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!

Bought two china cup things, typical of the region of France where we were camping. Protected them through the remainder of the holiday, then took extra precautions with them for the four day journey back home.
Home at last! Thought we had better not risk them in the general melee of unpacking the packed car, so lifted them out first, turned to the house front door and dropped them on the drive. Smashed to smithereens.

I upgraded my phone, first new one in about 5 years, it arrived late on Friday. Ordered a new case which arrived on Sunday but was the wrong one. Took it to work on Monday and dropped it, smashing the screen. Could've cried, I've never dropped a phone before. Thank goodness for insurance!

Was gifted a beautiful glass bowl for a special birthday - by a family member who had made it themselves. Loved it. Carefully took it home, got it out the gift bag, dropped it. It didn't smash but it's now got a huge crack right through the middle.

Bought an expensive new dress. Did a quick clean before i left the house first time i wore it. Colourless spot from bleach right in the middle at the front. There's a lot of bleach related ones! We all need to be more careful obviously!

Sorry OP - it's such a gutting feeling! I hope you come to prefer the replacement 😊

Mine was a 100ml perfume (splashed out on the biggest bottle specifically so I wouldn't have to replace it for a while). Straight on the floor, smashed, after taking out of the box 🙈

Yes - beautiful grey cashmere cardigan. Wore it for an hour before snagging a massive hole in in on a sharp wall.

It was expensive and a huge treat for me at the time, as we'd been scrimping for ages and I'd received some cash for Christmas.

Years ago, but it still pains me to think of 😆

@countrybump don’t let the bings and cameras lull you into a false sense of security! There is a blind spot in the middle of the sides that the sensors don’t see. I’m not the first to have done this either, if the owners group on FB is anything to go by.

Enjoy your new car! They are astonishingly amazing, aren’t they?

Long time ago my (then) boyfriend and I bought an unframed, full length mirror for his hallway. He had a two-seater sports car and propped it up in the small space behind the seats.
I said, "that will break when the wind hits it"
He said, "stop fussing, it'll be fine"

Turned out the car park and 100 metres there was an almighty CRACK and he suddenly had two small mirrors...

(He's an ex for good reason)

Nothing so expensive but a big notepad to last months that I spilt coffee all over before I'd even opened it 😭

Not me but my OH- went out to buy an outfit for his sisters wedding.
Tweed jacket, smart trousers, lovely shirt- a "country style" look, very smart. £300 in total.

He then went into a chemist shop, bought some shower gel, shaving stuff, so he could look his best for the day.
He stupidly threw all the toiletries into the same bag.
When the got home the top had come off the shower gel - a really dark blue ( why are these things so brighty coloured?) as it was everywhere, all over his new jacket, white shirt, light coloured trousers, big blue stains.
It was a mess.
We did get it off, everything had to be washed/sponged off ( no time for dry cleaning) but the clothes didn't have that sharp pristine look he intended.
THey did smell nice though!!

Reading the story from @TimeWastingButFun reminds me of another jacket one, which wasn't me doing the damaging, but I felt responsible.

In a packed Carols by Candlelight one Chridtmas Eve, I was stewarding and standing at the back (not a seat left in the house). During one of the congregational carols with everyone standing to sing, I could see a teenage boy (14 or 15) turned sideways in the pews, leaning against the stone wall, not singing, and looking bored out of his mind. It looked as if this was a duty family outing with grandparents which he was tolerating, and they were all packed in the one pew, so I could see why he was turning sideways to get a little space to breath when he could.
As I watched, he slouched further, then suddenly stood up straight, showing his not inconsiderable height for the first time. As he did so, the hood of his jacket caught light from one of the candles on the high windowsill behind him.
It was like a slow motion scene from a film as noone else, including him, noticed, and I was ploughing my way through the crowds trying to alert him.
Thankfully, someone behind him realised, and beat the flames out with a hymn book and the boy wasn't hurt. However, the hood had a huge section missing, with melted charred fabric round the edge.

I offered apologies and compensation from the church, but he muttered that it didn"t matter and he and his family refused and they said it was just an accident. It clearly did matter to him, but he was consumed with embarrassment and hated being the centre of attention, especially having been set upon eith a vicious hymn book attack by a 75 year old stranger. Poor lad - the perfect end to the perfect evening for him!

No candles on that windowsill ever since - it had never occurred to us over the previous 50+ years that this was a risk, as we all had to climb on a pew to reach, and it would not have happened if he had been facing forwards (and been less tall!).

One of the poppies from the Tower of London. Can never be replaced and I dropped something on it and it shattered.

I am still left bereft whenever I think about it.

Treated myself to a beautiful white (I know...) beach coverup, then had a leaky tampon the first time I wore it

@ ivfbabymom could you just use the frame minus glass and put one of those fancy big lightbulbs in instead?
I did a similar thing with a glass globe light i put up in my newly decorated living room, day two walked in with a ladder and cracked it 😟bought a plastic version, went to clean it and scratched the edges, bought a second plastic one that has survived... so far

I lost a diamond out of my engagement ring within 24 hrs of proposal...then I lost a diamond out of the replacement engagement ring within 24hrs....

Got a full refund and went elsewhere!

When i was pregnant with our first DC I insisted on new carpets throughout the ground floor. In my husbands office he had to dismantle a home made desk which was screwed to the wall and floor (dont ask!). The carpet fitter spent two days laying the carpeting and about an hour after he left my husband came to me red faced and admitted that putting the desk back he'd screwed the desk back into the floor with his electric screw driver and 'pulled' a couple of threads of the carpet which (like a pair of tights) had 'run' all along the length of the room.
He still has that carpet in his office and the run has been taped down with carpet tape for 21 years.

Once bought a £40 makeup item and left the bag/item/receipt in a local Starbucks. Only realised once I got home!

When I first bought my iPhone 6 years ago, literally within minutes of unboxing it, I dropped it in my kitchen and the screen smashed. It wasn’t even just a crack here and there, it looked like it had been run over. The Apple employee definitely gave me a side eye when he saw the purchase date of my phone and the state it was in a day later

Got myself a brand new 'Holiday Perfume'. Getting ready to go out with the family on the first night, take it out of the box, prepare to squirt and dropped the bastard on a concrete floor.

Could have cried. I'll admit the room did smell great for a couple of weeks though

New cream carpet. Installed less than 24 hours before a faulty bottle of red wine (cracked at the base) flooded it.

Not broken but lost brand new nearly £100 transition glasses. The first and last time I got transition lenses

I bought a new mug from a shop. Then popped to a clothes shop- tried something on- put the bag with the cup in on the changing bench- it fell and shattered!

Not something purchased as such but ...
A few years ago to help a friend out, we took her cat in on permanent loan. We gave her £40 for all the bits and pieces (scratch post etc). Put puss in a large cardboard box in back of the car and drove home. Took the box out of the car and put it on the driveway. A hissing lump of scratchy fury leapt out and was never seen again.
£40 worth of accessories sold for a tenner on Gumtree.

@Puffalicious I hear ya.

Got paid £720 in cash from work few years ago. Fell alseep on the bus. Got home. Empty envelope, no cash. Except £20 dropped just inside the front door. I never managed to work out what had happened.

Sadly not Thisismytimetoshine - it was bought on our last day (boat excursion) and we were leaving for the airport at the crack of dawn the next day. I’d obviously explore all other options before giving up a kidney

@VenusClapTrap thank you! I will indeed watch for that! And yes, it is indeed an amazing thing. Like a car and yet not like any car I've ever had before!!

Not me, but a friend of mine watched a guy drop his brand new iPad on the floor of a tube carriage and the screen was shattered completely.

And when I say new, I mean - the day after the first ever iPads were released on sale!