Found something DISGUSTING in my clean washing

[Millenialmom]

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

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

The worst smell I ever had was from a dead rat in my store. Poisoned, crispy on the outside but still wet on the inside. The smell lingered for weeks. I ended up binning the entire box of stock.
Image of dead rat enclosed...

Work in a laboratory. Once had a bad smell getting gradually worse, especially in hot weather which we assumed was the drains so called maintenance out to sort it. Several visits from DynoRod later the smell was still there.

We racked our brains and it eventually dawned on us it was the cell-washer, a machine used for 'cleaning' blood. If it doesn't drain properly you get a build up of stagnant water and decomposing blood cells so it we called the manufacturers out to service it. We made the engineer service it, scrub all the parts clean and flush it through twice just be certain. Smell still there.

Only weeks later, when staff were being sick with the smell, by chance one of us opened a cupboard under the benches and found a carrierbag containing trainers that one of the ladies wore for her on-call weekends and had forgotten about. She has never lived it down.

Came back from a fortnight's holiday to my shared flat. Godawful smell coming from the kitchen. Investigated, lifted some plates out of the sink, and found that not only had my flatmate vomited there and not cleaned it up, there was also a dead mouse that had expired trying to get out. She had been gone for a while staying with her parents and had just left it. She had an alcohol problem which I was sorry for, but as I cleaned it all up that was when I decided I had to move...

My neighbour’s cat balances on their fence and craps into the hanging baskets below, not obvious until neighbour checks how dry the compost is….😵‍💫🤢
It also crochet over the edge of the bath, washbasin, kitchen sink etc.

@teaandtoastwithmarmite that reminds me of when I bought a tray of tinned dog food from a supermarket, two tins were a bit dented so the store knocked some money off. A hot day, car sat in the sun while I was at work.
8 hours later, got in the car, appalling stench, I opened the boot and maggots were dripping off the underside of the parcel shelf, crawling over everything in the boot. The smell was vomit-inducing.
I drove to the store and three people came out to see.
The dented tins had exploded, clearly already had fly eggs in them despite looking intact.
The staff cleaned everything out, multiple apologies, given replacement tins and a gift voucher.

oh my christ

you just reminded me that I put a poo bag with poo in it in my dog walking bag a couple of days ago

When my sister and me were little, there was a smell emanating from our bedroom.

Mum cleaned it out a few times trying to find the increasingly stinky smell.

Narrowed it down to our built in wardrobe. She had it all out and nothing to be found. The wardrobe backed on to neighbours house.

Few days later she saw a load of fly's around our NDN's window.

They had gone on holiday a few weeks previously and unfortunately there had been a few power cuts (70's). There freezer had 4 whole chickens stuffed in that had defrosted and somehow the door opened.

She managed to contact neighbours who were not due home for another few weeks. They got a family member to go and check and my mum helped her clean it out. She vomited quite a few times and we didn't have roast chicken for Sunday dinner for at least 10 years. 😂😂😂

She did apologise for accusing us of being disgusting though. 😁

Have NC for this.
DH and I in kitchen making toast. We heard a squeak and then there was a burning smell.....mouse toasted. Took the toaster into the garden and shook out the toasted mouse. Still using the toaster and DH still ate the toast. Not told our DC.

As a child parents rented an old house while we we're between house purchases.
DF noticed the cold tap in the kitchen seemed to be blocked. When he removed the tap there bits of dead mouse in the plumbing. On inspecting the tanks in the loft (with dead mice in it), it appeared that the cold water in the kitchen came from the loft tanks and directly from the main. A lid was put on the tank but we all felt 🤢. This would be early 1970s.

The slugs / snails will be moving across the room in the night.
If you go down about 2am you will probably see them.
We find the culprit slugs in our kitchen when we get in late.

I was having my kitchen renovated and had packed up all my kitchen things and stored in the garage. Once the kitchen was finished and everything put back where it belonged there appeared a really bad smell, like rotting food. It turns out that I hadn't checked if the cast iron lidded casserole dish had been washed before picking it up off the cooker and storing it in the garage. It was full of dry rotting casserole and mould. I now check everything with a lid before putting it away just in case.

I was in a Spanish lesson at school once and my school bag smelt to high heaven.
Turns out my mum had borrowed it and there was my brothers stinking nappy in the side pocket :/

Used to keep some pet hens at our stable yard. I thought one dear old girl had stopped laying, but no, she had decided to keep her eggs safe by laying them under the henhouse, and then wandering off and going about her business.

When it came to moving the henhouse to its winter quarters, we found about 40 eggs that had probably been festering all summer. DH carefully slid a shovel underneath them like the unexploded bombs they were, and then hurled them onto the muck heap. Like the idiot he is. Eggs promptly broke.

Oh My God, the smell just poured out, completely overpowering the relatively wholesome muckheap aroma, it smelt like satan's arse. It really made your eyes water. I made DH climb up and bury the ex-eggs in manure. Which helped, but it was vile, until the muckman came and took the heap away. He said what the hell have you been feeding these ponies?

It's literally just a photo of maggots!

How do the foxes get the eggs though? My MIL finds empty eggshells in her garden, broken in half and has seen foxes eating egg from a broken shell.

She reckons that someone local must be putting eggs out for them. The shells have a lion mark on them, so the eggs definitely come from a shop rather than a neighbour's chickens.

OK, here's one.

There'd been a bit of a funny smell coming from the kitchen, but thinking nobody had opened it in a while I dismissed a particular drawer as the cause.
The smell got REALLY bad overnight, it was summer so hot. Awful.
I just knew it had to be that drawer.
So I opened it and inside was a dead rat covered in maggots. Some already forming into flies.
I just froze. I honestly had to go upstairs and mentally steel myself for the job ahead.
I was the only one at home so I had to deal with it unaided.
I eventually got a pair of rubber gloves, a black sack, some vicks up my nose and tossed everything into it onto the lawn. (The job didn't seem so bad if outside when I had to retrieve some items from the drawer later.)

Everything got disinfected.

Horrible. My cat is an efficient killer but I've no idea how the rat got inside that drawer.

Dead rats seem to be popular.

When I feed my snakes I always check they haven't regurgitated their rats after finding one stinking away once.

We went on holiday for just over 2 weeks. DP accidently turned off the freezer before leaving. It sink the entire house out on our return.

My car was getting worn out & I'd arranged to go & see another one as a private sale. As I drove there, I noticed an unpleasant smell & I thought something must've happened to my car but I couldn't think what. The smell lingered when I arrived but I couldn't do anything except try out the car which in the end I didn't buy.

I got home & found the cause of the smell: an animal poo on my drive. There's a CCTV camera over the drive so I checked & yes, there I was putting a shoe straight in it as I walked to my car to go to the appointment. I had no idea at the time & now I felt so embarrassed at the thought of turning up smelling of poo & putting it over the carpet & pedal of the rather lovely car I tried out. I cleaned up my own car & that got rid of the smell, thank goodness.

I also checked the CCTV to see what had left the poo. It was a fox.

Had a lodger.

We went away on holiday for three weeks, first time ever.

Got back in the middle of a heatwave to find that she'd fucked off on a 'last minute break', having left every single pan I owned at least two thirds full of cooked pasta, Kraft Mac and Cheese pasta with extra pasta, a plate of half eaten pasta, one serving dish of bolognese, two half eaten kebabs and four mugs (which were mine as well) where she'd had Pot Noodles and Pasta Mugshots topped up to the brim with water to 'let them soak'.

And she'd left her bedroom door open, which was how we realised her usual technique of dealing with washing was to wear things until they smelled, put them in a bin bag and buy some more (I'd offered free use of the washing machine and she'd declined, saying that she preferred to use the launderette round the corner). And then put still partially full pizza and burger boxes between the layers of stacked up bin bags.

When we opened the door, I thought she'd died in there.

She rolled back in through the door a week later saying that she thought she was going to be back before we came home.

She wasn't our lodger for long after that - although her saying 'But I wasn't sleeping here - I don't have to pay rent for that, do I? I'm broke now' had a lot to do with that.

My ex and I came back from 2 weeks away and there was a weird, slightly unpleasant smell in the house that we initially put down to it having been all locked up and unventilated for a while. However, we noticed that the smell got worse whenever we were running hot water, and discovered that the smell was actually coming from the boiler.

We called the plumber, and when he took the front off the boiler he discovered a fossilised mouse stuck to a bit inside.

When I was little we were moving states in the middle of an Australian summer. My (dickhead) bil had been fishing and put a fish in the empty, clean and turned off fridge. Movers came, loaded up. Three days later my mum opened the fridge...
Also fridge related, my mum came and stayed over Christmas, was staying three days, so she had perishables in there,it snowed so she stayed longer. Her fridge died, central heating pumping away. We took her back, the smell hit us as we opened the door.

I was visiting my mum and had asked my husband to take the chicken out the freezer to defrost for that nights dinner. I meant the chicken breasts. I ended up taking not well and was at my mums for a few days so chicken long forgotten about. A few days later I get home to the most disgusting stench ever. Couldn't work it where it was coming from. Each night after work I was scrubbing that kitchen clean. Till at least another week later I used the microwave (very rarely used microwave) to discover that is where my husband had left the chicken to defrost. However he hadn't taken out chicken breasts. Oh no, he'd taken out a full frozen chicken which had now BALLOONED in size in the microwave. It was purple and green and honestly the worst thing I've ever seen or smelt. The whole thing, including the microwave was immediately binned.

I worked at a school where we had story sacks that the children could borrow to take home. One of the parents helped me out each week by checking the returned ones to see everything was there. One day she brought one over saying it didn't smell very good. I smelt it and it distinctly smelt of cat wee. I spoke to the parent of the child who had just borrowed it to be told that their cat had died on it!! They clearly hadn't noticed, or didn't care and had just brought it back, I had to bin the whole story sack. Gross!

A few years ago, mid red- hot summer, most horrific smell from kitchen. We hunted high and low for WEEKS. We had everything out, looked behind everything, bleached everything, took all the plumbing apart- nothing. The smell was getting so bad no one wanted to use the kitchen.

One day i noticed the smell was worse in the store cupboard where we had tins of beans, soup, pasta ect. Thought that was odd as there was nothing unsealed in there.

Pulled everything out and found a tin of corned beef that had been pierced at the top and had left a tiny hole.The smell coming from it was utterly biblical. Went straight in the bin. Had to air the kitchen for nearly a week to get rid of the smell. Put me off corned beef for life....