I ordered this gorgeous vase online to decorate my home

A shopper thought she was getting a bargain ordering a vase online – but when it arrived it was far from what she was expecting.

Shan, from the UK, bought a gold chrome vase from AliExpress for £5 ($9 AUD) and assumed it was a standard size.

But it turned out to be smaller than her forefinger.

‘I mean this [is] 100 per cent my fault for not checking the actual size. I thought I was ordering a normal small sized vase and this is what I got,’ Shan admitted and posted a photo on Facebook.

‘It’s not what I wanted but it’s definitely growing on me!’

The awkward buy left hundreds in hysterics with many claiming they have never seen a vase so small. 

Regardless, some described the tiny product as ‘beautiful’ and ‘adorable’.  

‘It’s super awesome, I’d be so happy with it!’ one wrote, another said: You can put one small flower in it.’ 

To humour the situation, Shan found a small flower to put into the vase and shared a photo to show just how small it looks on a table.  

One joked: ‘Beautiful! Really ties the room together.’ 

Someone else wrote: ‘What is this? A vase for ANTS?!’ 

‘It’s for Barbie houses,’ another added.  

Last year another customer was praised for her simple trick that prevents impulse buying at stores like Kmart and Target. 

American home decor fan Morgan Smith found that whenever she went shopping she felt ‘overwhelmed’ by the colours and gorgeous displays and often bought far more than she planned to.

So to ensure she doesn’t spend money needlessly, she uses the ‘rubbish bin’ trick – or as she likes to call it, ‘taking it to the trash’.

After spotting a product she likes, Morgan removes it from the display and takes it to the bin aisle to see how it looks. As it turns out, décor items look far less appealing without aesthetically pleasing items surrounding them.

‘If I like it in the trash can aisle then I will buy it because I know it’ll be pretty anywhere,’ she said in a video.