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!

new iPad smashed by kids before the protective case came. 3 days we'd had it, first use by kids!

Lots of clothes ruined by specks or splodges of bleach but my most expensive accidents:

New iPhone 6 - got a bit tipsy watching rugby, went to the loo, phone in back pocket of jeans - yep down the loo. Never worked again.

Got replacement - put it straight in it's case, took it with me to collect child from somewhere and was playing candy crush or something whilst waiting, darling child came out with arms full of bags so got out of the car to open the boot..................yep, phone landed on the tarmac face down, screen smashed.

@Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel

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.

Ahhh one off sentimental things are the worse to break aren't they.

This wasn't as soon as I got it, it was years later which actually made it worse, I had a tiny China cat DH bought me (yep definitely a theme) at a market when we first met and I managed not to break it for about 20 years. It was really precious. I smashed its head trying to fix fairy lights to the mantelpiece where it was kept I cried and then when I was trying to glue the tiny pieces of its head back together I superglued my thumb to the mantelpiece.

The cat is still on the mantelpiece minus its head. Poor cat.

Ah Winnie that’s lovely

These are making me feel a little less annoyed at my own general clumsiness and carelessness. I do try and be careful, I don’t know what it is about some things that there is just a self fulfilling prophecy around them?!

Like wearing a brand new white top and immediately dropping a tomato based food down it. Or wearing a new light coloured jacket when a sudden downpour causes your pillar-box red hair dye to run. Or dropping the very expensive, bought as a treat foundation, which of course explodes all over the place ruining the carpet.

I drop food on every single damn item of clothing I buy the first time I wear it.

Never totally ruined, just ruined the experience of 'ooh, look at my new lovely top'.

Omg I’m sorry @BubbleIsNotAFuckingVerb but I did lol at your addition of ‘and then I glued my thumb to the mantle piece’

Not a ruined item but during lockdown I had a big clear out of greetings cards we havw stored.
I was looking through wedding cards and found a M&S gift card that we had left and forgotten about. It was a decent amount.
The card was not valid by about 3 years.
I felt really bad that someone had spent good money on it and it was like we had just discarded it. A waste.

Went to work in some high heeled ankle boots (that I loved), had to do a lunchtime dash across town to do an errand, I had seen some great trainers in the shop down the road from my office so stopped there first, bought and put on the trainers for speed and comfort, boots in the box, off I went.

Back to the office, pleased I’d remembered to stop off at the cash point on the way back, my colleague admired my trainers, and watched my horrified face as I recalled putting down the bag with my boots in to use the ATM.

Of course they’d gone when I went back. Gah...

As a teenager I bought my first pair of stretch skinny jeans from savings. Put them on for the first time to go ice skating with friends, fell down into my knee and split them! I was so upset.

My sister and I were in TKMaxx and she saw this gorgeous pink egg ornament (sounds weird but it wasnt!). She bought it, we went home, she opened the boot and it fell out and smashed on the floor. Of course, it being TK Maxx, there was only one and they didnt get anymore in.

2 weeks later DD1 was in a city near us and messaged me with a photo "Is this the egg that Auntie broke?" and it was. So she got massive neice points for buying it and taking it to my sisters!

Bought a sweet little Fox shaped warming pillow.

www.leschi.de/en/warming-pillow-luca-the-fox_10020_1365

Put it in the microwave for the recommended 1 minute. Nope, not warm enough.
Put it on for another minute. Nope, not warm enough.
Put it on for another 30 seconds. Sudden smell of burnt wheat and upon opening the microwave, Fox's eye is smouldering. I still use it but there's a mark and it always smells like something is on fire.

I sympathise with the coffee dropping posters. I was once going through a horrible period where I'd just escaped a terrible boss, my commute had recently changed for the worse and I was suddenly and unexpectedly under threat of redundancy. The film on the punnet of cherries I'd just bought with my shopping split just as I was getting off the bus and they rolled all over the place. It was the final straw and I just sobbed all the way into my home. DP understood and was kind and bought me some more the next day to cheer me up.

Husband is very fussy about his car and alloys wheels.
Just had a scuff I made repaired - paid £120 as special black alloys needed to be stripped off completely. Only on next day on tight narrow road he got pushed on kerb by van driver and scuffed the same wheel again!!

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll I have a similar wedding cake story but was certainly not cheeky enough to ask for a refund!
In my case the delivery charge was relatively quite high, so thought I would collect instead. At the time we had a convertible 2 door car, and the only way we could get the box in the car was to put the roof down and then lower it on to the back seat. The lovely lady who made the cake made sure the box was level and completely padded around with bubble wrap to wedge it in. I drove off at a snail's pace along the south circular much to the annoyance of other drivers, carefully avoiding any bumps or potholes. Unfortunately it started to rain, so whilst sat at traffic lights, I tried to put the roof up. As I looked in the rear view mirror I could see the roof was starting to push the huge box forward. Panicking, I quickly tried to put the roof down, but the roof mechanism had caught in the corner of the box and started to tilt it backwards instead! Fortunately the caterers at the wedding venue managed to do their best to repair it and I'm probably the only one who could have noticed the damage.
Top tip; factor in any delivery charge when choosing a ridiculously expensive wedding cake! 😂

@Changeofsceneryisgood
Similar happened to me this week. Michael Kors sends every year £50 free gift card to loyal customers.
I missed mine this year, it went to m junk mail and expired few weeks ago!

One Christmas, in the days before Bluetooth was widespread, I bought my husband some expensive wired headphones for his video games. He tried them out, was pleased, said they sound great, we went into the kitchen to open a bottle of prosecco for breakfast as you do on Christmas day. Came back into find the cat had chewed right through the headphone lead and eaten a chunk of it.

Very expensive Ralph Lauren jumper with cream floaty bits

I don't know anything about this kind of thing, but could a local seamstress do anything with it, replace the buttons and remove the floaty bits? Maybe even replace.

Someone I went to school with passed her driving test at 10am and wrote her car off at 2pm
judging by social media she’s still an idiot

I should point out it was a brand new car her mum had bought her and given her that day and she wasn’t hurt.. just embarrassed

Someone I worked with bought designer jeans with holes in them (this was the style not a fault). When her mother found them she lovingly applied patches to fix the holes not realising that she was ruining then.

Purchased a really expensive pair of lace pants. When cutting off the tag, I accidentally snipped a hole in them. Couldnt salvage them, binned immediately.
Got a one of a kind wooden ornament and got it caught in the car door on the way out. Broke loads of little bits off it.
Picked up my new dog ornament from the bag it came in, accidentally donked it on the table next to me and one of his legs fell off.
Probably loads more too but I try to block them from my mind...

Had a brand new pair of sunglasses, first decent ones I'd ever had and which cost almost £100 - sat on them in the car the second day I had them and snapped one of the arms off.

Next pair were from Primark!

@cattermole I am laughing so hard at the balloon flying away. I wouldn't have been able to help myself if I had seen that 😆

Got a lump sum when I retired and treated ourselves to a Merc, C class, about 18 months old.. I don’t know why but I never thought it would be ours for long....

Hadn’t had it 3 weeks when DH was driving back from work and had accident....he phoned me and said I’ve been in an accident but I’m OK, don’t worry I’m OK......to my lasting shame all I could think was ‘what about the car’ but stopped myself from asking thankfully!

Long story short car was a write off but all ended well because insurance valued it at 1400 more than we paid for it and we got a better spec replacement Merc so all ended well but I can’t forgive myself for being more worried about car than DH (accident wasn’t his fault).

When I'd just had a baby my friend bought me a designer dress. I wore it once, washed it, and it came out doll size!