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!

Smashed my phone - got it replaced on insurance. Had dropped and smashed replacement within an hour of setting it up. The next one went into one of those ridiculous mega cases.

When I was a student I had a sudden onset of absolutely awful acne. It coincided with a new boyfriend whom I was head over heels for, and somewhat in awe of, and I was completely desperate. Ended up somehow at a skin clinic place where they sold me some kind of snake oil for £45 - an absolute fortune to me. I got it home and immediately dropped the bottle on the bathroom floor and smashed it.

12 years ago now and it still hurts.

Went to the bank to get cash out to pay the house painters. Bank put it in an envelope. Instead of going straight to the car i decided to go to the small shop beside the bank to get drinks/ snacks. Got home and no envelope. Mad dash back to bank/ shop/ examining exactly where I'd parked but to no avail. £900 totally gone.

I cried for days. The only way I got over it was thinking that whoever had it needed it more than I did. Still angry at myself all these years later.

We bought a car once a dh (now ex) crashed it before I got to drive it, total right off 🤔.

Have also go bleach in many new clothes items before wearing them outside the house.

Carol I did something similar a while ago! I was feeling rotten but stuck at my desk, so decided to go out and grab a coffee to cheer (and wake) myself up. On the walk back I got caught in one of those INCREDIBLE rain showers, where the skies literally just open and dump high-velocity buckets on you, and I got thoroughly drenched. Got back feeling even more miserable, soaked to the skin and dripping wet, and promptly dropped the coffee all over the floor. I nearly cried too!

Dropped my brand new phone, smashed screen

Aww sorry OP. When I was 16 with my first ever pay cheque from my first proper job I bought these two cute little bear figurines I had had my eye on (they are doing something naughty but are so cute) and on my way home that day I bumped into a couple of friends, so excitedly showed them what I had bought and promptly dropped them on the ground, breaking a leg off one and the head off another!! I took them home and glued them and I still have them out on display 16 years later

@VenusClapTrap

More recently, the day before lockdown started I decided to support a local artisan Chocolatier, by buying the kids exorbitantly priced hand made Easter eggs. Dropped the bag on the way to the car, smashed them to smithereens. Got in the car - brand new Tesla - and drove it straight into a bollard.

Venus I am worried about this - we've just got a new tesla and with all the pinging and alarming for every little thing that comes near it, I am wondering how you managed to drive it into a bollard?

I'm worried because it's exactly the sort of thing I am likely to do!

Had beautiful new wooden worktops fitted. On day one, teenage DS put hot pan down on the wood and left a giant round black scorch mark.

Got a scratch on my gorgeous new garmin watch the day I got it it’s not ruined but I see the scratch every time I look at it!

Heavily pregnant, I decided to tumble dry the lining of brand new Moses basket ready for baby. It melted, I wailed because I was a hormonal mess and absolutely fell in love with the basket on sight in shop (Husband was very confused by reaction and bought new one)

went and bought some expensive crockery items to add to our collection - hubby hung on buggy and then proceeded to take child out of buggy - you all know what happened right. £50 quid down the pan

very very late one christmas Eve, I was christmas shopping with my mum and we had gone to M and S to buy some shirts for my granddads present. I was carrying it because I was little and it was the lightest bag. Popped into the corner shop when we were nearly home and I pester powered my mum to buy a huge glass bottle of some awful bright red fizzy drink . Put it into the M and S bag........... Hey ho, Ho, Ho..........

I will seemingly never learn not to use bleach whilst wearing new clothes.Reading some of these messages I feel happier knowing I'm not alone.

when beige was the rage - brand new carpet, pushed the wrong knob and contents of the vacuum cleaner went all over the carpet. Never ever managed to get it out despite logic being that it would just hoover right up.!

Smooshed it all to death with my boobs while carrying it from the car to the house.

This really made me laugh

Another new car one here. The first brand new car we'd ever owned. Had it less than an hour with less than 30 miles on the clock and I wrote it off. Can still remember the expression on DH's face as he realised what was going to happen in the seconds before. Gutted.

@WombatChocolate hooting with laughter at that! What an image.

I bought some fancy shoes that I had wanted for ages, wore them for the first time for a birthday meal out, the meal turned into a few drinks which then ended up in a night club
The next day I was so hungover and the shoes were ruined, filthy dirty from the dance floor and spilt drinks and covered in blood, but it wasn’t mine, I tried to clean them but they weren’t the same
Second wear, I had to walk home 1.5 miles, they rubbed my heel and got covered in even more blood
I chucked them away

Also crashed my dream car 4 days after getting it

I pranged my week-old car. The chap in the insurance call centre did an audible intake of breath when he asked me the mileage and I gave him a number in double figures

My DH dropped his new iPhone into 5 litres of white paint. I had to stifle the giggles!

Not me but a friend of mine bought a beautiful white coat. I witnessed her spill hot chocolate all down it.
It was her first wear and we hadn't even left the building.

I've done this sort of thing loads of times - two doozies spring to mind instantly.

1. First time wearing a new coat out the house - somehow managed to catch the pocket/belt loop on the front door handle running out the door and I practically ripped the coat in half and almost dislocated my shoulder!

1. Back in the day when ipod nanos where the thing to have my then BF now DH brought me one as a birthday gift (October) - really thoughtful and generous gift and I was utterly thrilled with it - he joked that well at least he would know what to get me for Christmas as I had a habit of being clumsy and he said he was sure I'd break it or loose it by then. I was somewhat indignant at the comment and was like i'll prove you wrong so as such I was super precious about using it - I didn't actually take it out of the house for the 1st month as I didn't have a case for it. So the 1st day I took it out was to specifically choose and buy a case on a shopping trip with some friends - Long story short we then spontaneously ended up at a popular outdoor community concert type event in the evening and about half way through the skies opened - utterly torrential rain, almost instant localised flooding, no shelter, water pooling around our ankles type scenario. Of course every piece of electronics we all had with us were killed - including my nano in it's brand new protective case. Eventually got home (trains all cancelled because this same storm flooded the station) I called him on my landline at 3am to tell him about what happened because I was so mad at myself and the general unfairness of this cosmic self-fulling prophecy that he'd jinxed me with but all that came out was incoherent sobbing at him for a good hour. He had no clue what the problem was (English not his 1st language either!) He thought 100% someone had died!

So many. So so many.

It all started when I was about 6, deep in the recession and my dad was out of work. Nanny and grandad have given me some money to buy myself a birthday gift, it was an ice skating Sindy. I mention the out of work partly because there wouldn’t be a chance of replacement and partly because i remember unwrapping it while standing in the dole queue with my dad.

Anyway, get home, go to the toilet, will not be separated from Sindy. Dropped an ice skate down the loo and couldn’t bring myself to fish it out. Poor Sindy.

Bought a gorgeous pink corduroy jacket at about 19, wore it to work - in Costco. Managed to get bleach on it, it was ruined in a day. The bleach ate literally holes through it in a day. I can only assume some industrial strength cleaner got on it somewhere.

Moved into our first house, bought a gorgeous marble fireplace. Smashed the day before fitting. Cried SO much and genuinely nearly split up my relationship - it was an accident but an accident caused by now husband’s temper.

Twin toddlers and off on maternity leave with another baby. I had the first kindle and therefore needed a light - had bought so many little clip on ones, but they are very easily broken when grabbed by little hands. Think I went through about 6 of them at about £5 a go. So I treated myself to one of the lighted kindle cases. They were about £50 new from amazon, so I got a second hand one from eBay which was still about £40.

Not joking, first day I used it, one of the toddlers picked it up and bent the kindle forward which bent the hooks in the spine. I tried to bend them back and one snapped off. It was completely unusable without it and as I bought it from eBay not amazon I couldn’t even try for a replacement (they were very good back then, they’d already replaced a kindle that I was very honest I sat on!). I’m afraid to say I lost my shit and there’s still a dent in the wall where I lived it in temper

Phew that feels better!