THE DUMBEST WAY YOU RUINED AN EXPENSIVE ITEM

Reddit asked, “What’s the dumbest way you’ve ever ruined an expensive item?” Some of the responses:
– “I put my AirPods through the washing machine.”
– “Put Dawn in the dishwasher as a kid. Totally destroyed my dad’s new floors.”
– “I tripped and fell on the open (brand new) dishwasher door. I had to order another one.”
– “I used the cheapest car-shipping people i could find moving from Hawaii to Colorado……. Now $4,000 into repairs for the car and got $3500 left before its road safe again.”
– “I’ve managed to lose every nice expensive pair of sunglasses I’ve ever owned. The last was a $300 pair, and I loved them, and I lost them in the ocean the very first time I wore them at the beach.”
– “Leaned backward laughing and my head nudged an antique glass vase out of an open window and 3 stories onto the pavement below.”
– “When I was 17 I went to the mall and bought a new jacket. In the parking lot I lit a joint and a seed in it popped and landed on the jacket burning a hole in it. Had it maybe 10 minutes.”
– “I dropped a Yu-gi-oh card, worth about $70. I managed to catch it before it hit the floor by squeezing my legs together. I caught the card, but put a big crease in it right down the middle.”
– “I used my wife’s $300 Hair Salon scissors to hold on to the strings of my guitar.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What’s the dumbest way you’ve ruined an expensive item?