Tell Cif about the most annoying mess you've ever had to clean – you could win a £250 voucher! NOW CLOSED

[MichelleMumsnet]

Cif has asked us to find out what Mumsnetters think about cleaning up their LO's mess. In particular, Cif want to find out what the hardest or least fun to clean mess your DCs create are.

Here's what Cif have to say, "We all know that children see the home as a playground, and playgrounds get dirty. But we also understand how difficult it can be to clean up after your child, so we want to help make that process as easy as possible."

So, what do you find the most painstaking cleaning task when it comes to cleaning up after your DCs? Is it the crayon drawings they leave on the table or on the wall? Or is it the jam they accidentally splatter over the kitchen counter?

Maybe you refuse to clean up after your family? Or is it your family that has to clean up after you ?

Whatever it is, we would love to hear about the worst mess you/your family have ever had to clean.

Everyone who adds their comments to this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £250 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

DD was sick in the middle of the night, half way down the wooden open attic staircase...it splattered off every step as she was stranded on the stairs, vomiting over and over again. It was on every wall on the landing, the ceiling of the staircase, the photos and pictures on the wall and on the landing carpet, plus all over the bedroom doors.After showering her down and then drying her hair, it took 2 hours of scrubbing EVERYWHERE to do the first sweep. Then a trip to tesco at 3am for more cleaning products, and another hour working on the carpet when I got home. We had guests staying over night,so I was under major pressure to get it all sorted. They thought I was just a bonkers cleaning freak, until I explained later that morning. Nightmare! She now has a bucket in her bedroom if she should ever feel queasy again!

Dd had a vomitting virus. Our house is long and thin and upstairs there as a 20 foot long hallway with wooden floors. Dd's room is at one end. Aged about 5 she came out of her room crying because she had been sick, was sick again and kepy running down the hall. Skidded on the floor and fell over in it, spraying stuff up all the walls. Ds (6) came charging up the stairs to see what all the fuss was about. He too skidded in a pool of vomit. The two of them were lying on the floor, covered in head to foot.

I came upstairs and could have wept when I saw the mess. I couldn't imagine where to start. It was like a horror film!

Compared to that, jam and crayon pale into insignificance!

My dd2 managed to get a pot of paint just after we moved into our house, I had just painted the walls white and had a new mattress ready to go on our bed. She found a pop of dark purple/plum paint and painted a strip around the walls, straight over the radiator and the mattress which was lent against the wall and then across the new carpet. I phoned my dm up in tears and she cam over to help clean up and repaint the walls, we had to steam the carpets and the mattress.

My dd2 has Autism and sadly these things happen quite often, paint is now locked away in the shed .

Ooh so many to choose from! The tub of Sudocrem spread all over both children, the cot, the floor, the walls, etc etc... the toilet training accidents (when under major pressure to clean quickly as I also had a crawling 8 month old!)... or the exploding bottle of wine pulled from teh rack that shattered into a million tiny pieces and went EVERYWHERE! I found pieces of glass all over the kitchen, all down the hall to the front door and right into the utility to the opposite wall and behind the radiator - horrible!

Toss up between the tub of sudocrem liberally applied over son's bedroom, including bed,bedding,toys,carpet and cuddly toys!

Or when he was helping me put the shopping away, and unbeknown to me, had put a tin of beans in the oven. I thought the boiler had exploded when I next turned the oven on the warm up. That wasn't an easy spill to clear up!

My son decided to "help" mummy

5L of white emulsion does not wash out of a red carpet very well

I tried everything

Many of the worst ones have not been the DC. Bloody lily pollen on beige carpet. Wine down white painted wall. Beetroot off ceiling (liquidiser fail). Most annoying DC related one is dried on weetabix. It appears to be impervious to all cleaning /scrubbing and basically has to be sanded off - how does that happen ?

marmite in dining table. dds 4 and 5yo love spreading there own butter, ajm, nutella or marmite. marmite is the work of the devil. leave it until after the school run and it dries like boody glue

A full, opened bottle of cooking oil on top of the fridge tipped over and went all down the back of it. Nightmare...

This might out me, but it happened nearly 10 years ago now!

We had all finished uni the summer before, but a few friends remained doing masters courses etc. So a few of us visited, and stayed in a friend's (friend A) house while she stayed with her boyfriend. There was a night out, and a good friend (Friend B) ended up completely incoherent but oddly still upright!

We all settled into the room we were sharing, and drunk friend B appeared looking shifty. After some questioning, and not a lot of info, I popped my head out of the door.

She'd vommed all the way up the stairs, and literally from one wall to the other in the bathroom. I had to rummage around to find cleaning things to clean absolutely everything, including standing in the bath to reach the far wall. This is all at 3am, of course, after a few drinks myself. I couldn't let Friend A's housemates wake up to the utter grossness of it all. I don't think I did a particularly good job, but it was certainly an improvement.

Of course, Friend B dozed happily off and I still don't think she quite believes how vast an area she pebble dashed that night.

Still, it set me up with some skills that came in handy later! (Travel sick DS, washable nappies, sick kids at camp, etc)

Oops, read the op again, that wasn't DC. Although I'm sure he'll treat us to similar things in the next 18 years!

Hmm, well the worst thing I've ever had to clean up is dog related, not dc. Dog vommed in car, turned out it had eaten rotten fish.

Dc related, it's got to be tomato sauce EVERYWHERE. Good job I'm not too houseproud

Vomit in the back seat of my car despite cleaning it so many times each time the car warmed up the smell came back. Months later when putting the seats down for a trip to the tip I found the mouldy remains of the vomit, cleaned all that up which helped but the faint smell remained especially when sunny.
Yesterday I made a chocolate mousse but put the wrong bowl in the food mixer stand, there was chocolate up the walls, over the work top, down the doors, under the walls units and all over me. I still served up the remains and instructed everyone not to complain if it tasted a bit different this time, it wasn't well mixed and wasn't very mousse like.

Well, it has to be when DS was sick in his high-sleeper. Sick everywhere, in the bed, stairs, bottom bunk, carpet. Awful. Too many times have I had to change bedclothes at 3am .......

Or we had almost driven home after being at Chester Zoo. We all had a splendid day and were all shattered, called in at the Fish and Chip shop for something to eat. All good, so far. Then I realised we needed a loaf of bread so went into the corner shop next door and DD covered their floor in sick. It was so sudden she didn't have time to speak and was so upset at the mess. The staff were lovely and we cannot go in there without thinking of that day (a few years ago now).

The worst 2 stains in our house...

Dried on banana stains when LO tried it for the first time & it went everywhere. It went all black and horrible and vanish did not help!!

And then an explosive yellow poo from the days when LO was exclusively breast fed - all over the cot, me, the carpet etc etc. The carpet was the most difficult to clean...

The most annoying mess was tar on the carpet! It's still there, couldn't shift it!

Sudocreme in the carpet! Bloody nightmare to get out.

Oh I really have to agree with everyone who has said Weetabix. The box should come with a warning!

cif is great for my cooker hob, i had an accident recently and the dog hit the hob button to on, it melted a plastic jug of custard i had left on top to cool down, the plastic burnt onto the glass hob and the custard with it, cif however was brilliant... and it came up spotless, could have been a disater, but cif saved the day

Mine is similar to Jinty64 soup disaster, though broccoli soup rather than tomato.

Had made vat-loads (well 2 huge tupperware containers) of broccoli soup, to freeze, in readiness for family get-together few days afer Christmas. They were puushed to back of work top out of harm's way, to cool down prior to freezing. At this point they were lidless, lids still in cupboard. After couple of hours I wandered into the kitchen, decided soup had cooled, moved containers to front of work top and turned to get lids out of cupboard. In that time DS2 then aged 3 yrs, came into kitchen and pulled one of tubs to have a look. Obv it fell from worktop, showering him and the Flotex (remember that?) in piles of green soup. DS was easily cleaned, but the carpet took a lot of scrubbing...

When DS1 threw up broccoli cheese over cream carpet of DH's aunt and uncles house. Fortunately they weren't there, but it took ages to remove all the little bobbly green bits. He only ate a tiny portion and yet there was broccoli all over the hallway. I have never cooked broccoli cheese again.

Most annoying messes have been those created by dried Weetabix - what is it about Weetabix that makes it so cement like..??!

But I have to say, the one 'mess' that sticks out in my memory is perhaps one you'd best not read about whilst eating. It would be the time my lovely little boy decided to take his nappy off in his cot. I went into his room, expecting to be greeted by his beaming smile (which I did). However, I was also met with the most overpowering smell of poo. Yes, the little tinker had taken his nappy off and smeared the contents all over his mattress, up the side of the cot and 'interestingly' all over his face .

The image has tainted me forever!

Our cat using the garage as a toilet and sprayed everywhere even though her litter tray was sat there... To say it stank was an understatement it had saturated so much stuff that had to go in the bin and getting cat urine out of concrete flooring is not a mean feat, I had to use neat jeys fluid every hour for 4 days to get rid of it

Weaning stage definitely, although having a dog helped get rid of the chunkier dropped bits.

Having a dog did backfire though when it decided to raid the bin shortly after I'd cleared out the cupboards and dumped a huge bag of out of date popping corn. That was the biggest mess ever and I'm still finding corn kernels wedged between the floorboards.
The hardest thing I've ever had to remove was lansinoh when I was bfing and DS squeezed the tube over the sofa.

The worst mess I have had to clean up (apart from all the potty training mishap messes) has been when the children were doing arts and crafts - there was paint, glitter and glue all over the kitchen table, work surfaces and floor.