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Found something DISGUSTING in my clean washing

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Millenialmom · 06/09/2023 22:40

went to put a tshirt on my DS this morning and it was a bit stinky. Put it back in the bag with the other clean washing and went on with the day.

We’ve just Spent a week in Cornwall but I washed and dried most of our clothes before we left so it was a carrier bag containing clean clothes belonging to DS.

the more I looked into the bag the worst the smell got. It stank of rotting fish.

I got to the bottom to find a carrier bag of DDs rocks and shells from the beaches containing 2 mussels which must’ve been alive when they went in but were open and rotting in the 27 degree weather we’ve had for the last few days since returning.

mortified that it’s been sat in my room for days and the smell was horrific Blush

please feel free to share anything disgusting you’ve found to make me feel less gross about my find!!

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MonumentalLentil · 07/09/2023 09:22

MarchingOnTogether · 07/09/2023 08:53

We have the same with snail trails! Never any sign of them in the house (found a few in the back garden when it rains)
Had to wipe dds school shoes this morning before she saw them as she'd probably refuse to wear them if she did 🤣
It's always near the front door, there's a gap under the front door where the pvc trim doesn't meet the floor. There's bricks behind it and no draft so we've not rushed to sort it but there must be a tiny gap where they can squeeze in and out during the night!

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The cowboys that added the extension to this house left a gap in the floor at the back of one of the kitchen cupboards. When it rains or the outside tap drips I find slugs in the kitchen.
A while back we had a leaky hose on one of the appliances and it was a while before we found out, it accounted for the army of slugs that would come in at night.
I would go down halfway throught the night and put them all out (at the front so they had a long journey to get back). I have a piece of thin plastic that I pick them up with. I now ensure the dhishwasher is closed at night after removing one from the inside of the door, and finding a squashed one on the top of the door, nicely heated up and dried. Also removed a few from the outside of the dishwasher. Washing machine is of no interest to them but the dishwasher is closest to the hole in the floor.

Legale · 07/09/2023 09:22

Searching for conkers with my parents as a young child on a frosty day and found a huge one. Carried it around for hours, couldn't wait to get it home. It was only when my mum opened a carrier bag for me to put my stash in that she realised and informed me I'd been carrying a slightly solidified dog poo around all day... in my bare hand. 😣

isthismylifenow · 07/09/2023 09:23

newmama311 · 07/09/2023 09:17

Washed a cockroach the other day it was in my suitcase washing bag; found it when home. It survived the wash

They are amazing yet also dreadful creatures.

PureAmazonian · 07/09/2023 09:26

Had a couple mice in our house. Put a humane trap down, which I'd check each morning and then take them to the fields next to the house and let them go. After 4/5 days there weren't anymore mice, kept checking for a few days more and nothing. So assumed they had all be caught....fast forward a few weeks and there was a smell in a certain area in our house, and I couldn't pinpoint what this smell was. I would only get a whiff of it every now and again. Then one day I thought it smells a bit like a dirty hamster cage......😳 checked the trap and there was indeed an EXTREMELY dead mouse in there. I check the trap daily again now. So far no mice for about 2 months! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Millenialmom · 07/09/2023 09:33

Yikes! Some of these are grim 🤢 thank you 😂

I feel slightly better about my stinky ‘clean’ washing. I’m just glad I found it when I did before the smell seeped into the bedrooms!

OP posts:
CharlotteBog · 07/09/2023 09:34

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 07/09/2023 06:53

Mrs Grumpy emptied the pockets of her dressing gown before washing it once and discovered a desiccated back end of a mouse. We could only assume that one of the cats had half eaten it, popped it somewhere safe for later and then forgotten about it

That should be the reason clothes makers use for not putting pockets in so many women's clothes!

VintageBlossomHill · 07/09/2023 09:40

Briandouglas · 07/09/2023 05:57

I once walked around all day wearing boots. One felt a bit funny but I just thought they were getting a bit small… got home took them off and a VERY dead mouse fell out of one! Thankyou cat for that.

Oh my goodness 😂😂

PeacockHat · 07/09/2023 09:55

This thread is not a great recommendation for pet ownership! And I say that as a someone who's always owned pets.

VintageBlossomHill · 07/09/2023 09:56

My DH has a really annoying habit of walking into the house and swigging from any drink sitting around. We also used to drink lots of pure apple juice in our house as I was told it was good for my asthmatic child.

I was heavily pregnant with twins and we were in the middle of renovating our house and had no bathroom for a few days. I was bathing my 2 year old daughter in the kitchen sink and she said she needed a pee. I couldn’t face lifting her and negotiating through the rubble to the loo so I just let her stand up and pee in a disposable cup. Not wanting to leave her alone in the sink I left the cup sitting on kitchen worktop to dispose of afterwards.

DH came home and rushed in chattering about something and quick as a flash lifted the cup and downed the ‘drink’. I’ll never forgot my little girls face. She looked so disgusted, stared at him and said “Eewww Daddy drank my pee”. He nearly took a fit and was going mental about it but myself and DD could not stop laughing for hours.

EsmesRedPetticoat · 07/09/2023 10:03

We were cooking tea one night and DH noticed something wriggling on the floor. On closer examination, it turned out to be a maggot. We thought “oh that’s weird, cat must have brought it in attached to himself by accident”. Then DH saw something fall out of the corner of his eye. It was, in fact, maggots falling through the light fitting in the kitchen ceiling. We have a single storey kitchen extension so DH went up into the roof space and found a very very dead rat squeezed into a roll of un-used roof insulation and a lot of maggots wriggling around. It took days to get rid of all the maggots and then clear out the rest of the insulation and more dead rats. Turned out a neighbour had put down poison when they spotted a rat but the nest was in our roof 🤮

HowNice23 · 07/09/2023 10:07

If you've ever looked at the back of a fridge you'll know there's often open parts at the bottom with wires cables and the cooling bits. Now imagine hundreds of mouse poos all over and inside the crevices. Had to drag it outside to hose them off. I've a strong stomach but it was horrendous. We are now thankfully mouse free.

Parapapampam · 07/09/2023 10:10

I moved into a new house, the entire place needed gutting as it was in such a bad state.

The worst bit, previous owner had a lot of pets, which she apparently just let go to the loo everywhere, (I did rip out all carpets etc!!) in the garden there was a wall with missing bricks, each of these spaces had been filled in with dog poo 😶

CharlotteBog · 07/09/2023 10:12

EsmesRedPetticoat · 07/09/2023 10:03

We were cooking tea one night and DH noticed something wriggling on the floor. On closer examination, it turned out to be a maggot. We thought “oh that’s weird, cat must have brought it in attached to himself by accident”. Then DH saw something fall out of the corner of his eye. It was, in fact, maggots falling through the light fitting in the kitchen ceiling. We have a single storey kitchen extension so DH went up into the roof space and found a very very dead rat squeezed into a roll of un-used roof insulation and a lot of maggots wriggling around. It took days to get rid of all the maggots and then clear out the rest of the insulation and more dead rats. Turned out a neighbour had put down poison when they spotted a rat but the nest was in our roof 🤮

OMG, that made me heave.

Parapapampam · 07/09/2023 10:16

Also remember as a child, my sister used to eat oranges by piercing a hole in the skin, then sucking out all the juice. One time after sucking on it for a while, she declared it tasted a little funny, opened it up, it was fully black with mould.

whatsthesmeIl · 07/09/2023 10:22

I once had a really bad smell in my car, couldn't work out what it was at all but it was getting progressively worse. Decided to remove everything and give it a good clean and on undoing the seatbelt buckle for DS car seat I discovered a very dead bird wedged between the two!

AvocadotoastORahouse · 07/09/2023 10:27

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 07/09/2023 06:53

Mrs Grumpy emptied the pockets of her dressing gown before washing it once and discovered a desiccated back end of a mouse. We could only assume that one of the cats had half eaten it, popped it somewhere safe for later and then forgotten about it

Things like this is why I will never ever be a cat person. Bleurgh.

GolgafrinchamB · 07/09/2023 10:31

Terrible smell one summer in my 3 year old’s bedroom. It took ages to discover the source - a once-full sippy cup of milk on its side shovedin the dressing up box.

14 fancy dress costumes and 6 stuff toys with rancid milk over them. The washing line looked like a carnival!

NoSaladThanks · 07/09/2023 10:31

Once had a terrible stench that pervaded the whole house. Nothing would get rid of it and I tried everything.
The stench got so bad that I actually contemplated leaving home. It was eye watering.
It turned out to be two dead decomposing mice in my sons sleeping bag, which he had stored in the cupboard under the stairs.
We discovered it weeks later when he got it out to use it again.
The whole lot went straight in the bin.

NameChangeEmbarressed · 07/09/2023 10:31

A nappy with a solid shite in it. So there was poo and nappy crystals in my washing.

That was not fun to wash.

In your case I'd do a pre rinse for all the smelly clothes, then wash them with a bio powder and laundry cleanser to get rid of the smell. May take a few washes but it should go

NameChangeEmbarressed · 07/09/2023 10:34

TheHolyGrailSpeaks · 07/09/2023 06:48

We ate a load of prawns (the type you have to de-shell) and I told DH to put the empty shells, heads etc in a bin bag so they could go straight into the outside bin, which he did.

A couple of weeks later, there was an absolutely horrible smell in the living room, like a combination of rubbish dump and rotting corpses, which wouldn’t go no matter how much we aired the room. Eventually I found the source of the smell - the bin bag of old prawns under the sofa 🤮

Rotten potatoes also stink to high heaven as I once discovered (DH threw out or cleaned everything around them without spotting the problem 🙈)

Rotten potatoes are the worst.

We once returned home after a months holiday in the USA. Friends reliably told us we had a heat wave at home whilst we were away.

When we opened the front door this god awful stench just hit us and it got worse the more doors we opened. When we got the the kitchen it was so bad I couldn't be in there without retching. My husband went through all the cupboards and found a bag of potatoes that had been left behind the empty recycling caddy. It took ages to get rid of the stench and even now I buy potatoes loose and only as many as I'll use each time

BarrelOfOtters · 07/09/2023 10:36

Briandouglas · 07/09/2023 05:57

I once walked around all day wearing boots. One felt a bit funny but I just thought they were getting a bit small… got home took them off and a VERY dead mouse fell out of one! Thankyou cat for that.

Me too....little git of a cat.

TheGoddessFrigg · 07/09/2023 10:36

Im sorry but the maggots dropping out of the light fitting- I would have just move house.....

EsmesRedPetticoat · 07/09/2023 10:43

@TheGoddessFrigg ha ha we have moved since then (not because of that) but it wasn’t even the the last time we had rats in the kitchen roof! Not as bad as that incident though!

MrsALambert · 07/09/2023 10:44

This thread has made me feel sick and itchy in equal measure.

a couple of weeks ago I brought in the washing from the outside line, folded it up and put it away. A couple of days later i went to get a T-shirt out for DS and noticed a bit was stuck together at the front. Assumed I had washed it with a sticker on or something I pulled the fabric apart to see a freshly hatched maggot 🤢.
all washing now given a thorough shake when brought in from the line.

we had similar to the maggots in the light fitting at uni. A seagull had died in one of the air vents on the roof and maggots were falling from it into the auditorium. Rank.

UnctuousUnicorns · 07/09/2023 10:47

Oysterbabe · 07/09/2023 07:04

We were moving some patio furniture at the weekend and were hit with a horrific stench. Then we saw a decomposing rat that had been stuck underneath. I scooped it up with a spade and thousands of maggots spilled out of it on to the tiles. Absolutely thousands, must have stuffed full of them.

Oh. Ma. Gawd. 😱

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