Yes, food stains are my nemesis and I wear a full-body apron any time I do anything! When I leave it off, even to make a peanut butter and jelly, it seems, I am dirty by the end of it.

I am a big klutz. My daughter inherited it. My greatest clothes wrecker is food stains. I have lost many tops, some bottoms, and even socks and sneakers (!!) to food stains. Then my daughter found Dawn dishwashing detergent. Dawn has resuscitated most of my casualties since. If I get it applied before the stain sets.

There is a big bottle of stain remover and it lives in our cupboard !Sounds like you ve all got this in your cupboards too.

Those stupid holes you get in sweaters where they rub against jean buttons/belts, etc. Always in my favorite sweaters!

Salad dressing! It sprays as I eat. Especially if the shirt is new. I've taken to wearing a napkin as a bib at home on salad days, but that doesn't save me at restaurants where that's not really an option.

I've wrecked so many tops by dripping food down them! Also bleach/cleaning spray on dark tees - I have a couple of navy tops with a few purple dots on where bleach has splashed, I'm tempted to try a little bleach in warm water to turn the tops the purple all over!

I ruin boots/shoes so easily, because I walk everywhere, so either the sole splits over the ball of my foot, or I kick holes in the toes/sides of them!

Okay, Janet, you make me feel better, too!

I can't begin to tell you how many clothes I've accidentally shrunk because I didn't read the label.

Pin holes in slub cotton t-shirts - I almost always wear a belt and never tuck. Laundry mishaps - my new Boden turtleneck does not look as pristine now that I’ve given it a wash Food spills - mostly tomato-something on a light coloured top. As a result, I’ve been known to don a “mom-bib” which is a tea towel wrapped around my neck and held with a chip clip - glamorous, I know!

I’ve ruined clothes trying to eat healthy...salad oil!

Occasionally bleach from cleaning has ruined a few items, until I learned to save some old clothes just for cleaning.

Like alwaystrying and SW Ann, I’ve had white clothes come out of the washing machine with weird yellow streaks which won’t come out even with bleach. I’ve also had too many black items come out of the washing machine with unexplained white streaks. Very frustrating and costly.

Besides that, snagging is probably my most frequent method of ruining things. A couple of sweaters were ruined from the strap of my shoulder bag rubbing on them.

And why is it that the things that get ruined are always things I really like???

I lost a pair of brand new chino pants last week. I sat on a bus seat that was cracked. As I stood up, the edge of the cracked plastic caught the back of my pants and ripped a huge hole in the upper thigh. I had to tie my sweater around my waist to provide coverage on the walk home from the bus stop. It was only my second wear for those pants.

For me, the usual would be food stains or snags on knits, which I take it, and trying to be more careful in the future. Most of the time, the stains comes off, and the snag is not too bad.

There is another type of accident for me, which is more frequent, and it now decide what I would wear that day.

If it is a white top, or very light coloring shirt with collar, no foundation make up for me. I don't know how, but it always get transferred to the collar, even soft collar. I have a hard time removing it, and ended up just throw them away. So now, white top = No make up. If I want make up, I choose another top.

I also destroy other white top before, when I use sunscreen on the neck. This is my daily routine, so I think it was due to a brand that don't quite like my skin. The sweat stains in the front is so hard to remove, and I can't even hide it. I remember because I have a few white tees that way, after just a few wears. So now, I wear it under a shirt or sweater for warmth.

I walk a lot and ruin my shoes quickly. The toes, especially the pointy ones get scratched in the few days. Don’t know a remedy for that. Just yesterday I found a very nice pair of white pointy toe mules and didn’t buy it. I use shoe polish to cover the marks on my black shoes but at loss what would I do with white ones. White out? For the same reason, I regretfully didn’t buy a pair of burgundy boots. They were worth searching for a burgundy shoe polish. But I thought about it too long and they a gone.
Aside from occasional snag on a scarf or knitwear mostly done with rings, I do OK.

Wearing a hole through inseam of jeans via friction. Lots of pilling on knit items, or the knit becoming so thin that it’s see through. An irreparable tear. A grease stain or armpit stain that won’t come out.

Most perplexing: when a pair of boots cracked all the way through the sole.

Oh, and snag marks from pup nails or rat nails, or tiny holes in knit tops that, based on the location, I’m pretty sure are from one of my rats getting curious and munching a hole while sitting on my shoulder or lap. *sigh*

Rope ball, I have trouble with makeup stains on white clothes too!!

Kari, I can just imagine how cute a rat on the shoulder would be! I mean, too bad they chew holes, but still so cute.

Irina, i recently used a chalk marker to touch up a wall. You could try that, or paint markers, which would be more permanent. https://m.staples.com/Uni-Pain.....ct_1571691

Art supplies store sell them too. I just realized my link is for a dozen. Oops! They are generally available individually.

I haven't ruined too many clothes from food stains, because I always wear an apron. I've had too many close calls!

I do have issues with snagging delicate scarves on coat zippers. I also get tinted sunscreen stains on white shirt collars, and they don't like to come out.

I recently semi-ruined a pair of expensive suede boots by putting moisturizer on my hands and not letting it sink in enough before I handled the boots. The moisturizer left some oily blotches. I had to have the boots professionally cleaned, which changed the nap of the suede so it is not soft anymore, and it looks a little rough. Argh.

I have resolved to never buy jackets with Velcro, it is impossible for me to not snag things on it.

Ug Bijou-velcro is The Worst

I scrape the back heels of most shoes. . .

Back in the day when I wore nylon pantyhose, velco would ALWAYS find my navy ones to snag. Never the black ones; always the navy. I think I had some type of briefcase or messenger bag that fastened by velcro.

Wearing an apron nearly all the time at home has saved most of my clothes. Having naturally soft water has probably also contributed.

Shoes — those darn heels getting caught in cobblestones, grates, escalator treads.... and them I make it worse by scuffing the toes.

Also, if there’s an exposed screw or nail under any desk I guarantee I will find it and rip either nylons or my pants.

And then there was the case of the magically ripped pant seams.... I finished presenting and sat down to find 4 inch gaps in both inseams midway down the thigh. No idea where they came from!

Lately it's been grease stains. Even when I treat them before washing, they don't fully come out. I saw that I should try dish soap, so that's my next step with two tops.

1. Scuffing heels from the gravel and salt that is used to provide traction in the winter.

2. Stains

3. Snagging sweaters, scarves, and multiple other garments on sharp, rough or jagged edges of furniture, Velcro, in the gap between seats and seat backs, and on that silly adjustment knob on my office furniture.

Cats and bleach.

Mostly fighting with the Evil Cowlneck... and food stains !

But Cee, the cowl is so great for catching the little bits of food as they dribble out!

Just repeating other people's comments here, really -- snags (mostly my cat's claws but sometimes other items); grease (though I wear an apron so this is rare); wear-and-tear (jeans eventually get irreparable holes).

Worst for me is shoes. I'm really hard on them. I do replace heel lifts regularly and take care of them but when you walk the way I do, eventually the insides lose shape and structure, too.

I have an apron. I just forget to use it. Many times I will put an old shirt over what I am wearing when I am cooking. Eating is a whole other thing. I never spill or drip anything that does not stain; I manage to find a way to drip things that do stain (even on my bra!! the horror!)

DH, on the other hand, always has a stain on something and neglects to tell me about it or put a stain stick on it until after I have washed it and getting ready to iron.