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!

We are redoing the bathroom. The £600 new bathtub fits but the ‘slope’ is on the wrong side so we had to get another one. There’s a £600 bathtub sitting in my parking lot at the moment...I have absolutely no idea what to do with it.

A few years ago we had a new kitchen fitted. Within days my husband had dropped a cast iron griddle pan onto the lovely new breakfast bar. It bounced before he could stop it. Two dents in it which are still there, taunting him to this day.....

Bought a lovely cream cashmere jumper on a shopping trip to London, years agdropped bag on tube,.never got it back,And as i still wear my cashmere jumpers from years
back,id probably still be wearing it.everytime i wear one i think of that lovely jumper!

Washed my new nude cotton jumper other week noticed make up round neck of it and a same style green one,sprayed ed both with what i picked up as stain remover before putting in machine.When i looked it was kitchen spray with bleach,same style bottle.But amazingly the nude one was fine and green one just had tiny discolouration on neck,hardly noticeable and i did get that one half price.

Ordered a beautiful lace shrug and cut through it with scissors opening the packet. I cried.

Bought some fabulous boots from Next.
Had them on 5 minutes, stooped off at the garage to get diesel. Wasn’t paying attention and didn’t realise the fuel hose wasn’t in properly.
Queue fuel pissing all over the floor onto my new boots - which were suede leather.

My shoes stank of diesel and were all marked from the oil soaking in. And I was walking around until I got home, paranoid I’d somehow set myself on fire!

New tan suede jacket and tan leather boots wore them out. Walked into a club and the bouncers were chucking some fella out. They must have battered him first, threw him into me and I was covered in blood. Bastards did even offer a cloth, for me to attempt cleaning them. Ruined.

Bought first pair of skinny jeans when they were all the rage loved them slopped bleach over the leg

Found rare band shirt from my favorite band at that time, bought it and left it at the shop. This happened more than 20 years ago but I still think of it.

My DP broke a new floor lamp while opening the box. I still haven't forgiven him!

I bought an iPhone 8 Plus not long after they had come out and paid upfront as I didn’t have a contract. A few hours later my dd (then 2) was sitting at the table and stacking up tea tins (don’t ask me why) and one slipped and smashed the screen. I could have cried. Ended up paying nearly £200 to have it fixed and have always had a screen protector since then!

Not me, but DH. Finally taken delivery of his first ever brand new car that we waited for 6 months to be built, took it for a drive up to the local farm shop and promptly scraped the whole front bumper along a dry stone wall whilst turning in a gateway. £500 re-spray bill later, he kerbed the front passenger alloy within another week or so. Since that he wrote off the next car on his birthday the poor sod... and he wonders why I don't let him drive my car!

I've had some humdingers in my time, including my much coveted Ralph Lauren shoes that I broke one of the heels off taking a short cut up a fucking bank pissed the first time I wore them out of the house.

Brand new £250 Tom Ford sunglasses. The door of my car before a wedding. Say no more.

Yes, I got a bonus from work and treated myself to a new laptop and GHD straighteners. When I got home I set them both on the floor, with the laptop on charge. I completely forgot about them and first of all stood on the laptop, completely smashing the screen and then when I realised what I done I turned to step back and stood right on the straighteners, breaking them in two.

And no, I didn’t have house insurance at the time.

That was a sad day!

I love this thread - I'm not the only clumsy person in the world then! I proudly wore my new camel coloured suede boots for the first time and dripped candle wax on them, right on the front where it's really noticeable.

Yup. Went to a concert miles away so stayed in a hotel. Bought a new top to wear to the show and a night out drinking cocktails. Needed to iron new top. Turned iron on, check temp was fine so started ironing it, was listening to music so stopped to turn it up and started ironing again and burned the arm! It was big bat wing sleeves so the folds hide the burn (had to wear it anyway as no other options) but I was gutted.

@LGY1 *Treated myself to a Disney spirit jersey in Florida.
Wore it for the plane journey home, got curry on it & it never came out = bin
Second spirit jersey from Disneyland Paris; little boy got tomato sauce on it, it wouldn’t come out, I went to town with Oxy action & somehow bleached a patch right at the front = bin
THIRD spirit jersey bought on a Disney cruise, got bleach on it whilst angry cleaning the kitchen = straight in the bin

I have never ruined any other item of clothing! I actually shed a little tear when the last one went in the bin*

You should have customised it somehow.

I had a really nice jacket that got a fag burn in it so I got some iron-on stars and put them a over it.

Met a guy mid 80s who drove a Lotus sports car. Been seen in lots of films, videos. I'd pestered him for weeks to let me have a drive. (Private property) he always refused, saying I couldn't handle it.
He relented one evening and said 'go on then'. He began telling me, take it easy on the gas and your gears go straight up and down. Haha, laughing and agreeing, I got into this car. I still relive every moment today. Right through a gate and put this super car in a ditch with a massive bull looking at us.
This is going to be a big claim on your insurance!
Had to admit didn't have any. Didn't even have a licence, never had a driving lesson!
We where married a few months later.
Guess what my wedding gift was? Yeah, driving lessons.
Over 30 years now but he never let's me forget! MEN!

Neighbours next door gave us some of their wedding cake on a very expensive plate that was part of their very posh wedding present dinner service. We ate the cake and I put the plate somewhere really 'safe', high up in the living room, away from the dc so that it wouldn't get broken before I gave it back to them, but of course I somehow forgot where it was or what it was and it smashed to the floor within days. If I'd put it in the kitchen with our usual plates it would have been fine. Such an embarrassing thing to say to a newly married couple. Anyway they were divorced within the year, so I felt less guilty then.

I had bought a lovely decanter at a sale only for it to fall out of the back of the car into the gutter and smash when I opened the back door.
A friend bought a signed football shirt only to snip it with scissors when over zealously cutting into the packaging when it was delivered. I think she displayed it folded up !

All you who have ruined suede boots,use protective spray on boots Im a boots lover have too many pairs probably because being a size 2 i can wear 3 in boots so can get them from normal shops for normal price .I spray all mine,got caught in heavy rain with black suede pair with gorgeous perspex heels ,they were soaked thought would be ruined, but dried out fine,no watermarks,Now do it to every pair,even leather ones.

Me and my mum went on a birthday shopping trip with her friend and her spoilt daughter (it was the Daughters birthday). I don't know why we went really, but mums friend easily spent over £1000 on designer stuff for her Dd that day. My mum and dad were really hard up at the time and I knew not to ask for anything. Mum bought me a scarf from one shop which was about £30, which at the time was probably their shopping budget for the week. I was so proud of it and wore it to school. I took it off and put it down next to me, some fucker took it.

The boy that took it then started wearing it around school, so I told a teacher only to be told I had to prove it was mine! I felt so bad I didn't tell my mum for weeks.

@Foggyday124

We are redoing the bathroom. The £600 new bathtub fits but the ‘slope’ is on the wrong side so we had to get another one. There’s a £600 bathtub sitting in my parking lot at the moment...I have absolutely no idea what to do with it.

Why didn't you exchange, instead of buying another one?

I once bought a brand new IPhone. It arrived, I took it out of the box and promptly dropped in on the tile in front of our fireplace. Screen broke into a thousand little cracks. I thought my husband would have a stroke.

I was absolutely starving one afternoon on my way home from work and called into Burger King and bought a burger with the last of my money for the day (was a teenager). I was going to walk home eating it. I unwrapped the burger and then proceeded to throw the actual burger in the bin outside the shop. I could have cried. Small silly thing but still remember the feeling. :)

Brand new, super soft, leather gloves. Went for a walk, slipped and grabbed a barbed wire fence to steady myself...!
Wish I’d actually just landed in the mud!

@Nanajadus

Met a guy mid 80s who drove a Lotus sports car. Been seen in lots of films, videos. I'd pestered him for weeks to let me have a drive. (Private property) he always refused, saying I couldn't handle it. He relented one evening and said 'go on then'. He began telling me, take it easy on the gas and your gears go straight up and down. Haha, laughing and agreeing, I got into this car. I still relive every moment today. Right through a gate and put this super car in a ditch with a massive bull looking at us. This is going to be a big claim on your insurance! Had to admit didn't have any. Didn't even have a licence, never had a driving lesson! We where married a few months later. Guess what my wedding gift was? Yeah, driving lessons. Over 30 years now but he never let's me forget! MEN!

That’s such a lovely story, he must have really fallen in love with you!