Worst thing you have broken via rage?

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i broke my TV once via rage

A printer. It just refused to do the one thing it was made for and I chucked it out of a 2nd floor window in pure rage. Never had one since.

I can control myself better now but I've . Broke bones, plates, cups, records, holes in walls and doors, a window and much much more.
For years I would only buy plastic plates etc so save me some money as they were harder to break.

@GreenLeafTurnip

A printer. It just refused to do the one thing it was made for and I chucked it out of a 2nd floor window in pure rage. Never had one since.

I punched mine the other week, not in front of kids etc. It's still working though. He's lucky we keep him in a ground floor room. Your reaction was thoroughly justified imo.

If this thread was for men, or women saying what their chaps had broken in rage, domestic violence and anger issues would be being cited, or "next time it will be you he breaks". As much as I'm a feminist, this reeks of double standards.

My vagina... two hours of rage and hate fuelled fucking after a particularly bitter row and it was sore for a week afterwards. In my defence, it was a long time ago.

I cry when I'm angry too but I did snap my phone in half as a teen. I was on my own and crying, I don't think it makes me an abuser? I have been on the receiving end of my stuff being smashed or things thrown at me and it feels like a very different energy to breaking your own stuff.

A loaf of bread?

But hear me out.

I asked my then-husband to put the shopping away and he decided that there wasn't enough space in the fridge for our bread 🤨, so he threw out a third of perfectly good food from the top shelf.

We had loads of space in the bread bin.

And I'd just done an extra 24 hours of overtime that week because we were tight on money.

So when I found out he'd thrown out about £20 worth of good food over a loaf of bread I just lost my shit.

To that loaf, I'm very sorry. You were unsalvageable.

@Seiheiki

If this thread was for men, or women saying what their chaps had broken in rage, domestic violence and anger issues would be being cited, or "next time it will be you he breaks". As much as I'm a feminist, this reeks of double standards.

What utter tripe. Honestly have you nothing better to do than police Mumsnet posts??

This is a forum for women. We share shit on here because we can and not be judged. Go look at a men’s forum and I’m sure you will find similar posts shared in that sanctum too. If you don’t like reading about real life issues go read a book.

Bloody sick & tired of people like you policing posts and commenting on how fucking awful other women are. Bog off.

My mom was once in a strop about something and stormed down the stairs, had an empty mug in her hand which she semi lost grip of, in anger at said mug she threw it down the rest of the stairs and it bounced off the carpet and smashed through the huge glass pane in the front door.
We never let her live it down

Well said @Journeynotdestination

@littlepieces

Laptop. Threw it across the room. Since then I've tried to control my anger!

Apart from the time I put my arm through the wall when I was banging on it in an attempt to get my neighbours to stop their 3am band practice on a Tuesday night.

Haha. I put a shoe through the wall when I was younger because my neighbours played System of a Down v loudly at 3am.

Broke a phone charger a couple of weeks ago yanking the lead out in a tantrum about something I can't even remember.

Not myself, buy my sister once through my new just-delivered laptop to the floor because she wanted to be the first to use it and I said no. This was in the late 90s (we were 18+ and laptops were not cheap as they are now.

OMG what a shambles

*but
*threw

I once slung a full plate of dinner out of the back door & it smashed up the wall across the yard, in response to my then boyfriend's friend making a comment about "the little woman" - not my finest moment.

I've never broken anything else in temper or deliberately in a cold, calculated manner - XH used to break my stuff when he was angry or later, coldly, as he was vindictive, also DS's stuff & occasionally his own stuff & then blame me for "making him do it" - twat

My phone, threw it at the wall when arguing with ex

Not broken, but I did throw my STBXH wedding ring out the window into next doors garden

Wow, this thread is really eye opening. I consider myself a very angry person and I’ve never broken or smashed anything. The most I think I’ve done is banged a fist/ slapped a hand on the tabletop and screamed, and felt very sheepish afterwards.

I kicked my front door in. It had been playing up for ages, randomly just not opening, not being able to unlock etc. I was at the door with my two in their double pushchair and the bloody thing would not open. It was raining and I lost it. I yelled at it and then did one of those movie type high side kicks and it came off the hinges. Cost us many hundreds for a new door and frame

Before you think I'm claiming to be some sort of martial arts powerhouse 😁 it was an old, rotting, swelling, twisting utterly shit wooden door and frame that badly needed replacing. A kid could have blown bubble mixture on it and it would have gone down.

Still. It certainly must have looked crazy to the neighbour who saw the whole thing and stayed very clear of me after that 🤣

iPad

Utterly fascinated by this thread. I have only once seen a person break something in anger (20 years ago) and I never intended to be in their presence again. I've never come close to feeling the need (I get angry, it just never occurs to me to break something) and never seen it in my husband or any of my large family. So always thought that it was terribly unrealistic when I saw t on TV. But with so many posters admitting it I suppose I was wrong. Why do you do it? How do you feel during? After?

Well said Journey

Work computer, I punched it with mouse. Told them it had caught on hand bag and fallen on floor

@AmIPeriOrAreYouJustAnnoying

Smug? Much? *@Waxonwaxoff0* You sound repressed to me.

@AmIPeriOrAreYouJustAnnoying

Repressed? Because she doesn't break things in a rage and doesn't get angry about stuff.
And why is she smug? So it's OK to boast about acting like a petulant child whilst throwing your possessions around but it's not OK to boast that you have a hold on your emotions?
Mumsnet has got to be one of the strangest places on the Internet!