Our fridge arrived in perfect condition. I put a small magnet on the door, kids opened the door into the wall, magnet hit wall and pushed into the fridge making a dent. Like rebunky, I just keep a magnet on it (but one of those flat ones on the back of a business card, so hopefully no more damage!)

Earlier today I hit our new fridge with one of the 90-100 boxes of Ikea product that is crammed into our rowhouse.

Now there's a dent. And I can't even pass the buck. DOH!

But ... it was only a matter of time before I tripped into it.

I just consider it all "character".

Not kitchen related but DH left his can of shaving cream on our marble sink counter. Lucky for us it's a pale yellow with some faint brown specs in it because the can left some less than faint specs on the counter.

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Laughing is the way to go though :)

When I redid my master bathroom I searched high and low for glass beveled mirrors - after months I found two that matched and they were perfect. First day the new (taller) vanity went in, I brought one of the mirrors in to see how it was going to look. I forgot the new vanity was taller - ran the mirror right into the countertop- and it took a chunk out of the corner of the mirror. Every time I see it, it drives me nuts.

When I got new hardwood installed I was so scared about scratches and dents that I bought several rugs and rug pads. My husband asked why we installed the hardwood since I was covering them up so much. First week I noticed a monster scratch in the floor - 14 inches. I wigged out - blamed the dogs and told my husband they were to be crated or stay in the basement during the day. I even bought them shoes but they didn't last 30 seconds. I had covers down on the floors and almost covered up the entire living room out of fear of more scratches. Today I can laugh these off. Sure I get pissed when I see new scratches, but I just tell myself it's adding character and not to worry.

The chipped mirror still drives me nuts. The scratches in floors I'm dealing with, laughing off each new scratch I see.

I hear you.... We scratched the fridge when we installed our granite countertop. We'd moved it out of the way, but not far enough. It is just a tiny little scratch, and I can't really complain when we could easily have broken the granite slab.

Thanks all! I thought about slip sliding down the driveway waving my arms and screaming "The other door! Give us the other door" but I was laughing so hard at DH's expression, I couldn't manage it.

We recently got a new fridge for our basement and it too came with a dent. Seems like this is common. I wonder if its poor packing or that they are using a thinner, more easily dented steel these days? Since it was a small dent and only in my basement, I kept it and took the discount.

My new car, which I LOVE, now has 4 small dents. The only one I know about came from a runaway shopping cart hitting the car while I was sitting in it. It is so depressing to have something new and shiny and then know that people wacked their doors into it!

When we were demoing the kitchen, I stacked some mixing bowls on a chair. As I was sweeping up the floor, I forgot about the bowls and backed into them. They all tumbled off and every one of them broke, the chair fell over hit a table and broke one of my treasures on the table. I had to so sit outside in the garden until I could bare to clean up the mess.

Diane

When we reno'd the kitchen in our old house, I was pushing our contractor to get the appliances in before we went out of town for my parents' 50th anniversary party. We had a dogsitter coming and I couldn't imagine leaving her without working appliances. He got them in just before we left. As we were greeting the first guests at the party, my DH's cellphone buzzed -- frantic call from the dogsitter. Water was pouring into our basement from the kitchen above! The hose leading to the fridge's icemaker/water had burst. We were 3 states away -- luckily, our contractor was able to get to the house quickly and shut off the water. The new wood floors were soaked, and there was dirty water all over a corner of the basement.

(for the record, I'm still a fan of wood floors in a kitchen)