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

[E&BMom]

One fall we went apple picking and I decided to make a bunch of homemade applesauce to freeze. After spending the afternoon making it I was carrying a bunch of containers down to the basement to put in the freezer. I lost my balance and all the containers of applesauce went flying down the basement stairs splattering EVERYWHERE!!! It was so sticky and hard to clean up and took forever. Needless to say I never made homemade applesauce again!

 

[disney1990]

Not me personally, but my DD. She lived in a court and was outside talking to her neighbor. Her 2 daughters emptied everything in her refrigerator onto the kitchen floor -- dumped out the milk, the orange juice, the ketchup, etc.

Oh my goodness!

 

[mrsheppo]

When my kids were small and I was working graveyard shift, I would get off work and come home and stay up with the kids until my husband would come home. I was getting about 3 hours of sleep a night and was totally exhausted. I sat down on the couch for a few minutes (so I thought) until DS woke me up to show me his sister's handiwork. She had taken a 1 pound tub of margarine and fingerpainted the walls. What a horrid mess to try and clean up.

 

[LaraK]

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!!!

Yeah, my daughter put "suntan" lotion on my son once...yup....you guessed it, she covered him head to toe in butt cream.

Not the worst mess, but the grossest for sure. My son puked a LOT when he was at the height of his illness...like 3-4 times a day every day for months and months and months. Anyway, during one of the MANY middle of the night sessions he puked on my chest (they always turn towards mommy). I'd been laying next to him on a mat in his room. When I lifted him to give to him to his father to throw into the tub, he decided he had more puke to give...right over my face...while I was talking to my husband....mouth open.

 

[mickeymedic]

I am a paramedic. I'd love to talk about the worst mess I've ever cleaned up. But I'm pretty sure most of you would probably like me better if I didn't. Take whatever you're thinking and multiply it by 10. And you're probably pretty close to picturing what I'm talking about.

 

[PebblesMK]

We had been doing arts and crafts when the plate with about 5 bottles of different colored glitter got bumped and fell onto the dog who was sleeping. She woke up and shook and scampered off throughout the house and rolled in all of the carpets. It looked like a unicorn had came and pooped rainbow glitter everywhere.

The second one wasn't horrible but is funny now. When my daughter was about 18 months old, she fell asleep on the couch while I was holding her, so I dozed too thinking that I would realize when she woke up. I woke up to her standing in front of me saying "ha ha mama!", I blinked and looked at her with a blue marker in her hand. Marker all over her face, all over her clothes, she must have been eating it too because her mouth and teeth were all blue. And here she stood saying "ha ha mama" over and over again. I was so mad and grabbed her under my arm and marched to the bathroom and told her that I was going to scrub her until the blue was gone. Still, the ongoing "ha ha mama".....after I turned on the water, I turned around to grab some soap off the sink and that's when I saw it. My child had colored my entire face in ways that only an 18 month old could. She started laughing hysterically and said "You blue!!!!" That took a while to wash off but it's so funny to me now.

 

[r1lissa]

When my DD was three (she's 11 now), she got up early one morning and went to the living room without a sound. I had left my nail polish bag in there, and of course, she got into it. She painted her stomach and both legs with silver nail polish. DH had to go the store to get several bottles of polish remover, because we didn't know how else to get it off of her.

 

[Bluestars]

#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.

This has got to be one of the funniest things I have read this year. That would have been horrible!

I have a story about the worst mess I never had to clean up. I got a call from my ds's daycare and they told me that my son had wiped poop all over the bathroom. I apologized several times and told them that I would go over there and clean it up. Luckily, they had already cleaned it. When I picked up my son that day, I asked him why on Earth he would do this. He told me that there was no toilet paper.

 

[marcyinPA]

Most recently? Like on Monday? Well, I teach 2 year olds. One newly potty-trained little girl insisted on wearing underpants to school. About an hour into the morning, I smelled something. Why I didn't let my teaching partner check her out, I have no idea! The little angel had a major diarreah accident in her underpants. Equipped with only latex gloves and baby wipes, I did the best I possibly could do to clean her up, but there was poopie everywhere. It was definitely a GAG moment for me. It took me a good 15 minutes to get her cleaned up and changed, and then clean up the bathroom. In the meantime, all hell broke loose in our classroom, so clean-up time was extra busy that morning!

On a more personal level, my youngest DS, who is now almost 11, was into EVERYTHING as a toddler. I've cleaned up poop smeared on walls, entire rolls of toilet paper unraveled in the bathroom, clogged sinks and tubs, and one time he sprayed an entire can of Glade all over the TV in my bedroom. He claimed he was "dusting". My house smelled like vanilla bathroom spray for a loooooonnnngggg time!

 

[marcyinPA]

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.

I can only imagine the mess....and I'm sorry, but reading this made me laugh out loud!!

 

[Pig Pen]

Years ago when my son was about 3 years old we visited the in-laws in Ohio. One morning during our stay my MIL started hollering while in the shower. She had turned on the water and stepped into the stall and her feet stuck to the floor. Evidently, my DS had gotten in there and sprinkled denture grip powder in the shower stall. After it got wet it turned into glue. I spent several hours scraping that mess out of the shower.

He thought he was being helpful and was "cleaning" the stall.

 

[Katieinwonderland]

I think my worst was when I left a loaf of French bread on the counter in the kitchen and Cheeto found it - he tore through the paper and dragged the bread onto the floor. Then he chewed it up, carried it all around the apartment, left bits everywhere. I didn't find it until the next morning, but apparently every ant in the central Florida area heard about it - I woke up to what must have been thousands of ants all over my house!!!! It was like a horror movie!!! I spent HOURS spraying ant spray and trying to clean up!

 

[cm8]

We had been doing arts and crafts when the plate with about 5 bottles of different colored glitter got bumped and fell onto the dog who was sleeping. She woke up and shook and scampered off throughout the house and rolled in all of the carpets. It looked like a unicorn had came and pooped rainbow glitter everywhere.

The second one wasn't horrible but is funny now. When my daughter was about 18 months old, she fell asleep on the couch while I was holding her, so I dozed too thinking that I would realize when she woke up. I woke up to her standing in front of me saying "ha ha mama!", I blinked and looked at her with a blue marker in her hand. Marker all over her face, all over her clothes, she must have been eating it too because her mouth and teeth were all blue. And here she stood saying "ha ha mama" over and over again. I was so mad and grabbed her under my arm and marched to the bathroom and told her that I was going to scrub her until the blue was gone. Still, the ongoing "ha ha mama".....after I turned on the water, I turned around to grab some soap off the sink and that's when I saw it. My child had colored my entire face in ways that only an 18 month old could. She started laughing hysterically and said "You blue!!!!" That took a while to wash off but it's so funny to me now.

,I know you were probably upset and smiled when you saw what she did, that was funny!

 

[iwrbnd]

These are all so funny! I'm feeling lucky that after 3 boys I don't have any worse stories!

Right now I'm still trying to get BB's out of my carpet from 3 years ago! They are too heavy for the vacuum to pick up!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I had a bottle of liquid Tide on top of the "ledge" across the back of the washer. I guess the corner of the washer was really sharp, the bottom of the bottle was thin, and the motion of the washer made the corner pierce the bottom of the bottle. In the time it took for the cycle to finish, the ENTIRE bottle of Tide had drained out, run down and puddled under the washer. And there was absolutely nothing I could think of that would clean it up. So we left it there for a few days while we thought about how to clean it up. Luckily, it started to congeal a little bit and we were able to mostly scrape it up, followed by wiping the floor with paper towels. The floor under the washer was still sticky when we moved out.

The Roomba and the cat poo is hilarious.

 

[disneyaddicted]

A few years ago I had the house to myself so I was going to take a nice bubble bath, I started running the water when the phone rang, I ran into my room to answer it, it was my sister, we got to talking and after a while I heard a noise coming from the kitchen I told my sis to hold on while I went to investigate.

I went down into the kitchen and all I could see was a sheet of water pouring from the ceiling. I had forgoten about the tub and it had been over flowing for quite some time. Even after I turned the water off it still poured down into the kitchen for at least another 20 minutes. The drywall on the ceiling ended up buckling under the weight and fell onto the floor below. The water also continued pouring down into the basement on top of all the clean towels that I had sitting on the dryer, the very towels I was going to use to sop up some of the water were drenched and I couldn't use them.

I finally went to my neighbors house bawling, he came over with tons of towels and a dry vac. We had most of it cleaned up before my DH got home from his fishing trip.

 

[Carole]

I had a cat with a brain injury. Shortly after it was injured it would walk around in circles going only one direction. I put the cat in the basement bathroom one night then put up a baby gate so it couldn't get out. Apparently all night long the cat stepped in it's water dish, then walked through the litter box filled with clumping litter. Once it left the box it shook it's paws. All over my walls and floor was clumps of litter just like cement. Took me forever to clean it. The cat slowly deteriorated over the next several months. I hand fed it, helped it use the litter box etc. hoping the brain could restore itself but sadly it never could recover.

 

[disneyhopeful]

My 3 yr old has gotten into powder also. Actually a couple of days in a row. I don't know why my husband always leaves it out knowing she is going to get it again. Like a pp said, she not only got it all over the floor but it was all on my bed covers and her hair as well. What a mess. Another mess the same child created was decapitating my poor stuffed tweety bird. He was one of those big stuffed animals that I won at Six Flags a long time ago. Had him for years. Little did I know, there was a small hole on him somewhere and she found it and made a bigger hole and next thing I know, it looked like it had snowed in the kids room. It wasn't the regular cottony type stuffing, it was those little styrofoam beads like in bean bag chairs. Oh what a horror to clean up. I am still finding those little things to this day. It covered every inch of the room including her and my other 2 kids(who were in the room with her at the time). It took me all day just to get it out of her hair. I had to use the dust pan to scoop it out of the carpet into the trash can. I was vacuuming for weeks trying to get it all.

 

[Myothername]

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

I did that once but on purpose. I just put a few drops because I was out of dishwasher stuff. I thought it looked more like an episode of I Love Lucy.

 

[Myothername]

Without getting too gross picture large dog, large dog on medicine that does not agree with her, even larger amounts of doggie diarrhea all over the entire house...every room in the house. Fortunately we had just had the carpet pulled up and tile put down in every room or we would have had to burn the house down.