What's the biggest mess you've ever had to clean up?

[themilesfamily]

We have cream-colored carpet in the living room. We had JUST had the carpet cleaners in the day before to do the whole house. My DD and I went to Dairy Queen and she dropped an entire blue slushee on the carpet on her way into the kitchen.

Electric blue vs. cream-colored carpet. I about had a coronary.

I just kept doing my "in with anger, out with love" mantra until the pain went away.

 

[PoppyGirl]

I feel SO much better now. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. And I really needed that today....AFTER I posted the original question my washing machine blew up in the middle of a cycle....had to get the sopping clothes out of the washer, get the water out with a cup, move the old washer, clean the floor (and all the dripping water), move the new washer in....you get the idea. I really needed a

 

[Tantor]

#1 We have a cat
#2 To help with the cat fur, we have a Roomba that daily vacuums our apartment.

Most of the time this works out well. The roomba runs daily at 11am while DH and I are at work. Well, apparently Matisse (the evil kitty) decided to drop a deuce on the bathroom floor. This wouldn't have been so bad if he had done it *after* 11am, but he did it before 11am.

So when the Roomba came running through it got cat dookie in it wheels and on its brushes. We had poo tracked all through our apartment. It had spread from ground zero in the corner of our bathroom to the entire apartment. We had tire tracks made of poo in the bathroom, the living room, dining area, and kitchen. Can you imagine our faces coming home to that. With Matisse sitting there looking like the King of the world on the sofa.

My husband wanted to decapitate Matisse. It took us hours to clean that up.

O.....M.......G that is hilarious , sorry you just made my day

 

[pigletgirl]

Purple suntan lotion all over the carpet, tile and walls.

Ugh, what a mess!

 

[boyob13]

I threw up in the back seat of a rental car when we were going over some hilly lands in northern Ireland and you could still see the stain and smell it after a week and a whole bottle of Frebreeze.

 

[dawn1620]

*turns and look at the constant war zone that resembles a house*

Sigh.

Just kidding. Three people with the stomach virus at the same time, enough said.

 

[Kitty 34]

This mess actually happened to my sister and BIL.

BIL was watching their two children (ages 3 and 4 at the time) while my sister was at work. He nodded off on the couch knowing the kids were right next door in the kitchen playing in the pots and pan cupboard. What he didn't know was that they had gotten out the Crisco shortening and decided to "grease the pans" like mommy.

They greased the pots, the pans, the floor, the cupboard doors, themselves,........pretty much everything!! We still laugh about that mess and how long it took daddy to clean it up before mommy got home!!

 

[Erin1700]

My DS poured a new container of bread crumbs all over my kitchen floor...and walked in it. He was 15 months old and was yelling "beach, beach".

Bath and Body's foam soap from head to toe on DS.

When DD was little she squirted ketchup all over my kitchen and yelled "dont come in here!"

DS is only 3 so I am sure I will have more!

 

[marcyinPA]

My DS poured a new container of bread crumbs all over my kitchen floor...and walked in it. He was 15 months old and was yelling "beach, beach".

Bath and Body's foam soap from head to toe on DS.

When DD was little she squirted ketchup all over my kitchen and yelled "dont come in here!"

DS is only 3 so I am sure I will have more!

So funny!!!

 

[DebbieB]

One time on New Years Eve, I made Pina Coladas in the blender. I picked it up wrong and it all fell out the bottom, all over the kitchen floor.......Happy New Year!

 

[Mary•Poppins]

This is not my story ... but a family member's....

My cousin had 4 boys REALLY close in age. Because they were very active and so close in age, they were peas in a pod when it came to "having fun". Anyway, I think the oldest couldn't have been more than 7, when my cousin heard this loud plop then bang downstairs. She yelled down, "What are you doing?" ... and of course they said nothing. Since my cousin was just getting out of the shower ... and trying to dry herself off as fast as she could, she heard the same noise happening faster and faster. She races downstairs to find COOKING OIL placed all over her kitchen floor and her 4 boys using it as a slip and slide!!!

Needless to say ... she spent a lot of time cleaning up the kitchen and kids that day .....

Her boys still talk about it today!

 

[starrzone]

I've been reading all of these, and they've definitely given me a laugh! I have a couple of stories, but the messes have been caused by me as a child, and I never had to clean them up myself...

#1- I forget how old I was, but my brother was in diapers, so I was probably 3 or 4. I decided to take a tin of Penaten Cream (a paste used for diaper rash and cracked skin; it is VERY white and thick) and "paint" my bedroom walls. I bet that was a doozy to clean up...

#2- I got a kids' chemistry set for Christmas when I was 8 or9. Goodness knows what chemicals were in there, but I do remember I had a lot of fun mixing together various things and watching them bubble and change color. Of course, I inevitably spilled some of one concoction all over the new family room carpet, turning it orangey/brown...my parents still live in that house and the stain is still there! I even refer to my mother as the "Stain Queen" because she can get just about anything out of anything, but even she couldn't seem to get it out.

 

[Sleepy]

1) My son, at age 2, took the Hershey syrup and eggs from the fridge and the flour from the cabinet and made a cake on the livingroom carpet.

2) Same child ripped off his diaper and smeared the contents all over the crib and his body.

3) When my son was younger, he slept with me when my husband was on deployments. Well, during one deployment when he was 4 years old, he got up in the middle of the night and decided to sneak a family sized bag of Cheetos back to bed. I woke up at 2am to the sound of vommitting. There was my kid puking orange. He ate almost the entire bag. It was the greasiest mess I think i have ever encountered. The smell was terrible. It left a stain that was impossible to remove.

4) I just remembered another mess with a carton of eggs. At about the age of 1-1/2, we were in the grocery store. I had my back to him while I looked at toothbrushes. When I turned around I found the dozen of eggs broken all over the cart- all over the items in the cart. I wanted to toss him in one of the freezers.

I think I preferred the clean up job of mess #1.

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

All great stories, but my favorite really is, "YOU PAINTED YOUR SISTER PURPLE?!" I'm sorry. I know the baby probably was not happy, but that's just too funny for words!

Once, when completely dressed for work, I was putting together some ingredients to cook for dinner when I returned. I had a 2 lb can of crushed tomatoes in my hand, ready to open when I noticed it was swollen.

In the garbage it went.

Then, I got thinking about it... (well, thinking being a relative term in this instance). I was afraid that it would explode on the garbage men, and didn't want that to happen.

So. I took it out of the garbage, sat it on the counter and used a hand can opener to "release just a little pressure." Yep. Tomatoes spewed all over my (exposed beam) ceiling, my cupboards, myself...

Yep. Late to work that day.

 

[paintnolish]

These are too funny. I see most messes start with children. That sounds about right.
My worst was a ds vomit. I know, I know...most of us have been there. He managed to barf on everything in his room. Imagine, if you will, a Wendy's kids meal...mandarin oranges instead of fries (a lot of great, undigestable fiber) and a chocolate frosty (milk product-enough said). You know how nothing gets you out of bed faster than hearing, "I threw up," right? My first question was, "Where?" He told me, "A little in my room. Mostly in the toilet." No. NOOOOO! Try the other way around. Mostly in the room. All over the room! The comforter and sheets, the nightstand, the cherished teddy bear (wearing a custom cowboy outfit), Legos on the floor, and his sketchbook. I honestly contemplated throwing out the bedding. It was a nightmare. I just stood there, in disbelief. I wanted to chop off that section of the house and burn it down.

 

[paintnolish]

We have cream-colored carpet in the living room. We had JUST had the carpet cleaners in the day before to do the whole house. My DD and I went to Dairy Queen and she dropped an entire blue slushee on the carpet on her way into the kitchen.

Electric blue vs. cream-colored carpet. I about had a coronary.

I just kept doing my "in with anger, out with love" mantra until the pain went away.

DS barfed red Jello onto cream colored carpet in a rental. Shortly after that, I dropped a bottle of nailpolish on the floor. I am a huge neat freak, too. The rest of the place was spotless, expect for two huge spots. Needless to say, we didn't get our entire deposit back!

 

[paintnolish]

hmmm.... toddlers and a jar of vasaline. They coated themselves and a door and doorknob.

Yeah, I had some Vaseline on the end table becuase ds (maybe 1) had a really chapped chin from drooling. He smeared it on the couch and all over his napping dad. You know, there's a reason most moms are light sleepers!

 

[Sgt Mickey]

I have nothing as good as a purple baby.

All I can think of at the moment is when we were moving out of base housing in Guam the twins got a hold of black markers and decorated the bathroom. DH painted the walls and I guess I didn't put them high enough and they did it a second time.Sometimes parents don't learn the first time either.

 

[marcyinPA]

These are too funny. I see most messes start with children. That sounds about right.
My worst was a ds vomit. I know, I know...most of us have been there. He managed to barf on everything in his room. Imagine, if you will, a Wendy's kids meal...mandarin oranges instead of fries (a lot of great, undigestable fiber) and a chocolate frosty (milk product-enough said). You know how nothing gets you out of bed faster than hearing, "I threw up," right? My first question was, "Where?" He told me, "A little in my room. Mostly in the toilet." No. NOOOOO! Try the other way around. Mostly in the room. All over the room! The comforter and sheets, the nightstand, the cherished teddy bear (wearing a custom cowboy outfit), Legos on the floor, and his sketchbook. I honestly contemplated throwing out the bedding. It was a nightmare. I just stood there, in disbelief. I wanted to chop off that section of the house and burn it down.

Yup, I've been there, done that too! Except, of course, our dinner was different... one time, spaghetti, and one time, ham. Let's just say that on one occasion, I did throw out the blanket!

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

I used to collect snowglobes. Mostly Disney snowglobes. The big fabulous expensive ones ....sigh.

When DD was about 1, we moved to a new house. The house had shelves already in her bedroom when we moved in. Stupid me assumed that they had been hung properly. WRONG!!!

They looked great on the shelves for about 10 minutes before the whole thing came crashing to the ground. Glitter, water, and teeny shards of glass in a baby's room. Not FUN!! I was just thankful that dd wasn't in there at the time and it was on the opposite side of the room from her crib.

I never walked barefoot in that room and was still finding glitter when I vacuumed when we moved 3 years later.