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

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Rebeccaslicker · 26/10/2017 20:25

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!

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WipsGlitter · 27/10/2017 08:34

Midnight. Dropped a full bottle of rose on the kitchen floor. Smashed. Wine everywhere (very sticky) went to lift the broom to start clear up and managed to smash the kitchen light. Gave up and went up bed!!

Hmmalittlefishy · 27/10/2017 08:35

As a child I dropped a huge bottle of squash over the tiled floor. I was only small and remember feeling 'uh oh toooo heavy' it was very sticky and my mum was not pleased!

Hmmalittlefishy · 27/10/2017 08:39

Oh and I will prefix this by 'it was the 90s'
Anyone remember those tiny jars of glitter powder you used to wear on a night out? Only needed a tiny amount.
In our rented flat I somehow knocked one off the drawers, tried to catch it but somehow threw it further. It went everywhere all over the bed, hall, me, dh, we were sparkling for months and months. It was such a small pot but such a huge mess .

Seraphina1993 · 27/10/2017 08:52

I'm new here what's with the loo brush gags? haha

also what a gorgeous bathroom OP! Shame its been defiled by glass shards.

Angiefernackerpan · 27/10/2017 09:34

As a teenager I came home pissedon night. My DF had been painting the bathroom and I knocked a large jar of white spirit and brushes down.

It hit the loo seat and basically covered the entire room and me with blue. I mopped it up with towels then went to bed. Woke up with a hangover and minor chemical burns, and ruined towels and lino.

Dobbyandme · 27/10/2017 10:36

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ceecee32 · 27/10/2017 10:40

No picture unfortunately but on Tuesday I dropped a 5 litre tin of paint under the stairs - there was about an inch of paint on the floor and over everything that was in there (not tidy).
I had to take everything out into the kitchen to clean- trail of paint everywhere.... finished up kneeling in paint to try to get it all up. Decided to take all my clothes off so was doing this naked and then running into kitchen to change water over - kitchen at front of house - workmen !!!
Carpet is still not dry 3 days later and has a white matt emulsion look to it. Luckily it is out of sight,

amusedbush · 27/10/2017 10:45

Last year a bottle of ketchup exploded in my kitchen. Seriously - exploded.

The lid was on and perhaps it was really old (neither of us eat much ketchup) and I came home from work to find ketchup dripping from the ceiling, down the walls and all over the hob and counter. The force of it had knocked the bottle off the shelf and it had bubbled up and out like a mini volcano.

I've never known anything like it!

ATurnipOfMyOwn · 27/10/2017 11:24

How about a toddler vomiting in the middle of the night - a toddler who unfortunately had a blueberry addiction and had previously that day scoffed a whole punnet of the buggers. I picked her up, she spewed all over me, her bed, the carpet, I ran across the hallway which she similarly decorated - it was up the walls, all over the carpet and she actually managed to get some IN the laundry basket too. Stuck her in the bath and she then leaned over the side and puked all over the bathroom floor, and my slippers. It wasn't pretty.

BabyNameInspiration · 28/10/2017 00:55

I'd just moved into my first rented flat in a really grotty old victorian terrace. It needed a few nice touches so I bought myself one of those expanding sprung poles with baskets on to put into corner of the bath to display my collection of body shop grown up bubble baths.

I decided to make it as tight as possible to ensure it didn't fall over. This meant I had to pull it back as hard as I could whilst manovering it into the corner. I then released the highly tensioned, metal harpoon pole at the corner of the ceiling.

It fired upwards with such force that it smashed through the lath and plaster ceiling, taking about a third of the bathroom ceiling with it. Then rained down upon me, the bathroom and the rest of the flat 150 years of soot, dirt, birds nests and dead insects.

I ran out of the flat hyperventilating sure I'd demolished the whole building. After a bit of a cry and a fag or two I ventured back in start what turned out to be the best part of six hours cleaning.

Pleased to report I managed to repair the ceiling (with many newspapers, tea towels, cardboard, polly filler and some white paint) and the land lady never found out.

smokin44 · 28/10/2017 02:02

On a particular lazy day last week I bought a few ready meals. Chicken Tikka. As I took them out of the oven my wrist gave way and the tubs dropped and bounced. My thighs covered in steaming tikka, I yelled and tried not to swear and desperately wanted to peel my steaming jeans off but resisted to try and not scar my 14yr old son mentally. DH walks in and the first and second words were about the newly tikka splashed rug!!!! Could of divorced him there and then.

mathanxiety · 28/10/2017 05:29

About ten minutes ago I tried to kill an irritating, slow-moving fruit fly who was zig-zagging across my PC screen by clapping him between my hands, and managed only to knock my glass of red wine down my favourite flannel shirt and into my lap, with a nice patch on my chair and some in my hair too, and of course the floor saw its share of the action. Blush

SnugglySnerd · 28/10/2017 05:37

It's a toss up between the time I dropped a mug of tea down the stairs or the time I tripped over whilst carrying a Chinese takeaway on a plate. I was finding rice for weeks.

BulletFox · 28/10/2017 05:44

Babyname I can't believe you got away with that! Ingenuity and hard work at its finest!

CountDuckulaTheSqueaky · 28/10/2017 06:09

PickAChew I was in the delivery room, the midwife was examining me, I coughed and showered her with amniotic fluid! Sorry Lauren, if you're reading this! Halloween Blush

LakieLady · 28/10/2017 06:23

When I had campylobacter, I was walking to the bathroom to empty the bowl of vomit I had produced over the previous hour when, with absolutely no warning, I projectile vomited with such force that it went from the doorway to the far wall, all over the bog cistern, towels on towel rail, and some of it even ended up in the bath.

After some more violent barfing and an hour or so of lying down, I started to feel a little better and was on my hands and knees trying to clear it up (it had even gone down the walls, ffs). A tiny fart emitted from my arse, followed, most unexpectedly, by what looked like at least a gallon of vile-smelling diarrhoea.

I was dry-heaving from the smell, and the lower half of my body was covered in it. I cried and cried.

I didn't know what to do first, get in the shower or try and clear up the floor. It was beyond vile, and I had to throw away the nicest dressing gown I have ever owned. I swear it took me a week longer to recover because I was so knackered afterwards.

When the then DH came home and I told him about it, he found it hilarious. I think that was when I decided to LTB.

Bohemond · 28/10/2017 06:25

A pheasant flew through our kitchen window and into the larder. She was being chased by a male and smashed straight through the window spraying glass everywhere and then, sadly, her own blood as she flapped around dazed. I was not in and, fortunately DS was napping, so nothing more than an almighty mess for DH to clear up and deal with the pheasant in the only way possible. It took him 3 hours and we still find bits of glass in random places.

BulletFox · 28/10/2017 06:32

Was the pheasant ok? That must have been an aggressive suitor

Bohemond · 28/10/2017 06:37

Sadly DH had to off her bullet. Sorry, I can’t think of a pleasant way of putting that at 6am. He didn’t want her to suffer any more or make any further mess! We live next to a shoot and, for some reason, they finished the season with lots of males and very few females. As you can imagine, the females were in very high demand and constantly chased around poor things.

Rebeccaslicker · 28/10/2017 09:48

Wow the bathroom ceiling and the fountain of vomity poo and the pheasant - I'm thinking I got away really lightly!!

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headinhands · 28/10/2017 10:05

lollipop one to tell on his wedding day!

TheWhyteRoseShallRiseAgain · 28/10/2017 10:30

Tinysarah almost identical but caused by DH's foot as he climbed up on the worktop beside to reach something on the cupboard top above Halloween Blush

noexperiencenecessary · 28/10/2017 19:36

I dropped my (ceramic) toothbrush holder into my bathroom sink. The sink smashed but the toothbrush holder didn't. Hmm

Ontheboardwalk · 28/10/2017 19:49

Love this thread!

I took out the inner oven door to clean the inside/in between bit of the glass. Knocked it slightly and the whole thing exploded into a billion pieces. I was finding bits on top of cupboards weeks later. I've not cleaned the inside/in between bit of the glass since!

One tip is using a slice of bread to pick up the tiny bits. You think you've got it all but there are still tiny bits of the feckers hanging around.

wheeltrims · 28/10/2017 20:51

Today I spent literally hours making a very posh and daftly complicated fish pie only to drop it fully upside down on the filthy inside of the oven door as I was putting it into the oven.

Did a silly flounce and left my husband to attempt to rescue it and clean up the mess.

In good news it still tasted good but was a right old mess and significantly smaller than planned as a fair bit got chucked that whacked the mucky door.

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