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!!

I used to work in teaching and over easter one of the boys in my year 6 class left a banana in his tray.

By the time we returned it had liquified and there were hundreds of Maggots and flies

We started to smell something a bit rank in the dining room. Couldn't figure it out at all. Came home from work after a hot day. Opened the dining room door and the room was a swarm of flies. Thousands. Was horrific like a horror movie.

Turned out a poor bird had got trapped in the chimney. Fireplace was blocked up but not enough to block the maggots fly swarm. We went through several Henry hoover bags getting rid of the infestation

I have a shellfish story too!

I couldn’t work out why my porch was smelling rancid. Checked all the shoes for dog poo. Cleaned it out entirely. Stumped. Tried all kinds of odour neutralisers and it still smelled rank. After weeks, I went to give my son (aged about 7 at the time) his rain coat as we were going for a walk and the skies were overcast. Out of habit, I emptied the pockets, which are often full of treasures and sweet wrappers. Yep. There it was. A stack of shells clamped together with the most malodorous whiff emanating from it. His collection from the beach must have had one or two alive without anyone knowing.

Lesson learned: always check their pockets.

Years ago when I was single and carefree and living in London I had a lovely black suede handbag. Went out after work with my then boyfriend and we’d had a lovely snog at the end of the night.

Following morning kept getting a terrible whiff and finally realised it was coming from my lovely bag. When I had kissed my boyfriend good night I popped my bag down and then realised it’d been in a puddle. Not a puddle of water as it turned out. My lovely suede bag stank of piss.

Ever since that night I refuse to put a bag on the floor. I sit like a pensioner with my bags on my lap at all times!

When my daughter was a child she had a carved pumpkin for Halloween. Many weeks later her room began to smell really bad. Unknown to me she had kept the pumpkin in her wardrobe until it went rotten.

When dd was in primary she went off in the morning with her rucksack but all day she said her bag smelt weird and even got her friend to sniff it incase she was imagining it.
when she got home I had a good whiff - bloody cat must have pissed on it overnight - I tried to wash it in the machine but the stench was too embedded and it had to be chucked! Was so annoyed as it was a bargain from Tx max that 9 yr old DD actually approved of!!

I grew up on a farm so my childhood was riddled with this kind of misery. One clear memory was walking over the muck heap (giant mountain of fermenting cow shit for spreading on fields) in my wellies. Got completely stuck and could not move. Had to lift my feed out of the boots and walk in socks through the shite to get out. The smell was horrific and shit felt so horrible between my toes.
Another time me and my brother were playing in the river on a scorching day. Diving, splashing, no doubt swallowed gallons of river water. At which point my dad turned up and pointed out a decaying sheep in the water just upstream. 😔
Oh and last year the cat had it's dinner then promptly sat on the warm radiator and puked it all up down the back of it. That was a massive job getting it down, cleaned and back up again.

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As a kid I collected shells at the beach and I didn’t say but I only wanted / collected the closed ones. Put them in a custard cream packet. They all opened in the night - it was gross. My dad took them back to the sea. So I could have done the same to my parents if it makes you feel any better. We’re off to the seaside next week with our toddlers - I’ll be on high alert for karma!

My husband found a dead bird in the garden and stuck it straight in the outside bin, without bagging it up securely . I didn’t know he had done this until a few days later when I opened the lid and was greeted by a cloud of bluebottles, a seething army of maggots all over the contents.🤢 The maggots spilled out all over the patio and the stench was heave inducing.🤢 Had to spray the bin inside and out with fly spray to kill everything, before donning gloves to rebag the contents. Ended up power washing the bin and patio to get rid of the stench and thousands of little bodies.

Ohhhh I've done that!!!! It was awful!!

I wear flop flops for gardening, the rubbery ones. Wandering about one day, inspecting plants, bent to look at something, when I straightened up I felt something squish between my foot and the flip flop. It was a large skinny spider.
I love spiders so was more upset about that than the bits I had to remove from my foot and flip flop.

Have trodden on slugs while wearing fluffy socks, I think that feels worse than treading on them without socks. I are very careful now and try to step round them or move them to the top of the garden.

Great you are willing to try and shame everyone you deem worthy of your critism, how none prejudicial of you. Makes you so much more pleasant.

Someone is unpleasant because they give a shit about nature? Ok then.

@oakleaffy give over.

No, because you are hyper critical, judgy and a bit ridiculous.

@Fallingthroughclouds you’re making the mistake of thinking I care about your opinion. If my standards are higher than yours then so be it.

Ahh but you do care as you keep replying, each time sounding more pompous and supercilious.

I should have stopped replying though. It's derailed a funny, lighthearted thread and I shouldn't have got annoyed. I honestly hope you have a good weekend.

@Fallingthroughclouds You too.

At my parents house, there was a funky smell coming from the spare bedroom. Couldn't get to the bottom of what it was, but after a month or so, if gradually faded.

About a year later, my parents were getting all the light switches in the house replaced by a tradey. He'd been in the spare room, and then came out holding something in his hand. It was a skeleton of a mouse that he'd found INSIDE the old switch! That's what had been stinking. Decomposing mouse.

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"Seething army of maggots" 🤮🤮🤮

Really don't know why I'm reading this as anything regarding creepy crawlies really gives me the heebeegeebees. Worse thing one of our cats brought in was a headless bird but the worse smell was when one of our now deceased dogs was about a year old & at night he slept in the kitchen. Got up one morning to the most awful disgusting smell I've ever smelt. I searched high & low, pulled the fridge out etc but couldn't find a thing. Realised it was coming from the dog so took him to the vets where he examined him then proceeded to squeeze his anal glands 🤢 Worse. Smell. Ever.

As a child I remember my parents being driven quite demented by a smell in the car while on a caravan holiday in the north of Scotland. After several days of trying to find it, my father started to take the car apart. Finally he took out the lining of the door. Inside was a hedgehog, still very much alive. We gave it some water and it lived near the caravan for a bit before trundling off. Pretty stinky.

One of our dogs once found half a very dead seal on Stevenston beach. She tried to drag it off the rocks to bring it home with her, but it was stuck there, so she had to content herself with rolling luxuriously in it.

Dh had to bring her, and our other dog, home on the train, then in the car, and she stunk so badly that even our other dog - a Labrador, therefor a connoisseur of vile and stinky things - did not want to sit near her.

When they got home, dh proposed taking her upstairs, through our bedroom, to the en suite so he could shower her there, but I vetoed that on the spot, and she got bathed twice in the garden, using the hose - and even after that, she still smelled faintly of Eau de Rotten Seal, but was clean enough to go in our shower. We had run out of dog shampoo, though, so dh grabbed some Lynx shower gel from the bathroom - she smelled like a teenage boy, but that was an improvement.

This happened to me, at school drop off. Oops