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To ask you for the most stupid household domestic idiocy

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MyKingdomForACaramel · 28/03/2019 21:33

Dh put a wash on yesterday- couldn’t find the wash gel lid thingy (that you would put the gel in). So instead used a flglass ramekin!!!
Yes he really put a glass ramekin full of washing liquid in the washing machine...

Please tell me I’m not alone...

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LittleSF · 29/03/2019 12:55

Was living alone at the time, made myself a tuna pasta bake in a casserole dish. Had one portion, planned to have the leftovers the next day. Put the casserole dish in the grill for the leftovers to cool rather than straight in the fridge and forgot about it... for over a week!

Opened the grill and was floored (literally!) by the smell. It was horrendous. Can't look at tuna since.

Mrsjayy · 29/03/2019 12:59

When i first got my dishwasher i smeared fairy liquid on the bottom of a few d7rtyvpans and put in a tablet and clicked it on yeah don't do that soo many bubbles

cantfindname · 29/03/2019 13:02

OH wanted cheese on toast liberally dashed with Worcester sauce. No problem, easy-peasy, so why was he screwing up his face as he ate it? Errr.. possibly someone has picked up the bottle of soy sauce by mistake. It wasn't nice.

faw2009 · 29/03/2019 13:03

My mum once switched off the freezer at the mains and went on holiday. My poor brother went to check in on the flat to find it swarming with flies and stinking of rotten meat!

My DH left a can of coke in the freezer overnight - it exploded at some point with a force that pushed open the freezer door.

CaptainButtock · 29/03/2019 13:04

I recently cleaned all our windows with limescale remover.

Worked tho... Confused

Mrsjayy · 29/03/2019 13:09

I put soy and woster sauce on different shelves now because of a bolognaise soy incidentBlush

I caught my mum polishing (with pledge) her laminate floor i had been wondering why it was so slippy

FluffyKittenss · 29/03/2019 13:09

think alot of people have done this before, Hubby put washing up liquid in the dishwasher. Shock bubbles, bubbles everywhere.

His name is now bubbles. (3 years on)

FluffyKittenss · 29/03/2019 13:10

@makingmammaries Grin hahaha, that is the best i've heard yet!

Hadalifeonce · 29/03/2019 13:15

After a day out, I came home to DH saying the children were a nightmare as they wouldn't eat the pudding I left them, confused as I hadn't left a pudding, he assured me he had made custard to go with the apple turnover, which was in fact, a cheese and ham turnover. apparently they don't go well with custard.

youknowmedontyou · 29/03/2019 13:17

My DH genuinely did the only fools and horses mistake of making coffee with instant gravy instead of coffee granules and taking a huge drink of it! 🤮🤮

knitandpearl · 29/03/2019 13:19

I poured two tablespoons of sesame oil into a sauce rather than maple syrup. Gross.
Also i regularly shake half a bottle of chili flakes into the pan - blinking ocado chili flakes bottle that doesn't have a 'sprinkler' bit on the top!

GrouchyKiwi · 29/03/2019 13:20

I'm crying at some of these.

Worst thing I've done lately is forget about the broccoli I'd cooked in the microwave the night before going to NZ for three weeks. When we got home I spent about an hour going over the house looking for the decomposing animal before opening the microwave to reheat my (much-needed) coffee. The smell! We had to get a new microwave, the smell was imbedded.

proudestofmums · 29/03/2019 13:21

Not screwing on the top of the coffee grinder tightly enough - I had no idea ground coffee beans could spread so far

Dexra · 29/03/2019 13:23

Putting foil in the microwave, causing a small fire. Not washing out the filthy grill pan, and causing a larger fire. And turning on a gas hob when there were oven gloves sitting on it, causing another fire.

FiveLittlePigs · 29/03/2019 13:27

I tried to soften butter in the microwave and popped it in, still in the foil wrapper which promptly caught fire.

DP stood there and said if I hadn't actually seen you do that I would never have believed you just did that!

Mental note: take the butter out of the fridge in good time. Grin

PabloTescobar · 29/03/2019 13:37

@LittleSF Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!! However did you get rid of the smell?!? Shock Shock Shock

PotterHead1985 · 29/03/2019 13:39

Stitches Grin I am in stitches.

Let's see. First the Mammy:
1 put the grill on when I was a kid eating my breakfast - for toast - then needed the loo. I looked up from my cereal to see flames. Headed up to tell her it was on fire. She came down and thru the first thing on it - her brand new towel! Turns out she'd done rashers for tea the day before!!

2 she got them hob covers and turned the hob on under them!!

3 left my new glass lasagne pan on the hob and again turned it on

4 recently it was plastic bowls on the hob - the stink and black smoke in the house!!

Me:
1 as a kid I didn't cop and put a shit tonne of sugar on my maccy d fries!

2 blended up a whole watermelon. Unscrewed the blender from the base but for some reason the blendy part stayed attached, just the jug came away and blended watermelon all over the kitchen Blush

EngagedAgain · 29/03/2019 13:45

I once tried 'warming up' in the microwave mint sauce that had been in the fridge. I wasn't completely stupid 😬 - I only timed it for 10 seconds. However without warning in a few seconds it had splattered all over the interior. My mistake was not covering it. Also, recently I tried heating canned potatoes (I did put into glass dish with lid on). Not long and there was a very loud bang, and before I got to it another. One potato had exploded!

EngagedAgain · 29/03/2019 13:48

I've got loads really, but another one was similar to a pp whereby I left something in a casserole dish for weeks, and when I took lid off the whole thing was filled with green mould. Made me jump!

BillywigSting · 29/03/2019 13:50

I have gone through my fair share of bialetti coffee pots too. My current one has an only slightly melted handle and a new rubber washer. Took a bit of scrubbing to get all the bits off mind you.

I'll never be converted though, they make the best espresso. I fill the bottom of mine with water from the kettle now so I don't wander off and let it burn, it's much quicker.

Do occasionally forget that it will be scorching hot when screwing the top on. A painful lesson still not learned.

SunshineCake · 29/03/2019 13:51

Pouring rice down a sink is pretty stupid. What were you thinking ? Confused.

OhTheRoses · 29/03/2019 13:55

Left three eggs boiling and forgot. Sulphuric explosion. Had to polyfill and repaint ceiling.

Unexpected visited and whacked fpur dirty plates and beautiful handled cutlery in oven as an instant tidy. Days later switched oven on to heat up. Smell of burning plastic and melted cutlery handles.

DD heated milk in a kettle aged 11.

BillywigSting · 29/03/2019 13:55

Another one, when ds was a baby, microwaving his dinner when he was weaning (pasta sauce or something similar).

Took it out to give it a stir and put it back in with the metal spoon still in the bowl.

The microwave was ancient. Used to be my nanas, so about 15 years old or so.

It didn't just go on fire. It exploded. A hole had also been melted into the glass turntable.

I thought a bomb had gone off it was so loud

EngagedAgain · 29/03/2019 13:59

Ps, also the potato exploding went everywhere because the force lifted the glass lid up!

Footloose80 · 29/03/2019 14:00

Disposable nappy in the washing machine. As bad as a tissue.