To ask if you can top this level of disgusting teenage remains?

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DCs leaving on camp tomorrow. 2 weeks. They've gone for the last 6+ years. Tents, sleeping bags, backpacks all pretty much sorted out by now.

Teen no 1 brings down his rucksack for packing, exclaims that it stinks. I open the various pockets and find... Reader, I'm serious, this is not a joke. He'd brought back a pack of "rind bacon" - which by now (a year later, no refrigeration) was pretty much liquid, and his rucksack was crawling with maggots!!!! EWWWW!!!!

No. No I can't.

I really hope you didn't try to salvage it

Just ask him to deal with it, or can you burn it in the garden. Mold or ants would be ok,but never ever maggots,

Hope you made him deal with it. There a great lesson in there for him

DS2 systematically composts his lunch in his school backpack. It gets gradually heavier over the term and then we have a holiday reveal of up to 21 (at max count) ziplock bags of multicoloured, mouldy or liquid sandwiches, quiches, pies and fruit. The washing machine hides its eyes now when it sees his backpack coming.

Wow, that's disgusting.

I think mine is almost as bad, if not worse - when my sister was a teen, she was unwell in bed for a couple of days. My parents took up food and drink for her, which she didn't always eat. But rather than leave it where they could see it, or take it down herself when she was better, she shoved it under the bed.
She was dreadful at taking down mugs and plates anyway, often found mould-coated mugs of half drunk tea or coffee in her room!
She was also terrible for leaving clothes and damp towels on her floor, rather than picking them up.

Anyway - I was in my own room when she came screaming down from hers begging for help - she'd lifted up a towel (miraculous!) and found maggots on her floor underneath it, couldnt deal with it and wanted me to - turns out that one of the plates she'd shoved under her bed had been a chicken piece, which had then had eggs laid on it by a random fly, which hatched and the maggots were all over the carpet under the bed and the towels and clothes on the floor. Lovely!

I made her take the chicken plate downstairs and then vacuumed up all the maggots - bleugh! (No I can't remember if I then emptied the vacuum bag, I expect I did but I don't remember that bit!)

Disgusting.

If that pack has been in your house this past year, you have no choice but to burn it to the ground.

oh god this has made me hold my belly button and get that lumpy I want to be sick feeling in my neck!
throw the rucksack.
please tell me your chucking the rucksack.

I found an apple core and a bowl of soup with a bit of bread stuck in it in my son's room, buried and obscured by other things, that might have been there for years........though it didn't walk away.

Surely the sleeping bag should have been washed when it came back the last time? To store it away unwashed is a bit gross.