Ever ruined something you just bought?

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Cheer me up please! Bought a £90 light fitting & smashed it before its even gone up!

Fitter is coming today at 3!! Mad dash to find a replacement that I won't be paying £90 for lol!

Tripped over while closing the door and holding a lovely unopened bottle of veuve cliquot champagne - wedding gift - accidentally smashing it all over the lobby of my husband-to-be’s apartment.

Snapped the cord that held my lovely brand new trek pannier onto my bike, before I even set off on my first cycle, because I was too impatient to pay attention to the instructions.

@Snozwanger

You jammy thing! I bet they appreciated that you were honest about it rather than trying to convince them it came to you in that state

We were taking a brand new TV upstairs 52’ (£600) and we dropped I dropped it down the stairs

Whoops!!

I was going through a bad period and was very angry with the world. Bought a new expensive running top, the type with thumb holes.
Went for a run, fell over, and tore the top.
For some reason, I brought it back to the shop, made up a lie, and they rather grudgingly replaced it.
Now I look back and think, "You scummy fucker, what did you do that for?"

These are so funny! I'll share mine...,

Son's 6th birthday, after work decided to surprise him with massive helium number 6 balloon from the card shop, I went out of my way to go to.

Shop blew up ballon, all good. For safety I put it in big carrier bag and begin the long walk home.

For some mad reason I decided that I would look really cool at the front door with my big 6, as son had been at home waiting

On the final stretch of road, I take the ballon out of its bag, and of course you can guess that it promptly gets carried away by the wind never to be seen again!

The piss take is that I was left holding the ballon string and the attached weight!

Not happy

We had a new fireplace fitted wth black granite hearth. I put a heavy vase on the mantelpiece, as I walked away the picture fell off the wall, knocked the vase off which took a big chunk out of he edge of the granite. I had to look at it for 12 years.

I vividly remember my brother arriving home wth his first wages of £25 (1980-ish). He was chuffed to bits until he realised the pay packet must have fallen out of his trouser pocket as he cycled home. He retraced his steps but no sign of it.

Not me but my DH, midsleeper bed arrived for our DS and he proceeds to put it together - actually used the screws for the steps on the main frame and they came out the other side of the wood. Not one but 16 screws without noticing

I think the bed company felt sorry for me, I was honest about what happened and they sent me replacement parts foc!

Had new kitchen fitted with beautiful Corian worktop which I'd wanted for years.
Within days I had tried to separate some frozen food that I was defrosting with a sharp knife - that slipped and took a chunk out of the worktop. No-one else would notice it but I know it's there.

Not ruined but - on a winter Sunday almost 20 Years ago I went to a shopping mall and bought a beautiful pair of heeled boots. They were the most expensive pair of boots I had ever bought - £95. Took me about 3 hours to pluck up the courage to buy them.
On the Monday morning I was in an accident. Hospital for just over a week, in plaster and cage for 8 weeks, plaster for 4 weeks. 3 months of physio.

By the time I got to actually try on my lovely boots - I couldn’t wear them. The damage to my ankle means I can’t wear heels without pain and the change in shape of my ankle and foot means I’ve gone up a shoe size.

I kept those boots for about 5 years. Still in the box. Never worn.

Man I loved those boots.

Back in the early 80s dresses that looked like a knee length jumper were all the rage.
I paid almost a weeks wages for a gorgeous cream lambswool one.
Wore it the same night for a night out where I spilled a Pernod and blackcurrant down it.
For some obscure reason, I thought boiling it in a pan of water would remove the stain.
Not only did the stain obstinately remain, but the dress wouldn't have fit a doll when it came out of the pan around an hour later!

Liveandforget it makes me feel much better knowing I'm not the only one. I, too, cannot figure out what happened, as the shop's CCTV shows me leaving with the envelope in my hand, I went straight back to the car about 6 steps from the shop. I cried for weeks on and off.

Your random £20 note is bizarre!

Brand new kitchen with lovely floor tiles. DD dropped something and I still can't figure out what as she wouldn't come clean. Big chunk out of the glossy black tile

Not brand new but I had my personal mobile and my work mobile phones in my coat pocket, got into my car and shut the door.
Yep, you guessed it - smashed both phones

My lovely manager at the time told me I was the first person to break a work mobile and I was office based, lots of colleagues were in really physical jobs

Once or twice!

We bought a tall standard lamp with a glass uplighter shade from Ikea. Got it out of the box and put it together. Went off to get the steps so that DH, who is not tall, could put the bulb in. Heard a crash and 'oh fuck'. Instead of waiting he's stood on the sofa, lamp slipped and glass shade came down on the corner of the fireplace. I made him take it back there and then - 9pm on a Saturday night.

Then there was the time when I bought a line prop in Argos. We went from there into Debenhams. DH was carrying it and while I was looking he was making he was messing around behind me pretending it was a Star wars light sabre (yes, I know, it's like shopping with a 5 year old). Needless to say he dropped it and broke the plastic end off. Back we went to Argos - he said he'd noticed it was broken when he was putting it in the car.

And he burnt my brand new, not even worn, Zara top when he was doing the ironing. Luckily I could order another one.

I do love him really...

Not just bought, but just made. A delicious pie, my absolute favourite. I dropped it all over the floor whilst trying to remove from the oven. Devastated.

Brand new iPhone. I was putting on my coat and placed it on the new puppy’s crate, walked off forgetting to pick it up returned a couple of minutes later to find pup had decided to have a chew of it. She cracked the screen but it lasted a couple of years with a screen saver before I replaced it.
The dog likes expensive chews, my best pair of shoes, DHs new slippers, DS brand new cricket balls and his old bat (fortunately), random dinosaurs and of course every new bed until she was 2. She is a Labrador so we fully expected the destructive phase.

Years ago, Next duck egg blue suit and frilly cuffed blouse. Wore them for work and went for curry. Both suit sleeve and blouse cuff got dipped in my dinner and the turmeric stain never did come out.

Bought 2 bottles of Veuve Cluquot and supplies of Clarins in duty free on my way out to Guernsey. Left them in the overhead locker. Never found.

Had a coffee table delivered. Came in 3 pieces that slotted together but it was really hard to push them together. Neighbours son knelt on the bottom level and his knee went straight through it. £235 down the pan !

Last weekend £155 brand new Next rug bought to replace one the dog keeps weeing on. Yep, suddenly noticed he'd done it again !! I know there's a faint yellow stain .........

@dontgobaconmyheart This is where you have to either start a stickers collection, or maybe get one of these... www.brik.co/products/lego-laptop-pc-mac

bought a large ornament on holiday. Wrapped it in a towel. Carried it on bus to airport, round the airport for hours, on the plane, off the plane. back to the car - gave to my friend while I unlocked the car and she dropped it and it broke!

I had a new bathroom fitted and dropped a bottle of perfume in the sink on day 1. Perfume fine, massive chip in sink. Still there to this day, 15 years later, and annoys me every time I clean my teeth.

Brand spanking new car. The first day I had it, I had to go to Tesco to get something for work. Bloke in the car park backs into me and scratches my car. He angrily tried to blame me for it, but passers by saw what happened and agreed with me that he was at fault (he definitely was - I was in my 20s, foreign, meek-looking and I think he thought he could shift the blame).

He then changes his tune and passes me his details, saying let's not go through insurance... I took great pleasure in telling him that my insurer would be in touch.

Weird, just typed a huge response and it disappeared. Anyway, we just moved house in November and finally had a kitchen big enough for a large dining table and chairs.
I started eyeing up a ridiculously expensive grey high gloss table set from a well known Italian designer company. My Mum warned me that high gloss would be a mistake given that we have two children etc, but I was already visualising it in my new kitchen and I loved it.
I ordered it. It arrived. It was beautiful. It was immediately covered with a tablecloth (soft) to protect it while I waited for my custom made glass table top protector to arrive which I had ordered from a separate glassworks company. It was unused during this time.
Two weeks later the glass arrived. I took the tablecloth off, and to my absolute horror found that the tablecloth itself (just by sitting on top of the table) had caused massive swirl marks and scratches all across the tabletop. It looked years old, never mind two weeks old.
I was gutted. I left a review online for the table saying that the durability was poor etc. The company then got in touch with me to ask me to take the review down if they supplied a replacement table top. I agreed.
The new tabletop arrived. I put it together on a very soft fleece blanket on the kitchen floor. Turned it over to discover that the fleece blanket had now cause huge swirl marks and scratches on the high gloss finish.
So it is now sitting in my dining room with a tablecloth over it hidden from the world. My custom made table top glass is useless.
To top it all, one of the kids pushed one of the faux leather dining chairs against the radiator, which promptly melted the fabric. When I tried to pull the chair away from the radiator, it pulled a huge chunk of the fabric off the chair.
Moral of the story - never buy a high gloss dining set if you intend to actually use it. And always listen to your Mother.

sorry for double post

@Undead76 struggling to know who could use that table top tbh. Doesn’t seem fit for purpose to me. And how hot was your radiator?