Has your child destroyed an item at home?

[Nancy]

I wasn't laughing that morning, but when I told the story at work the next night, we all had tears running down our faces. I think a lot of the laughter came because they all knew all the stuff my kids did while I was at work and Dad was home. (DH could sleep through the house falling down)

 

[pattyT]

BOY am I glad that I am not a child phschologist!


my dd - now 11 - got into a little nail polish when she was 4 - only a little on the coffee table - no big as it is a rustic looking piece - and sadly enough the polish is now all gone wore off with the years..

a few christmas ornaments have been hung a bit to low and met an untimely demise...


a few crayon marks needed to be taken off with goo-be-gone - but no big really


Man my kids seem REALLY good now

(that fan story is great though - and that WOULD happen in my house! - lol)

 

[Snoopymom]

We all had to walk around Disney with psychodelic underwear and socks once. I forgot ds had put the crayons from the rainforest cafe in his pockets. Port Orleans was very understanding and said it happens all the time. I wish I knew what they had used to clean the dryer with. It came out our clothes eventually.

He also broke our ceiling fan in our bedroom while standing on the bed and feeding a balloon into the blades after he had seen all the fun and excitement when one got into the blades at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant.

Beware of magnets...he rubbed one all over our tv screen and made this incredible piece of modern art. Fortunately, it went away when we turned the tv off and on.

Oh, and he has done some amazing things with toothpaste. I could go on and on, LOL!

 

[ItsonlyExperiment626]

Welcome to the club. I too have a dryer drum with blue crayon stains. I just ran a bunch of rags through till none of the rags got stained. Really no need to get the drum replaced if you don't mind looking at a blue stained drum.

 

[Aneille]

Nothing permentaly ruined but its funny.

We had recently got a new washer and dryer (front loading) put in a room on the second story. Its right above our kitchen which we happened to be remodeling.

I had one of those huge Tide dry soap boxes just recently opened on top of the washer. My daughter dumped half the box or more into the soap slots and turned the washer on.

I had no idea!

This is how I found out. My daughter goes downstairs who knows how much later and says "Oh no! Mommy its raining in the kitchen!" I run downstairs literally it really is raining. Tons of water, tons of puddles and a stream heading to the dining room!

I run upstairs and check the washer shut it off. I call my husband, he comes home and he actually had to snake the washer because of all the powder. It was all over the floor, and so much was inside the washer was completely clogged! It was a huge mess!! The washer drum had no water in it at all it was just pouring out of the soap slots!

And to top it all off when I called my parents for sympathy they laughed and said "well her name is Rivers!" Arghh!!!

Besides this my children have a few masterpieces on the wall done with crayons. Scratched up coffee tables etc but nothing really major.

 

[Maleficent13]

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.

This made me

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

My brother was mostly the destructive one in our house. The laundry has been turned pink a few times, but not by a stray red sock. No no, but because of some misplaced red construction paper. He has also written all over his bedroom walls in crayon, marker, pen, and pencil. He has also punched a hole in the wall but he was 16 when he did it!. He used to get mad at his nintendo and throw the controllers against the wall. They never worked right after so he would get mad again and throw them some more.

My cousin once did something that my mom loves to tell her boyfriends. During the holidays my family was over our house. Me and my cousin were about 3 and were playing in the living room while my mom and aunt were in the kitchen. Now my cousin is a loud kid, always talking and making noise. She was quiet for some time and my mom and aunt got worried. A minute later my cousin appears out of the bathroom. "What were you doing?" "Nothing..." My mom goes in there a little later and the bar of soap was missing. My cousin flushed the soap down the toilet. Apparently this leaves a huge mess and it took hours to clean up.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

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

LOL!

They make you question that everyday, don't they?

Hot dog in the VCR is hysterical! I would of liked to have been a fly on the wall when the kid did that. Wonder what they thought a hot dog would play on the tv?

 

[tiff211]

My carpets are a mess, thanks to DD3!! Lipstick stains in my bedroom, nail polish in the baby's room, Syrup in the living room, marker stains in her room! She broke my favorite snow globe, I don't put them out anymore!

 

[mickman1962]

Went to Disney for 10 days when the boys were young, you know how at every restaurant they give the kids the 4 pack of crayons.... well 10 days x 2 kids x 8 crayons meant a very pretty dryer when we got home. I wish it were only one crayon.

 

[Parkhopper]

This thread makes me want to go home and hug my DS11 because he is has NEVER done things like this (...and may I NEVER complain about rocks in his pants pockets going through the clothes dryer again!)

Suzi

 

[laura001]

I especially loved the time I took our VCR in to be fixed, I swore to the guy that no one had done anything to it....low and behold, what does he pull out?...a picture of my daughter. Who would have thought?

 

[tkd lisa]

I had a couple of ones that stick in my mind, plus countless stains/marks on the carpets, furniture, walls, etc.

When DD was about 5, she snuck downstairs while we were sleeping. I woke up to a COLD, wet, naked little girl climbing in bed with me. I said "DD, where is your nightgown?" Her answer "It's wet Mommy." I went downstairs, rounded the kitchen counter and fell flat on my behind! Made my way to the light to find the hugest mess you have ever seen in your life!! She had decided she wanted chocolate milk, and spilled some of the hershey syrup on the island. Trying not to get in trouble, she decided to clean it up. She dug out a pan and some scouring powder and smeared it all over the island. Then she decided that she was so messy by this time, she needed to clean herself, so she turned the sprayer onto herself. You could see the tracks heading into the powder room, and there was probably 1/4 inch of water all over our kitchen. It ended up ruining our brand new Pergo floor, but the dealer replaced it under warranty.

DS had gotten a brand new Gameboy advance for Christmas last year and decided to take it on his kayaking excursion on our cruise. Needless to say, it didn't stay dry. He took it back to the store, and they exchanged it, but I made him explain the whole thing.

 

[welovedisneyx4]

My DS5, broke my car antena off last winter. Now I can only get a few radio stations to come in and I can't get any that air the Va Tech games on them at all. Oh, I was SOOOOOOOO mad at him!!!!!!!!!

He also broke a Pocahontas snow globe that belonged to DD. That was a big mess to clean up!!!

 

[MICKEY88]

My DS5, broke my car antena off last winter. Now I can only get a few radio stations to come in and I can't get any that air the Va Tech games on them at all. Oh, I was SOOOOOOOO mad at him!!!!!!!!!

He also broke a Pocahontas snow globe that belonged to DD. That was a big mess to clean up!!!

what kind of car...car antennas are usually a very inexpensive repair...

 

[kristasmom]

When my DD was six she dropped some bangel braclets into the toilet and instead of fishing them out she decided to try to flush them . The toilet started over flowing, but instead of coming to get me she tried to "fix it" herself. By the time I realized there was something wrong there was almost an inch of water in the bathroom and hallway. Turned off the water, cleaned up as best I could, and called the plumber. DD had shoved the braclets so far in there that something got broken off and the entire toilet had to be replaced. Then when she was eight we went to the roller skating rink with our church and she fell and bumped her head, on the way home she started throwing up, projectile vomiting, (she had a concussion) all over my new car. Some of the stains in the back never came out.

 

[elliemae1192]

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!

LOL Too funny! My son did the same thing! He was only 7 at the time (15 now) and fessed up that he was holding the soap dish and leaning back as far as he could go. Why? I have absolutely no idea. I got a sparkly new bathroom out of it though so couldn't be too mad.

 

[2sweetangels]

LOL, my DD will be 2 in January and she destroys my entire house, she has a hidden purpl crayon in her room and when Im not looking she gets the crayon and marks up everything, I now have purple marks on the walls, my bed sheets, her bed, her white dresser, her white toy shelf, its just everywhere.

 

[minkydog]

Oh yes...#1 son and my brand new microwave...BAck in the old days when microwaves were big and expensive, mine was perched on it's own little rolling hutch. It kept making these weird electrical sounds so I had teh service man come over and look at it. It was arcing. He fixed it and left. No sooner had he gotten in his truck then i heard"pop...pow...pop pop" And there was DS2 with a toy in the microwave on high. There when $400 down the drain...

 

[SqueakyMouse]

Oh, my goodness!! I have 3 monsters....ummmm....children....so I couldn't even begin to put a price tag on all that they have destroyed. Shall we start with the most recent?
broke at least a dozen handblown ornaments off the living room tree
broke several "unbreakable" ornaments off the family room tree
burn marks on the oriental rug in family room from setting sheets of copy paper on fire in fireplace
shattered glass in storm door -- haven't figured out how that one happened yet
hole in garage ceiling where teenage son put his foot through the attic floor
fingernail polish on BRAND NEW carpeting in master bedroom (younger son was...you guessed it!!...painting his toes hooker red!!)
crayon and ink marks on walls throughout house thanks to dd (thankfully, Magic Eraser removes most of this -- wish I discovered this before having the house repainted last spring!!)
broken pane in bay window from teenage son (see a trend here?) pushing too hard on one of the panes that is supposed to open -- it did...just not the way he expected
broken glass lampshade on lamp in teenage son's room -- old oil lamp that had been converted...still haven't found a new shade to fit
broken glass in front of grandfather clock -- still don't know who did this one!
And the list could go on and on and on and....