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What disgusting things did you do as a child?

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Cheeseandlobster · 17/01/2021 15:25

I decided to catch my own poo in a pot that had holes in it to have a closer look. I then hid it in my wardrobe.

I ate a boiled egg that had been decorated and been sitting in my classroom for god knows how long. I am actually surprised I didnt die

I licked a fish head I found on the beach in Wales numerous times.

I was a little bit sick in my bed and was worried I would be told off so i moved it to the bottom of the bed and slept in it until the bedding was changed. I can still remember if stretched out my toes would touch its cold lumpiness

I am someone now who loves being clean and is hot on food hygeine and am truly aghast at my disgusting younger self Envy not envy in the slightest

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AlbusSeverusMalfoy · 17/01/2021 15:29

All of that is fucking rank EnvyEnvy

Worst I did was not brush my teeth every day and only bathed once a week ...

namechangetogamechange · 17/01/2021 15:30

Jesus. Wtf

TravellingSpoon · 17/01/2021 15:32

I ate cheap sausages from the freezer while still frozen. Used to eat them like a popsicle.

I am a veggie now.

JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam · 17/01/2021 15:33

I used to eat raw bacon.

In my defence raw bacon is nice

CryptoFascist · 17/01/2021 15:34

When I was about 3-4 I used to wee under a rug in my bedroom at night if I couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet.

youngestisapsycho · 17/01/2021 15:35

I used to bite my toenails...

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Cheeseandlobster · 17/01/2021 15:35

@AlbusSeverusMalfoy

All of that is fucking rank EnvyEnvy

Worst I did was not brush my teeth every day and only bathed once a week ...

I know. I am truly horrified now Blush
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BaggoMcoys · 17/01/2021 15:35

Yours are quite impressive. I was expecting it to be something like picking your nose. Any idea why you did these weird things and what age/s you were when you did them?

I can't think of anything that quite compares... My closest is that I used to have a glass in bedroom that I used as a toilet for a while (for wees in the night which I'd pour out of the back window after). It was because my parents would both be drunk downstairs, either in the same room arguing, or sitting in separate rooms. I'd have to walk past both of them to get to the toilet and I hated it. I was scared of them when they were drunk, and also felt annoyed at some of their behaviours and I just didn't want to have pass them during that time. So though what I did was kind of gross, I can rationalise why I did it.

mamaoffourdc · 17/01/2021 15:36

Eat cat food and tissues

BaggoMcoys · 17/01/2021 15:37

@youngestisapsycho

I used to bite my toenails...
Oh and I did that too. I seem to remember hearing a quiz question something like what is the most common embarrassing habit people have confessed to (people in the audience maybe) and the answer was biting their toenails. I might be wrong!
WorraLiberty · 17/01/2021 15:39

Not me but my sister.

She used to sneak Oxo cubes upstairs, keep them under her pillow and nibble on them at night Confused

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Cheeseandlobster · 17/01/2021 15:40

@BaggoMcoys

Yours are quite impressive. I was expecting it to be something like picking your nose. Any idea why you did these weird things and what age/s you were when you did them?

I can't think of anything that quite compares... My closest is that I used to have a glass in bedroom that I used as a toilet for a while (for wees in the night which I'd pour out of the back window after). It was because my parents would both be drunk downstairs, either in the same room arguing, or sitting in separate rooms. I'd have to walk past both of them to get to the toilet and I hated it. I was scared of them when they were drunk, and also felt annoyed at some of their behaviours and I just didn't want to have pass them during that time. So though what I did was kind of gross, I can rationalise why I did it.

Yours is totally understandable. Drunk people can be very frightening to children.

The sick thing. In my defence my mum would shout at me if I was sick by accident and would threaten to rub my nose in it so thats probably why.

The rest though. I was in my first home for the poo thing so about 4. The others maybe about 7 or 8. I was either a curious or weird child but I suspect the latter Smile

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yumscrumfatbum · 17/01/2021 15:40

I can't think of anything I did except a phase of shower dodging as a teenager. Feel remarkably dull now.

BaggoMcoys · 17/01/2021 15:41

I used to make butter and sugar sandwiches actually. Or sometimes I'd get butter on a spoon and dip it in sugar then eat it, sort of like the world's unhealthiest lollipop.

SlantyBaws · 17/01/2021 15:44

I used to lick my finger and stick it in the sugar bowl so the sugar would stick to it, then suck the sugar off. If I was feeling a bit decadent I would do the same with drinking chocolate.

BaggoMcoys · 17/01/2021 15:44

The sick thing. In my defence my mum would shout at me if I was sick by accident and would threaten to rub my nose in it so thats probably why.

Aww that's not nice! Sounds like something someone might say/do to an animal, not a child!

The poo container thing... I can understand your curiosity tbh. I didn't do that (I'm sure I would have looked at them in the toilet but nothing more than that) but I can see why one might!

Licking a dead fish "numerous times(!!)"at 7/8 is pretty weird though! As was eating the class egg!

dazzlinghaze · 17/01/2021 15:46

I used to hide used plates, bowls, glasses in my room rather than take them downstairs to go in the dishwasher. They went mouldy more than once Envy total teenage laziness!

LandGirlJudy · 17/01/2021 15:47

Made mud pies

Wouldn't swallow my food and spat it back out in the toilet then DM realised so stopped letting me go after a meal so went upstairs and spat it in a tissue and hid it in my bedroom. Little rotten food parcels...

OliviaKeeling · 17/01/2021 15:48

Toenail biting. Wish I was as supple now, 44 years later! Blush

Tanfastic · 17/01/2021 15:49

I remember sticking my bubble gum behind my headboard and then picking it off the next day and chewing it...repeat repeat. Such a skank,

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/01/2021 15:50

Used to eat the bread that my Mum used to throw out for the birds.

My Mum and her friend used to go out into town and leave me and her friend’s son in the garden for a few hours (we were under five - we moved from this house when I was five), with instructions to knock next door if we needed anything, as we were locked out of the house. We were desperate for the loo, knocked next door but they were out too, so we went in the garage. I had an unexpected poo which we hid in a flower pot.

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Cheeseandlobster · 17/01/2021 15:52

@BaggoMcoys

The sick thing. In my defence my mum would shout at me if I was sick by accident and would threaten to rub my nose in it so thats probably why.

Aww that's not nice! Sounds like something someone might say/do to an animal, not a child!

The poo container thing... I can understand your curiosity tbh. I didn't do that (I'm sure I would have looked at them in the toilet but nothing more than that) but I can see why one might!

Licking a dead fish "numerous times(!!)"at 7/8 is pretty weird though! As was eating the class egg!

Exactly and its not a nice thing to do to a dog either really. We are nc now as that was one of her milder things.

The fish must have tasted disgusting. And I remember the egg tasted like paint. Yet still I persevered. Confused

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diavlo · 17/01/2021 15:53

Eat worms.
Suck the sausage meat out of sausages and put the skins back in the fridge.
Drink vinegar.
Kept a snail zoo in a shoebox under my bed.
Pick my nose and eat it.
There were many, many more...

topcat2014 · 17/01/2021 15:54

My DD hides her bitten nails down behind her headboard. She thinks we don't know this.

I wasn't a gross child, but fairly sure I would have subscribed to:

"pick it, lick it, roll it, flick it" at some point.

(bogies / snot, in case this particular phrase was not universal :))

DreamingInColours · 17/01/2021 16:00

I used to suck the salt off peanuts and then spit them back into the pack. Rank!