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74 Most Expensive Things Children Accidentally Ruined As Shared In This Reddit Thread
Kids are just the dearest - they are the joy of life that perpetuates our existence. Kids teach us many lessons and revive our love for the world. In short - they are absolutely precious. But so are some of your things in their own right. An eons-old grandad clock, the LCD TV you’ve saved for years to buy, or a piece of jewelry that has been passed on for generations. Of course, their preciousness does not compare to that of a child, but when the two meet, we get a list of the most expensive things children accidentally ruined, as per this AskReddit thread. Prepare to be shook by some of these submissions, for they are quite unbelievable in their scale.
Now, none of these clumsy kids did their deeds on purpose - most of these accidents happened because of their sheer clumsiness. But hey, if your center of gravity were the same spot as a child’s is - right around your head - you’d also be very prone to ruining your stuff. In other cases, these funny kids just wanted to do an experiment or to check how some of these fancy things work. Nothing to blame them for here, as we’d be just as interested in taking a peek at the insides of your limited edition Xbox as they were. And, as you’re about to see, this Reddit thread is brimming with exactly these stories, with the variable being the price and the size of a ruined thing. But hey, before you have kids, you must know that ruining stuff is just one of the things kids do, so guard your possessions as hard as you’d like; some scale of destruction is still inevitable.
So, ready to check out these laugh-out-loud yet dearly expensive mistakes made by kids and documented by their parents? Well, then, scroll on down below and have a look at the submissions! Be sure to give your vote for the most unfortunate expensive things that got ruined by kids and share this article with parents-to-be so they’ll know what they are getting themselves into.
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#1
"When my son was 3, he rubbed a whole stick of butter over the back of the cloth couch. I cleaned it, but it always had a large stain. 16 years later I sent it with him when he got his first apartment."
Thegoodboi 2 years ago
My mind: "He rubbed a whole stick of butter over the back of his crotch" *sigh*
Snorkeldorf 2 years ago
Just moved in and my hubby hadn't had a chance to hook up the speakers to the stereo. Apparently there was a metal thing on a wire attached to them that had some sharp edges. My 3 year old daughter discovered this and carved a design on the side of a cherry end table. When confronted she explained that she wanted to help decorate our new house. I was grateful that she didn't manage to cut herself and 26 years later I still have the table with the carving in my living room.
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#2
"When I was a kid, my mother lost her diamond wedding ring. She was devastated. A decade later, while cleaning things up for a garage sale, we found it jammed in the toilet of my Barbie house."
#3
"When I was a kid I took a hammer and tried breaking open the television screen so I could be with Harry Potter. Didn't really work out as I had imagined."
Mia Tyrrell Swift 2 years ago (edited)
Ah, a wizard trying ro understand the muggle tging known as television.
#4
"My eye. When she was 6 months old, she was sitting on my lap and playing with some toys. She suddenly got really excited and flailed her arms up. Her fingernail dug deep into my eye. Three surgeries later, I still can barely see out of that eye, and it's visibly screwed up too (not egregiously, but if you look me in the eye my pupil is clearly more oval than a circle.)
Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
Aaa im in pain after reading this i need a donut for comfort🍩
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Jo May 2 years ago
I have a plate screwed into my optic bone,my 3 year old grandson got hyper and flung himself back, hitting the bone, and basically shattering it. Four plastic surgeries, and a new nose later... My ex son in law sued ME, because he felt I was somehow disparaging his reputation.. Because I had to pay 30 k. So that one side of my face would look like a melted wax bust of myself. The judge listened to his moron lawyer for 10 minutes. Made him stand with his lawyer, and ripped both of them for 20 minutes. And recommended my lawyer, start processing a suite for the money I had spent medical, and my lawyer.. I did, I won. And 5 years later, I have my Grandson too.. idiot.
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
Daaaaaaaaaaaamn. And I have already told my second kid she will be paying for my future hearing aids. Maybe I should be wearing safety glasses too...
#5
"My sister destroyed not one, but two blenders by leaving a spoon in them before turning them on. The explosions were impressive."
Chez2202 2 years ago
Once is an accident but not learning from the first blender explosion suggests to me that you are by far the brighter sibling.
Headless Roach 2 years ago
Wait until we hear about the OP's own achievements 🙃
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Amused panda 2 years ago
Does this mean that the blenders were poor quality, or the spoons very good quality? I've had a family member leave a stainless steel spoon in a liquidiser when turning it on. The spoon got very badly damaged (lots of cuts in the metal), the liquidiser's blades survived without a dent, and the liquidiser is still going strong.
the engineer 🇺🇦 2 years ago
imma try that (with the right amount of safety equipment, of course)
#6
"My dad, a realtor, once sold a house and a condo to a guy whose daughter had burned down their old house. The house was for the family, the condo was for the daughter. I asked my dad how it had happened and he said the guy just told him, 'She's always been like that.'"
AbsintheMinded 2 years ago
Maybe she shouldn’t be living in a condo then. That just puts other people’s lives at risk.
OnAFreakingRollercoaster 2 years ago
Sounds like one of my kids. Her favorite thing to do is destroy things 🤷🏼♀️🙄👎
#7
"I had decided that my mother's very expensive perfumes and moisturizers smelled really nice and that if I combined them they would probably smell even better. So I did. In the bathtub."
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
I did this once trying to give my teddy bear a very expensive bath. My mother still describes it as “the most devastated I had been since I learned I was having twins.” (I’m a twin lol)
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TailsFangirl03 2 years ago
I've probably wasted gallons of bathrooms products while doing childhood "science"
#8
"My brother ripped earrings out of both my mother's ears when he was a baby. He did one, then the other a few days later. I guess the cosmetic surgery to fix it was expensive and insurance didn't cover it. Don't wear big earrings when you're holding a baby, ladies."
Lisa H 2 years ago
If I'm holding a baby, they will, of course, go straight for my glasses. One plus to having dreadlocked hair is I will just let the child hold one as a distraction. I just make sure to keep it away from their mouth, but they love the texture and my glasses are safe to remain on my face.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Heck I would plop my glasses on top of my head or take them off completely when holding nephew becomes his little grabbers. (Could only see about 2 inches in front of me clearly without them). I never wore jewelry around him because I just assumed that would happen
AffenpinscherMom 2 years ago
It is expensive. My daughter just had her earrings ripped out and because it isn't considered a medically necessary surgery it isnt covered and cost $400. Super
Susie Elle 2 years ago
I once wore the only expensive piece of jewellery I own; a necklace with tiny sapphires. I went to visit my sister and nephew who was 9 months old at the time and when I held him, he IMMEDIATELY went for the necklace :'). I managed to pry his fingers off of it thankfully (I should've known not to wear something like that for this occasion of course).
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Heck, don't wear a necklace either. Someone's kid nearly strangled me when he grabbed mine. (Turned out he wanted to stick the pendant in his mouth).
#9
"When I was younger I cut all the flower heads that had blossomed in my grandmother's garden and gave them to her in a bucket. She started crying immediately."
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
I remember babysitting at my house when I was 14 and the kid was 7 - she cut all my mum’s roses off to give to me 🙃 I cried too but mostly because I knew I was about to get in huge trouble when my mum came home
#10
"20 years ago my friend's young son was making puzzles and he cut up his father's original Star Wars a New Hope 1977 poster. His father told me he had to shrug it off because his son didn't know any better. Best punishment served cold - the son is now a young Star Wars fan and he would do anything to own that poster he himself ruined."
Sylvia_SilverVampire 2 years ago
That probably would have been worth a ffffffortune today as well
#11
"The television. Apparently, running the scissors over the screen makes it look better."
Echo Van Horn 2 years ago
When I was younger my dad would hit us kids for literally anything or for absolutely no reason because he had serious rage issues, way past anger issues. He had bought a new big flat screen TV that he was super proud of. I obviously thought it was cool too and I sat really close to it while I was fidgeting with a plastic rose from a Barbie toy that had a magnet on the top part of the rose. I was going to push the tv button with that rose but noticed when I waved the magnetic part over the screen it distorted the colors of the tv screen so I waved it all over the bottom right corner of the tv and couldn’t wait to show my dad the other cool tricks he didn’t know his new tv was capable of and apparently that wasn’t a cool feature of the tv, I just screwed up my dads brand new tv with a Barbie magnet… that was the one and only time that I actually screwed up and he didn’t even hit me or kick me he didn’t even yell at me over it. He returned it and got a new one
#12
"We had a 90g saltwater tank with easily upwards of $3k worth of coral, and fish. I went to work a night shift and my son unplugged everything for the night my husband didn't notice. Everything was dead in the morning, and the house smelled lovely."
Bec 2 years ago
My Uncle had a restaurant with a really big fish tank in the entrance and there were steps down into a foyer area. Anyway, they came in one morning and the tank had shattered but there was just enough water trapped because of the step down area but fish were laying on their sides in just enough water to breathe
Otto Katz 2 years ago
For people complaining they thought grams, do you seriously think you'd measure a fish tank in weight, not in volumn? And how big would it be, a 90g is 350ml. How big is that fish tank?
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago (edited)
90g = 90 grams. OP was incorrect. To write 90 gallons in shorthand, you’d type “90gal” not “90g” (unless you have a very specific job that abbreviates it differently, which is not relevant here) 😊 also I only see one other comment mentioning the 90g thing so don’t worry, there isn’t a lot of these “people complaining they thought grams” 😅
Load More Replies... Fat Harry 2 years ago
Took me too long to realise what "90g" meant. I was thinking 90 grams, but she means 90 gallons. Ambiguity that could have been avoided by using SI units in the first place. Litres Tell use the capacity in LITRES.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Shīt, I'm from the US and even I read that as grams since gallons are usually noted as gal.
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#13
"I’m not a parent, but my brother (11 at the time) once got my father’s credit card without him knowing, and spent 2k dollars in online games."
Jack 2 years ago
This is why you don't keep that much money in the account which can be accessed by that card
Amused panda 2 years ago
I think you are confusing credit and debit cards. Debit cards access an account which contains money. Credit cards spending is limited only by the credit limit on the account. OP is referring to their parent's credit card. (Though I would have thought somewhere on the way to $2,000 the credit card spending should have triggered some suspicious activity/fraud warnings.)
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"My daughter stood on our dinning room table and spun the chandelier until it came out of the ceiling."
Scorpio_248 2 years ago
I've had a daydream of me doing this and getting in some serious trouble
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Light fixtures also aren't meant to hold the wait of a person
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#15
"I jumped on the roof of my mother's dodge neon like a trampoline cause I saw it on the Simpsons."
Shayna O'Connell 2 years ago
I did that on a glass topped table. It did not work out well, but I managed to avoid cutting myself so I'd say that's a win.
Bill Ferreira 2 years ago
The Dodge Neon was a motorized coffin. You did your mom a big favor.
#16
"I threw my mom's engagement ring in the ocean when I was a toddler. Don't ask me why I was allowed to play with it."
Dan Bexell 2 years ago
I was fishing in a local lake, and accidently dropped my wedding ring overboard. Three years later, I was fishing in the same lake, and caught a large walleye. I took it home, and cut it open to clean it, and there was no ring inside. True story.
#17
"My son, around 2 at the time used my phone as a spoon to eat ice cream. I had to use the speaker and yell into my phone for a week whenever I had a call. Eventually, it stopped wanting to charge. Melted ice cream does things to phones."
Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago
Omg it rlly does. Once I put my phone in a bag with some stuff I’d gotten from the store (I’d ridden my bike and had nowhere to put it) the stupid ice cream container came open and started melting and got all over everything else including my phone. It was a sad day. The phone is ok though
#18
"Apparently when I was 2 or 3 (around '92) I thought the VCR was hungry so I fed it my spaghetti."
Philly Bob 2 years ago
My (at the time) 4 year old daughter put a tuna sandwich into the VCR. I asked what the hell did you do that for and her response? "It fit." (She's now 38 years old! LOL!)
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
When I was 2 or 3 I stuffed an entire slice of tomato up my nose. Apparently I enjoyed the experience so much I tried to share another tomato slice with my Raggedy Anne doll’s various nooks and crannies, which my parents didn’t notice until day 3 when it started to mold, and that’s the story of how my mother thought I had asthma but it was just a fermenting tomato inside my face 😀
Raymond Smith 2 years ago
I used to work on VCRs back in the day and parents would bring them in for repair and the first thing we would ask is if they had kids and could reach it. Found all sorts of things from keys to chocolate inside.
#19
"My wife and her brother tore a giant hole behind the dresser because they were trying to find Narnia."
#20
"I ruined my mom's brand new Keurig by putting milk in the reservoir instead of water in an attempt to make better hot chocolate. Didn’t know it would curdle the milk and make the house smell like rotting feet."
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
Good to know. I was definitely not thinking about trying this with my MIL’s keurig. Definitely not.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Don’t worry, 3 owls, you’re not alone.
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"My chemistry professor blew up half of his house and consequently the other half caught on fire when he was 8 or 9."
cadena kuhn 2 years ago
Mine said he once accidentally made mustard gas when he was in high school. It's what made him interested in science lol
#22
"My daughter flushed my college ring down a toilet."
Demosthenes 2 years ago (edited)
Rings people buy to commemorate graduation. https://classringshop.com/home.php
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"Permanent marker all over our brand new quartz countertop. Brand new..."
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
I actually did this to a cheap faux leather shoe the other day and it worked fantastically. Now I can’t get the ink out from under my nails but my Walmart shoes look fantastic.
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Well-Dressed Wolf 2 years ago
Lavender essential oil will take that right off. The ONLY practical use for essential oils besides scent XD
BOTW PANDA 2 years ago
A simple solution I use for any smooth surface is putting hand sanitizer in a kleenix, then folding it and using it like a wipe.
Catherine Miklavic 2 years ago
Or spray a rag with rubbing alcohol and wipe it..... we only use permanent markers at work ...on everything....and a spray bottle of alcohol cleans it right off
#24
"My brother filled the car with water. Twice."
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
The first time was out of curiosity… the second one one was for the look on daddy’s face.
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3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
I feel like filling a car gas tank with water requires effort. That’s very hard to do by accident 😅
pyro 2 years ago
it depends on how old he was, but i feel like it wasnt accidental
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"My 4-year-old niece wrote her name all over the driver's side of our neighbor's car (Audi S6) with a rock."
#26
"My grandpa had a successful tomato farm. One day he wanted me to pick the tomatoes from a plant. Well, I picked every tomato on the farm. All of them. Were that tomato green and half an inch? Picked it. Spent a few hours and cleaned out the whole farm of ripe (probably only 5%) and developing tomatoes. Easily thousands of tomatoes."
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
Having a grandpa that had a decent sized garden... How did he not notice OP was picking so many tomatoes? After a hundred, you'd be checking in to make sure the kid is alive and not playing with poop or something
#27
"When I was a kid I thought I'd be helpful and wash my mom's car. I used one of those scrubby sponges from the kitchen and scratched the sh*t out of every inch of that car."
West Hermans 2 years ago
I helped my dad wash his car. And trying to be nice, went with the now dry sponge and continued on the neighbor's dusty Mercedes.
JinxBox 2 years ago
Loving these stories. I wanted to be as handy as my dad so I tried all of his tools too to carve him a surprise -on his bedside table. He cried, yelled and laughed at the same time. Would give me own tiny tools and some wood later so I wouldn't have to practise on the house.
Bill Ferreira 2 years ago
You can pay luxury brands to deliver paint finishes like that. Your kid could get a high paying job from BMW, Mercedes, Tesla and many others.
#28
"When my son was about 7 he microwaved our camera. We had just bought a 1000$ video camera for the family to use, when he was home with his older sister he thought it would look cool to have a video of the inside of the microwave!"
Scorpio_248 2 years ago
Wait, did the microwave explode or did the camera get damaged or both? I'm kinda combuzzled here!
#29
"My siblings and I sat alone waiting for our parents in our brand new 1960 station wagon. We got bored, and pushed in the cigarette lighter, then took turns burning holes in the new vinyl upholstery. Little circles all over the seat."
Emie N. 2 years ago
If it was 1960 then times were different to raising children then. But I still agree with you.
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#30
"When I was about 5, I had a fascination with magnets and I had quite a few of them and I played with them a lot. I had heard several times from my parents to not put the magnets on the TV and of course, my 5-year-old brain registered that as definitely put the magnets on the TV. So when they were out of the house I put one on the screen and it became discolored, I thought it was cool and dragged it across the TV some. I quickly found out that the color doesn't come back when you turn the TV on and off. Had to get a new TV and I got in quite a bit of trouble."
Jack 2 years ago
Hope you have a old working TV 📺 if not at least get a old working TV so you don't ruin your current TV and have to buy a new one 😉
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TheFloydist 2 years ago
My dad was a TV repair man before I was born, He had a large ring electromagnet that he kept from his TV repair days specifically to correct distortions like this. I don't know if it would have worked in this situation but I watched him correct some pretty distorted TV sets. Later models of CRT TV's began to build the electromagnet into their TVs and you could momentarily activate it to do the same thing. I believe this was called degaussing.
just me 2 years ago
We did that as kids. We could usually reverse it by holding the magnet over again and moving it once the color was right.
Julie 2 years ago
I messed up the TV with a magnet as a kid and my dad this exact same thing to fix it.
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"My younger sister somehow managed to ruin all the plumbing in one of the bathrooms of our house."
Raymond Smith 2 years ago
All depends on what she had for dinner. Maybe it was some awesome Mexican food.
#32
"My little cousin found a 400-year-old piece of art in the storage shed and ruined it by doodling on it."
Bec 2 years ago
Right? My husband is still pouty about how his things got ruined when our basement flooded. If that stuff was really valuable and important to you, it wouldn't be in boxes in the basement
Load More Replies... Melissa Harris 2 years ago
A professional conservator could help. Art work of that age is covered in a layer of varnish. So the cousins 'art' may not be 'on' the actual paint layer. Natural resin varnishes need to be removed and replaced over time anyway as they darken and discolor as they age.
Scorpio_248 2 years ago
First off, was that shed on your property? Second, how did cousin get in the shed? Third, Did ancestor make drawing? Fourth, if no for number three: Why was it in shed?
#33
"My mother never ceases to tell somebody new the story of when she bought a brand new couch. I was sitting on it with a pair of scissors near me and decided to just cut a slit right down the center of one of the cushions. When asked why, my response was, 'well, I had to cut something.' She was so furious she walked away."
AbsintheMinded 2 years ago
Omg, this reminds me of that old infomercial where you see a hand holding a knife, then stabbing a leather couch. “Would you do this to your couch?! Of course not! But here’s how to fix it.” Liquid leather!!
#34
"When I was about 12 I somehow managed to break my nans £1000 stairlift while riding it."
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
As a skinny human - my toxically curious childhood self could have found 100 ways to break it in 5 minutes flat lol
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"The stereo in our minivan quit working. After a little troubleshooting, we found 25 pennies shoved in the CD slot."
#36
"I was 13 and downloaded everything my small grubby child-teen hands could click on LimeWire. I'm sorry, mom."
Scorpio_248 2 years ago
So these viruses were bad? Bad enough that you'd have to replace an entire computer?!
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
I'll 13 and I have way more common sense than that... coming from the dumbass who 1) ran through a window on accident and 2) sat on a music stand and somehow got seriously injured, among a s**t ton of other things
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I was fooled into installing Hotbar on the family computer. Dad was so furious he banned me from going anywhere near it for a week.
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Honestly as someone who works with kids I get that. If the kid doesn't know not to download things, you shouldn't have have on a comupet. It's your dad's fault for not teaching you, though
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"Our brand new flat-screen TV. He was 2 and threw his toy truck at it. Never wanted to disown him more than in that moment."
#38
"Not quite ruining, but when my younger brother was 6, he somehow managed to accidentally buy a car while playing games on my mother's phone."
Joshua Wilson 2 years ago
How do you accidentally buy a car? This sounds like something my grandpa would do, except it wouldn’t be on accident, that would just be his excuse to my grandma.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
I don’t usually call bs on posts, but I call bs on this one. That’s like saying “he accidentally bought a house while just playing a game on my phone” - it’s a little more complicated than just swiping right, there’s a lot of paperwork involved.
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
I'd honestly believe it. If the person had their credit card info auto filled or something (don't ask me I'm 13) a kid would have just seen the paperwork as a fun game or quiz type thing. There's also a chance that the kid was trying to play a prank and didn't realize how bad it was until the parents freaked out, then said it was an accident because what else are you gonna do he bought a car
Load More Replies... Scorpio_248 2 years ago
*Scratches head* I don't remember ordering this. The younger brother laughs
#39
"My Xbox one. They don't take more than 3 disks at a time. Stuff tends to start breaking once the fourth enters."
Lisa H 2 years ago
From that comment alone, I may choose permanent celibacy....
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"One night I turned on the bathtub and went back to sleep. Nobody in my family woke up until morning, and by that point the water was collapsing through the downstairs ceilings, coming out of the chandelier, and pooling in the basement. Thank God for homeowner's insurance."
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Not really. I'd call kids an environmental hazard. They're too young to know not too, and you can't expect everyone to be a sleeper light enough to notice that.
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Melanie Schmidt 2 years ago
Why don't bath tube have those safe drains near the top line most bathroom sinks? Im always terrified of over filling mine
#41
"I was washing my van one day 3 years ago and my 2 year old decided to help wash the other side... with rocks. Scratched right down to the primer."
#42
"Not ruined exactly but when I was in my teens my boyfriend and I broke into his father's wine cellar and pinched what we thought was the rattiest-looking bottle of wine thinking he would never miss it, turned out to be an incredibly rare, old, expensive vintage that he had been saving since his grandfather gave it to him when he graduated, his grandfather got it from his father, so it had lots of sentimental value as well. I never got over that. We drank it from the bottle out in the woods, what a waste."
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
My father asked me did I remember if he gifted a 25yo bottle of whiskey to his brother. Me, remembering I had stolen it 4years prior and puked it up in a field, "eh, I think so"
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
Lmao my mum, who almost never drinks, got a beautiful expensive bottle of clear white tequila from a Mexican friend almost 20 years ago. I wonder if she’s noticed yet that it’s long ago been replaced with water 🤔😝
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
My grandfather had a bottle of wine which was like that. Expensive, very old vintage, and he held onto it for years. And by the time he finally did open it... it had lost all its flavour.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
It must not have been sealed right or was bad to begin with then. I have never heard of that happening. That sucks though.
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"I had just come home from receiving my special order astigmatism contacts – a year supply, probably worth around $800. My 3 year old flushed them all down the toilet."
#44
"This obviously didn't ruin my dog, but I covered my dog in vaseline from head to toe and said I was 'decorating him for Christmas.' My mom said it took DAYS to wash out the vaseline."
Amaree Matthews 2 years ago
Olive oil first, then dawn. My oldest rubbed A&D ointment (pretty much Vaseline) all over his baby brother. Twice.
Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago (edited)
I covered my dog in lipstick once. And myself. And everything else around me. There was also a baby powder incident. Edit: the dog was white btw lol
AbsintheMinded 2 years ago
Folks need to understand that pets should not be used as babysitters.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
Yes but it sounds like OP is just saying they covered their dog in Vaseline once
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#45
"My brother and I got mad at each other and ended up throwing a shoe at him really hard. It missed him and hit our $2k grandfather clock, busting the glass."
Suzie Alto 2 years ago
Omg!! 30+ years ago I went to kick my brother and my shoe flew off and hit the clock that my grandpa made for my mom and made a big crack along the back.. lol we didn't tell my mom. She finally saw it when she changed the batteries a few months later. We actually told her how the crack got there a couple years ago
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I threw a shoe at my sister once and missed and it flew through our bedroom window.
#46
"Oldest child once fed lettuce to the DVD player. Not particularly expensive, but it was an amusing w*f."
Fat Harry 2 years ago
If you feed lettuce to a DVD player it will play a short film about rabbits.
Scorpio_248 2 years ago
Imagine, a little kid reading that comment and doing just that!
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#48
"Years ago, my sister broke about $2000 of my father's fishing rods - gifts from a client and friend - over the course of about a week."
Sylvia_SilverVampire 2 years ago
She was a serial fishing-rod killer. Would not rest until all of them were broken.
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#49
"Carpet in the house. Thanks, slime."
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Not a chance. Glitter is the devil incarnate; that shīt never goes away and haunts your existence
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Acoustic Killer 1 year ago
I bet you can use peanut butter or something like that and work it out like gum in hair
#50
"Ah! Finally my moment of glory. You guys are all very cute with your 3k diamond rings and your CD players. I installed 30k worth of hardwood floors in my new house with a 1-year-old. Biggest regret of my life."
Lisa H 2 years ago
Toddlers are a force of nature that are not to be underestimated.
Load More Replies... Well-Dressed Wolf 2 years ago
Hardwood flooring is VERY expensive, if it’s good-quality. Doesn’t have to be a huge house.
Load More Replies... Melissa Harris 2 years ago
Good thing you can refinish hardwood flooring. I'd wait until he hits puberty.
#51
"When my son was 5 I had just purchased a fancy new projection HDTV. I hooked everything up, went upstairs to grab my DVDs, and when I came back, my son etched, "DAD" in the middle of the screen with a fork. He was so proud."
#52
"My son turned on the sink in the basement to play with soap bubbles. He then went to bed and left it on. The sink had no overflow drain, it was quite old. He flooded the basement."
#53
"A diamond earring. Gifted by my mother on my wedding day. Diamonds swim in the big potty, guys!"
Refael Pelealu (PV) 2 years ago (edited)
Why do people think rings and earrings belong in water???
#54
"When I was 5 I filled up the fuel tank in my dirt bike with sand because I ran out of gas."
David Hurley 1 year ago
I also had a Honda Monkey Dirt Bike at 5. Never put dirt in it though.
#55
"My daughter ruined my phone when she was about 2 months old. She threw up on me and it splattered hard enough to hit the phone just right while it was charging and it fried the charging port."
#56
"When I was a kid I thought I would pull a hilarious April fool's prank and hide all of our cups. I took the plastic cups and hid them in a small overhead chandelier covering the light bulbs. The next day I had forgotten about them, dad turned on the lights and the cups slowly melted all over destroying the chandelier."
Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
Ok how hot/bright/big was ur chandelier to be able to do that... i have smol one and it dont heat an ice cube?
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
If this was years ago then pretty hot. Light bulbs used to get super hot. As a teen in high-school, about 97/98, we used to light cigarettes off the halogen lamp bulbs at my friends house
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"My mom will never never let me live down the fact that I once took her phone and put it in the microwave when I was 2 or 3 years old."
Well-Dressed Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
Honestly curious as I’ve never had kids… how does a 2- or 3-year-old reach the microwave? How did they go unsupervised long enough to pull over a chair, climb onto it, open and close the microwave, and press beepy buttons?
Bec 2 years ago
Some people do have the kind built into lower cabinets. But some kids are monkey -like climbers too
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#58
"My kid blew the motor on a Ford Contour. I guess he thought the temperature gauge was nothing to worry about."
#59
"Our neighbors bought brand new living room furniture. All white. Their 8-year-old got a ketchup packet from McDonald's. He opened it and placed it on the arm of the sofa, facing in. Then he brought his fist down as hard as he could."
Corbin 2 years ago
Why buy white furniture at all doesn't matter how clean you are it's just going to stain eventually.
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crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
That's the kids fault. He was actively being malicious there
Steve Robert 2 years ago
Parents are idiots to buy white furniture when they have kids. Just asking for trouble!
HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago
My aunt had white walls, white carpet, white furniture and 3 sons who raced dirt bikes and motorcycles. And she had 25 nieces and nephews. We hated her house.
#60
"My daughter broke my nose when she cocked her head back for a glorious laugh."
Sayori >-< 2 years ago
hehe that made me laugh, hard, really hard, thank you.
Load More Replies... Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago
Did that once… knocked out my mom’s tooth. I was a great kid
#61
"My husband let our 1-year-old play with his iPhone unattended, at which point it promptly ended up in the dog's water bowl."
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Yeah a lot of these aren't the kids, it's the parents not being responsible. Your kid doesn't understand how the world works, just tell them how to he careful with something or better yet wait until they're old enough to have common sense
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Bill Ferreira 2 years ago
A coworker, an it professional, gave his 3 year old daughter his phone to play with while he was driving to work on the freeway. She promptly threw it out the window. He never could understand why we never gave him any important projects.
#62
"My leather sofa. 'Don't paint your nails on the sofa.' Paints nails on the sofa, spills half bottle down the front."
#63
"My 18-month-old shoved my Surface off a table and it shattered on the floor. You know how cats like to knock things off tables just for the hell of it? Just like that. He looked so damn proud of himself, too."
les 2 years ago
thats why they were used for medical tests until the mid eighties in america. they believed babies didn't feel pain
Load More Replies... Some black giirrrrllll 2 years ago
My nephew too recently started picking things and staring at them for a few seconds right before throwing them to the ground as hard as he can. He's barely 2 years old. He did it with my phone several times (and many other phones). Also, he likes scrubbing stuff on the floor, especially food and valuable things like your toothbrush
#64
"When I was young, I was a curious fellow. Our family car had an automatic sunroof and my tiny little mind was curious if I could hold the cover of the sunroof and have the window open above it. I was wrong. The sunroof decided to never open again."
#65
"$400 Prada sunglasses. My fault for leaving them unguarded."
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
At least they own up here that's nice. The kid didn't know any better, the adult needs to think things through
#66
"I jumped all over my parent's brand new car with muddy boots and completely caved in the roof. It was maybe 3 days old."
#67
"My uncle told me a story about my cousin. Apparently, his son wanted to gas up the car for him. But he didn't understand that a garden hose isn't a gas pump. He filled my uncle's gas tank with water till it overflowed."
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Thats not the kids fault. The uncle should have been clearer with his kid about how to do something, you can't expect a child to know everything. Learning exists. Teach the damn kid and stop complaining about them not knowing things
BeeGee1 2 years ago
I think what the OP is saying is that his young child thought he was “gassing up the car” as a surprise for his dad. It wasn’t a16-year old tasked with filling up the car and legit stupid enough to think a water hose was a gas pump.
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#68
"When I was about a year old, we were visiting my great-grandmother. I got a hold of a marker and decided that a little, framed, black-and-white photo needed some color apparently. Completely destroyed the one and only photo of my great grandmother's dead brother who passed away as a child."
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
The reason I should not have children is that just would probably slap the kid before I could think
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
This is one of the many reasons I’m relieved to be child free AND have siblings who are child free 😮💨 my cats surprise me by finding something unexpected to destroy in creative new ways all the time (RIP expensive kitchenaid mixer), I can’t even imagine tiny and much smarter lil humans running amok 😂 as cute as they are
#69
"When I was about 6, I tried to make my parents breakfast in bed and broke the espresso maker. It was a really nice Italian one that they received as a wedding gift and could never afford to replace."
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Honestly this is one of the less painful ones for me. A fancy coffee maker is wonderful but even a normal one is fine, and the kid meant totally well, and it wasn't even the parent's fault. No one is to blame, the kid didn't understand how coffee makers worked and they didn't ask their parents because they wanted them to have a happy surprise. The parents never thought it would come up. Still sucks but you can still have coffee
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"When my sister was probably 2 years old, she knocked over & broke my dads 12 string Bass Guitar, he still doesn't let her live that down."
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
NOOOOO IM A BASS PLAYER AND THIS IS HUTTONG MY SOUL THESE THINGS ARE SO DAMN FRAGILE AND I LOVE MINE SO MUCH AHHH I WOULD F*****G PUNCH A WALL
Melissa Harris 2 years ago
He had a toddler in the house and left an instrument somewhere it could be damaged. His fault. You put fragile things away for safe keeping when you have kids.
SnapStingray687 2 years ago
Or you play the trumpet, reliable as f**k. I did marching band and I beat the s**t out of it. (Not intentionally, it just happens) Still works and sounds amazing. (This was a brass trumpet not a silver one, it was bound to get beat up over time.)
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"When I was a kid I tried to make grilled cheese on toast after school. So I turned the oven on and then completely forgot about it. Turns out, my mum used to hide her family heirloom jewelry in the oven because 'it was the last place anyone other than her would look'. I grilled the lot."
Fat Harry 2 years ago
If it's real gold and gems, what harm would this do? The temperature in an oven is 240 degrees at most. The melting point of gold must be higher than that.
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
Just to play idiot's advocate, maybe a gas oven. If right over the flames at the back, stuff could possibly get tarnished or charred (peals maybe?). Silver also has a low enough melting point, in that situation it wouldn't melt but might deform
Load More Replies... that weird wallflower 2 years ago
THAT is the mum's fault. You don't store precious family heirloom jewelry in the OVEN! It's an OVEN!
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
The moms fault totally. Who the f**k puts jewelry in an oven?? Someone is gonna turn it on eventually. The mom was being a huge f*****g idiot and she deserved this.
Melissa Harris 2 years ago
People store all sorts of stupid things in a box that is meant to get hot; but, jewelry?! Buy a safe. Also, gold melts at rather low temperatures.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
That is a really stupid place to leave jewelry... Side note.. now I want a grilled cheese sandwich
#72
"A good night's sleep."
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
As someone with insomnia I will never have children. If I'm adopting I'm gonna adopt an older age. I can't deal with the lack of sleep
#73
"16 iPads."
Amused panda 2 years ago
From Reddit: "How did our child ruin 16 iPads you ask? Well let me tell you. My wife is a teacher. In her school each child is assigned an iPad for educational purposes. When the school year is over the iPads have to be wiped and reset to factory settings. Of course this has to be done after school is over. She was running behind getting her classroom prepped to be cleaned and still needed to reset them to factory settings. She brought her iPad cart home with 22 iPads in them. She laid them all down on the office floor and made an assembly line. She got to the last one and left to do something else. Came back and our daughter had played "the floor is lava" on top of 16 of them. The screens were trashed. Some of them would power on but the touch screen function was gone. She had to call her principal and explain. She got a royal a*s chewing for it, but lo and behold the next year they were planning on switching to Google Classroom instead... All new Chromebooks for the kids."
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"I wanted to make some tea for my mother, so I went to turn on the electric kettle. Me, being the little retard I am, thought that meant to put that kettle on top of the fire, not on the base. Because, you know, kettle + fire = hot water, right?"
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
Curious that BP censors the most innocuous terms, but an ableist slur like r****d is allowed to stand
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
I goddamn hate how little people see the r slur as a real slur like honestly call me the f slur I'll get a bit annoyed but I won't really care, I'll be more annoyed that you think being gay is bad, the n slur is obviously horrible but people are aware of it and it's being reclaimed by black people and that's great, but the r slur is both in active use against people who are mentally disabled and also no one gives a s**t and it pisses me off big time.
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Lyoness 2 years ago
Don't use the R word. Ever. Doesn't matter if you think it's OK because you're using the slur on yourself. Doesn't matter if you think it's funny. It's not funny and it's not ok. Just. Don't. Do it.
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Yeah I as a kid said this once cause i was reading books that said it, my mom explained to me why we didn't use it and that's probably the single thing I am most ashamed of in my life. I'm half glad ths tit happened though because it did put me on a path where I now understand all of the s****y things you can say to people and why not to say them.
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Mia Tyrrell Swift 2 years ago
When me and my sister were kids, my mum decided I had been very mature for my age (I was 11, my sister was 9) and gave me a smartwatch. I took it off to do something, I can't remember what, and my sister JAMMED THE WATCH INTO A GLASS OF WATER! Needless to say, I still haven't firgiven her for that one, 3 years later.
Sam NE 2 years ago
My then 4 yr old son was mad that his sister was at school and hit a 2 week old 5,000 dollar TV with a fly swatter. 😶
George Comas 2 years ago
'69 or '70 when I was 4 or 5 was at a family gathering. My great aunt was showing off her new Cadillac to the entire GM family. All aunts and uncles and cousins were there and she decided to take me to lunch with her new Cadillac. We go to some fast food place and I get a kids meal, with crayons. Whoops. So as we're going back with me in the back seat and feeling so grateful, I decide to return the love. The interior of that car is all white. I decide to show my gratitude by brightening up her interior. Never been so scared for my life!
Well-Dressed Wolf 2 years ago
When I was a little kid in the 80s, we had three full-size arcade game machines in my house: Asteroids, Ms. Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong. I once got a hold of a bottle of White-Out and painted over Donkey Kong’s nipples on the side of the arcade cabinet. My mom beat me so hard for this that I never again did anything destructive to family property/belongings XD
Cynthia Lilleboe 2 years ago
My ex husband, as a toddler in the early '80s, used a hand saw to cut down the potted rubber tree his mom had, while his dad was supposed to be watching him. The tree lived and was thriving still 30 yrs later. My oldest child was playing in their room, and I thought they were too quiet so I checked. Grandma had given them dark pink glittery lipstick, real lipstick. My child didn't want to be like their dad, not even by being tanned. They had colored both legs, arms, face, neck, and was starting the stomach when I got there. Instant bath, had to throw away the wash cloth.
Ryza Tigno 2 years ago
I once lost my mom's eye glasses when I was 7. I noticed how it enlarged everything so I thought it was similar to a binocular, I snuck out of the house while everyone was sleeping and explore with her glasses.
TheFloydist 2 years ago
When I was growing up we had the family computer, which all eight of us kids had to share time on. I wanted to play games on it while my older brother was doing something on it, either hex editing files, or defragging the drive, or something. I was a petulant little so and so and after I was refused time on the computer I flipped the power strip off turning off the computer. Well, I corrupted the MBR on the hard drive or something and the computer just wouldn't boot after that. I felt horrible because now no one including myself could use the computer. It took months before someone either replaced the drive or reinstalled the operating system. I got grounded from the computer a lot as a kid as it was one of the effective punishments.
Mia Tyrrell Swift 2 years ago
When me and my sister were kids, my mum decided I had been very mature for my age (I was 11, my sister was 9) and gave me a smartwatch. I took it off to do something, I can't remember what, and my sister JAMMED THE WATCH INTO A GLASS OF WATER! Needless to say, I still haven't firgiven her for that one, 3 years later.
Sam NE 2 years ago
My then 4 yr old son was mad that his sister was at school and hit a 2 week old 5,000 dollar TV with a fly swatter. 😶
George Comas 2 years ago
'69 or '70 when I was 4 or 5 was at a family gathering. My great aunt was showing off her new Cadillac to the entire GM family. All aunts and uncles and cousins were there and she decided to take me to lunch with her new Cadillac. We go to some fast food place and I get a kids meal, with crayons. Whoops. So as we're going back with me in the back seat and feeling so grateful, I decide to return the love. The interior of that car is all white. I decide to show my gratitude by brightening up her interior. Never been so scared for my life!
Well-Dressed Wolf 2 years ago
When I was a little kid in the 80s, we had three full-size arcade game machines in my house: Asteroids, Ms. Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong. I once got a hold of a bottle of White-Out and painted over Donkey Kong’s nipples on the side of the arcade cabinet. My mom beat me so hard for this that I never again did anything destructive to family property/belongings XD
Cynthia Lilleboe 2 years ago
My ex husband, as a toddler in the early '80s, used a hand saw to cut down the potted rubber tree his mom had, while his dad was supposed to be watching him. The tree lived and was thriving still 30 yrs later. My oldest child was playing in their room, and I thought they were too quiet so I checked. Grandma had given them dark pink glittery lipstick, real lipstick. My child didn't want to be like their dad, not even by being tanned. They had colored both legs, arms, face, neck, and was starting the stomach when I got there. Instant bath, had to throw away the wash cloth.
Ryza Tigno 2 years ago
I once lost my mom's eye glasses when I was 7. I noticed how it enlarged everything so I thought it was similar to a binocular, I snuck out of the house while everyone was sleeping and explore with her glasses.
TheFloydist 2 years ago
When I was growing up we had the family computer, which all eight of us kids had to share time on. I wanted to play games on it while my older brother was doing something on it, either hex editing files, or defragging the drive, or something. I was a petulant little so and so and after I was refused time on the computer I flipped the power strip off turning off the computer. Well, I corrupted the MBR on the hard drive or something and the computer just wouldn't boot after that. I felt horrible because now no one including myself could use the computer. It took months before someone either replaced the drive or reinstalled the operating system. I got grounded from the computer a lot as a kid as it was one of the effective punishments.
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