Just completed the most disgusting household task of my life...

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...I can post pics on request!!

Refuse collectors missed out our section of the close last week, so 3 weeks' worth of rubbish in green bin, with another week to go.

Went to bing another black bag in this morning, green bin ALIVE with maggots, literally couldn't see any green.

Phoned the council, they're able to pick it up in 4 days as long as I leave maggoty bin on drive 😱

Nose-peg on. Took all the black bags out, quadruple-bagged them, bleached bin inside and out, washed bin out with several kettles of boiling water, jeyes powder in, quadruple-bagged bins back in.

Nice clean very full bin now sitting neatly on drive. I've set fire to my clothes and bathed in dettol and feel marginally better for killing spree

Mouldy potatoes ain't got nothing on a maggoty bin! They don't move, for starters! I would argue that kitchen U-bed cleaning falls somewhere between household task and 'job for plumber' so jury's out on that one...

Maggoty soft cheese! Ye gads!

This is why the summer holidays are insufferable. It's got nothing to do with the kids. I spend the whole time discovering shit that would usually get ignored! Roll on INSET days (teacher)!

Oh God this thread is giving my flashbacks!! I've recently discovered that Maggots proper freak me out (fine with spiders, bugs, rodents etc )- But I've never really been exposed to maggots until last month - when I discovered them INSIDE the lid of my KITCHEN BIN!!!!!! - it was an old metal foot peddle bin that we realised now was poorly constructed as the domed outside lid has an inner lip of flat metal on the inside which essentially created a void space - which is where the flies must had got in an laid the eggs - so I'm changing the bin bag one evening (which was quite full so jammed in pretty tight and as I'm pulling the bag out I smacked my hands against this inner lid quite hard which then caused it to detach and fall out of the outer lid dumping literally hundreds of the wriggly bastards all over my hands, the bin bag, my flip-flopped feet, the floor!! To say I absolutely lost my shit would be an understatement. This was not my finest moment in retrospect but I flailed about wildly thus flinging them further around the kitchen and then onto my toddler DD who had come running from the living room at the sound of my screeching! We subsequently abandoned the ground floor entirely and hid in the bathroom until DH came home from work to save us! He is seriously my hero after this - he bleached an the entire kitchen, pulling out all the kick boards, washing machine dishwasher - got the offending bin outside and actually took a blowtorch to it just to be sure they were all dead!

talcott eeeek

Not sure whether to be glad that I can't see the pics as I'm currently eating spaghetti on toast and my stomach hasn't been particularly agreeable today anyway... I think I'll come back later!

yawning I may never eat special fried rice again

I can totally deal with maggots.

Try getting them off sheep who’s been struck by blowfly 😨 that is shocking.

I opened my wheelie bin to deposit a bag of rubbish and a fly probably bluebottle really flew out.. I slammed the lid shut and did not investigate further. You've cursed us all OP

Am I alone in thinking that all that bleach and plastic bagging is hugely more damaging to the environment than maggots are?

Oh yeah! I did mine a couple of weeks back too. Job well done. Thought the maggots were a spillage of special fried rice, then they started moving. Yum yum. Next time hose on full blast and bottle of bleach nails it.

This just reminded me of the Ferrero Rocher maggot scandal and now I feel queasy again.

That happened to me once with my kitchen bin, I'd just had a major operation and wasn't allowed to lift anything more than 2 lbs for 6 weeks, I was a single parent and couldn't take the bin out.

I'll see your maggoty bin (or rather, I won't as pics not online) and raise you a kitchen-fat blocked drain to our septic tank that needed unblocking, manually, freeing up the held-back-like-a-dam toilet and sink waste which proceeded to gush forwards like niagara. That was pleasantly satisfying in a sick sort of way.

I have no problem with maggots and have cleared out a bin of doom myself (more than once, can I join the slattern club?).

Also have you heard of larval therapy? We slap maggots onto really bad wounds and let them do their job. I always feel bad that we chuck them into the bins to be incinerated after all they've done for the patient. I think they should be adopted and allowed to turn into little flies. The family of the recipient should sign up to do this.

Warning: I don't mind maggots and this made my skin crawl...
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I worked from home for a while and was on a call. My cat brushed past me and left something on my hand. I thought it was going to be some random piece of fluff but then I saw it was glisteny. I was only a tapeworm segment. I might have done a silent scream and reached around for anything to wipe it off with. After I'd done that I had to ask the person to repeat themselves as the line had crackled a little.

Have you ever seen one of them moving? Cat was down the vet for treatment that afternoon. He's sitting on my lap now but his mice-eating days are behind him now I hope

lola absolutely! I'm a walking talking environmental hazard! But my bin would have been the talk of the neighbourhood so just this once I threw caution to the wind, environmentally-speaking.

NCas I'm crying at silent scream I would have noisy-screamed

I think I had my own private larval therapy sesh earlier

Ohhh I feel you!
We have our general waste bin emptied every 3 weeks (thanks council pricks) and with this weather we have constantly got the little buggers! I'm terrified of them so I'm getting the OH to salt the bin constantly 🤮

The best thing about the Maggoty Bin Party is that I'm ovulating (bear with me a sec) and was feeling quite frisky. The bin has killed my ovaries STONE DEAD. They've gone from glowing to withering within the hour.

You have done better than I op - maggots make my skin crawl
I have however done two horrific household tasks that I feel should have won some kind of award
In our old house we had Victorian plumbing - in the rear yard it became clear we had some sort of blockage as dirty water was pooling around the drain cover where the utility room / washing machine pipe came out.
I ended up donning rubber gloves to investigate as DHs giant hands wouldn't fit - cue finding that the blockage wasn't from the utility room but the downstairs toilet as I start to pull out wads of shitty tissues 🤢

Oooo love a maggot!
I used to play with my fisherman dads bait! Wouldn’t do it now but I’m still very fond.

Have I just committed a cardinal Mumsnet sin!

Well you’ve made me feel better.

I spent several night hours battling threadworm (who taught even a seasoned mum about how varied a warm kid crevice they will inhabit) only to wake up to scratchy heads teeming with lice. That’s the thing with kiddikins, never concentrate too hard on one end of them, the other end will take advantage!

I suppose I’m still technically jealous- at least your wriggly fauna are outside your house! And you’ve no reason for parent guilt. I know logically that I keep everything clean and controlled, but two critter invasions in 24 hours has me doubting myself.

Sorry if I’ve made everyone itchy...!

Sorry pressed send too quickly
Second one was at this house we had an overflowing low level hopper on the drain pipe by the front door - tried to loosen it to empty it but it was stuck so got off the ladder and stupidly tugged from below.... the whole drainpipe then emptied a years worth of stinking rotten pine needles, worms, water and general sludge squarely on my head remarkably quickly.
The stench was so bad I was actually sick and had to strip off all my clothes at the back door and hose them down before I put them in the washing machine.

But the SMELL of mouldy potatoes! At least maggots don't smell!

Actually, I quite enjoyed the time my kitchen bin had maggots. It was a new bin and for a moment I thought the maggots had come with the bin, but obviously they hadn't and some fly had just moved in quickly. I swilled the lid of the bin under the tap and hundreds of the buggers were washed out from under the lip where the metal of the lid kind of folded over the frame. It was very satisfying watching them all go down the plughole.

The only problem with maggots is that they grow into flies. Those ARE disgusting. Discusting, even. But you could have sold them for fish bait. Or to transform into protein powder.

But I agree that the smell of rotting potatoes is quite bad.