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.

many of the new cotton tops we have bought this year have immediately sprung small holes
I think it's just that the quality (but not the price) of clothes has nosedived. I have old t shirts that are still going strong but new ones (M&S, White Stuff, Fat Face) that have developed holes after a couple of wears/washes (esp the 'slub' cotton ones).

Ours do that, it’s bad quality cotton. I have t shirts from decades ago that have no holes, but anything purchased in the past 5 years have holes in them.

Ha ha, very funny 🤣

My sister got a robot hoover last year after wanting one for ages. First time they went out it managed to knock over the cat food bowl and then went round the whole house smearing cat food into their floor and carpet. She was so angry when they came home she picked it up straight away and sent it back to amazon still covered in cat food 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

what don’t you like about it? we love ours, especially great for on holiday and you can access everything that you have on your ps5.

Encrypted card game. MIL bought it as seen on FB.
Shite. Some of the things you have to guess are also wildly inappropriate and not funny.

Salter chocolatier bought for my DH as he loves his hit chocolate. Used it once, meh. Next day it didn't turn on.
I think this thread rather shows that gadgets are very often not worth the money!

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Electric egg boiler , set for soft boil and came out hard boiled

Mine works a treat but you do have to remove the egg immediately after the light clicks off

Will the fire stick work with the projector and Disney, Netflix, iPlayer? We also have a useless projector and a sad DC.

Very good, made me laugh!

Yep, the clue is when the instructions say ‘remove all packaging and place on a pre heated baking tray in the centre of the oven’!!

M&S Santa Popping down the Chimney dessert - tasted good but the gimmick was him upside down in the chimney but his legs had gone soggy, fallen off his bottom and ended up down the roof somewhere. Their extra special Yule log was dry and too sweet. Every year I book a manic in-store collection, spend a fortune and end up disappointed....memo to self, not this year!

The Yule Log was really sweet with dry sponge too. I'd seen a comparison review where they said the M&S one was not very sweet compared to the others they tried. I dread to think what the others were like.

I second this- bought it for my DD and she absolutely loved it!

I have had this issue too, small holes just where the top falls over my jeans button. I assume it’s from it rubbing/catching. We have quartz kitchen counters

We've got the Andrew James one and it's brilliant, eggs are perfect everytime

My husband bought me some lovely (expensive) earrings. I’m always losing a single stud when the back falls off.

These have a screw on back. My god the pain when I put the first one in. I thought maybe the post was a bit big but the second earring got screwed into my ear and I couldn’t get it all the way through or out again without turning it like a screw.

I’ve had pierced ears for over forty years and have never had a problem.

Obviously, being earring you can’t return them. Awful design.

I bought a Beetlejuice double bedding set from George at Asda, was so pleased with it...the first time I washed it on 40 degrees all of the poppers came off rendering it useless! Still gutted.

I use the little measuring pot which came with it - it’s got soft, medium & hard on it & the number of eggs, so you can adapt it to what you’re cooking. I keep my eggs in the fridge which will make a difference! Takes about 5 mins.

My cotton tops get holes in from my jeans button rubbing against them when I'm standing at the work surface. Are your holes all in the jeans button area?!

Tubs of chocolates - all of them!

I bought Celebrations and Heroes, then someone brought Quality Street as a thank you, and my DS was given Roses from work.

When the tree comes down at the weekend, any remaining will be binned. I reckon there's the equivalent of 2 tins worth.

Just not nice! Even the Heroes, with the exception of plain dairy milk, were all horrible tasting.

I have put a note on my phone for September (as that's when I get sucked in and buy!) to not bother this year.

I got the elf dupe its sheer black cherry and would highly recommend it. I get lots of compliments and it costs less than a tenner

Roasted garlic mayo from Lidl to go with a calamari starter, utterly vile, like a weird thick grey paste 🤢

To balance the negativity though, the crumble topped cranberry and orange mince pies from Waitrose were divine!

I don't even like mince pies but these were delicious. I really hope they do them this Christmas too. Very, very slightly warmed with clotted cream - breakfast of gluttons champions.

And what’s with the Quality Street in plain paper wrappers - and cheap ones at that ? The chocolate is shiny and all the sweets are pre formed and the same size. If it hadn’t been for the purple wrapper l wouldn’t have recognised the hazelnut caramel.