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

[PoppyGirl]

I don't know what got me thinking about this, but I was remembering the time when DS was about 2 and I accidentally left the baby powder open....and he decided to make "snow" in his bedroom. He shook it ALL over his bedroom. It smelled like baby powder for MONTHS afterwards. And every time I vacuumed there was a cloud of baby powder. *sigh*

Then a couple of months ago I was in the dining room and I heard a big noise in the kitchen where DS & DD were. I really cannot explain why I did not get up and go investigate....they came and closed the door and I asked them what the big noise was...."nothing, Mom." Ok....

A while later I went in there....they had accidentally set off the FIRE EXTINGUISHER and there was white powdery stuff ALL OVER my kitchen. You know that phrase "her jaw was hanging open"? Yep. That was me. I was stunned. We have hardwood floors and it seeped down in between the floorboards.

Note to self: Vacuum fire extinguisher before mopping.

 

[kpm76]

2 feet of water in my finished basement two weeks ago. What a mess!

 

[luvmy3]

Have you ever had to clean up an entire bottle of Avon's Sparkling Sugar lotion off of your cat? Its a pretty big mess

 

[momof1princess]

when my DD was about 3 1/2 years old, i was web surfing one afternoon while she played with some blocks in her room (being an only child, she's always played really well by herself, and i never worried about her before) and i noticed she went to the bathroom. good, i thought, she's using the potty. well, about 15-20 minutes later, she went again, which i thought was strange, but i dismissed it. about 10 minutes after that, i heard some giggling, so i went to investigate, and as i walked into her room, i slid all the way across the room and smacked into the opposite wall!
she had smeared a full bottle of baby shampoo and a full bottle of baby wash ALL OVER her bedroom floor, which is pergo. i lost count of the number of times i mopped that floor-i couldn't get it to stop bubbling!

 

[scottishduffy]

#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.

 

[Sparx]

One time, I accidentally put regular dish detergent in the dish washer. It was like that episode of the brady bunch.

 

[Northstar]

I'm gagging just thinking about it. Don't want to go over the gory details, but it involved 3 people, only one toilet, and bad food poisoning.

Good times.

 

[HelenePA]

2 year ago right before ds#2 was born the 3 older kids were playing up stairs quietly.. you know nothing good comes of kids playing quietly.. they had gotten into fabric paint. They handprinted their walls, carpets clothes.. you name it.. it does NOT come out of carpet. Til this day ds's room still has purple and blue handprints and polka dots on it.

 

[gregokdisney]

The day my son spilled a Sam's sized container of sprinkles all over the kitchen floor. We were finding sprinkles for MONTHS!

 

[starrzone]

#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.

Thanks so much, you totally made me laugh out loud on a really stressful day! That doesn't happen often (But I've been there with pet messes...yuck!)

 

[WDWBarb]

Outside of any barn stories which I won't elaborate on, the worst mess I had was when I was shaking a bottle of olive oil blended with seasonings and was really mixing it up good. Problem - for some reason I didn't realize that the cork was mega loose. Olive oil all over my kitchen - floor, cabinets, ceiling and one unlucky little dog.

 

[simonsmom]

when my twins were about 3 they smeared a gigantic tub of vaseline all over everything,including themselves and the carpet in the hallway.

 

[PoppyGirl]

#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.

Oh my gosh! That is hilarious....I mean AWFUL!

 

[PoppyGirl]

Great stories!

We find "pixie dust" all over the house for months after visiting WDW. You know--those little confettie mouse heads. I am still finding them and we haven't been to WDW for almost a year!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Back in the days when Miracle Whip still came in glass jars, I didn't quite get the jar on top of the shelf in the fridge. It hit the edge of the shelf and literally exploded in the middle of the kitchen floor. Of course, I was barefoot.

After carefully negotiating my way out of the kitchen and putting on some shoes I spent the better part of the rest of the night cleaning up sticky stuff out of the textured floor we had in the kitchen. And keeping an eye out for all the little shards of glass that happen when glass explodes.

We were finding little pieces of glass in the kitchen for a couple of days.

 

[scottishduffy]

Thanks so much, you totally made me laugh out loud on a really stressful day! That doesn't happen often (But I've been there with pet messes...yuck!)

Yeah, we came home to a purring, and rather blissful looking feline. I swear that evil spawn of a kitty was admiring the havok he had created. We had to order new parts for the Roomba. Nasty does not even begin to describe THAT mess.

Everyone we told the story to found it absolutely hilarious. At least our pain can amuse others!

 

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[juligrl]

My daughter, then 3, was playing quietly in the living room. I was between the basement and first floor doing laundry. Husband and then infant daughter were still in bed. When I came up from changing a load out, I saw the pantry door open...strange...

My husband had painted wooden letters for each of the kids rooms and instead of putting the paints away, had stowed them in the pantry for me to store later.

Ugh. Yup, paints were gone and the back of my couch and my red living room walls and two pictures now had yellow, blue & purple "fingerpaint" spread all over them.

I called my daughter. "What did you do?" I asked. "Um, nothing mommy!" was the small voice from upstairs. I followed a trail of blue paint from my landing up the stairs to the hallway with it's green fingerpaint and into my daughter's bedroom. She had gone wild on the wall behind her bed! Pink, purple, green, blue and yellow - all over! When she heard me discover the mess in the living room she tried to "hide" the stuff on her table - which was now covered with spilled paint.

As I'm trying to keep my cool...it's just paint...don't freak out on her ...the baby starts fussing. I step into her room and her table lamp has yellow paint splattered on it. Her crib had some speckles of purple and...my daughter had a completely PURPLE face. Yep, eyelids and everything! She smiled and laughed at me, but I couldn't help it, I blew. I whirled around and yelled at my 3 year old "YOU PAINTED YOUR SISTER???!!!"

That's what woke my husband up!

In the end the paint washed/scraped off of nearly everything - there's still some spots on the carpet behind my daughter's bed. We repainted my daughter's bedroom. She had been wanting pink but we painted it purple - couldn't give her pink after that little stunt. The family room got the last coat of red it needed (if you've never painted a room red trust me, you need multiple coats) and we got rid of our worn out old furniture a couple of months later and replaced it with leather.

 

[lemondog]

Well there have been MANY, but I think the most difficult to clean was the time my twins were 2 and had just been moved into "big girl" beds. Apparently I did not clear the room of hazards well enough, because about 30 minutes after I put them down one of them comes out naked from the waist down and covered in a THICK layer of Desitin from her waist to her knees, announcing that her sister "put medicine on my bommon (bottom)."

I ran into the room and that Desitin was ALL over EVERYTHING! Furniture, the girls (including all in their hair), their bedding, the FLOOR (a humongous white stain that has not fully come out to this day), etc. And of course the room REEKED of that Desitin/medicinal smell. It was an oily, smelly mess. Although not half as unpleasant as the time the same twin took off her poo diaper and proceeded to play with it in her crib. BLECH!!!

 

[juligrl]

As a side note to my previous story, the other "worst mess" was what my parents were dealing with that same day. We have a cottage that we typically close up in November and reopen in May. Well, a mouse had gotten in and made a mess of the place. My parents ripped apart everything and cleaned down every last inch of the place - which is a chore made even harder when you have no running water at the place you are cleaning. After a long day with many trips into the laundromat mixed in, my parents were relaxing on the porch. No kidding, A MOUSE, walked across the porch and right to the front door. That was the end of that mouse.