Has your child destroyed an item at home?

[slo]

About a 1/2 hour ago I went to take my white clothes out of the dryer to find that they had turned blue and the inside of my dryer was full of blue goo everywhere.

I said to myself, "what the heck!!!" and then I remembered my 2yr old DD was standing by my dryer while I was putting the laundry into it from the washer and she was holding a blue crayon.

My DH and I both agreeded that there is no way that we can get all this crayon out because it is everywhere!!! So we are either going to replace the dryer or call a service person to see how much it will cost for them to replace the drum. With the cost of this and the cost of replacing the laundry that is now blue, that is one expensive crayon!!!

We are laughing it off though because she is only 2 and she didn't know better - it's something I can write in her baby book.

So....what has your child ruined?

 

[DisneyPhD]

Oh so sorry. That is one reason when my oldest was 2 we didn't give her crayons too much (that and she tended to eat them more then color with them.) She colors a lot as a 4 year old now, it doesn't seem to have scared her much. My friend has a smilar problem with lipstick (her fault so she couldn't even blame the kid, but I am sure her DH got blamed somehow!)

However keeping them away from her little sister is a bit harder. (along with little doll shoes and all the other little toys that just aren't around when you only have 1 baby.)

Nothing to add, mostly because I or DH tends to mess up most of the stuff around here. (or at least nothing as big as that.) However the day will come. For every parent, the day will come. I know that as I live and breath.

 

[MamaLema]

broke the glass cabinet door into a million pieces

clogged up the toilet many times

threw my new cordless phone into a sink full of water when I was washing the dishes

VCR wasn't working, DH found hot dogs inside

CD playing wasn't working, DH found playing cards inside

I'm a good mom, I swear

 

[ilovepcot]

Has my child ever destroyed an item at home???!!! When my step-son visited a few years back, his dad and I were sitting at the kitchen table finishing up lunch and talking. Step-son was across from kitchen in main bathroom taking a shower. We heard a loud noise we couldn't identify but when no further noises occurred, we went on talking and eating. Few minutes later the bathroom door opened and a huge cloud of steam rolled out. Took a moment or two to realize things didn't look quite right in the bathroom. The shower rod and curtain were in the floor, and what once had been a white ceramic tile wall behind the tub now had a HUGE gaping black hole!!!!!! Seems step-son had "*gently* placed his foot on soap dish to wash it and for NO REASON the soap dish just decided to fall right out of the ceramic tile wall"! Right!

This is the same young man who gave his DD's truck to a co-worker who didn't return it. Found it abandoned 2 days later in a mall parking lot. Undamaged, thankfully!


Also the same young man who lost his plane ticket while home on spring break from college but realized it AFTER we'd driven an hour to the airport. Turned around and drove back home to get it (missing flight, of course) then discovers he had it all along!!!

 

[DVC Jen]

WD-40 is great at getting crayon out. I have had that happen quite a few times. It took a lot of washing and some really hot water as well..but I saved us a bundle on replacing clothes not to mention the dryer.

 

[Beth76]

Melted the living room carpet with an iron. $1000 for new carpet
All four kitchen chairs have been broken and fixed. not replaced yet, but soon
His bedroom window, broken. $200 to replace
Set of glass nesting bowls, broken.
Two different sets of blinds, pulled down. Just tossed those and put up curtains.
Pulled down the curtain rod in his room several times.
Pulled off some wall paper in his room.
Colored with crayon on wall in his room.
I'm sure there are countless other things that I can't think of.

 

[lindalinda]

Oh dear, much as I would like to blame my kid for ruining something, I have to fess up myself. I have this terrible habit of undressing in front of the washing machine and tossing the clothes i'm wearing in. Ya know, to make sure i get everything done at once. And, no lie, 3 times, yes 3 times I have washed my cell phone doing this. My friends made me a sign. it says "Where is my cell phone?" to put on the washer.

 

[MoniqueU]

My daughter glued to the table a thick paper, when we got it off it pulled up the coating on the table and was all red the color of the paper. I also couldnt get to mad as she was just being creative and I should of watched her with the glue better. Now I make sure they do crafts on the corian counters.

 

[raammartin]

VCR wasn't working, DH found hot dogs inside

That is so funny!

A good friend of mine has a mischevious child. When said child was 3 or 4 she loved putting her juice boxes full of juice in the VCR.

 

[laura001]

I have three children and couldn't even begin to compile a list, it would be endless...lol The good thing is that now they are older and some of the things they broke when they were younger they have started to replace. I have a beautiful new Anniversary Clock

The part that I find amazing is that they ever thought I wouldn't notice when something was broken, which I always did, you know us mother's with eyes in the back of our heads. I read an msn message that my son wrote not long ago....we were going away for the weekend and leaving my son home alone, so this other person said to my son that he should have a party at our house and that he would help my son clean up afterward...lol...my son's reply...."no way, it doesn't matter how clean we would have it, my Mom would know for sure." He is right, I would have....lol

 

[Tinijocaro]

Ds 2 at the time, threw an avocado into the dryer full of dh's good white shirts when I wasn't looking. Opened the dryer to green clothes a pit and some dried avocado skin broken into little flakes. I called the number on the Era bottle and they told me to use Biz!!! It worked! I thought that was so funny.

Jackie

 

[Tinijocaro]

OP- go to the Crayola site to find out how to remove the crayon from your dryer and clothes.

Jackie

 

[Miss Park Avenue]

It seems my whole house is a canvas. I have begged pleaded, and tried to DRILL into their heads that when they grab a crayon, pencil, pen, or magic marker, to STOP and ask themselves, "Is this, what I am about to write upon, paper???" If the answer is no, then don't write on it!!! I have tried to ban magic markers from this house....they get them in gifts and I think, "OK...they certainly know by now" but I have markers on my couch, recliner, walls, a pillow case. The girl's beds. One autographed her mattress. A favorite place is the wall under their beds. No markers. I don't care if they are washable. They are five and eight. They should know my rule by now.

Their barbies have stars drawn on their foreheads because they are the "stars" of whatever show the girls have imagined. (are the barbies paper??? noooo) I don't let them take the dolls out of the house because they look like they belong to a cult.

I too have a glass cabinet door that has broken. It's now just shelves. I've got a hole in my livingroom wall where my then two year old ran across the room to run into a rocking chair, that banged into the wall, thus causing the hole. Got nail polish on a bedroom carpet too.

But now that I think about it, it's been a while since my girls have destroyed anything. Maybe, it's because they've outgrown it. Or that they are in school now. But I think that phase may have finally passed.

 

[Tinijocaro]

Robert Munsch has a book you would enjoy called "Purple, Green, and Yellow"- about a girl who promises she won't write on anything but paper but.....doesn't! Just like your girls. It's funny.

Jackie

 

[KarenAylwood]

This reminds me of a funny story about my DBF that his fam LOVES telling (now that he's 23 and lived through it). He was three and was sitting in the living room after his mom had vacuumed the carpet. He for some reason had a fork in his hand.

So obviously, like any 3 year old he thought "I have a fork, and there is this wire sitting in front of me, of course I should jam the fork into the wire."

Not only did he get completely knocked out from the electricity, but his mom had to buy a new vacuum.

I'm just thankful he's smarter now... and alive to tell the story

 

[agnes!]

...Their barbies have stars drawn on their foreheads because they are the "stars" of whatever show the girls have imagined. (are the barbies paper??? noooo) I don't let them take the dolls out of the house because they look like they belong to a cult....

That is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time!!! ROTFLMAO!

agnes!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Maybe it's been suggested, but try the Magic Eraser on the dryer drum. Today my 12to forgot and left an ink pen in his clothes that I proceeded to wash. Got ink all over my washer drum. I sprayed it with hairspray, which didn't do much good. I'd read and "ink thread" today here on the DIS and the Magic Eraser was recommened. It worked very well with just a little scrubbing.

 

[PixieDust32]

My DD was 2 and she put a PB&J sandwich in the VCR, she also put the remote contol in the microwave and pushed the popcorn button!! The remote melted but nothing else happend, thank God!

 

[Alice28]

I have teal sharpie and lipstick on my leather couch....it occured within 5-6 months of us getting the couch too!

Had to spend almost $300 for Subaru to take the dashboard out of our car cause the thermostat wasn't working---turned out DS4 had shoved a pen in one of the heater vents!!!!!!! Sometimes I would let him 'play' in the car while I was unloading groceries, so I guess he did it then (don't lecture me- I have a stick and didn't leave the keys in and we have a level driveway---he cannot move that darn car!).

Um, nail polish on our upstairs carpet....

countless DVDs and CDs have gotten scratched- I've since learned my lesson and not let them load their own movies until they're old enough to know how to handle them.

I'm sure there are more, trust me! Oh, I know another one- we have gone through many a hose nozzle (like a sprayer) cause they boys think they're 'guns' and play too hard with them and break the lever.

 

[Alice28]

Oh and one more---recently my DS's decided it would be great fun to bring the new Leapster in the BATHTUB (I was within ear shot changing baby sister's diaper----) I go flying in there when I realized what they were doing...too late....$75 leapster was broken. I was so mad I couldn't even speak for a few minutes, because my SEVEN year old is the one who suggested bringing it in! We did not replace it, and it seems to be a lesson learned.