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!!

Husband’s housemate went fishing and presumably drinking afterwards; forgot about the fish in a cool box… until they came to move out. He tipped it into the wheelie bin and it was collected by the bin men who remarked on the smell as liquid and maggots leaked out. You could smell it up and down the whole street, it was probably the worst smell I’ve experienced but wasn’t fishy, it was horrific.

I’ve also washed a poo when I was using washable nappies; that was rank and lingers.

And accidentally switched off the electricity (fridge/freezer) while on hols. And left a banana in the car at airport parking.

Found a dead mouse wedged in a gap beside furniture and another in my walking boots. Smelled across between fish and gas.

And my dad searched my room when I was a kid to find the source of a smell - a hard boiled egg I’d painted at school and left in my bag all Easter hols.

Thinking about it now I’m quite disgusting but not on purpose 😆

I opened our larder cupboard and was overcome with the smell of death.

Convinced there was a corpse inside, I tasked DH with emptying out the contents of the cupboard to find it.

Nothing to begin with during an initial look was found, the smell continued for three days. Stank to the point I couldn't even go in the kitchen.

Then, once he got around to emptying it, he found the culprit. He'd accidentally put an open bag of frozen raw prawns in the larder cupboard instead of back in the freezer (next to each other).

Oh my days, bloody organic King prawns too.

My son's socks after a long march at CCF camp. Truly horrific. I refused to touch them. Had my son put them in the washing machine.

Me neither! Such arseholes

Urgh we had similar, we lived near a river, and it was always full of nature. The car was parked around the corner from our house. We found a dead rat in the bonnet, cat was honking but we didn’t know why. only discovered when the car wouldn’t start and turns out the rats had fun chewing the bloody wirings.

At uni, in a shared house, where we had a cat (who came with me when we graduated)
Took my washing to the local lauderette. Bunged it in the dryers afterwards and saw something going round that I didn't recognise.
When the dryer finished I lifted out my washing... along with a very very dead, but perfectly clean and now fluffy bird that said cat had kindly left for me in my laundry bag

Am actually heaving reading this 🤢🤮🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

I’ve got a big thick winter coat, from Merrell, I put it in one day, in the winter and felt something wriggle on the shoulder, thought I was imagining it, then another wiggle. Yep a mouse had made a nest right in the body of the coat. Dog treats in the pocket had drawn it in and it had eaten a hole through the pocket. Worst thing was it wasn’t the only coat it had happened to! This happened ten mins before someone was due to view the house. I had to sling the coat in the shed and hope for the best!

@Fallingthroughclouds yes. People need to engage a bit of brainpower instead of being ignorant to everything but themselves.

I definitely don't fancy my last piece of chocolate now! 🤢

@SkySecret In that case, I'm sure you're the perfect mother which gives you the right to mum shame.

@Fallingthroughclouds nothing to do with mothers, just to do with people’s attitudes in general. Mother or otherwise.

I’ve got on that ultimately became a good story.

As a young teen (many years ago!) I was going through a tough time, including some bullying and overall deep self esteem problems, which culminated in an eating disorder.

Mum used to make myself and my brothers sandwiches for lunch to take to school which I wouldn’t eat. So, instead of being smart and throwing them away at school (I would have had to be sly about this as I didn’t want my friends realising I was skipping meals so often), for some reason 13 year old me thought it was a better idea to bring them back home in my school bag and stash them in various hiding places around the house; an old school bag at the bottom of my bed, down the side of the fridge etc!

Needless to say, one day Mum was tidying and came across one of the stashes…..slimy, green, decomposing sandwiches! This prompted her to do a full clear out of my room and the other places I had his them. The smell apparently was disgusting…did I mention they were tuna mayo?! I had just been dousing my room with body spray (O2 by Impulse, if that’s a giveaway of my age!) and I think had probably become nose blind to the smell over time.

Thankfully, this prompted a heart to heart with my Mum about what I was going through and she was able to get me the help I needed. Whilst I will never have an entirely healthy relationship with food, my weight and my body image, I don’t feel the need to hide what I am or am not eating, nor to weigh myself multiple times a day and feel much more confident in my own skin.

Our cat used to drop live mice into our shoes when he could get into our shoe cupboard because that was a great game. We regularly found dead mice in our shoes, but one time I picked up my shoe and saw something moving, thought 'oh this one's still alive'. but it was very dead and maggotty

Similar thing happened when I went to stay with a friend while her parents were away. I went to bed, shutting the windows and woke retching in the early hours to the most horrendous smell, which I eventually tracked to a loong dead mouse under the bed. I got rid of it with a lot of loo paper and then slept on the sofa

My mum bought a carton of eggs from a well known small supermarket and as we drove home we could smell the most revolting smell that was literally eye-watering. We wound up the car windows thinking that the farmers must be muck spreading. Back home, mum opened the egg box in the kitchen as the smell had followed us and most of the eggs were browny/black inside and crawling with maggots. The smell was indescribably bad and, over 40 years later, I can still vividly remember it unfortunately

That’s reminded me of another.

Moving from Surrey to Cornwall a few years back; we paid a company to pack up, do the move and then assemble furniture at the other end leaving the boxes for us to do.

Well, first day should have been 6 men to pack up 3 bed house from 9am. 2 arrived (and one of them left at lunchtime!) so it was a much slower process than it should have been, meaning next day when we should have been on the road mid morning, we were still packing boxes. Eventually got on road mid afternoon and arrived in Cornwall; unloaded vans and, after putting together the wardrobe, they left at 10pm 😱😱

Next day we started on unpacking boxes and moving those that were holding less important items were put in the relevant room and left till we had time to deal with them. One of the last lots of boxes to be dealt with were those from the kitchen cupboards and one of odds and sods that were in there - not crockery and pots & pans etc but dried foods, plastic containers type things. They had been in the utility room
of the new house for about 6 weeks before we
got round to sorting them out (we were still commuting between Surrey and Cornwall during that time so had only been using essentials). In one box we found the central heating control
box - that could have been awkward for new owner of house if we’d not found it as we moved October/November time! However, far worse was the 2L bottle of filtered milk which had been left on the side to make hot drinks during the packing up process - neatly wrapped in moving paper and in a box; 6 weeks later!! All I can say was I was glad it was cold in the utility room and winter as it had morphed into some sort of cheese substance and only stunk once you opened the lid!!

God knows what possessed that removals firm employee to do that with it and we’ll never find out. We left them a shocking review after things went missing (a small bag of interesting coins - commemorative 50p and £2) from a drawer; London Olympics 50p sealed in a presentation case bought as a momento - the case was there the coin was gone 😱 and because of how chaotic they made the whole move with their lack of crew on the first day and that it was so late by the time they left on the second day - we had suggested a 3 day process with them packing the house day 1, loading the vans and dismantling furniture day 2 leaving us just an air bed and other stuff that was staying for the last night and would fit in our car; then driving down first thing on day 3 before unloading but they were adamant that their timetable was fine!!

I was tidying up and felt something just down the back of the sofa. It was my nieces bottle of milk. It had been there for a few months and had worked its way back out to civilisation. The milk inside was a solid block surrounded by dirty brown water. Straight into the bin for it.

Another cat one ....a large dead pigeon under the sofa, mouse doing laps in the cat drinking water fountain, dessicated mouse in a chest of drawers, live bats flying around the kitchen and regular regurgitated rodent of unknown origin piles. Honestly would think it was a campaign to kill me from disgust if I had any life insurance fecking furry gremlins

I forgot about this 😂 I give you my then teenage daughter and yes I was studying microbiology at the time

This has happened to me too. Probably 15 years ago and I still shake my shoes before putting them on!

@TicTacNicNak Prawn "debris" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's tickled me

That did make me laugh .

We got back from a three week holiday as a kid and the kitchen absolutely reeked.
The stench was traced by mum to the under sink cupboard- an old style floorcloth that had been used to wipe up a smashed milk bottle had been left to solidify in a bucket.
Such a cheesy vile stench.

Returning from a trip to Amsterdam many years ago, put my hand in my leather biker jacket pocket back in England to find someone had put a mushy dog poo in my pocket. I shrieked out loud as my fingers pushed into the chilly softness.

{I had hung the jacket up in the Bluebird coffeeshop}

I was horrified that someone had done such a thing- and no poo bag either... til tentatively smelling my hand- and it was actually a rotten banana I'd bought and forgotten about while stoned.

As a child we had a cat who vomited what I thought was string under the breakfast table- You guessed it- Roundworms.

Ugh..Parents never thought to worm the cats we had til til then.

Chances are closed shells found high on the beach will be dead anyway.
Kids pick things up without their parents helicoptering over them.

It's a dead shellfish.

Cry me a river.