldy.

How hard is it to boil an egg in a pan?

You don’t need a receipt if something is faulty - you’re entitled to a refund.