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!

Went on School trip with my Son ,bought a nice mug with details of Museum on it .Getting off the Coach managed to fall down the steps and dropped mug. (luckily I was OK ) Always been a bit clumsy !

My first car - I was 18 and it was brand new , my baby. I got into it, intending to drive home via the motorway . As I was about to merge from a slip lane onto the highway, the person in front of me slammed on their brakes and I , not realising what he'd done, rammed straight up the back of his car. My poor new baby was ruined - I'd had it about 30 minutes. Got it fixed but the gloss had gone by then.

yes - I'm having a crap time at work at the moment - bought a bottle of champagne last weekend when supermarket shopping as a weekend treat for me - and dropped it getting the shopping out of the car!!

I went to pick up one of our wedding presents from John Lewis in Oxford Street, the had mucked up the order a bit and things people bought off our list were "out of stock" when it came to delivery so we were sent vouchers instead but when we went into the shop they were on the shelf.

I was I a fairly bad mood about all of this picked up the large Denby casserole we had been told was out of stock, paid with the vouchers, started carrying it out of the shop in one of their carrier bags and manage to smash it against a wall before I left the shop. I still have no idea how it happened.

DH told me not to worry and went in to get another, he carried it this time and got it home safely.

We got married in 2003 and I have used it less than 10 times. Total waste of money but seemed so important at the time.

Many items of clothing :(

I dropped a box of beer at the weekend and half the bottles broke.

When I was a teenager my parents bought me a newly released Nokia 3200 - the one where you could make your own case.

I spent all weekend printing out different options to find the perfect style to impress everyone. And then I left it on the bus on my way to school.

Stood on a brand new laptop and smashed the screen

For my birthday I received some very expensive completely wireless headphones as I’d recently got into running. Put them in, stepped out the door, one fell out and hit a small stone and chipped the outside! I was furious with myself.

Had beautiful ceramic tiles laid on my kitchen floor. 2 days later I dropped a cast iron casserole dish and took a huge chunk out of the centre of the floor. I sat and cried I was so cross with myself

Bought a beautiful Yankee candle cracked glass candle shade from a shop in Lincolnshire. Also bought a brand new large Yankee candle to go with it.
All bubble wrapped protected and bagged up. Placed carefully in the car and drove home back to London.
I was so excited to put it together so as soon as I got in the house I pulled out the candle itself first, stupidly by the lid and the actually candle jar crashed back into the bag right on top on the shade!!
So I'm standing there with the bloody lid in my hand in tears knowing what I was going to find when I unwrapped the shade packaging.
I drove 100 miles and managed to keep it intact but couldn't get it out of the bloody bag in once piece! Not happy!

Yep...brand new worktops fitted in the kitchen, joiner finished for the day. Was making dinner later on and could smell burning...I'd left a hot wok on the worktop right in the corner join. Massive big burn mark I was in tears. I put a big chopping board over it and hoped nobody noticed 😢

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I am HOWLING 🤣🤣

My washing machine also packed in yesterday and I’m currently looking at a new one.

You have reminded me to take the bolts out 😂[/quote]
A work mate sold me a new washing machine for £100 after mine I moved house because his mum hated because her new one jumped too much when she used it, she had tried it twice and refused to try it again so he was going to get her a different one.

I was skint and thought fuck it even if I have to sit on it to keep it in place at least il have a washing machine!

Plumbed it in and was reading the book and thought I'd check but thought surely they had already done it but low and behold the bolts were still in it! Perfect working machine only used twice for £100

Best bit is work mate said he'd already got mum another so just keep it and he'll class it as a lesson to not be so stupid in future

I really am a horrible person as this thread is making me laugh (apart from the sad ones like the £900 and the Sindy ice skate)

To atone for my schadenfreude: (yes there is a theme here...)

On our second date DH gave me a lovely scarf I had admired on our first date which he had gone back for. I left it in the taxi that very night. (Really he should have learnt from this and the rest could have been avoided )

DH gave me a velvet dress (this was the 90s ) which I shrunk in the washing machine after one wear thinking I would save the dry cleaning cost

DH gave me a pair of fabulous platform (yep still 90s) shoes that I took off to dance, got very drunk and lost in the club never to be seen again

DH bought me a crocheted jumper thing with long sleeves (still 90s) which I caught on a door handle within the first week and ripped beyond repair

DH bought me a beautiful moonstone ring which I took off to show someone in a tiled bar that very night and dropped on the floor

We have spent the last thirty years repeating this pattern. So I don't fill the thread by myself I shall fast forward to this very week where I split a gigantic mug of tea over my two day old present of an Echo Dot.

I am actually genuinely amazed we are still married.

This thread reminds me of the old story about a CF bride-to-be who ordered a very expensive, elaborate, several-tier wedding cake from the OP. OP offered a professional safe delivery service for a small fee and repeatedly warned the customer not to just put it loose in the boot or footwell of her car. Of course, the customer thought she knew better, drove home and the cake got all smashed and wrecked on the way. She was straight on the phone to OP demanding her money back as it was no use to her now!

Not the most exciting tale, but I remember going to a supermarket in Calais, just before getting the ferry home. The cashier speedily packed our bags as she rang them up, took our money and then moved quickly on to the next customer. For some bizarre reason, the lower end of the checkout had a bridge/shelf thing over it, under which the bags all had to pass. Got back to the ferry and realised that one of the bags must not have made it all the way and was either still there under the 'bridge' or, more likely, had been picked up by the next customer - probably as bemused to have an extra bag when they got home as we were to have one too few!

Published for DD1 from a while ago;!

DD1 had a boyfriend who shall we say wasn't that short of a few bob!

Took her for a surprise very romantic long weekend to Rome and whilst there bought her a pair of Jimmy Choo's ,very expensive around £600 quid!

Ditzy moo only went and left them at the airport and only remebered when she got of the plane in London!

She was consoled by the thought that a young Italian girl and found them and kept them and they fitted her and was delighted by having them in her shoe box and thinking that someone must have had more money than sense to leave things like that around!!

Great thread!

Brand new iPhone. Dropped it after getting it out of the box. Smashed the screen. Yes I did cry

Car, brand new, driving back it from the dealer, stopped at a shop and reversed it into a wall. Cried again.

But more upsetting to me than both of those was breaking a beautiful inexpensive decorative hand made plate I loved. Broke it and broke me heart.

Bought some reading glasses from the chemist - scratched them cutting off the security tag with sharp nail scissors. Bought another pair vowing to be really careful this time, did the exact same thing again. The third pair survived by using electrical snips so instead of £18 reading glasses they cost me £54.

Bought a motorbike only 600 miles on the clock. Dropped it after a wobble at a roundabout on the way home from the dealer 😭

No something of mine but my mother had just bought 2 new very expensive pussy-bow Margaret Thatcher blouses. My sister and I thought we would try them on for a laugh when she was out. For some unknown reason, we applied liberal amounts of roll on deodorant. We had great fun prancing about her bedroom, talking in posh voices. When we took them off, the deodorant had left marks under the armpits. We hurriedly shoved them back in her wardrobe. Try as she might, she couldn't get the marks out. We flatly denied having anything to do with the incident but still have a good laugh about it now the pretentious old bag

@scruffyoak me too!

While renovating we found the original leaded stained glass windows under the house and had them restored to replace the burnt orange glass monstrosities they had been replaced with in the 60’s.

Restorer did a beautiful job.

When Dh and I went to put them back into the frames I stepped backwards slipped and smashed all 8 windows. (We did get them fixed. The restoration guy laughed his arse off and gave us a discount)

Yes I bought a lace and silk blouse... it was hanging in my wardrobe waiting to be worn. I pulled an adjacent hanger out of the wardrobe and the hook caught on the lace, tearing it. As you would expect, this was at the front on the chest, not on the back at the bottom. Ruined.

Last week, got paid a £600 in cash, out it in my coin purse and put it in my back pocket (would’ve put in jacket zip pocket normally but wasn’t wearing one and I STUPIDLY thought it was to risky to put in my backpack incase it fell out or got taken) and promptly lost it.

I’ve laughed about it but I’m still SO upset!

This is a tear jerker 😀 When I was 7yrs, Mum took very ill & Dad was laid off work (1971). Dad said that money was scarce so birthday gift would be a very small minding,he asked what I would like ...a horse says I. 🙄 Birthday arrived and he handed me a really small package ... the excitement 😀 In it was the most beautiful little plastic horse, with velveteen surface .... my sister and I shared bunk beds in a cubby hole but Dad put shelves up in our "bed dens" my wee horse sat proudly on that shelf for a week. Cousins came to visit ... went to bed that night to find my wee horse had been picked clean of its wee velveteen coat .... I was traumatised 🤣 In my 50's now but I never let my cousin forget .... on my 50th guess what he sourced ❤️ That new wee plastic horse has pride of place among my Dressage & Riding Club Trophies ...next to the original one 😍 PS ... The original, now sports a miniature horse rug, one my eldest daughter found on Amazon 🤩 Mum recovered, Dad got a job and when I was 11yrs old they surprised me with riding lessons ..the rest is history 😉

Last week, I put an apple & blackberry crumble in the oven - DP took it out when it was done and dropped it, it hit the worktop, flipped over, and splattered all over the worktop, cupboard and floor.

Devastated is not the word and my bowl of custard was sadly lacking