I am GUTTED!!!!

You absolutely cannot believe what happened!
You know those Hippo moisture absorbers that come in a Plastic box? The ones that you need to discard after they are filled up with liquids?
Well, they are meant to absorb moisture from the air and protect whatever items that need protection.
In my case, it has been a disaster!!! A disaster that costs thousands of €$$€$.
I have a few in my handbag cupboard...to protect my handbags from the high humidity of this country.
What do you know???
One of these boxes must have cracked and leaked all it's chemical contents onto the shelves.
The result?
Many of my handbags are ruined.
My 2 Ferragamos, a Gucci, a Charles Jourdan, an Aigner, a Celine and a few others.
Yes. I am absolutely GUTTED!
And no. They are NOT salvageable.
The leather on most of the bags are now discolored and the texture has changed so much that it feels like buffalo skin instead of calf's leather! Some of the bags have such a great distortion that even the hunchback of Notre Dame looks a thousand-times better.
The straps on the bags are rock hard..stiff like a rotan!
*sigh*
Something that is meant to protect has actually become the destroyer.
When did it happen?
Don't really know... Must have been a while for such devastating effect.
I found out when I was trying to stow my new Tod's ...felt that the shelves were kinda weird.
And when I took out my bags one by one, I almost fainted. All the distortion was quite hard to take in.
*sigh*
How would you feel if it were to happen to you??

At least all my newer handbags were untouched and thus unharmed.... H helped me to check all of them. I think I would have had a heart attack if my ketupat Bottega Veneta were destroyed. I store these newer ones on the top shelf and my older handbags in the lower shelf. Think the leak was from the top but it flowed down to the next shelf pretty quickly.
Shucks. Devastating....
And yes. I got rid of all the other dehumidifier boxes.