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!

She had a spare key then? That was lucky.

Friend’s wedding in Paris one suitcase had wedding clobber in, nice sturdy padlock on it.

At airport standing in queue to board flight, said to DH you have the key for the padlock right?

His face drained of colour.

He was dispatched to a DIY store in Garde du Nord, with a phrase written on a piece of paper for him to ask for a small saw in french.

Had to saw the padlock off which took some time and made quite a racket.

I pity you returning home to a toilet smelling like something from "Trainspotting". 🤢

Type 1 DH left his insulin and blood testing kit at home. We realised at the airport when he went to take it out to go through security. He had one pen of long acting and one of short with 3 days worth in it with him. We quickly worked out which would be more expensive - missing the flight or buying medication in Majorca.
We went ahead and all was fine, though an unexpected cost. We’ve never told his Mum as we’d not hear the end of it!

Tent pegs - we used knives and forks, it was a long time ago !

The pram was the worst for us

My ndn went shopping for the holiday supplies the day before and didn't notice a packet of raw chicken pieces had fallen out of the shopping bag in the boot.
They went on holiday in their other car and when they got home she was puzzled because the chicken she thought was in the freezer had disappeared.
When she got in her car the smell was horrendous and she realised what had happened. The packet had expanded and was ready to blow and the chicken inside was green. She never quite got rid of the smell.

I've just remembered when I was away on a work residential for almost a week. No car and I wasnt able to walk far. I can't remember why but no taxis.

I was pregnant and my body decided that it was a good time for my breasts to start leaking. It was my first pregnancy and I didn't even know that this happened!

I was new to the job and generally feeling very emotional and vulnerable so I didn't want to ask my male colleagues to give me a lift to the supermarket.

Toilet roll didn't stay in place so instead I spent a FORTUNE buying sanitary towels from the toilet vending machines, then cutting them up with a knife from the canteen and sticking them to my bra. Surprisingly, if you stick them in a certain way, they were almost invisible and just looked like a bit of a weird crease. At least that is what I like to tell myself.

Im quite impressed that my overwhelmed pregnancy brain managed to find a solution tbh. It would make a good answer to a "tell me one time you have come up with an innovative solution to a stressful unplanned situation" interview question. 🤣

I still work with the company and one of the men who was at the residential turned out to be the loveliest, kindest man who lives with his wife and 5 daughters and has 3 or 4 sisters so is completely unphased by any "woman stuff". He would have probably insisted on me resting while he went and bought breast pads and snuck a big bar of chocolate into the carrier bag too.

THE pill. I was sure I'd packed them, & spent a week fighting off ex-DH.

A while later, he confessed he'd taken them as he really wanted another child when we'd "agreed" no more. One of the many reasons he became an ex.

Twice o have gone to London for a long weekend and forgot a hairbrush. Quick trip to boots and all sorted. Not as bad as some people on here 😯

Why would she need a spare key? Dogs don’t have opposable thumbs…

A fully loaded dishwasher, which I then forgot to run and buggered off to Portugal for a fortnight 🤮

Maybe there's a dog flap? In which case Pooch couldn't have all that big. Clever girl finding her way back home all that way. Her poor legs must have been tired. No wonder she was flaked out on the sofa. Or perhaps she hitched a lift? The kindly driver might have read her address on her tag? I think we need answers. 🤔

How stupid of me to have joked on such a serious thread. I can only apologise.

My DH’s suitcase 🤣

Op said the dog had jumped out before she left. So I read it that Op had locked up and left her unknowingly inside.

Recently DH flew to South America and agreed at check in that they could check his bags all the way through to final destination.

When he got to the first airport, he remembered that he was going to be a bit stuck in the hotel overnight without any of his stuff, and he just had to manage with what he had with him before his second flight the next morning!

So I guess he forgot that he had a stopover!

@CapitalAtRisk yes the cat and dog bowls are washed daily. Would you want to eat off dirty bowls that flies have crawled over? They can carry microbes and toxins on their feet.

The tent poles.Luckily it was a tiny ex army ridge tent and the campsite owner lent us two broom handles.

Absolutely
Not washing pet food and water bowls daily is disgusting

Well considering that my spaniel will drink from the greenest, rankest puddle when he's out, I think he'll be OK...

A burning candle... had just got to the tube with large amounts of luggage and had to schlep back.
It is now on the holiday checklist as "a thing".

We’d taken the rubbish out but one of us unthinkingly dropped a banana skin in the empty main body of the kitchen bin as we were leaving. Came home 2 weeks later, opened the bin and hundreds of fruit flies swarmed out. Despite opening all windows they were in our house for days.

My DH left his suitcase behind when going on an early morning flight for a business trip to India. Thankfully he had disturbed me so I got up to make a cup of tea and saw it. I called him and he turned round and I jumped into my car with my coat over my pyjamas to meet him halfway. Thankfully he hadn't gone too far.

I have a wraparound garden and gate. So I leave the front doors open when loading the dogs and kids in as there’s no danger of anyone running off!

I was still loading the car when she jumped out of the boot and managed to get back inside without my noticing 😁I just carried on packing the backseat with the bits in the hallway (and dealing with a screaming toddler) and then locked up, shut the boot (which I always leave open until the last moment as it does get a bit cramped with so many dogs) got in and drove off!

In my defence, when you have five dogs it’s very easy to overlook one or miscount!!!