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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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TroubledTribble28 · 28/10/2017 20:55

When I was 18 I opened my skylight bedroom window to cool down but there was a huge storm outside and the window was ripped off the roof. There was a hole in my parents roof. The window landed millimetres from next doors Audi but they were absolutely lovely and fixed a board in place until it could be replaced Grin

repetitionrepetition · 28/10/2017 20:58

Argh this could sooooo easily happen in my bathroom. I’ve put those quirky corners of the sink which the door swings into. No one was hurt that’s the main thing!

SnugglySnerd · 28/10/2017 21:14

wheeltrims I had a similar problem when my quiche filling leaked out and cooked onto the bottom of the oven. I too left dh you sort it out while I sulked!

Whereareyougoingmouse · 28/10/2017 21:21

I reckon I am going to be the winner on this - when I was pregnant with DD I could smell a really horrible smell in our kitchen but couldn't work out where it was coming from. One evening when my DH was at work I was on a cleaning spree and was clearing the top of the fridge off (massive bump). I realised that the horrible smell was a can of half full cat food that had been left on top of the fridge (god knows why and for how long) As I struggled to get it down I accidentally knocked it off and the full contents including about 5 million maggots fell all over my kitchen 🤢🤢🤢 It makes me sick just thinking about it, the smell was horrendous and I was trying to clean it up on my own whilst puking in the sink!! Quite frankly THE WORST thing I've ever done

angelnix · 28/10/2017 21:22

Not me, but a close friend of mine worked as a waitress in your usual busy pub restaurant with hotel attached. One busy breakfast service, she was carrying the large tray of plates, cutlery, glasses etc down to the pot wash, slipped on the stairs, went flying and every single item on the tray was broken or damaged.

TroysMammy · 28/10/2017 21:23

Dropped a jar of runny honey on my kitchen floor.

Last weekend a bottle of pva glue and an angle poise lamp fell on my craft desk and when I came back to it a few hours later the lamp had broken the bottle of glue. It was had spread over my desk, dripped on the floor, luckily very old carpet which I cleaned it up with old pillowcases. I found out yesterday I got glue on my coat and need to wash it and am crossing my fingers it will come off.

mummymummums · 28/10/2017 21:29

I shook a tin of orange emulsion in my living room without holding the lid. Lid flew off and 2.5 litres of paint rained down on my head, all over my clothes and shoes, the settee, the carpet and everything else near.
The settee and carpet went to the dump. I remember my friend who was round and me just rooted to the spot staring at each other!

dementedma · 28/10/2017 21:39

Rancid cat food is probably the worst smelling thing ever!!! Add in the maggots and you win

Whereareyougoingmouse · 28/10/2017 21:47

Thankyou! I've won 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Weebo · 28/10/2017 21:59

DH and I had just moved into our first house and had been given a bunch of red wine by PIL as a housewarming gift.

I never drink red wine but Eurovision was on and I felt like making a night of it. I must have gotten carried away in the crappy pop music because I ended up drinking waaayyy more than I normally would.

Long story short I ended up turning our lovely new bathroom into a scene from the Shining. I got boke on the ceiling FGS.

I have no idea how I managed to clean it all up by myself but I was determined to hide all evidence from DH.

That ended up being a fruitless effort when he woke up the next morning and asked why the grout had turned pink overnight. We had to re-do it. Blush

Lindy2 · 28/10/2017 22:01

I had one of those Poundland travel neck pillows filled with tiny polystyrene beads in the car. A seam came undone and about a million tiny polystyrene balls escaped all around my car. It was like a scene from Frozen - the kids thought it was great. I really wasn't so amused, especially after over an hour of trying to hoover it all up. The balls get all static and stick to everything!

WhispersOfWickedness · 28/10/2017 22:02

Well, where to start? Grin

Funniest mess I ever saw was when I was on a work trip and we were being served a hot buffet lunch. The place we were eating was in a building that was a nightclub by night, so had a stage. One of the servers was carrying a large metal vat of baked beans and managed to trip, so the entire contents of the vat cascaded across the stage and down the front of it like a giant bean waterfall, it was marvellous Grin

Biggest mess I’ve had to clean up was when the cat managed to fall into some very wet mud of some sort and came home and covered the kitchen with it, about 10 mins before we were due to leave the house. In my wisdom, I decided that we would have to give the cat a shower to stop the mud getting elsewhere in the house, so enlisted DS to be the one wielding the shower hose while I held the cat. Results were that the bathroom looked like people had been mud wrestling in there and DS and I had to have a full change of clothes each. We weren’t late for school though Halo

Most expensive mess for a friend to sort out was when her new kitten pooed in a washing basket of wet washing. She didn’t notice and put the load in the tumble drier Envy Had to replace both clothes and tumble drier.

Weebo · 28/10/2017 22:12

Tumble dried cat crap. Nooooooooo!

DCat pooped on my bed once and used my sleep my to cover it up. Sad

I was mortally offended.

Weebo · 28/10/2017 22:13

^ Sleep mask.

Whoops.

PrimalLass · 29/10/2017 00:12

Ours did that too the other day. Thank goodness it was safety glass.

SnugglySnerd · 29/10/2017 05:31

I accidentally washed a nappy in the washing machine once. That made a lot of mess!

donajimena · 29/10/2017 06:11

I was staying at my parents so they could look after my 8 month old while I went out for a few drinks. When I got home I was merry and so was my dad. I put the baby's 11pm dream feed bottle in the microwave to take the chill off.
Now, I am aware that the advice is not to do that but my microwave at home has a digital setting. 30 seconds and a good shake was absolutely fine.
My parents however only had a timer dial so you have to put it on for 5 mins to get it to actually work.
We forgot about it until we heard an almighty bang. The bottle pressure had built up so much that it pushed the teat clean out of the rim, blew the lid off and blew the microwave door open.
There was milk everywhere. We had to perform a gargantuan clean up task before my tired, sober mother came into the kitchen as she would have had a meltdown. It even took some of the plaster off the ceiling.
We both calmly sat down in the lounge 15 mins later and my mum said to my dad 'Colin, what on earth is on your glasses?'
In our panic we'd not noticed his eyesights lucky escape as his glasses were covered in spots of dry milk. I think he muttered something about 'no idea'

CountDuckulaTheSqueaky · 29/10/2017 08:44

It's like Daddy Pig hanging the picture! Halloween Grin

BBTHREE76 · 30/10/2017 00:35

When the Wii games console first came out, we got DD one for Xmas. My brother went on the bowling game with DD and "bowled" but forgot that he was holding a bowl of trifle. Cue trifle up the lounge wall, ceiling, curtains and DD.

Peachypeaches · 30/10/2017 01:57

Staying at my mum's house. She had taken the dog out for a walk, and my DS somehow fumbled and dropped a very full bowl of Cheerios with milk on the kitchen floor. It went everywhere, floor, walls and cupboards were covered. My mum hates mess, so we did the world's fastest clean up to get rid of the evidence, then sat on the sofa 'relaxing' just as my mum came home. Thought we'd got away with it until she went into the kitchen to put the kettle on, then called out to me 'why are there Cheerios stuck on the kitchen ceiling?' Grin

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