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

[Clawdy]

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!

Pads as a teenager.
I was away with my parents on a boat fur 3 days. No access to a shop. I had heavy periods….

(Well it was my dad who ‘forgot’ to pick up my bag in the car and I wasn’t allowed to grumble about it. Not a big deal was the answer I got then.)

My child mashed part of a banana into the floor under a toy before we left. We came back to a lovely ant population. I'll never not deep clean before a big trip again.

We were congratulating ourselves (rather smugly, pride definitely comes before a fall!) on having managed to squeeze all the packing into the roof box so the kids had plenty of space in the back of the car as we drove through France. When we arrived DH remembered that he'd left the top box key on the kitchen table! Thank goodness my mum could FedEx the key to the campsite, but we had 3 days of living in swimwear from the local supermarket until it arrived!

I wash my dogs bowls every day they are mix wet/dry fed and the bowl gets sticky and it's gross.

Wouldn't buying a couple of packets of condoms have been easier?!

Knickers. For a week's holiday. Luckily it was a UK holiday so I grabbed some multipacks from a big Tesco when we stopped off for supplies.

Oh and last year I had a load of dollars from a previous holiday which I put away safely. The day before we were due to leave for florida, could not find them and had to buy again at the airport. A year later I still haven't found them

My friend left a load of washing (bedding) in the machine. She just forgot to get it out. It was mouldy when they got back and had to be thrown away.

My mum once left a cooked chicken in the fridge while we went away for a fortnight in summer. She's a bit paranoid about fire so she'd switched the electricity off, presumably thinking the fridge had been emptied. I'm saying nothing more.

Once 14 year old DC2 forgot to pack any socks so had to hand wash the pair they were wearing. I'm not sure if they were washed everyday. Probably not.

A group of us were going to a festival quite a way from home & I had forgotten my ticket. Luckily someone in our party was coming later that same day & brought it for me.

@AInightingale I expect it would have been, but they panicked I think!

I can't stand condoms and would rather not bother, so that would have put the dampers on the holiday for me. Can you not now get an emergency prescription faxed or emailed to a pharmacy in the country you're visiting?

Pants - ended up with a pack with too small pairs that my aunt bought.

As an adult, glasses and my mobile phone. Luckily, not on the same trip!

Oh the bright side, if you ever do need to store for later disposal of a body, you just successfully completed your trial run. Yay!

Of course our dog's bowls get washed everyday, both water and food! Anything less is rank.

My ex left his unflushed wee in the toilet bowl and the stench back from the thankfully only week long holiday was horrendous.

I'm always forgetting my knickers.

Once forgot my passport, but remembered before I got on to the motorway and had left very early so didn't need to make up time.

@UnctuousUnicorns no idea, but this would have been around 2005 so I don’t know if they could have done it then.

We once went to a very fancy hotel and upon arrival I discovered I’d packed two left shoes meaning I had flip flops and walking boots.

I had to wear my scruffy old flip flops to the restaurant (was very swanky). My sister told me to style it out saying people would either think I was eccentric and wealthy or American 😀

I found this hilarious when I was a kid:

My gran come to stay at our house when we went on holiday. When we got back, I heard her saying to my mum 'I saw this plate with a lid over it in the pantry, so I gingerly lifted the lid, to find a piece of ginger cake'

..you probably had to be there. I miss my dear gran.

Well, I did wash the bowl (most days!) but the chaos of packing and clearing made me forget! Never did it again after seeing those maggots! 😮

Went away to York for a few days. I had clothes all ready hung on coat hangers ready to put in the bag.
It was only when driving into the city that I realized all I had with me were underwear makeup and handbags.
DH said he admired my nerve. .... holding out until we'd arrived to confess.
Lol.

We went to a camping, music festival, but my friend forgot tent poles. My boyfriend and I were in 1 tent, but it was too small to also fit her.

We lifted the centre of her tent up on a box, but each night it ended up with her legs sticking out of what looked like a collapsed tent. You could hear people muttering how smashed she must be, look at her etc 😆

I can see why he's your ex. Why didn't he flush every time immediately after using, the dirty bugger?

Really? Water bowl as well? DDog has dry food, and water, I literally can't remember the last time the bowls were washed. But he's nine now, so can't be doing him too much harm?

The key to my suitcase. It was only a small lock so I was able to pick it with a hair clip but it took ages and I was sweltering in my jumper and jeans I'd worn on the way out.

@UnctuousUnicorns In mitigation he had put the seat down but yes he should have flushed.

My DC's birth certificate, when traveling to a country that insisted that all children travel with their original birth certificate (which would apparently magically resolved child trafficking). It was a 12 hour flight, we live 2 hours from the airport, and despite arriving with 3 hours to spare we didn't have enough time to get home and back...and we were not allowed to board without it. We were allowed to travel the next day instead, but it was very stressful...