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What's the most expensive thing you broke as a kid and what's the story behind it? (leminal.space)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine was our CRT TV. I would rapidly push the power button on and off because I thought the picture coming and going looked cool but eventually it fell inside of the TV. I think I later stuck a magnet on the TV.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

An antique crystal vase my parents received as a wedding gift.
I was maybe in my tweens and bought flowers for some occasion (a birthday or anniversary maybe) and the florist said I should use boiling water to keep them fresh (yes, it is a thing), but obviously I misunderstood, and not knowing any better I added the boiling water directly in to the vase (which I chose because it was my favourite) and of course it exploded in my hand. Lucky I wasn't hurt, and I did manage to glue some of it back together, but I was not getting away with it. My mother was furious.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I'm not even a tween and I still don't understand what they meant for you to do. Are the flowers supposed to be in soil, and you're supposed to just water the soil with a bit of boiling water?

I mean, as an adult, I'd probably check if the material could hold boiling water...but even that's not 100% if it seemed ceramic or something, haha

[–] Micromot 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Maybe boiled water, like water that has been boiled and is now cooled off again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nope

[–] Micromot 2 points 7 months ago

Huh, interesting TIL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ahh... to disinfect it or something in a place where the water might not be fully clean?

[–] Micromot 3 points 7 months ago

Yup, that's what google told me. It removes some of the bad stuff that might be in the water

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