To show you all the unbelievable mess I just made :(

[Rebeccaslicker]

Tried to open the shower screen door to let out DD's bathwater and the whole bloody thing shattered - this is halfway through the clearing up!! I'm daunted.

Tell me about times you've made a huge mess so I can feel better whilst I sweep and poor DH goes through the toilet water with a sieve please!

Spent ages making a giant jaffa cake. Had the sponge with the 'smashing orangey bit in the middle' waiting in a glass flan dish on the worktop, and went to spread on the choc topping. Whole thing tipped up and fell on the slate floor. Glass smashed, into tiny shards and choc all over the tiles. Bastard to wipe off.
Previously, spent hours boiling down tomatoes to make passata. Sieved it through the mouli, reboiled to make it nice and thick. Then decided to go and drop it on the slate floor. Looked like a crime scene, blood red fluid all over the floor and spattered up the cream cupboard doors.

I am horrified that a manufacturer would make a shower screen that would shatter like this, someone could have been badly hurt.

Carrying 2 full glasses of red wine upstairs and tripped - looked like a massacre!!! It was up the walls and everywhere

Whoops.

OH managed to drop the deep fat fryer (fortunately cold) over the kitchen floor. We all know how far a small amount of liquid can go and this was the entire contents. Kitchen floor was carpeted with flotex. We tried soaking it up to no avail so had to cover the floor with newspaper.

First the contents insurance company, after some delay, sent out a cleaning company who couldn't clean it so they then sent out an assesor who took one look and said it's glued to the floor so not covered by contents insurance. This was in the days when it was normal to have to insure buildings seperately via the mortgage company.

Rang buildings insurance who then said they would send a cleaner... After much telephoning, commonsense prevailed and they said they would accept the findings of the previous cleaners.

We lived with newspaper over oily carpet for months that felt like forever

Then there was the time DD aged around 2 decided to help herself to Ribena - from a newly opened 2 litre bottle. The more I tried to mop it up, the further it spread it's stickiness.

Hope you're safely cleared up now. The image of DH sieving the toilet water has given me a laugh though, thanks!

Who knew that opening a frozen 2l bottle of coke is not a good ideait exploded, the ceiling was dripping with coke.
But i much preferred cleaning this compared to the time when my younger brother vomited down the spiral staircase
My parents were out, i was in charge
It was everywhere, upstairs, downstairs and in between. The staircase had a lot of detail and most of it covered in sick. Was not fun

Managed to tip a bowl of beaten eggs into the space between my oven and the kitchen cabinet next to it. Had to disconnect the gas and pull the oven out to clean it all off as the smell was appalling.

We discovered that the previous occupier had hung a shelf in the kitchen without using plasterboard fixings.

Discovery was made when it fell off and broke several bottles containing soy sauce, oyster sauce, vinegar (red wine, white wine & malt), olive oil, spilled multiple pots of spices and a full canister of ground coffee.

Took the best part of a day to clean up the resulting slick.

I opened a tin of tomato soup a couple of months ago with a ring pull and managed to flip it up into the air off the counter. it covered everything. me, the ceiling, floor, counters. so annoying!

Bread maker came on in the middle of the night (timer) and walked off the kitchen surface taking with it a glass bottle of olive oil and plate of sugar and cinnamon.
The clean laundry was on the floor ready to be folded.
Glass, oil, sugar, clothes and flour.
I heard the crash, investigated and went straight back to bed reasoning that I'd be less likely to cut myself in the morning.

More recently a new shower screen exploded in the kitchen as we were trying to carry it. Like yours it went everywhere - toaster, washing machine, sink...
I may have cried a little

Turned around in the supermarket and my very pregnant belly brushed against a shelf of glass jarred bolognese sauces...it was like a scene from Carrie.

Also, DD dropped a full glass of banana milkshake inside the double radiator in the living room about 2 years ago. We get a faint whiff of banana every time the radiator comes on.

DH making smoothies with the kids, didn't click the liquidiser lid into place properly, covered himself, and half the kitchen

Beautiful bathroom, looks like mine!

I just put the chopping board on it's side to dry, it smashed a pint glass waiting to be washed.

I dropped an entire bottle of Kilrock, industrial limescale remover, on the bathroom floor. Nearly passed out from the fumes clearing it up.

Dropped a beautiful glass bath oil container on the enamel bath and chipped it.

Was removing tiles that the idiot tiler put on sticking out off the wall (!!) and dropped one onto the newly installed bath, on the edge, big chip out of it. Had it repaired.

Dm cooked a lamb and barley stew, left it in the Aga overnight, df went to take it out, dropped it on his foot and ended up with serious burns. :(

One small bowl of beetroot soup, dropped very precisely on the tiles in the middle of our very newly decorated kitchen. It was impressive, luckily all the painting gear was still around.

Ddog brushed against a side table in the lounge, it's tiled on top, so not the best surface to balance full wine glasses on. The resultant spill is still clearly up the pale yellow wall :(

A few eels before moving, dc1 decided to build a model plane. He open up the paint and it went everyehere. Blue paint on a cream carpet!

I worked in an ice cream shop when I was backpacking in my twenties and I dropped a massive vat of liquid chocolate. It rebounded off the tile floor so there was molten chocolate all up the walls, all over all the counters, all over me and my colleague and most of the floor. It took literally all day to clean up.

The other week we were returning a top box to someone who had lent it to us to take on holiday. It was accompanied by a really nice bottle of wine to say thanks. For reasons unknown to anyone, my husband stood the top box on its side, balancing precariously in winds not seen since 1987, and put the bottle on wine right next to it, on our front door step. Then watched in slow motion whilst the wind blew, the box fell, and the bottle of red wine smashed over our pale coloured front path...

I cant believe you have a loo brush

I have two

I smashed my shower screen a few years ago. Took about an hour to clear up all the little cubes of glass from the floor, plus about another half hour fishing more from the lavatory pan. Thank goodness for industrial rubber gloves !

Two crumbs of comfort from this episode. When I fitted the replacement screen (which I only had to nip over the road to buy) I got it straighter and more water-tight than the plumbers' original effort. Also, the glass that entered the bog ripped the soil pipe seal to shreds. The plumbers working in the flat downstairs very kindly replaced it for free (same plumbing firm). Result .

For those saying about the loo brush...how on earth do you clean the toilet without on.

Thanks op im enjoying the stories. Loads but the worse was some stunning pottery i bought which dh managed to drop carrying it in carefully and smash every piece.

I once knocked a placenta off a delivery room trolley.

Splattered myself, the floor, walls, ceiling, new mum, baby and one of my midwife colleagues. You'd be amazed how far blood splatters. It speckled every possible surface in a rather large labour room.

My finest hour was forgetting to put the lid on a brand new tub of that Indian clay face-mask powder. Of course the bastard cat knocked it off the side. Who knew such a modest tub could contain quite so much powder? This happened a year ago, and I'm still finding patches of the stuff.

I once dropped a full tin of gloss paint on a tiled floor. That took some shifting.
Also missed the top step one drunken night in the dark carrying a glass of Vimto to bed. Looked like a massacre in the morning. Up the walls and everything.

I think Gunty wins this thread.

I flipped a pancake all the way to the ceiling once. Bastard stuck to it, too. Eggy oily mess and with a big splat the thing came down to leave eggy oily mess on the floor, too.