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

[LuvOrlando]

When my kids were toddlers I once was caring for my MIL's dogs. Well, when I got there her dog had really bad 'belly trouble and messed all over the kitchen and mud room. There are no words for what can come out of a very sick full grown Golden Retriever,all I could think of was it looked like the crime scene from Helter Skelter.... floor, walls, baseboards, under the table, table legs. So since I couldn't leave her 2 dogs in the filth I dropped my kids on the other side of the indoor gate and began to clean, and clean and clean for hours. Seriously there are no words for what I had to clean up. Good thing I totally love animals, I suspect most people would have walked back out again

 

[Myothername]

When my kids were toddlers I once was caring for my MIL's dogs. Well, when I got there her dog had really bad 'belly trouble and messed all over the kitchen and mud room. There are no words for what can come out of a very sick full grown Golden Retriever,all I could think of was it looked like the crime scene from Helter Skelter.... floor, walls, baseboards, under the table, table legs. So since I couldn't leave her 2 dogs in the filth I dropped my kids on the other side of the indoor gate and began to clean, and clean and clean for hours. Seriously there are no words for what I had to clean up. Good thing I totally love animals, I suspect most people would have walked back out again

I can totally relate. I had no idea that much "stuff" could come out of one dog.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

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.

Yeh, we'll keep those ones to ourselves. (But I can relate!)

 

[charming23]

Mine was just last October. We had gone on a long weekend to Pennsylvania to visit relatives. Well whoever was the last one (cough, mom, cough) to use the bathroom sink did not turn the fawcet all the way off and we had been having problems with the drain. Well needless to say we we came home to a rather large mess. There was water everywhere and it had leaked down into the basement causing ceiling tiles to fall and the table underneath it to warp.

I was so happy it had happened when we were gone for 4 days rather than a few weeks earlier when we had been on our Florida/Disney trip for two weeks.

Let's just say I now double check all fawcets before we leave the house.

 

[Becky2005]

Hmm...so far, I think I caused the biggest mess in the house at least that I can remember.

I was going to put one of the kid's birthday cakes in the oven and somehow it slipped out of my hand and basically ended up with cake batter all over the place. I do think the oven door got the brunt of it but it was all over. I didn't just spill a little, the entire pan I believe flipped upside down. I know I freaked DD out because she was all the way upstairs and heard me go loudly "OH CR_P" (yes, I used that word which is = to swearing in this house especially with the tone I used) -- she came down to see what was wrong.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I'd sold my mother's house and we'd spent the weekend packing and cleaning. The house was in good shape, but we were exhausted. Our plan was to get a good night's sleep and leave the house for the last time in the morning.

I let my two German Shepherds out one last time for the night, and as luck would have it, they both got sprayed by a skunk. Badly.

After a quick trip to the 7-11 for anything tomato related we could find we gave them a bath in the tub. To our horror, they shook (as only dogs can do) and our dark tomato concoction splattered everywhere, and I mean everywhere, in the room - all over the ceiling, walls, window, floor, sink, toilet, you name it. Red specks - and black dog hair - everywhere. And the smell.



We were up into the wee hours cleaning and deodorizing, but basically the house reeked despite our best efforts. I left a note apologizing to the new owners. I'm sure they weren't too happy when they walked in that day.

One other story I remembered when reading another here like it, was when we lived in an apartment with hardwood floors. I got up to go to the bathroom in the dark one night and slid on something wet on the floor across the entire length of my dining room, trying to keep my balance the whole way as if I was on a surfboard. I suspected what it was before I turned the light on, but I didn't want to believe it. Yup, the dog was sick. Upset stomach, apparently. And as my DH likes to say, he left us a gift on the floor. That was fun cleaning up, too.

Gotta love pets.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

#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.

 

[heatherleigh]

Not even sure where to start. These happen on almost a daily basis. Here's a little sample:
Last week, my baby took a mustard out of the refrigerator (we now have a lock on it) and dumped the whole bottle downstairs on our light carpet.

My 3-yr old (when she was a baby) pooped in her diaper, took it off, and smeared it all over the LIGHT (almost white carpet) in the living room.

My oldest (when he was 3) took a Sharpie, and marked up the entire living room area of the Embassy Suites we were living at. He got the tv, lamp shade, table, couch, wall, pretty much EVERYTHING. That was so difficult to repair/remove.

 

[Sparx]

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.

Well mine was actually on purpose too. I thought long and hard about it. We were out of dish washer detergent, so I used the other brand. But the mess that came afterwards was accidental.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

Unattended babies and poop seem to be a common thread here..so I guess I will tell you mine.
When DD16 was about 4 months old, she got a terrible diaper rash. I either read it or was told by someone, that if I could keep her diaper off for a couple of hours once in a while to let the rash air out.
So, I took her diaper off, put her in her crib, gave her a few toys and ran in to take a quick shower. When I got out and went and check on her...she was covered in poop. She was playing with it like play doh, squishing it with her hands. It was all over her hair, her face, chest, her crib and her toys. I was mortified. It took forever to clean her and everything else up. I never left her out of a diaper unattended again.

And the Roomba story?? PURE GOLD! Your cat really hates you!

 

[Katy Belle]

These are hilarious!!!!

 

[hereyago]

Several months after my DF passed away in 2004, I forgot to listen to him obviously when he was alive about the stove top is in the counter with a the oven being in the wall.

He always told me to be sure and clean under the stove top. WELL:

One night I was making DD mac and cheese, boiling the water. A flame shot up, I called 911 and told DD and DM to get out of the house. I was about to put water on the fire, but I know it is going to sound crazy, but I swear I heard my df telling me not to and the fire extinguisher was in the pantry.

I whipped out the FE and started spraying while on the phone with 911. Fire was out, fire men came and checked it out. THe fire extinguisher was old and was suprised that it worked. But let me tell you, that powder stuff all over the place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I aimed low and sprayed in sideway motions. BUt the only damage was to the pot.

Dang, I didn't even fully read the OP first post, there was all ready a FE Story.

 

[hereyago]

Ok, ,how about this: My GS=German Shepard who is 1 now, used to be car sick. So I thought he was doing good in the back seat on the way to the vet, I thought I heard him trying to eat the seat. So i put my hand back- i was at a stoplight, to say stop, he threw up in my hand.

Vomit makes me want to hurl. but i put my hand out the window and tried to shake it off. Luckily we were close to the vet. It went through my fingers when it first happned to the floor mat. Which I threw away.

But i went into the vet and asked if they could hold him because i needed to wash my hand.

He is no longer car sick, thank goodness.

To the poster with the cat and the roomba, do you picture the cat positioning where to do his business in line with the roomba? or riding on it? I just picture the cat sayig : pick that up roomba.


Also, if you by mistake or on purpose put dish liquid into dishwasher ifyou have liquid fabric softner, that gets rid of the bubbles. don't ask how i know.

 

[Planogirl]

Mine was when DH was in the attic and missed where he was supposed to step and came through the ceiling. He caught a beam which broke his fall (and a few of his ribs, poor guy) but much of the ceiling came crashing down into the living room.

White dust was in and on everything! It took forever to clean it all up.

 

[DeniseinNS]

I once dropped a full 4 litre jug of milk on the floor and of course it broke and was EVERYWHERE.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

This past Easter, my DS7 knocked over a glass of blue dye when we were dying eggs. The blue dye went everywhere. It splattered all over my predominantly white wallpaper. He could not have thrown it purposefully and gotten as much on the walls, floor and furniture. I swore to myself that this was the last year of dying eggs.

 

[mariolatry]

Once I brought home a five-gallon jar of kimchi from the Korean store; fermented cabbage marinated in vinegar and chili paste. If you've never had real kimchi, it smells like a decomposing corpse lying in a chili field.

It rolled off the dining room table and shattered on my floor. My whole house reeked for a really long time after that.

 

[DMickey28]

1. My first apartment out of college ... I did the dishwasher/dish detergent thing as well!

2. My DS, 2 at the time, unloaded a whole container of baby powder in the master bath. Thank goodness it was the tile bathroom.

3. When we first moved back up to NE, we lived in my parents house for a few months this past summer. DS found a tub of Destin and covered my old bedroom (his room for the summer) and himself.

This is the desitin on his head ... I managed it off his body before taking him to the beach. Not the smartest idea though because not only did he have desitin on his head and in his hair, it was now mixed with sand! Not my brightest day.

4. DS dumped an entire full canister of shredded paper all over our dinning room.

 

[CF'er]

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

 

[iwrbnd]

I have a Roomba and will never forget that cat story!!!