Haunted Kitchen?

The following story is completely true. It all started several months ago when I decided that I wanted a nice looking hand soap pump dispenser for the kitchen. I bought one and it worked for a few weeks then suddenly stopped working. Because I am lazy or forgetful or both, I just unscrewed the top of it and lifted out the entire top to grab soap from the tube part if I needed to wash my hands for about two months after it broke. Knowing this was a problem, I asked for a new soap dispenser for Christmas. My mother-in-law got me a beautiful cream colored one and I was relieved my days of messy soap-grabbing were over. But, when I filled it with soap and started pumping, nothing happened. I examined the tube, and everything looked fine. I screwed the top back on and pumped some more. Still nothing. I worked on it for quite a while and finally gave up. No soap would be coming from this new dispenser. How strange, I thought, that this second dispenser would also not work. So, I decided to give the defective cream colored dispenser back to my mother-in-law so she can return it to the store. Meanwhile, I spotted an old plastic softsoap hand pump under the kitchen sink. Ah-ha! I cleaned it up and filled it with soap, satisfied that this would work fine until a new nicer looking pump could be found. Any guesses about what happened next? Right! It DID NOT WORK EITHER. I pumped and pumped and pumped to no avail. It must have worked when I put it under the sink because if it had not, I would have simply thrown it away. But it sure doesn't work now. I am getting nervous. What can this mean? I am almost afraid to bring another soap pump into the kitchen because if this happens a fourth time in a row then I might have to move. Either that or admit defeat, buy a soap dish, and start using bar soap.