Worst thing you left at home when you went on holiday?

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Years ago, I did a quick clean of the kitchen, just before leaving for a fortnight away. Completely forgot about the dog's bowl which was on the floor with some dog food in it. When we returned, kitchen had a weird smell, and the bowl was a seething mess of wriggling maggots!

My cpap machine. I stop breathing for between 5-10 minutes every hour without it 😱. That was a very tricky 3 nights and I barely slept a wink

We did that once too! 😁
I have a photo of DH cleaning out the freezer full of rotten mess wearing a snorkel! 😂

Once went to Paris for weekend and DH carried DS into taxi to airport with no shoes on!!! Thankfully I'd packed his wellies so he had to wear those the entire weekend.

Not a holiday but a conference, with work colleagues. Forgot pjs/nightdress. No problem, slept in just my pants.

There was a fire alarm in the middle of the night. I panicked, remembered all the 'do not stop to collect your belongings' warnings, and ran out into the night with only a sheet. Everyone else ambled out fully clothed, including warm jackets

To make it worse, I was their (shivering) boss.

The only holiday my XH ever booked, a cottage in mid Wales. He didn't read ANY of the bumf he was sent and I thought he'd got it all sorted, but when we arrived, with our five very small children, there were no towels in the whole place. Apparently they weren't supplied, as it said in the bumf that he hadn't bothered to read.

All the children needed a bath that night, after a long car journey and associated snacks, and I ended up drying them with a T towel (which was supplied) and their father's T shirts. Next day we drove to the nearest ASDA and bought a job lot of bath towels (which outlasted the marriage by a significant factor).

I once left all my medication in a little bag by the front door - I must have put it there to remind myself to put it together with my hand luggage stuff but obviously that didn’t work! The worst thing is that I have bipolar, and without my lithium I’m off the charts manic, and that really wasn’t the best situation for a long flight….!

My phone. Thankfully, it was before your boarding pass was downloaded on your phone.

Noooo! Please tell us what happened next. Did you have to spin a story about silly Santa, or was it a quick dash to the nearest convenience store for a 6 pack of coke and some suntan lotion?

Ooh, sympathies! My DH went in weekly to water some friends' plants, and discovered, one day, that their freezer had packed up.
The stench was overwhelming, but worse, was clearing it all out...he's a doctor, so not unused to unsavoury smells but he has never forgotton this and still shudders.

A friend turned up at our house with some freshly caught mackerel a couple of days before we were due to go on holiday, we never got round to using them so before we went away I put them in the food bin, but then forgot to put the food bin out for collection. The smell of them after they’d sat in an outside bin in the sun for a week was unholy, and I had to leave a very apologetic note out for the bin men.

My make up bag -

Because the dog hadn't finished eating it? What a dick comment.

Hair brush OP. I had to finger comb my hair.

Not me but a friend turned up at a wedding with just his suit jacket but no trousers - he had assumed the trousers were underneath the jacket on the hanger but hadn’t actually checked

The address of where we were staying!

Yep did this when I went on honeymoon- no makeup or toiletries not even a toothbrush!

This is an actual anxiety dream I regularly have. Good to know that it could actually happen!

DC decided to repack and took out the numerous swim stuff, leaving just one to be rinsed, dried (sand removed) each night. Still don’t let them forget that several years later!

No one wanted to raise it with you in case you're a serial murderer.

My bags with all my clothes
Spent a week wearing my mother's partner's t shirts and socks, and washing my pants out every night..

Both the DC's shoes and coats / we lifted them out of bed and into the car... then stopped at a shopping centre in the Midlands to buy them more shoes and coat.

Credit card - had to go home for that and arrived at hotel near Heathrow very late.

DH left half his clothes in a hotel in Whistler, they sent them on.

DH has forgotten all his pants except the ones he had on. He bought one spare pair when we arrived and alternated the two, washing out a pair each night.
He also managed to leave behind an overnight bag of mine containing some clothes, underwear, all my toiletries and all my meds. (He had loaded up the car for a week's break in France, no flight etc so I didn't even know it was missing until we arrived.)
Luckily i had a few spare tabs in a handbag and managed to eke them out by reducing dosages. But it wasn't ideal, to say the least.
And although he forgot to pack his pants once he has never forgotten any actual bags or cases of his...

My bank card😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲

Just before we set off on holiday - starting with several hours' coach travel to get to airport, to catch an intercontinental flight - I reminded DC to do a "journey wee". Nearly at the airport when DC piped up that she didn't think she had flushed the toilet.

Got home 3 weeks later, there having been a heatwave in the UK in the meantime. Amazingly, the smell in the house wasn't that bad. I think the hot weather had sped up whatever ungodly fermentation process took place so the worst of it was over. The loo water was practically dark brown and opaque, with a crusty ring. It took a lot of scrubbing to get the toilet presentable again.

Didn’t forget it but on a 2 week holiday to majorca arrived in palma airport and DDs buggy hadn’t been put on the plane. Nut only that but was in a buggy bag which also had the snoozy shade, buggy fan and numerous other baby supplies including nappies and wipes. She was 13/14 months old and just walking. Not gonna lie I actually cried and was googling baby supply shops on the transfer to the resort. Luckily got to the hotel and they rented pushchairs and her buggy turned up two days later with all the other bits too

My knickers....all of them!

I once got a panic phone call from my brother, they'd left a suitcase behind, I had to jump in the car, meet my niece, their older daughter, on a roundabout then drive like crazy to the airport, I made it though thanks to long check in times.

Going on a course for work I realised I hadn't packed a nightie and I would be sharing my room with a stranger, thoughts of how long my t-shirts were etc! Luckily a man joined the course and said he had been put into room X, mine, realised the other person was a woman and he was given another room! No-one else joined came to my room so I was OK!