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Eureka! I want this sexy ice blue vac!

The worst mess I have made in my home? Hmmm

Being a young stupid teenager and applying makeup on my parents carpeting...it left a ton of stains, and I had to use Resolve and a vacuum over and over.

looks cool......one more step taken towards going green

Having pets growing up will do some serious damage to your carpets. LOTS of vacuuming and sprinkling the carpet with Baking Powder...

A broken bottle of nail polish, that went all over the bathroom tiles. I had to scrub it off with nail polish remover.

Oh, why yesterday while I was trying to be "clean" and do some laundry, I put a strawberry smoothie on top of the dryer in order to open the washer door. I watched it somehow mysteriously slide off the dryer all over our tiny condo's carpet hallway. How nice it would have been to have a new vacuum to go over the days' worth of cleaning and treating.

We'll having a sick kid in a top bunk does a fairly good job of messing up a large area. I mean, I could hear the "SPLOSH" from the other side of the house. It was dang near impossible to clean up, but a few towels, sponges and mops did the trick.. but really- no fun at 3 in the morning.
But having a new vacuum would surely help my mood!

Younger

Two words: Red Koolaid

Blot, spray (I don't remember what) blot some more, tried to cover it before my mother came home. Then when found blamed it on my brother.

Recently: knocked over a plant, vacuumed it up with my Eureka Maxima which JUST died. So I'm in the market (hint hint)

Red wine after a majic trick gone awry. Had to clean it up with salt and vinegar.

Who couldn't use a nice new vacuum?

when my brother and i were kids - still pretty young but old enough to be left alone for a few hours in the afternoon - we made a real mess with some melted crayons. my brother saw something on tv about breaking old crayons into bits in muffin tins, and making multi-colored crayon discs by melting them. we went to work on this project with the kid next door, but as my brother was pulling two pans out of the oven, my mom came home. he dropped them both on the floor, splattering melted, colored wax everywhere. we were stuck on the floor for hours with spatulas, scraping it all up.

wax on carpet. that one's still there :(

The first floor of my condo was ceramic tile on one half/carpet on the next. I decided I didn't want the tile anymore when I had to rip out the carpets because of a plumbing leak.

Knocking out tile made and ENORMOUS mess of my entire place. Not to mention insane muscles from me slinging the sledge hammer. Very messy.

Oh I am loving all of these giveaways. Biggest mess was when we ripped out the nasty linoleum & put down hardwood floors by ourselves. They look very pretty but our old vaccuum is kaput after a couple weeks of accidental sawdust intake.

oooh! yummy! I wonder how well it will stand up to my long haired cats tender mercies.

One full box of Kix cereal all over carpet livingroom with 2 toddler having a good time stomping on them while i was slightly out of eyeview.

Solution: down on hands and knees picking up the "whole" kernels followed by slow, steady, repeated vac.

nice.

Oh, Lord. Dying my hair a bright (permanent) red and getting scared by my cat jumping on me. I shook my hair and red dye went everywhere in the bathroom, staining the walls, toilet, you name it.

Not only would this complement my apartment as well as the five unpardonably furry animals that reside with me, my "semi" functioning vacuum just turned "non."

Worst mess ever for me was waxing my ski's for the fresh powder in the mountains. All I had to clean up all the wax shavings was a wimpy hand vac. A nice cool blue vac like this would really help get the remaining shavings embedded in the carpet.

My vacuum burst! Had to wipe and vacuum everything again. It was awful! I *sooo* need a better vacuum!

I knocked over a vase of a dozen lillies and the pollen mixed with the water and stained my carpet a lovely shade of orange. I as able to get it out using a clorox bleach pen and lots of vacuuming of the loose pollen.

As a teenager, I once came home stoned with the munchines and spilled an entire large bag of powdered donuts on the living room floor in front of my father. I tried to clean up the mess with a hand held vacuum cleaner, but somehow managed to vacuum my very long hair with the mess. My hair got caught up in the engine so fast that the vacuum cleaner hit me in the head, leaving a rather large bump and a scratch on my forehead.

My most recent Worst Mess is in progress! Redoing my whole apartment, waiting to clean until it's "all done", with a child, her friends, a cat that sheds more hair than can possibly grow, our lack of a No Shoes in the House rule, and the fact that we wear our muddy, sandy boots in from the barn after riding horses.... whew... it's a hot mess for sure!

I tried to clean this weekend. I have a sad, old canister vac with no beater bar. It grinds the cat hair in to the rug, sort of like velcro. I had to put on rubber dishwashing gloves and get on my hands and knees to get most of the cat hair off the rug. I went through two pairs of dish gloves (literally! burned holes in to 2 pairs!), then vacuumed up the shredded glove pieces.

*sigh*

Boy, would I love to have a sexy new vacuum! The blue even coordinates with my design!

Well, there was the time the cat knocked all my dishes off an open shelf. I cleaned it up with a broom and then my tiny dustbuster for the porcelain fragments.

New vacuum please!

The worst mess I ever made...Would have to be the time I sanded the ceiling of my apartment without laying any drop cloth. It took about a month of sweeping and dusting to clean all the dust up.

I am one messy person. I spilled "high pulp content" orange juice all over my kitchen one day, and I was running late for work. I was conducting interviews that morning and it was 100% necessary that I leave right then. I threw some towels on the floor as best as I could and sadly left. when I came home I had dried pulp stuck to my cabinets. stuck in crevices and leaked in drawers. It was DISGUSTING. Not to mention like cement to get off.
*sigh*

After pleading with my friend's drunk husband, he put out his cigarette (no smoking in the house, but did you get the drunk part?) on our living room floor. Most vacuums couldn't take out a burn mark, including our now-broken vac, but I'd like to think this eco-number would wreak such magic on my floor.

The worst mess in my home was made by my dog, who was roughhousing with another dog and proceeded to get a cut on his paw. He ran all about the apartment leaving bloodstains everywhere. Oh yeah, this was while we weren't home. 2 cans of Spot shot and a lot of elbow grease was all it took...

hmm...worst mess...ripping the carpet off the stairs and stripping and sanding them down...still in the process of doing it and my place is a wreck! dust and paint chips and carpet rolls all over the place...a new vacuum would make me feel a little better because it had cleaned the place better than the one i have now.

I was living in an apartment with tan carpet and taking care of my parents' dog, Harrison (a white and black Lhasa). I had just made a plate of very meaty and very sauce-y spaghetti and was carrying it over to the sofa to eat. As if in slow motion, the spaghetti slipped off the plate, covering Harrison, a footrest and the carpet in pasta and sauce. A can of spot shot, a well-placed rug, and an angry Lhasa (for a while PINK and black) later, "The Harrison Spaghetti Incident of '01" is something my family still teases me about.

I was trying to polish an antique wooden table and accidentally spilled wood polish all over my tile floor. The stuff is like a mixture of paint and tar. Five or six times trying to get it out with soft scrub and various other cleaners and it has faded but still there.

Oh my! I guess the worst mess we have made so far was during our kitchen reno. Tearing out the old counter tops and other old kitchen stuff made a huge mess. It took many times with the vacuum, mop, and dusters, to make it clean again.

I spilled a full glass of merlot on the ivory carpet in a rental, no less. I cleaned it by covering it thickly with salt and let it dry. The salt sucks it out of the carpet, and all you have to do is vac it up the next day. phew.

A bottle of fabric softner spilled. A whole bottle. I scrubbed and scrubbed my hard wood floor. They are still a little slimy in spots.

A really large plant in a pot
Moving it to a new spot
Over the dog I tripped
Out of my grasp it slipped

Leaves, plant, and soggy dirt
On the floor, couch, and shirt
Old school way to clean the room
With just a dustpan and broom

Clean *and* green - what a perfect vacuum!

Worst mess: My mother-in-law dropped a cup of coffee. Or so she says. I wasn't around to witness the incident, but it honestly looked like an entire pot of coffee *exploded* all over the open kitchen-dining-living room area of our condo. Bless her heart, she felt awful, and tried her best to clean it all up, but we found coffee spatters in the oddest places for months after that! Not to mention the stain in the carpet..

The bagful of shredded paper I was taking to the recyclle bin split and I had paper shreds everywhere. Two weeks later I was still finding shreded paper.

I'm a vacuum cleaner fetish.

I knocked a box of laundry detergent (powdered) off a shelf in my closet, it got all over both my hanging clothes, and into the piles of (mostly clean) clothes on the floor. I keep my laundry detergent on the floor now.

Red wine in my kitchen, all over my newly white-painted cabinets. Stained the paint something awful. Unable to remove stain despite various sprays and oxygen cleaner applications. Feh.

I really didn't make the worst mess I had to clean up: my husband bought a sectional sofa, set it against 2 walls and never moved it. I moved in 6 months ago, started cleaning (he really isn't a pig - he just works 14-16 hours a day, and spent all his free time for the past year with me) and discovered several garbage bags and 2 vacuum bags worth of dog hair.

~Sigh~ I'm SO not a dog person!

I was snacking on Cheez-its and conversing with my boyfriend when an absent-minded gesture by me resulted in the entire contents of the box being flung across his living room floor. We had just started going out at the time and I was mortified!

He insisted on cleaning it up, and told me to just sit tight and hold onto his cat (who is way too fond of people-foods). When I saw him sweeping up my Cheez-it mess, I knew he was a keeper. =)

Hmmm, worst mess in my home ... Ok so when I was a young teenager my parents taught me how to cook. By the time I was in high school I was cooking dinner most nights and having it ready (or almost ready) by the time my folks got home. I loved to cook and on my mom's birthday thought I would surprise her by making her favorite - french onion soup - from scratch. I found a recipie in a cookbook, ran to the store and got the needed ingredients and got to work. In my eagerness I put oil in the pan to begin sauteing the onions and then began peeling and chopping them ... forgetting that I'd turned the burner on already. With my back to the stove I heard a strange and ominous "whoosh". I turned around to find the pan of oil (and the stove) on fire. Luckily I kept a level head, dug the fire extinguisher from the pantry (used speed-reading to check out the instructions) and put out the fire ... and then I spend the next FIVE HOURS cleaning up the tiny particulate dust from the fire extinguisher. Mind you we did not have a small kitchen but that stuff gets EVERYWHERE and pretty much EVERYTHING in the kitchen had to be cleaned (it even reached the top of the cabinets!).

While trying to empty my current vacuum cleaner (very poor quality) i ended up spilling all of the contents (cat litter, cat hair, lots of other dirty stuff) all over my carpeting. I ended up having to sweep all of it up with a broom because my vacuum stopped working. :( This vacuum is very much needed.

Spilled cherry koolaid on my light tan carpet. You want a big mess!! I scrubbed and scrubbed , cried and scrubbed more. It never came up fully

I was sick at my girlfriend's apt so she made me tomato soup. I spilled the soup all over her white carpet. I had to pay a lot of money to get the stains removed.

we just moved into our new place with wall to wall beige carpeting. too new to rip out and replace. so my first purchase was a carpet cleaner. the next day my son threw a bottle of ketchup against the wall thus splattering all over the wall to wall beige carpeting. with out shedding a tear, i whipped out the carpet cleaner and immediately started cleaning. surprise it did a good job of cleaning. you could barely see any spots. i guess it was good to be prepared. now we have a puppy....

Had I known what it would mean... I never would have adopted one white cat and one black cat those many years ago. But I love both of those critters... and boy howdy do I love this vacuum cleaner!

Moving day traffic.....lots of shoes, shuffling, boxes, furniture, newspaper print and no concern for the carpet in our new place. Then to top it all off, our cocker spaniel pukes on the floor to christen his new home!!

I borrowed my sisters carpet shampooer and it worked miracles!!

We came home one day to find blood on our carpet. Our cat who was 15 was terribly ill and was vomiting blood. We took him to the vet immediately and, after an overnight stay, had to put him to sleep. Hydrogen peroxide soaked up the mess but that was nothing compared to our loss.

the washing machine drainage hose came out and water went everywhere.mopping towels fans and alot of swearing

Worst mess? Well, my significant other just moved in. Me: minimalist neat-freak. Him: not so much. Cleanup is an ongoing process.

Ive had several big messes that other posters have had : like red koolaid in carpet still have the stains from toddlers sippy cups leaking (before the leakproof cups) and the kids are teens or young adults now! Or huge double size box of Cheerios scattered ALL over my living room carpet by 3 mischievious toddlers, vaccuum got fed real good from that mess! Now its dust from my hubby blowing out a computer he's working on with canned air or air compressor! the stuff goes EVERYWHERE!

Thats Frogz60@hotmail.com not drogs60@hotmail.com!!! Dont know where that comes from!

Oh this would be perfect! I currently only have a little hand-held deal.

My biggest mess was probably dropping a sack of flour. Used the above to clean it up.

According to the statistics, I'm a vacuuming freak.

Oh man! The worst mess I made and cleaned up was yesterday. My daughter had a big bowl of sunflower shells on her bed when I attempted to move them (because I didn't want them making a mess) I spilt them everywhere!!! So down I go on my hands and knees cleaning the little buggers up. What a mess! Picking up wet soggy chewed on sunflower seeds!

Thank you for the great giveaway!

apartment therapy rocks!

spilled a plant on the carpet. I took a broom and a dust pan too get the worst off. Then I tried the vacuum. I ended up shampooing the carpet to get the rest out.

My "worst mess ever" was an act committed in one of my great aunt's guest bathrooms when I was about 12. I had a can of spray-on green haircolor and wanted to streak my blonde hair green for a concert I was going to (I wasn't supposed to streak my hair or go to the concert). The spout was somehow faulty and the stuff sprayed all over the walls in tiny speckles. I was horrified and didn't want my aunt to see the mess, so I got out a bottle of nail polish remover and some cotton balls and cleaned the mess off the walls as best possible (meaning not very well). Fortunately both my aunt and her maid had poor eyesight and never really noticed how the paint had suddenly gotten rather streaky.

Worst messes (more than one):

1) pulling out 1000 sq ft of carpet and trying to put in laminate by myself. This was in the glue days. FAILURE on every level.

2) S/O's dialysis fluid all over floor. This just happened recently and was a total nightmare in every possible aspect.

3) daughter's elderly pug having poop attack on a light blue comforter. Immediate run to laundromat -- home machine not big enough for an oversized queen comforter.

4) S/O with no concept of the term "trash can" combined with dogs who enjoy breaking the rules.

Pugs as a breed seem to hate having their nails clipped. So when I have to clip my pug's nails, he squirms and struggles like a tasmanian devil. I once clipped into the quick of his nail and blood started gushing out. I reached for a styptic stick but he got away from me, running through the whole apartment, over two couches, a bed making a bloody mess. Once I caught him, we went into the bathroom with the biggest mother of all dog treats.

The worst mess I ever had to clean up took place in 2003. My partner and I bought planters for our very small porch and made the mistake of buying stinky fertilizer soil instead of planting soil. After two days, we had to empty them out. Fertilizer everywhere - all over the porch, tracked into the living room, the kitchen. Took forever to clean up (hands and knees with a small brush and dustpan) and even longer to get the smell out!
Love the new vacuum & hope to win! Thanks for the great site!

My personal best?

I offer only one piece of advice for all the kids out there: NEVER have seven vodka tonics in 90 minutes at a bar where the bartender likes you.

This vacuum would have been zero help.

owned a pug...enough said.

i've had the same crappy vacuum from kmart for 6 years.
salvation now!!! :)
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Three words...bean bag chair.

I made s'mores over a toasty fire on the floor of my parents' kitchen. I think I'm still paying for it...

broke a bottle of jelly in the kitchen, took forever on my hands and knees to make sure i got all the glass

I'm getting ready to move to a new apartment, and my old vac is toast. This would be perfect.

Worst mess?

Shortly after moving into a new apartment when I got my first full-time job out of college - I bought a brand new cream on cream sofa piled with cushions. Loved it! (at the time)

My landlady had installed brand new cream colored carpeting throughout prior to my moving in.

For some reason I thought it was a great idea to take a glass of grape juice (purple... not white grape juice) into the livingroom with me. Before long, I managed to spill the juice on my new couch AND the new carpet!

I sopped it up as best I could and the next morning set off to rent a Rug Dr. When I got back to the apartment my landlady was there checking on the property - and due to my strange inability to lie - I told her what I had done!
She calmly recommended white vinegar to get rid of the stain.

I can't tell you how much vinegar I dumped on that carpet... scrubbing and rubbing to get the purple stain out. I was disheartened as it didn't seem to work despite how convinced she had been in her recommendation.

Once the vinegar dried - however - the carpet was spotless. The only indication of the incident was the hideous square foot of frayed carpet as a result of the scrubbing and rubbing.

Note to self. Next time just pour the vinegar on it - sop it up and wait for it to dry.

When we got our wonderful dog, he was a six month old rescue with a horrible separation anxiety problem that went unsolved by us, behaviorists, and three vets. I came home one day to discover he had somehow trapped himself in our bedroom and had shredded a down comforter and two down pillows. He had also, in his panic, taken the entire top off our king-size mattress. After I got him settled down and cuddled and he had had a walk, I attacked the mess with a duster, broom and dustpan because I was afraid of burning out my vacuum with all the feathers. Then I vacuumed, laundered what could be saved, sewed the mattress top back on (it was only a month old), and remade the bed with different linens and an old non-down comforter. Then I figured out how to work from home, and we have lived happily and peacefully for over thirteen years. :)

Too lazy to bring in the catbox from the porch as a rainstorm hit L.A. a few years ago, I paid for it after the storm passed.

The clay litter INSIDE the box got all wet and overflowed out onto my deck floor.

For some reason my apartment owner saw fit to have the decks carpeted with a crappy cheap dark gray berber back in the day.

I vacuumed up as best as I could (I always feel like a loser since I have to vacuum my deck. Who vacuums their deck??) and let the darkish stain dry under the California sun.

A potted plant sits over the stain.

Last week I made a jug of sun tea. I opened the fridge to put the tea in and a bottle of wine rolled of the shelf, slamming into the tea jar. The jar shattered, splashing tea all over the inside of the fridge, under it, between the fridge and wall, all over the stove and the cabinets, and the entire kitchen floor. My hubby walked in to see me holding just the top of the tea jar in my hand, my clothing dripping with tea. LUCKILY, the wine only bounced, it didn't break and add to the mess, I cleaned up the big pieces of glass with my hands, mopped the floor with a mop that I had luckily decided to buy earlier that afternoon, and cleaned the tea out of the fridge with paper towel and dishcloths.

When I was a teenager, and deathly afraid of spiders, I was up late watching an old movie one night. I think it was a Creature Feature on Channel 9 (shout out Chicago!). And THEN I looked down and saw a spider crawling on my shoulder! FREAK OUT!

The next morning my parents asked me what all that orange stuff was all over the walls and on the ceiling.

Answer: I was eating a bowl of orange sherbet when the spider attacked me. Oops.

The worst mess was bird seed from my kids making art projects for homeschool. We cleaned it up with broom, sweeper

I conserve energy by not vacuuming excessively. One hour a week sounds excessive to me.

Worst mess...can't think of too many at home. My roommate once dropped a bottle of bleach in front of the W/D closet in our rental. It didn't all spill out, but some sort of splattered on the carpet. Fortunately, the carpet was beige and only turned a little pink in spots.

O, and one of my labmates dropped an entire bottle of bromine on a cement floor once. But you don't actually clean that up. You just pull the fire alarm, call hazmat and get everyone out of the building.

Sigh. This is about the worst it's ever been. New black puppy (shedding away happily), 12 year old boy ("what mess?"), and me, just after surgery. Can't answer how I'm going to clean it up......anyone believe in angels? Or maybe a Eureka Envirovac?

kids, pets and plants... i'm never done...

The worst mess I made was when I dropped a full pitcher of Crystal Light pink lemonade and it went throughout my kitchen and dining area. How did I clean it up? Crying, with paper towels, water, soap, and dish detergent. cdziuba@aol.com

gotta have something that can hold up to a german shepherd's hair! she sheds so much it's a wonder she's not bald. (my boyfriend won't let me shave her. i even offered to throw in a mohawk. no dice.)

Thank you so much for this giveaway. The worst mess I've had, is when I was in the middle of making chocolate chip cookies for the holidays. I was making huge batches, to give as gifts. I had a batch all mixed and stopped to use the restroom. When I came back into the kitchen, I found my 2 year old son had gotten hold of the whole batch and basically got it all over the place in the kitchen and in our family room. I had cookie dough on cabinets, floors and rugs. What a mess!
Thanks so much for this giveaway. With young kids, I could really use this. lol Thanks so much.

Other than my ongoing drama from getting cat hair off the couch? Once I opened up a bottle of Rockin' Rye (a red soda) that had apparently been jostled around a bit. I had pink droplets all over my kitchen.

I tried to clean the fireplace with a wet/dry vac and succeeded in blowing ash dust all over the living room...what a helluva mess....just lots of dusting and vaccuming once the dust settled.

In my younger days I was renting a place with ugly kitchen carpet. My brothers and sisters and their young children came over for a family get-together, and I prepared a homemade "giant" pizza with all the trimmings. It smelled wonderful as it baked, and everyone was excited to taste this creation. At the time I did not realize I was in the beginning stages of M.S. When I opened the oven door to get the pizza out, the blast of hot air hit me and scrambled my nervous system and made me weak. As I tried to lift the pizza pie out of the oven -- with the help of oven mitts -- I lost control and the pizza tumbled upside down on the kitchen carpet. Fortunately, my family applied the six-second rule and began grabbing pizza and toppings and placing them on plates. I will never forget my sister Diana just standing there laughing her head off at me. My kids helped me clean up the remains of the pizza with a spatula, and then we used some Windex and water on cleaning rags to get the stains out. Twenty-some-odd years later, I have never forgotten the incident.

I picked up a bag of red lentils from a top shelf in my pantry. Oh, it was broken. Red lentils rained forth from about 7 feed in the air. And bounced! They covered quite a radius. I swept a little but was moving out a couple weeks later so saved the rest of the sweeping till then...

But when I unpacked my kitchen wares, I noticed that quite a few red lentil stowaways had spread through the box and moved with me.

So many messes, it's hard to pick the worst one. When I was a kid, I spilled a bowl of soupy ice cream on the rocking chair, carpet and dog. The dog smelled like ice cream for a week. It was kind of nice, actually. As a college student, I moved in with a boyfriend who had two roommates. They owned no paper towels or kitchen towels. If something spilled, they would wait until it congealed and then scrape it off the floor. More recently, I broke a glass vase. I had it earthquake-waxed to the shelf, but then I hit the shelf from below with a chair and the whole thing fell to the ground- and the vase was full of decorative stones and peacock feathers. I had to lock the cats out of the room while I very carefully made sure every speck of glass was picked up. I'm sure as soon as I hit "submit" I'll think of something truly outrageous.

The worst mess? I was building a 9 foot dragon puppet in my 10 foot kitchen. Polyfoam, contact cement, airbrushed fluorescent paint. Not pretty. We ended up eventually remodeling the room. That stuff does NOT come off.

My worst mess was when I gave my Maltese a haircut, not realizing the amount of hair I would have to clean up off of the carpet! I decided to use the dog's brush, the one with the strong metal teeth. It took me forever, and I still found white fluffy hair on the carpet two days later.... I really NEED the Eureka envirovac, in a soothing blue finish!

It actually wasn't me but my daughter. I returned home from a trip to find the house in a "post" crazy party state. How does one get salsa on the walls and ceilings??
How did it get cleaned up? It took all day but I had help - my daughter!

I spilled a cup of coffee on the carpet in my bedroom. I used quite a few rolls of paper towels to blot up all the coffee. After that was done, I sprayed with a carpet cleaner, and when dry, vacuumed.

One mess was a stream of ants crawling across the walls of my apartment. Another mess was me dumping over my orchid and all the bark-ish interiors. My handy vacuum sucked up both problems! Of course, it needs replacing so a new one would be splendid! Did I mention that today (July 10th) is my birthday?

Unfortunately, I can't divulge my worst mess story. But some key words from that incident: northern California, "back to the land" parents, late teen years, tipping an instrument with "dirty" water, not cleaning for days.

My mess I had to clean was absolutely disgusting. My cat was sick, and has long fur. My boyfriend and I were sleeping, and were awakened by his litter box umm mess. He didn't quite make it out of the box clean, and it was all smushed into the carpet, it was on the walls, the bed, the other cat, the counters and us. Not exactly something I wanted to clean at 3:30 am. I especially need a vacuum because I am moving on my own into an apartment.. and being as broke I am from school, I could really nice something new and nice!

the biggest mess I've ever made? Adopting 5 longhair kitties! I'd love that vacuum.

I knocked over a can on lead-based paint that I use in sign-painting. All over my kitchen counter. I had set it down to pop the lid with a screwdriver from my junk drawer before I headed outside to paint the sign. Extremely toxic stuff. Took a lot of paint thinner. I should have called Hazmat.

I throw my litter box messes in a bag and throw that out every week.. Well I was carrying it through the house and you guessed it.. the bag broke... yuck! what a mess! I vacuumed and vacuumed and mopped up.. I double bag most of the time now!

I have 3 boys, 2 teenagers, so my biggest mess exists now and I have more to come!

Worst mess ever:

As a teenager I had an obligatory "parents out of town" party. Unfortunately, the combination of a torrential downpour and tons of people traipsing through our front yard left the pink living room carpet a muddy brown. Our attempt to steam clean the dirty area left it a much cleaner and lighter color than the rest of the room. We panicked and steam cleaned the entire carpet, finishing hours before our parents came home. Do you know how long deep pile carpet takes to dry? Way longer than a couple of hours.

To this day I maintain the claim that my younger sister spilled grape juice all over.

my worst mess would have to be when my daughter was about 3, she fell asleep on my living room carpet. i let her be, didn't want to wake her up by moving her.... little did i know that she had been holding a completely unwrapped hersheys bar in her hand when she fell asleep... on her belly! I went through a moment where i was so thankful it was only chocolate and not something else that it resembled... but then reality set in... completely melted hershey bar all over about a 2 foot section of carpet, as she squirmed, it smeared.
It took me weeks of scrubbing to get it completely out of the carpet. Needless to say, i don't eat that much chocolate anymore after realizing just how much "oil" is underneath the brown coloring! what a mess!

i NEED THIS BADLY! our cat is born with many quirks. one of which: he is freakishly obsessed with the big boxes of new litter we buy. i forgot to hide it away last week, and when i nonchalantly walked into the (carpeted!) bedroom, i suddenly felt like i was at the beach! he had knocked the box over and dug it ALL out into a nice, thick area of litter heaven on the carpet.

we only have a tiny dustbuster. and let's say, i STILL haven't been able to get every last litter grain out yet.

this would help!!!!

bachelor, first place rented by my lonesome, no room mates, feel like a grown-up. Only been two weeks. I hate my carpet and I hate it having things on it. Would be great to vacum my 450sq. ft. studio, my slice of heaven :)

WE made 3 kids within 3 years...

None to report. I still could use a vacuum...

Huge chocolate cake fight on my 21st birthday...

2 dogs, 2 cats, none of them neat and none know how to clean up after themselves - their messes are probably the grossest, but *I didn't make them... My worst mess probably involve kitchen disasters - like taking the top off the blender, which was puree-ing black beans, too soon... OR dropping a molten goat cheese flatbread face down on the floor (last night) ... OR dropping a punchbowl of sticky punch ... OR dropping a pot of pea soup ... sigh. Cleanup? None of this involved a vacuum - lots of rags, soap and water, mops etc. I'd still love a vacuum. Mine is on its last gasp.

i was eating a bag of doritos then decided to put them away before i ate the whole bag. so i roll the top to close it. i don't know how i but i rolled the wrong end. the end that was all ready closed. when i went to go put them on the shelf all the chips hit the floor cause the open side was wide open and i wasn't even looking at what i was doing. to clean it up, heck i had to use my broom and dust pan. chips all over the place!

The worst mess by far was made by two cockateils their birdseed, feathers and other poopy stuff.

I stepped on broken glass in the kitchen and had to use diluted bleach, a scrub brush, and lots of paper towels to get the blood stains out.

my son smeared suntan lotion on the tile and i had to scrub and wahs it for a long time. it was awful.

just about anything and everything you can imagine, i dont know who is worse me or my 3yo!! toughest one was dropping a glass canister filled with 15lbs of floor in my kitchen. i think im still cleaning it up! paper mache anyone?

my husband was redoing the 2nd floor bathroom-he thought he would pour in some insulation. He poured it in the wall and it came out downstairs in the basement. had to use my broom and then the vacuum

I knocked a glass of red wine from the kitchen table with the phone cord and it splattered ALL OVER the wall, ceiling, tile, refridgerator and dining room carpeting. Not to mention my clothes.

I cleaned it with lots of stain remover, water, sponge and paper toweling.

I was putting the cap back on a large bottle of corn oil and I dropped it and the oil was a big mess on my kitchen floor.

I sprinkled a box of salt on top and put papers on top of that.

It was very hard to clean up.

I clean up so many messes. I have to say the worst messes are the ones my kids make. My toddler loves smashing eggs all over the kitchen floor. That makes for on slippery mess. I end up wiping it up with paper towels then mopping after.

I am known as the family klutz and would spill something almost every meal. I once shattered a plastic bottle of ketchup covering the entire kitchen but I think the worst was the sour milk (we are talking non-refrigerated, accidentally left on the top of the fridge for over a week past due date) that fell covering the entire fridge and made the house almost unbearable to be in. It was so hard to even get near it without getting sick.

I think I went through a basket of towels, some serious bleach cleaning spray and at least two t-shirts. Never again.

oh, i could use that once our remodel is done!

I spilled a cup of melted crayons down the front of my parents' new kitchen cabinets. My friend held a blow dryer to the mess while I gently scraped it off with a knife and sucked the purple crayon flakes up with a vacuum. It worked, thank God.

The worst mess I ever created was when my son was born I was pretty busy with that and left a bag of garbage in the cellar. It leaked and created a nasty mess that sunk into the cement. But that is not the worst part. The worst part is the Lestoil that I dumped onto the cement and then could not get up. The noxious fumes of the cleaner filled the house for days and no matter how many times I tried to mop it up I still has more fumes. Finally,while waiting for my daughter on the school bus, a van from an Industrial Cleaning Company drove by and their magnetic sign flew off. I valled them to tell them I had their sign. When they came to pick it up ,I told them my problem with the Lestoil. They cleaned it up for me. The smell of Lestoil has made me nauseas ever since!

Okay, last week we "rat sat" for our nextdoor neighbors. They went on vacation and we cared for their pet rat. Let's just say that rats don't keep all of their food and waste in their wire cages. It was a huge 3 level cage, and I swear that rat was throwing his droppings as far as he could across the room. The only solution to this mess was lugging our shop vac upstairs from the garage.

I was drinking soda and went over to reach for a napkin (ironically) and sent the cup of Coke flying, spilling soda everywhere, including on my computer!

I scrubbed down hard with misc cleaners and soap and water for about a good 45 minutes. Some of the furniture is still sticky

Hi, Had 8 Friends stay at my small 1 bedroom apt. one New Year's weekend and one friend brought a lot of confetti, a lot of confetti!

Worst mess: my ancient and much loved Lab, always forbearing and patient in her youth, at 14, has begun to let her true feelings be known. We went to a movie last weekend and returned to find the entire contents of the garbage, compost and recycling bins strewn throughout the house. She'd managed to open the kitchen door, pull the stick that serves as a lock on the garbage cabinet out and drag all three bags out of the kitchen--one even made it upstairs to the bedroom. Still finding decomposing eggshells/coffee grinds/bits of shredded carrot in odd places--including behind the toilet and under our bed. Lovely!

Beerpong... and guess what? The person who knocked over all the cups had to clean it up using paper towels... It stunk for the next weeks =\

I was trying to shift an entire shelf full of plants when I knocked it off balance and the whole thing toppled. I have a crappy old cordless stick vacuum that doesn't hold its charge for very long, so it took days to get it cleaned up. I still periodically find random dirt and it's been months!

I decided to be Poison Ivy for a Halloween party I was throwing at my home, and somehow that involved cutting and gluing bits of ivy to my costume in my apartment the day of the party. I did a quick vacuum, which didn't help much, so I dumped a bunch of tiny spiders and webs on the ground, and called it decorations.

the kitten has a fondness for shoulders. she jumped on my back, claws out, from the counter while i cleaned her litter box. i was holding it out and dumping the whole thing into a bag because the litter was ready for a full change, and the box to be sanitized.

i yelped, dropped the box and the bag, and litter and you-know-what went everywhere.

i swept forever, and spent the next two weeks mopping every day or two out of paranoia.

Snoopy chewed into a box I hadn't unpacked after moving. There were styrofoam peanut bits and chewed up paper all over!

1983: Smurf stamp with blue ink all over my mother's bone-colored lacquered sofa table. The only way it came clean was to cover it up with strategically placed silver quails.

I am a jewelry designer and I carve a lot of my original designs out of blocks of wax and then have them cast into metal (much less scrap metal that way which is necessary when gold is almost $1000/oz). Anyway, one day I was gathering up all of my bench sweepings to throw them out when I got a little tickle on the tip of my nose and sneezed... right into my 3" x 15" drawer full of wax fillings. They flew everywhere! I'm still finding little wax shavings in nooks all over my apartment. It would have really helped if I had a vacuum like this one to clean things up :)

In the fall several years ago, several roommates and I decided to have a leaf party. We raked leaves for several days and got together enough leaves to fill our family room to waste high level. There were a lot of leaves. Well - the leaves came in easier than they went out.

Solution: Leaf blower and vacuum - a little blowing and a little sucking went a long way!

dyeing my hair-ruined every bathroom of every house I lived in....

You want a mess? Get any Ikea shag rug. Within a few weeks, little balls of white fluff will drift into the most remote corners of your house. Ironically, you can't vacuum the rug either, as the vacuum's rotating brush will chew up the rug right away. Duh.

a maple syrup drinking contest. yes, it made a mess indead.

Our worst mess was made by my (non-cook) husband, who decided to make a chili dinner on his own for our family and his dad. The recipe called for putting the cooked diced beef in tomato sauce in the blender before adding other ingredients. After a brief search for the blender lid, hubby decided to just use his hand to cover the top. As soon as the blender was turned on, he discovered where the lid was (in the blender!) - also the hot beef was a bit too much for his hand, so chili went EVERYWHERE! He actually put the mixture through a strainer to remove the plastic lid slivers, cleaned up and continued cooking the meal. He didn't reveal his secret ingredient until AFTER we had eaten! Luckily, I didn't arrive home from work until just before dinner was served, so I didn't have to help with cleanup, but I still can't believe he served blender lid chili to us!

The worst mess we ever made in our home happened on New Year's right after our party ended at about 3 am. We were cleaning up and dropped a full bottle of red wine all over the kitchen floor. We were exhausted and spent at least an hour cleaning up red wine and tiny specks of glass from every crevice of our little kitchen.

Wow which mess should I pick, I've spilt potting soil on my rugs, pet accidents and recently a relative that was visiting spilled a package of ground coffee on the rug. I would love to win this prize Thanks

Having two toddlers in the house can get you some unbelievable messes. OxyClean is our friend.

One time I dropped a jumbo frozen mocha and it spewed all over the kitchen. Took an entire roll of paper towels to clean up.

Worst mess was when my 2 year old daughter decided to not only build sandcastles in the cat's litter box, but proceeded to throw kitty litter from one end of the room to the other. I know ... I know.... I spent over an hour on my hands and knees with the shop-vac. It was The Worst. I spent another two hours cleaning and disinfecting my daughter and I. It was like a scene from Silkwood.
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Well, my sister and I both thought the other was watching our samoyed... so the pup was unattended. With the back door open. And a mud puddle in the backyard.

She cavorted through four rooms, splattering mud on the walls, floors and rugs before we caught her. We had to test out a few emergency cleaning tools, like nature's miracle, but we got most of the mud off.

I dropped 1/2 gallon of milk( the old paper cartin) and it hit the corner of the table and split down the side, wit a slight spin it got mild all over the place, it took me forever to get it all off the floor

saradanger you are hillarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how about dropping an entire bottle of maple syrup on my brand new kitchen runners. wow its been a fun couple days cleaning this mess up.

A toilet that ran, and flooded... all weekend.
It provoked a change to laminated floors.

two long haired cats and litter tracked everywhere. i just found out they are giving me asthma so i could really use this vac!

Me and my sis used to collect bugs when we were little. I was probably in the 2nd grade when this happened, but I had a clear plastic goldfish bowl and was collecting a bunch of pill bugs in them---you know, the little armadillo-like bugs that roll into a little ball when it senses danger? I found a bunch in the backyard, and also found that one of the columns on the patio had a hole in its base with a bunch of them in there. Anyhow, there must have been an entire inch deep of pill bugs in that bowl. I stepped into the house for no more than a minute when my dad asked me what I was doing, frowned at my collection, and told me to take it back outside. As I stepped towards the back door, my hand lost grip somehow, and I dropped the entire bowl and its contents on the linoleum floor and the little pill bugs rolled into little balls and scattered all throughout the kitchen, family room, hall, and foyer.

How did I clean it up? I dropped to my knees and just started picking them up before they all started crawling away. The memory of it is so vivid in my brain.

Blusher.....I dropped it and it broke up in a million little pieces all over the place. Of course it was one of the expensive ones with a lot of pigment. Resolve & alcohol did get it cleaned up for me.

Hmmm...well, one time I was boiling two eggs and I COMPLETELY FORGOT about them!! Well, needless to say, all of the water boiled out of the pot and the eggs exploded into boiled egg bits all over the kitchen! I just cleaned it the old fashioned way--lots of all purpose cleaner and a sponge!

While this isn't a mess I made, it's one I had to clean up. My dog is a rescue pup and when we first got him we had to nurse him back from starvation. Well, his stomach was very delicate and there was one particular time that I came home and he had had explosive diarrhea all over his crate, the floor, the walls, and the couch. It invovled hours of cleaning, spraying walls with a green all-purpose cleaner and then getting in there with vinegar. There were also a few things we needed to haul outside for a good cleaning with the hose. Fun for everyone!

For my 25th birthday my boyfriend came over with a bottle of red wine and tickets for Wicked at the Pantages. In my excitement I knocked over a full glass of the wine.

It was too late for a deep cleanup as we had to leave for the theater, so I blotted the carpet and used a new stain removal tip that I had just read on Apartment Therapy: apply salt. I think I poured on half a container of Morton's ;-)

I didn't touch the spot 'til the next day, and boy was I surprised to find the salt had picked up every bit of red wine!

Too bad I don't own a vaccum, that's the most cleaning my poor carpet has ever gotten while I've lived here...

The worst recent mess was when I made a pineapple smoothie and forgot to put the top on my blender before I hit the 'Liquify' button. I splattered the cabinets, counter-top, floor, and myself! I was so shocked I couldn't remember how to shut it OFF.

need vaccum cleaner! I'm sweeping up cat hair and bread crumbs off of a carpeted apartment with a broom!

(yes, I know you generally sweep things with brooms)

My biggest mess was the mess from flour after I had endured long hours making my first batch of cinnamon rolls. although I didn't use much for the dough itself; it was the after part of the rising where I had to put flour on the table to roll the dough out...not a very pretty site. I don't know how I did it, but I managed to get it all up with a broom and dust pan with a good swab of the mop afterwards. We didn't have a vacuum at the time so that was the price I had to pay.

I would graciously accept this give if I were the lucky winner...you could count on this!!!

Red wine & red wine coolers on new white couch. In my desperation (I was also a bit tipsy - shocker) to clean it, I grabbed dishwashing soap and started scrubbing with a sponge. Needless to say, that method made the stains even worse. That was the last time I will ever buy a white couch...or sit on one at someone else's house.

Just as I was putting my cake batter into the oven our dog jumped and hit my arm. Cake batter everywhere! I tried using my old rag mop to get it off the floor which just pushed it around so I go on my hands and knees with paper towels and Mr Clean and finally took care of that situation..the oven was a whole other story.

Ha! The worst mess I made was when I was a kid, probably 11 or 12, and I had the *genius* idea to put some Coke in a water bottle with a sport top. And then I had the even more awesome idea to SHAKE THE BOTTLE. Nothing happened. So on the walk from the kitchen to the living room, I shook it again. Nothing happened. Once I got into the living room, I shook it just one last time (because third time's a charm, and I have a bad habit of not knowing when to stop). And what do you know? It exploded ALL OVER the living room. But mostly all over the white ceiling. Yeah. That was a bit of pain to clean. I was able to get the ceiling dry, but I don't think it ever actually got clean, I think my dad just eventually primed and painted over it.

Luckily that was a learning experience for me. :)

I also have a dog mess story, my big silly rotty would always find new ways to get into trouble when left alone. One day we returned home to find she ate the linoleum in the living room and had thrown it back up! This gross mess required a combo of strong cleaning liquids and a mop, pail, some parts needed the broom only, and a major league amount of patience!

I only made a mess once that I can think of. I have a scroll saw and it was hot out so I figured I would use in house on kitchen table with fan on. I had sawdust everywhere. Not sure what I was thinking but dusted and vaccumed for days afterword.

My worst mess is when I was living in Colorado, near Denver. Was DEAD tired, because I just got done shampooing the carpets of my new place. So, I brewed up some coffee, and opened up my new thing of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer quickly. *POOF*. The pressure differential caused all the powder to go EVERYWHERE on the moist carpet. I tried to vacuum, but it just rubbed it in. Took me a month of washing to get it all out.

I had friends over at our apartment and I just went vegetarian and I wanted to show the meat eaters how delicious my roasted vegetable lasagna was. So I made it for them and as I was bringing glass casserole with oven mitts on from the kitchen to the living room I almost stepped on our little puppy. I lost my footing trying to not kill our dog and the layers of red, roasted, pasta slid onto our carpet. our dog helped clean it up.

My roommate um, accidentally made chlorine gas in the kitchen. She mixed Comet with bleach and some cleaner with ammonia. She thought she'd save our cat, Charlemagne, by locking her in the bathroom. Unfortunately, Charlemagne had become extremely ill due to the gas, and had thrown up what looked like everything she'd ever eaten. We escaped to my parents' house with Charlemagne to let the fumes dissapate, and left the bathroom covered in cat vomit. After a few hours on a 110 degree summer day, well... cat vomit is not easily cleaned up. We threw out the rug, and scrubbed for hours with 409. Luckily, Charlemagne survived, and only occasionally reminds us of her bitterness about that situation.

go go gadget vacuum!

Worst mess...how about when my big bag of used kitty litter broke while carrying it up from the basement! Need I say more? I could use this.

I once used Oxiclean to clean a light beige carpet with a commercial carpet cleaner. Evidently the internal workings of the carpet cleaner rusted, and left me with a permanently striped carpet that I am unable to fix. Arrgh!

The worst mess I made in the house was spilling red wine on the couch. I used soda water to rub it out. It still shows though. At least I have a reminder of a nice party!

Worst mess ever: me and the hubby drywalling our dining room ourselves...dust everywhere for months. Ruined my wet/dry vac cleaning it up.

The worst mess ever made in my home was the dog got into the garbage while we were away and spread it between the kitchen and livingroom. I picked up what I could and then I vacumed and then got out the carpet scrubber for the worst stains.

very gross, but the WORST mess ever in this house could be me vomiting in the shower when i had the flu last November. It was the first time I had vomited since I was like 7 and I had eaten A LOT of Wienerschnitzel the night before. I was crying, naked, trying to scoop up huge chunks of hot dog (i guess i dont chew my food well ) with my bare hands, while the shower clogged, over flowed and I continued vomiting. There was snot and hot dog flecks on every single one of our body washes and shampoo bottles. That or the time my little brother had the flu and his bowels turned to straight up liquid. Mind you, he was 12 or 13. I didn't help clean that up...

the worst mess ever...just recently...my wonderful, but clumsy teenage daughter decided to be 'waitress' to several of her friends sleeping over and bring them breakfast...4 iced coffee, a bowl full of sugar (no top), cream in a cup (no top) toasted butter and rasberries...down it went in 2 steps. Not one thing did NOT land on the floor. Grabbed every paper towel in the house, our tiny hand broom, Resolve, cloths soaked with water..you name it. Took over an hour to clean and get the smell out...
Next time...we go out for breakfast :)

Well, I spilled an entire can of strawberry soda on some new white carpet. It was a rental and I had never had any major spills before. I happened to try using some Oxy-Brite (the laundry brightener you can get at Trader Joes and various supermarkets for pretty cheap) and it worked amaaaazingly well. You couldn't tell at all... which is good, especially when it came to moving-out time!

I have a four year old so most of the messes are his. He just spilled a glass of chocolate milk on our beige carpet. It took a lot of Resolve and paper towels to get that one out!!

We were taking out a chimney knockout in our dining room. We forgot the house used to be heated by coal. We got a dining room full of coal dust.

How we cleaned it out? Well, as anyone who's had coal dust knows, we're still cleaning it out. The first step was getting masks and gloves. Then we kept laughing as we physically swept the majority of it with traditional brooms and dustpans. We used out cheapest vacuum first knowing it would likely need to be trashed/donated. It was a full day's work and that was before scouring the entire room ceiling to floor with lemon ammonia.

It would have made a fun episode of I Love Lucy.

I suppose it would be the time I ordered a complete set of dishes from a mail-order company and the kids got into the boxes of packaging peanuts and dumped them. The filled the kitchen! I cleaned them up with a dustpan and garbage bags. It's a lot harder than it sounds.

I don't make to many messes.I guess it would be when I brought a chair in from outside and started cleaning it.All this black stuff was falling off of it whilst I was cleaning away.I didn't notice it until I was about done.Black stuff all over my just cleaned carpet.I got the vac out but this stuff was wet..what a mess.......some of these stories are hilarious.Thanks for the giveaway!

I have made many messes....I think one of the hardest to clean was when I was carrying a plate with spaghetti to the living room (yes eating in front of the tv..lol) and spilled spaghetti sauce on the creme carpet. That was miserable to try to clean. First getting the excess up then blotting, using various cleaners and still it never completely came out. That was one of many....I seem to also spill alot of my "craft" supplies like glitter on the floor too...lol

I'd love to win this for my wife. Worst mess - well, I recall my son using the bath towel to wipe himself because there was no paper left that he could find. He hid the towel so it took us awhile to figure out why the bathroom smelled so bad.....we had to wash everything. Ha.

When a pipe burst in our basement when we were sleeping. Alot of mopping and destruction happened that day. That sucked. Thanx for the contest.

the worst messes I've ever made always involved dropped food...but it's easy to clean up when you have a lot of dogs to do the work!

I'm pretty OCD so I don't recall ever making a huge mess. However, I do have a pet bird that I let fly around my house as it likes. That being said, my bed frame is half eaten and there's frequently a big sawdust pile at the foot of my bed.

I left a pot of chili on the stove unattended. We are talking walls, floor, cabinets, ceiling. It was amazing.

I still have nightmares about what a 2 year old left alone in a room (for 2 minutes) with a large tub of Vaseline and a container of baby powder can do!!

try having two dogs and two kids, we go through vacuums like people go through clothes.

A raccoon came in through the doggie door. Apparently the door the pantry was left open, or it was one smart raccoon. He or she managed to destroy everything except what was in cans or jars. We had to call animal control to get it out of the house. The clean up involved throwing away a lot of food. I was concerned about germs so we wiped every can and jar as well. Thanks for the chance.

I love my in-laws, however, the mess that they leave every time they stay the weekend is amazing! I appreciate that they lead a very interesting life and don't worry about everyday details and messes, however, throwing bones for THEIR dog under MY table is harsh. The second they are out of the door I go crazy with scrubbing the grout between the kitchen floor tiles.

Yes I am OCD.

the worst mess has been during my kitchen cabinet refacing and inches of sawdust covering everywhere.

I'm a new homeowner, worst mess so far has been a clogged up laundry tub drain.

tub of yogurt all over the kitchen.

My daughter was carrying an open container of bright blue "moon sand" through our living room. As all 6 year olds do, she dropped it, spilling the stuff all over our beige, apartment-quality (read: crappy) carpet. I've vaccuummed it at least 20 times with my Hoover Windtunnel, and the carpet still has a bluish cast to it. I'm afraid to use any type of rug cleaner on it, since I have no idea how the sand will react to a liquid.

Oh well, there goes my damage deposit. And for the record, that Hoover Windtunnel, which is only a couple years old, is a piece of junk. I'd love to replace it with this!

The other day I mistakenly shook a bottle of ginger ale and opened it up! Couldn't believe how stupid it was! Spent all day mopping the floor over and over again.

My cat tore up my Xmas tree which was totally dried out, and all the needles fell off. She loved it, I hated it.

My toddler who now has discovered that she can take off a full diaper herself and then wipe herself by scooting around on the carpet. I use Bac out and lots of scrubbing!

5 kids. Enough said.

The worst mess in my house is still stuck on the rug. My kids smeared cryptonite (a toy egg full of gooey stuff). We tried everything- so I still can't comment on how we cleaned it.

I definitely need a good vac at times...

I recently took in a stray cat. Last week I went away for a night and when I came back I discovered that he had a little fun while I was away. He managed to break into his catnip stash resulting in green all over a white rug. He also got into his bag of food, scattering it all over the kitchen. To make things worse, he missed the litter box and I had to mop the bathroom.

Worest mess was when I forgot about some candles burning. Had wax all in the carpet. Put a rag over it and ironed most of it up.

I was having "one of those days" where I was rushing around to get places and was being kind of flighty (as my mom would say). I had time to eat for maybe 2 minutes before I had to leave my house again, so I took out the salad dressing, threw some lettuce in a bowl then decided to shake up the dressing (which I had unfortunately already partially opened), italian dressing flew all over the kitchen. Needless to say, that two minutes was spent with my rags trying to make sure the oil didn't stain anything especially important instead of eating!

the worst mess was made by our dog who have a very bad upset stomach all our our living room hardwood floor. There were lakes of it everywhere. We had to first wipe it all up and then I used a floor washer vac to get the rest. It was pretty nasty.

For some reason, in graduate school, I accidently left some regular dish soap on a bowl i had placed in the dishwasher. I returned 30 minutes later to find the kitchen flooded and the dishwasher filled with bubbles.

I used old towels, newspapers, and probably a few thesis drafts to wipe up the water and a spatula (?!?) to remove the remaining bubbles from the machine.

The worst mess ever in my house was when I let 4 boys work on a science project for a competition. You name it, we had it, vinegar, glue guns, matches, wires, batteries; just let your imagination take over and that's about the half of it. This went on for several months before the big day and it was pretty messy. We used a lot of hand picking, wiping and our poor Kenmore vacuum that had seen better days to clean up this mess. Thank you for the chance to win a great vacuum!

We had a flood with like 4 inches of water in our basement (which is our finished family room). We pulled the rug out (after moving all of the furniture off of it and carrying one of the couches upstairs to save it. We used two shop vacs and towels for about 12 hours and actually saved most of our stuff (except the vinyl album collection which really sucks!).

The worst mess was probably when I knocked over a multi level plant stand. All the pots fell on the carpet, spilling out dirt everywhere.

with two dogs and two kitties i desperately need one!

Worst mess? Here ya go...

Six months into our marriage, we adopted two cats. I thought they were mellow mushballs.

Meanwhile, we started slowly losing socks. After each folded load of laundry, we'd have a handful of lonely socks. I put them into my "lost sock" basket, and assured my new spouse that they'd turn up.

One morning, I got up and went downstairs to discover our living room overturned. Cat fur was everywhere. Our ottoman was halfway across the room. All my knitting was spread out across the floor. Every remote control was scattered. Cat litter sprinkled everything.

I spent the morning with the vacuum, cleaning up the copious amounts of cat hair, gently vacuuming my now-totally-furred knitting, and putting everything back together.

As I vacuumed electric cords and started working behind the TV, I suddenly felt an omnious "pop- thwup" sort of sound. I reached down quickly... and discovered I was sucking up a sock! The cats had built themselves a lovely sock nest behind the TV. Every missing sock was back there.

And as it turned out, the mayhem was caused by the North American Flying Squirrels. They lived in the chimney. They were having (ahem) dance parties all night, which the cats crashed. It took the exterminators two weeks to get them all out.

The vacuum survived the ordeal.

The worst mess was the pervasive one; we remodeled over a period of months and there was a ton of thick white dust that got all over the household (drywall, etc.). We'd vacuum and wipe repeatedly, but just couldn't get rid of it. Finally when we were done the project, we had to go through each room and wash absolutely EVERYTHING. We essentially killed the vac this way, so sure could use a new one.

Red wine all over the carpet during a party!

The worst mess ever in our house was when we hired some contractors through a big box store, assuming that the big box would screen them for references and quality work. Big mistake. It took an entire year to get a vinyl floor put in a small kitchen and small laundry room and tiny half bath and replacing the pedestal sink in the half bath. The job involved flooding our basement, shouting matches over getting burned plumbing replaced, vinyl flooring bubbling up one foot high, a huge scratch in the middle of the kitchen floor, gigantic holes in the walls, a toilet leaking down through the floorboards, you name it, it probably happened.

That was our biggest mess ever. Now we use local, recommended contractors and always have pleasant experiences.

I have a dog and a turtle. My apartments very small so my turtles tank is in my living room area on the floor(just until I buy a table.) Well she requires sand in her tank. She has a log and her water bowl in there. My living room is carpeted by the way. Well she has a tendency of always putting her feet in the water also as well as drinking it so that brownish sand gets in there. One day, (I guess she wasn't particularly thirsty the previous day). The bowl which is made of rock fell out of my hands cause I was on my cell at the same time and my balance is crap to begin with and that brownish grimy water fell all over her, inside her tank and on my carpet. It was nasty to look at and to smell. It literally looked like doody.It took me a while to get it cleaned up and to remove the smell. With her I had to put her in her bath tub and just run luke warm water on her to get the sand off from on top of her. Now I make sure I'm not disrupted when I change her water! LOL

I spilled my cereal this morning. I need a vacuum to clean it up. Please don't make me wait ;)

I've been slowly switching over my home to a more eco friendly environment, and this vacuum would be an awesome addition to that switch. Since my neighbor doesnt monitor his dog when he goes to that bathroom in my back yard, I have on more than one occasion tracked in on the bottom of my shoes and very unpleasant stain on my brand new carpet. This vacuum would help out so much since my old one is about 10 years old.

my worst mess involved 4 dogs, a doggie door, a rain storm and enough time for the mud to dry. i came home from work and the living room was COVERED in dried mud. it took me hours to clean it all up. the doggie door was removed after that day as well. i currently have no vacuum cleaner (the old one died; maybe too much mud?) so this pretty Eureka one would sure be nice!

just what we need!

Recently I spilled a bowl of half set Jello on my floor and in my fridge. It was extremely hard to get up as it started gelling on the floor.

I dropped a half of a gallon of paint on the carpet. Luckily I had borrowed my daughter's carpet cleaner the week before and 4 hours after the spill I managed to get it all up. Phew!

I think I can pretty much top the 'worst mess ever' contest.

I had a very vindictive black cat, see. Her litter box was in the random little hallway closet in my old apartment that was really near to my bedroom. One night I went to bed and smelled what I thought was just extra-pungent cat poop in the box. As I slid my legs between my sheets I soon found out that it was indeed extra-pungent cat poop but it was in my bed, not the box. Needless to say I was covered in runny cat poop. To clean it up I immediately took a shower (and I think I cried a little). The sheets were not salvagable so I threw them out (they were white and there was no way that stain was coming out--plus, EWW!!). The mattress cover/mattress itself smelled like poop for a while, no matter how much Febreeze and Lysol I sprayed on them. Amazingly the cat was allowed to stay in my house but I never trusted her again.

Please, please send me the pretty pretty vacuum for my horror story, Apartment Therapy. Thanks!!

Having tile removed is an awful dusty mess. You have to vacuum every ten minutes.

I was just starting my vacuum to do some needed cleaning and heard this squeeking noice and the vacuum belt broke. Picked up the vacuum and all this blood and guts were on the floor. Turned out I had sucked up a mouse. I threw the vacuum away because it was just gross. I hope I win a brand new vacuum.

a friend's baby had an accident on my accent pillow and sofa. after rigorous rubbing with soap on the sofa and washing the pillow cover, I threw away the accent pillow and got me a sofa slipcover.

I decided to throw a party when I got my new place. I had the usual beverages and snacks. I wasnt paying close attention to all the guest just roaming around and enjoying myself. A few got a little too loaded and were putting out cigarettes on my carpet and throwing up all over the place. So my spanking new carpeting had to be replaced and these "friends" are no longer welcomed.

I recently shook a can of tomato juice to make sure it was all blended....only problem was that I was standing in my living room when I did this....and I had forgotten that I had already taken off the little tab on the top of the can.......so tomato juice flew all over my furniture, carpeting, front door.....EVERYWHERE! I used club soda and lots of blotting to get the stain out of the carpet, and I'm still working on the rest.........

The worst mess I've ever cleaned up was caused by my Chihuahua if you can believe it. While I was at work he got into my potted tree in the living room. There was wet dirt and torn up leaves from one end of the house to the other. Literally wet dirt everywhere, from the floors to the walls, all over the couches and chairs. It looked like he had the best time of his tiny life that day. It took me THREE DAYS to get it all cleaned up and even then you could find smudges of dirt where I missed them. It was a DISASTER. However, I love my dog so I forgave him. After all, it must have been quite a fun time for him that day, LOL.

I have Vacuum cleaner trauma! I bought my first brand new Vacuum cleaner last Christmas. I felt way too proper getting such a house-wivey gift, but I was in love.

The thing is German, especially made for allergy sufferers, drowns the dust in water, not a drop of particles escapes it, vacuumed like a charm, worth the little fortune it cost me... only it stopped working after 6 times of use, it won't turn on,no reason, it just won't.

then the sad part starts a million calls trying to find a customer service, it doesn't exist!!!!! If it were a power washer,ok, but it turns out they don't import the vacuums to the USA anymore and I'm on my own!!!! Argh!!! I managed to get the diagrams for it after finally finding a customer service lady that knew these vacuum cleaners existed... and the guys at the vacuum place couldn't open the engine part. I'm ready to give up on the thing... I do have other things to do!

I boiled a couple of eggs for some 6 hours once...

The worst mess that I have ever made was when I forgot about the a roast I had taken out of the freezer to make for dinner one night. I put it on the counter in a roasting pan and the phone rang.It was my girlfriend saying that on the spur of the moment some of our friends decided to go to the Jersey shore for the day. We didn't even pack anything as it was supposed to be a day trip. Well we ended up staying 3 days and when I got home I walked into an ungodly stench. It was the rotting roast on the counter. It was wriggling with maggots and I almost vomited when I saw it! It had leaked a bloody mess all over the counter and down the cabinets and the smell was indescribable. It took me hours of scraping and scrubbing with bleach while I wore a bandana over my nose and mouth. I always do a check of the house before I leave for anything now. So far, nothing like that has ever happened again.

Set my fridge on fire. THe bacon flared up and the fire on the stove caught next to the fridge.

My kids painted the bottoms of their feet with bathtub crayons and proceeded to walk all around the upstairs, leaving black and red footprints all over the carpet. How did I clean it up? What? You mean I was supposed to clean it up?

actually the kids threw the litter around the basement to make "snow". cleaned it up with a shop vac. A real mess

The worst mess in my home was def the time my saint bernard ate a bag of flour. If you didn't know- St Bernards drool so not only did she eat flour and get sick she made slobber "dough" and flung it all over the house. She left dough all over the rugs, the couch and up the wall. Then the cats walked through the pile of flour on the floor so I had tiny little white foot prints all over the house.
All and all the whole thing was pretty amusing. You could find it funny or you could get angry. I found it funny.

We had a beer can fight many years ago, next morning we picked them all up by hand.

I spilled an entire container of red Kool-ade powder on my carpet. You wouldn't think the dry power would stain, but it did. Plus it was sticky!

Funny thing . . .my vacuum has been on the fritz so a new one would be just what the doctor (and my carpet) ordered!

the worst mess was dropping a commercial jug of ketchup in my kitchen and the jug breaking there was ketchup everywhere. I got my family to help and we had to wipe down all the lower cabinets, all appliances and the floor. It was a terrible mess.

The worst mess was when we took down the popcorn ceiling in the living room...and didn't move anything out! We had white stuff floating around forever!

I made a jar of sun tea in one of those cheap grocery store jars with the push down spout. I set it on the counter, pushed down the spout, and the spout went all the way through to the floor. The tea gushed out and went EVERYWHERE. I was so surprised that I just stood there going "uh oh, uh oh" while my husband laughed and grabbed a towel. We also have two cats with a habit of throwing up while we're gone...so it's nice and soaked in when we get back home. A new vacuum would be oh-so-nice!

The baggers at the grocery store filled up a huge bag full of prego, canned foods, milk, and eggs trying to conserve, I guess. Well, when I got home and the bag tore. Guess what happened? Yep, everything splattered! What I did to clean it up was grabbed millions of towels, cleaned up as best I could, then mopped, and gosh, it was horrible. I did call the grocery store and got my money back, though...

Two years ago, I decided to spray paint my fridge (red) indoors. I am still working on clean this mess up.

That would be when the dogs had a pillow fight. Feathers all over the house. It took a broom, then vacuuming, followed by hand-picking the feathers out of the carpet.

My daughter pulled the backing off of about 5 markers, so the little ink rolls got all over the carpet...impossible to clean. We even hired professional carpet cleaners with no luck. There is now a rug hiding it. LOL.

Our usually-well-behaved mutt managed to eat a carton of eggs (yes, and ENTIRE carton) in the time it took us to run back to the car for a second trip of groceries. (Okay, so I chatted with my neighbor for a few minutes..) At that point all we could do was wait and see what it would do to his digestive system. Even though much of the mess -- though sadly, not all *sigh* -- was limited to the yard and the mudroom, it wasn't pretty... I'll spare you the details :)

A whole box of styrofoam beads got knocked over,I vacum them up

Gosh the biggest mess I have ever made was a couple of years ago, I was making brochures for our church and I had to add toner to the copy machine. I swear it was put in correctly, but as soon as I tried to make the first copy POOF, huge amounts of black toner went everywhere. I have never seen a mess so huge. This happened in my office at home, and I swear even now, two years later, I find that black toner on things.

Worst mess I've ever made has been my love life... It's a disaster... meaning I don't have one. I want to clean it up, maybe winning this prize will help.

dropped a bowl of red beets all over the floor. Luckily it was tile, the blood red mess wiped right up.

When I was in college, they decided to sand the sidewalks (in lieu of much more expensive salt) with local orange sand. It was nearly impossible to get out of the carpet and, if the carpet is still on the porch at my parents house, is probably still there. Would love a new vacuum!

Well, this is techinically someone else's mess but: I signed a lease for my new apartment beginning July 1st and went to get the keys the day before my roommate and I were supposed to move in (the 3rd) -- it looked horrible, it had not been cleaned in god knows how long and there were several large stains on the carpet (we were assured by the landlord that the apartment would be thoroughly cleaned before we moved in, but he's out of town and so his sister was handling the transition). We had no choice but do all the cleaning ourselves -- we were luckily able to reschedule the movers for two days after and spent a day and half painting the entire apartment as well as vacuuming and steam cleaning the carpets. The place looks ten times better now (we have before and after pictures), but at some point in my sleep-deprived state I changed the vacuum bag and it didn't seal tightly so I wound up with alot dust, etc inside my vaccuum and I'm afraid now that it may have gotten into the engine and will impair performance. That fact combined with the fact that I'm worried about how much utilities will cost in the new place would make me (and my two furry companions, one of which I'm a bit allergic to) really appreciate a new energy-efficient vacuum!

When I was in college, we had an ant problem, but couldn't figure out where they were coming from. no window trails, nothing, just random ants walking all over our counter tops. Well, one day I was cloroxing away and picked up the answering machine to clean under it and ANTS WENT EVERYWHERE. They'd made a nest. In my answering machine. So now I had 17 billion ants all over the counters, plus a lovely bunch of larva that had been living under the machine. After much screaming and freaking out, I decided to use Aquanet to kill all of them. I bagged up the machine and tossed it, then used clorox wipes to clean up the dead, sticky ants that were every where.

But at least we didn't have ants any more.

And besides my ridiculous story, I don't think I vacuum an hour a YEAR let alone a week, so I could probably use a vacuum that actually works so I'd do it. Thanks (:

My poor dog woke up with an upset tummy one night. Since he couldn't wake me up, he left the bedroom and got sick all over the living room carpet... in circles. That was not fun to wake up and clean but I was very thankful I had a mini carpet cleaner!

Gosh I could use that!

Oops, forgot the story! The worst mess was probably when I managed to spill salsa all over the couch trying to get the lid off. Luckily there was a slipcover so I was able to toss it in the washer but the red stain didn't completely come out.

My baby boy knocked his bowl of mushy cereal out of my hand and it went EVERYWHERE. Cleaned with old fashioned elbow grease!

Spilled a cup of tea on a Persian rug. Cleaned it up with lots of rags and a very weak vinegar solution.

I got very angry with my girls as I was applying my make-up. I threw my mascara down on the floor and it shattered and sprayed all over the floor and walls. It took hours with ajax on my hands and knees to scrub it off. That will teach me to loose my temper! :)

4 dogs 2 kids do i need to say more :0)

My worst mess was when my grandson knocked his plate of spaghetti on the floor, the sauce and noodles flew everyware and the plate broke so it was a mess trying to clean it up. Just lots of elbow grease and try!

We are in the middle of remodeling our condo, and the previous owners tiled everything, so we spent a week with a jack hammer to remove all the tile form the floors and walls. Our whole place was just a mess, endless vacumming, sweeping, wiping, and moping filnally got eveything clean.

I made a lemon meringue pie and dropped it just as I was taking it out of the oven. Almost all of it slid under the stove. I cleaned it up the old fashioned way. Hands and knees, remove door from broiler, and wipe up mess with rags and water. Continue until cleaned up. Used to be called elbow grease.

I don't want to get too graphic, but it involved our dog, who is known to have a very weak stomach, mooching almost half a pan of enchiladas from our next door neighbors. We woke up in the wee hours of the morning to our dog, Delmar, wretching and whinning. Landminds of vomit were all over the house. It started downstairs, continued on the stairs, down the hall and finally at the foot of our bed.

How did we clean it? We rolled up our pajamas, broke out the paper towels and simple greed and went to work. We have hardwood floors upstairs, which made that part of the job easy, but the downstairs has carpet. That was a bit more of a challenge. That involved a lot of elbow grease and a rented steam cleaner.

My little piles of sticks and grass vomit from two dogs on every carpet one morning can't compare to some of these posts, but it's a marvelous way to start the morning . . .

Hmm...it would have to be when my doggie has a tummy ache and considerately walks into the other room to vomit on my rug rather than on the wood or tile floor....good doggie!

The worst mess I made in my house is getting a dog. I love him more than anything, but he's a shedding machine. I could knit a sweater a week with all of the dog-hair dustbunnies in my house. In addition to various accidents around the house over the years (e.g., liquids, solids, paw prints), I just found out that he has ringoworm, so I'll have to vacuum the floors and furniture at least daily to get rid of all the spores. FUN!

Our apartment & ME would love this!!!!!

worst mess ive ever made: i store my rice in a plastic togo food container on top of my fridge. and i dunno if you know much about sand and how it likes to travel with you. well rice is the asian mans sand.

one day i was in the fridge doing my biz and it decided to fly off the fridge and onto the floor! it exploded into every tiny crack humanly possible. there was rice under the fridge, in the fridge, under the sink, in my socks... EVERYWHERE. so i just charged up our dirty dust buster and sucked that stuff rightttttttt up. SORTA. I still find rice stuck to my socks to this day...... =(

awesome for kitty hair

Broken stained glass pane that fell from the wall. Careful sweeping and use of wet towels.

I have a wool rug just calling out for a great vacuum!

worst mess usually stems from avoiding the task - i.e. not vacuuming under the couch for six months. I think a fancy new vacuum would help the situation!

Dog Poop everywhere (every imaginable cleaning tool)

I'd love for it to sweep up my cat hair tumbleweeds.

I have 2 dogs and a cat....need I say more

My wall to wall is on it's last legs, but the management company won't replace it. I need any help I can get to keep it looking presentable.

We are remodeling the 1950's bungalow my husband grew up in, last redecorated in - 1976.
By my very patriotic Mom in Law.

During my attempts to knock the yankee doodle dandy factor down, 10 grand worth of termite damage was discovered.
O Joy!
A simple wall crack repair turned into piles, and piles, and piles of termite goo encrusted sheet rock and flaking hole ridden wood.

I used a shovel and contractor garbage bags to clean it up because two vacuums died for the greater glory of a living room with less "Liberty Bell" wallpaper.

I'm scrubbing, sanding, priming, and painting the place right now. My ancient vac isn't up to the job. (And I'm not sure I am, either.)

it was ugly - last winter an upper GI virus quickly engulfed our 10 month old, myself and my wife within about a 6 hour time period. Puking frenzy for about 18 hours - requiring cleanup every 30 minutes or so. Hardest to clean was the stained grout on the kitchen tile - bleach, barkeeper's friend, you name it...

I have a 75lb dog and a nine month old. I need this vacuum.

The worst mess I ever made (not counting the demolition phase of a remodel) happened when I was still a smoker. I had a HUGE ashtray that I'd allowed to get completely full, and somehow (my mind seems to have repressed the details) I managed to tip it onto the (shag!) carpet. Picking up the butts and matches by hand still left a major pile of fine ash that quickly sifted down into the depths of the carpet. I kept vacuuming that spot harder than anything else, and it never did all come out.

I think the biggest mess is when I spilled water on my laptop >_

Eureka, I found it!

The worst mess I ever made was when I put regular dish soap in the dishwasher instead of dishwasher detergent...yeah...granted it was a 'clean' mess but I had about 4 inches of water and bubbles in my kitchen it took forever to clean it up, though its probably the cleanest the floor ever was!

It's too pretty to use!

Washable filter!!! Am I dreaming? One for me please!

Worst mess ever is probably the aftermath of a very crazy Halloween party, during which I lost my glasses. A friend took them home mistaking them for his. When I woke up, the house was covered in glitter, popped balloons, cracker crumbs, and plenty of beer bottles. I knew I was in trouble when I looked over from the couch and saw my cat eating a popped balloon. I cleaned it up very slowly with lots of pauses.

chunks of wall and plaster after while trying to hang pictures

food scraps and coffee grounds that "missed" the compost bin

a blender that bit the dust after slipping from my hands.

Spilled spaghetti on sofa. Luckily, our couch is microfiber so a little water did the trick nicely.

creating the floral arrangements for my mom's wedding...nothing like florist foam ground into carpet!

my vacuum died last night. I could sure use this now!

two long-haired animals = need for new vaccum

I spend most of my life in lab, so here's a lab mess:
we were using more than a millicurie of radiation and some of it somehow managed to get on my coworker's shoe and lab coat. She tracked it around for a little while before she stopped for the usual geiger counter check. Needless to say, the Geiger pegged out and she called me over to help her figure out what was contaminated. The lino was so badly contaminated that we just put down a giant sheet of plexi, her shoes and lab coat were put behind plexi to cool down (the isotope doesn't have a horribly long half-life) and a half hour later, it was all under control.

(note that we did follow protocol for cleaning these things up and this was all completely safe and within the guidelines for exposure as stated by the NRC; no lab people were harmed in the making of this episode.)

Then there was the time that an entire shelf of buffers decided to fall on my head. And yes, that included the bright blue stain and the big bottle of glass beads.

My rambunctious child knocked my full cup of dark-roast, french-press-made coffee onto the cream-colored Berber carpeting - right onto the pile of Cheerios she'd dumped out earlier. For some reason, I decided it would be a good idea to vacuum up the mess. With a regular vacuum cleaner, not a Shop Vac. I rolled the vacuum over it, and hot brown liquid, bits of coffee grounds, and sodden pieces of Cheerio flew everywhere. Six hours later, after three rounds of Oxi-Clean and four passes with the handheld steam-cleaner, I was still scrubbing.

spray painting indoors and thinking that I was careful enough to only use two sheets of newspaper. I was 13 years old, and trimmed the splattered paint on the carpet with a pair of scissors. haha, a method that I do not recommend.

Hm. Worst mess ever? Usually involves a clothes explosion-probably shouldn't try to get that with a vacuum, right? Well, I have to groom my dog in the bathroom and, no matter what, even when I clean him before we leave, hair seems to get everywhere. Blegh, a new vacuum would be great-I often host a little niece who is just learning to crawl!

My hairy old dog
Constant source of hair, mud, dirt
Must vacuum daily.

I hate my vacuum cleaner and usually just use the dustbuster while on my hands and knees. Please pick me and help me clean my daughter's cheerios each morning with more ease.

We tore out our ceiling last year.....blown in insullation and all and put up an entire new ceiling with new insulation and drywall. It was the biggest mess I've ever had to clean in my life!

The worst mess I ever made was in my kitchen using my Mother's old Mixmaster (huge white monster of a thing) to make a chocolate cake. I had always learned to keep my hand on the bowl as the machine turned with the blade motion. Suddenly, my 3 year old, who had been standing on a chair beside me, watching the action, started to fall backwards. I reached to grab him and the mixer went crazy, flinging chocolate cake batter all over the kitchen, me, my son and the dog. I couldn't stop laughing, and my son enjoyed licking the chocolate off of his hands and arms. The dog thought that she had died and gone to heaven, and I had one heck of a mess to clean up.

My husband makes most of the messes. He dropped a bowl of batter for chocolate molten lava cake. There was a glorious mess--up the walls, on the appliances, and on him. We're used to scrubbing.

I stayed at my girlfriend's house for a couple of weeks and came back to find my floor incredibly dusty because my housemate had been using my room with a bunch of people several nights in a row. I broomed about 3 pounds of dust across a long hallway and spread it all over his space.

Come home to find my dog had eaten a red marker. Red dye not only in his mouth and fur but stained the parquet floor. Even after all the spraying, soaking and scrubbing you can still see some of the marker on the floor.

My wife accidentally put way too much dishwasher soap in the dishwasher after we first got married--a few minutes later, the entire kitchen floor was covered in white foam. Luckily, it was soap, and so a mop and and some towels did the trick.

The worst mess I can think of right now is when my cat knocked a plate off the counter. It shattered glass far and wide on the kitchen floor. I cleaned it up with a broom and then a hand vacuum for the slivers.

I dropped a jar of spaghetti sauce on the white tile floor of my kitchen, which promptly splattered all over the white cabinets, fridge and stove. Lost a broom to that whole mess.

i don't know how many times i've accidentally poured coffee beans on the ground. i sweep them up, but manage to find beans every few days.

i had a basement full of sawdust, used a shovel, broom and shop-vac

The worst mess I ever had to clean up was when I was trying to change the toner cartridge in our fax machine and a piece had broke on the drum unit which made it get stuck. Not knowing what was causing it I ended up using a screw driver to get the toner out. Needless to say it broke open and toner was everywhere. On me on the floor on the cabinets. I used a hand vac to try and get up what I could then used wetted paper towels to get the rest then soap and water to make sure it was all off. Never did get what I got on me off of my clothes though.

Gotta be the time I dropped a jug of red Kool-aid. It landed right side up but exploded everywhere like a volcano. It was even dripping off of the ceiling. I had to take a shower and wash my clothes. It took several moppings, washing down almost the entire kitchen and using bleach on the ceiling to clean it up. You can still see a faint stain on the ceiling.

Forgot I had eggs on the stove hard-boiling - left house for 2 hours (!). Come home to a house fullllll of smoke, eggs had turned to black ovals with no water. I piled baking soda on every fabric surface in the place, left it for days, then vacuumed and repeated it twice more. Finally back to normal, though shaken by my idiotic move!

my roommates cat got into a pan of blue paint that i left out after a project... there was paint on the walls, all over the carpet, on the washing machine. we did not get our security deposit back.

just what i need, thanks!

might have been when I did the AT Cure! My dining room turned into a huge outbox with piles of stuff everywhere. Luckily it's all gone and out of my life now. :)

black shoe polish on the carpet!

Thanks for the contest!!!

I accidentally cut my hand open and blood went everywhere. I used Mr. Clean to clean it up LOL.

dropped uncooked cheese cake all over the stove. wiped and wiped and wiped up forever

i want to win

we put new heaters in the house recently, because of new placement we ended up havcing to redo 3 rooms. ceilings, paint rework the furniture,etc..... we are still doing this and the mess has been trying on all of us. hope to see it end soon.

With two small kids, everyday brings a new mess. The most recent nightmare: a devious product called "moon sand." It takes weeks to vacuum out of the carpet, even after only one use. I need this vac!

great for cat hair!

This vac wants me!

vrooooooooooooom.

Once I accidentally dropped an electric pencil sharpener spilling it contents all over the ground. It doesn't sound like much of a disaster, but the problem is that the powered graphite get everywhere. It ended up getting embedded in the carpet and the cat tracked it around the house. To this day, I have never been able to get the stain out.

The worst mess is redoing the living room. Lots of dust and plaster. Cean it it up with broom and vacumm.

oooh! i haven't vacuumed my apt since i moved in. i'm thinking this vacuum cleaner is calling my name.

The worst mess I made..... I have to blame this on my hubby. We found a very large spider in our living room. He took a big swat at the spider instead of picking it up and taking it outdoors. When he hit the "mommy" a million (and I do mean a million) baby spiders came running out in every direction. He had to vaccuum them up. It still makes me sad. He won't do that again!

easy. trying to remove wallpaper, fixing the walls (with a sort of gesso mix reccomended by a friend who is a pro) and repainting the same day.

Lets just say a lot of it is still there months later.

I had made french fries in our deep fryer for dinner and later (when the oil had cooled), I went to clean up and the fryer slipped. There was about a half gallon of cooking oil spread all over my kitchen. I used a lot of Dawn and a lot of paper towels. I swear I still find oily spots 3 years later! Thanks for the great contest!

When my sister and I were very young we used to put everything edible in the kitchen cabinets in a blender and blend them into "concoctions". Very wasteful....very naughty....VERY messy.

Had a party, drink got spilled on light carpet under the couch, didn't see it for about a month...took a week of almost continuous scrubbing on my hands an knees to fade that one.

I made a huge bowl of macaroni salad for a family barbecue. It needed to be refrigerated so I made every attempt to keep the massive bowl secure in the fridge. Unfortunately, after I opened it to take it out, it fell and splattered on the wood floors.The mess was ridiculous AND I had to buy something for the BBQ at the last minute. So crazy!

I dropped a warm, unopened can of root beer in my kitchen. It busted open and sprayed EVERYWHERE! All over my ceiling, cupboards, on and under my table and chairs, stove, refridgerator. I don't think it missed anything. I used lots of towels and all purpose cleaner to clean it up. Every now and then I still find a spot that I missed.

When I was about ten, my best friend and I decided to surprise my parents by cleaning the kitchen for them. We swept the floor, wiped down the counters, and even cleaned the inside of the microwave! The cherry on top of our clean-kitchen-sundae was going to be doing the dishes (my mom's least favorite chore) ALL BY OURSELVES. We got the dishwasher loaded without breaking a single dish, squeezed in some soap, closed the door and hit "start". Now ever-so-pleased with ourselves, we settled into the living room to watch TV and anxiously wait for our surprise to be discovered.

An episode or two of Full House later, my mom came downstairs and headed into the kitchen. Sure enough, our ears were immediately met with her cries of delight, and we scrambled into the kitchen to receive our ecstatic thank you hugs.

Turns out her cries of delight were more like cries of... shock and dismay. We ran into the kitchen to discover what could only be described as a tower of suds foaming out of the dishwasher and climbing its way onto the counter. My friend and I had unknowingly put a Dawn-type dish soap into the dishwasher instead of dishwasher detergent. Oops.

during a semester spent studying abroad in denmark i decided that i had it in me to become the next picasso. i invested in all the necessities, set up a "studio" (a corner of my tiny flat with an easel and a small table covered in paints and wash bins) and away i went to create masterpieces. forgot about my clumsiness and in the middle of a large canvas piece i tipped off my stool onto the small table and sent oil paints, mostly dark colors, splattering onto the (of course) light beige carpet. tried everything to get it up, but conceded defeat and was forced to pay to replace the carpet when the semester was over and i moved out.

I'll give it to the male half of a newly married couple who suffers from terrible allergies.

The worst mess I made was at my now wife's apartment. I had made coffee before she woke up and decided to foam it up with an aero-latte. I had never used and aero-latte before, I guess I should have had my coffee first. Anyways, I turned it on and dropped it into the mug of milk, sugar, and coffee. I splattered coffe on every once of the kitchen and the breakfast bar area. Now I know to submerge it into the coffee then turn it on.

What a mess.

Well the biggest mess I've ever done, was about a month and a half ago when i left the oil on, a little too long, while making breakfast, on top of the stove. The oil caught on fire, got bigger and bigger, melted the microwave, and set off the sprinklers!!! Well, the sad thing is the sprinklers went off for 2 hours....and unfortunately i had clothes on the floor as well as my mattress, so just imagine how an inch of water can mess things up...I had clothes swimming around, taking me far away to the Venice canals, but in a not so romantic way. Finally, the firemen came, and "fixed" everything by breaking the toilet, and making a bigger mess. In the end the MESS WAS SO HUGE, I gutted the apt, and with my own two lil hands renovated it all. :)

I once spread vaseline all over my bedroom as a child so any trespassing spiders would walk across it and be trapped in the goo. I was too young to be forced to clean it up, but that was a bad mess.

I took in an injured stray cat. It peed EVERYWHERE. I had to buy one of those black lights and pour an enzyme solution on each spot. It actually worked.

I got Chef Boyardee pizza sauce everywhere in my kitchen--my wife wasn't happy! LOL! I used 409 to clean it!

I'm generally a bit messy, but yesterday my housekeeper broke the vacuum so now how will I clean up the spiders in the corner?

It had to be when we put our addition on and lived through it. I decided I didn't need a GC, that I would be able to do it. Oh what a mess. Sheet rock dust and all, we survived but I do think our minds have a way of looking for that light at the end of the tunnel and just trudging through. Don't know how the mess got cleaned up, but it did.

Our dishwasher broke and drained into our dining area. We used a shop vac.

Hmm... let's see. Throwup, pee, poop... food splatters... anything a baby or toddler can dish out. Carpet spray, disinfectant, vacuum, sometimes the bathtub is needed.

Worst mess: Boyfriend says "Hey, these cups contain lead! It says so on the bottom." "Really?" I ask as I take my coffee cup, flip it over to see and... did I mention it was full?
Hot, black coffee spilled all over our white carpet. Took a rented Rug Doctor and 2 hours of patience to get it out.

Dropped a pan of chili all over the kitchen floor, splattered EVERYWHERE... used a whole roll of paper towels (and still found little splatters months later in random places).

Wow--a vacuum I would actually use. Gorgeous!

I did the dish-soap-in-the-dishwasher thing, too--I think I was about ten. What a nightmare to mop up.

Ok. I didn't create this mess...but we live in a 150 year old house and when (after only living there for a few weeks) our hot water heater broke, we had to remove the old one and get a plumber to install a new one (landlord was out of town)....when we removed the old hot water heater we found a defunct rat nest underneath...complete with a 1950's looking package of rat poison someone had just tossed down there at some point...gross. With the plumbers waiting behind us (not helping of course), we had to get gloves, throw the entire nest into garbage bags, vaccuum up the remants with our vaccuum attachment, and then pour disinfectant on the floor.

my toddlers love to go potty behind chairs so they can paint the walls with it.. so gross

I dropped a five pound bag of flour once, and it went all over the kitchen. I swear, I swept 20 pounds up and still had flour all over the place.

We live at the beach and the worst mess in my home was made by an army of surfers. As far as I can tell it hasn't
been cleaned up yet.

My husband & I went out of town for the weekend & thought with a little extra food & water, our cats would be fine on their own. WRONG! When we came back, there was vomit allllll over the living room -- one of them must have gotten really sick. It was so gross.

bathtub infested with ants... millions of ants.
i used a jet-vac and gave my months noticed.

there are many but probably when son washed and overloaded and went to wrok, mess and more mess

Not the worst mess I ever made, but the worst mess my FRIEND made at my house: On her way to my bathroom, located at the very back end of my long Victorian flat, she managed to throw up on just about every surface in my home, rugs, floors, walls. Yikes, an outrageous mess to clean up.

We hired a man to remove the tile in our entry way. We said we didn't want any dust in the rest of the house. He said, "No problem." I left for a while, and when I came back, there was grout dirt and dust all over the living room, including the roll of new carpet that was scheduled to be laid the next day.

Dropped a huge pot of spaghetti sauce that flew from my kitchen into my living room. Took a long time with the rug scrubber to get all the red sauce out.

I had a cat with a bad habit of marking the corners of the rooms. Yuck. I am thankful that I had a steam cleaner to help with the mess.

The worst mess I ever made was when I was actually trying to clean! I lived in a fairly large house with all tile floors and decided to tackle mopping them one Saturday morning. However, I was distracted by the phone and actually put double the cleaning solution in the mop bucket and ended up with a house FULL of bubbles & suds! I LITERALLY had to bring the garden hose inside the house to rinse most of it outside! Took me FOREVER!! Bought a floor cleaner shortly after that and vowed NEVER to try and mop an entire house again!!!

The biggest mess I've had to clean up lately was a bottle of maple syrup that my (then) 2 year old poured out in his room. I used the steamer and lots of towels to clean it up.

One big post-party fiasco....sticky beer residue, food, dirt, you name it. It took a lot of elbow grease - we even had to get a scraper to get gunk off the tile floor!

I love the reduction in watts!!

I have to admit, I don't make many messes (luck, I guess). At least none that are entertaining. My son, on the other hand, broke 6 eggs onto the carpeted play room floor because he wanted to make his plastic Easter eggs "real" by transferring the contents (he was 4). Needless to say, my husband ran out to rent a carpet cleaner machine and we shampooed the carpet. Thanks for the giveaway- I may not be messy, but my kids are!!:-)

Vacuum dying...please send help.

I was carrying in a new bag of cat litter from the car this morning and as I came through the door one of my kittens jumped om my leg and scared me causing me to drop the bag of litter.
As soon as it hit the floor it burst everywhere. Needless to say causing a huge mess.
I swept up what I could and vacuumed the rest.
Thank you so much for offering this wonderful giveaway.
I would LOVE to win and could desperately use a new vacuum !

Ice blue? Whoohoo!

My husband spilled a bucket of water in the kitchen and decided to clean it up by vacuuming it with our brand new Dyson. I discovered the molded canister the following week. Disaster.

EUREKA!!

My daughter left a candle burning and wax got all over the carpet. We took paper towels, blow dryer and lots of elbow grease and finally got all the wax out. Didn't hurt the carpet a bit.

worst mess ... candle wax and india ink, don't ask

a bag full of used kitty litter broke open. yum. swept and swept, then disinfected the floor and the broom. my next pet was a dog.

i decided put the finishing touch to our new painted wall in our new apartment, since there were only a few spots that needed to be retouched, i didn't put cover on the carpet thinking that it was just a quick job and didn't want to do the extra step (lazy me) long and behold, spilled paint on our new carpet!

eureka!

My two year old had a stomach bug and it was coming out both ends. My wife was trying to clean up the carpet and she lost it. What a mess!

Well, the dog I just got at the shelter can't keep anything down...How did I clean it? Well, I ripped the carpet off and now I have hardwood floor....much easier to clean!

My worst mess was a few months ago. We bought a fixer-upper, and I'd been painting trim like mad. I opened a new can in the guest bedroom (soon to be nursery now though), got a cup full, then went back to painting.

About an hour later after painting and a short break, I come back in to find a tipped over can of white paint all over a chair, down a table leg, and all over the new tan carpet. And little CAT pawprints in white leading from the scene of the crime.

After many expletives, we somehow cleaned it up so that you can only see the faintish spot if we told you it as there. It took 2 hours of scraping and scooping up paint back into the bucket, then ruining the rug cleaner but still somehow getting most of it out. And then cutting paint off of the stupid cat.

We need a new vacuum too now - same dumb cat ruined our current one in a way. Hubby thought it was a good idea to use it to clean up the cat litter Dave had flung from his box instead of following standard broom procedure. Now whenever we use it little bits of litter get shot out like projectiles.

The worst mess we made in our home was an accident. We ran out of storage space and stuck a bag of Tostitos in the oven, then forgot it was there! We had to open all the windows to air things out and vacuum up the ash inside the oven :( *Thanks* for the giveaway!

Worst mess I ever made was when I dropped a sack of flour and it burst open and covered my kitchen. I had to spend hours with the vacuum and I am still not sure I got it all to this day.

There are so many messes so little time.................One year for New Year's Eve, we had the family over to celebrate. We had a great time and everyone was getting along.
We managed to only have a few small accidents with drinks getting spilled on the carpet.
We were counting down to the New Year and my neice pulled out this garbage bag. She decided to make confetti (how nice of her) to throw at midnight. Before I knew it, there was very small chunks of every color paper you could think of. It wasn't just a few handsful either. There were enough trees on my floor to shade the neighborhood.
After the majority of the family left, I decided to try to clean some of the mess so I would not have so much to do in the morning. Oh my gosh! What a mess.
I had to pick most of it up with my hands because the vacuum would not pick it up. Then, I tried to use the broom. That worked for the most of it.
It is July now, and I am still picking up pieces of confetti. UGH!
The party will definitely NOT be at my house this year. And I hope they are prepared, because I saved most of the confetti.

I spent hours scraping old paint off of old windows (inside and out) in my newly moved in house. Whoever painted it before me (and several times at that), forgot that they weren't supposed to paint on the glass too. Scrape scrape scrape with a razor blade, making a huge mess below the windows, and sore fingers. Fortunately, my neighbor had an excellent vacuum she let me borrow to clean up all the mess.

Drywall. Mud. Plaster. Sanding................and vacuuming for months!

The worst I can think of was while I was at work my dog got a hold of a feather pillow. I found feathers for years they were everywhere. To top it off my windows were open and it was a windy day, feather all through the house.

I use a kitty litter that turns to fine sawdust after it is used. On more than one occasion, when trying to empty the box into a trash bag, I have dropped the entire contents onto the carpeted floor. The shop vac and the Roomba (which has stopped working) usually takes care of the mess.

I was about 2 months pregnant and was wiping the kitchen counter when I suddenly vomited all over it! I had my husband clean it up!

The apartment complex had shut of the water to do some work. I came home and tried to turn on the faucet. I got confused and wasn't sure which way was off. I turned in all the way in the direction of my best guess and left.

It was on the second floor. We came home to a waterfall.

Towels please!

My daughter was a little girl of three. She was always very helpful. I was talking about getting the carpets shampooed with my husband. My little helper took the shampoo from the bathroom and spilled it all over the rug in the master bedroom. I had to rent a steam cleaner and it took several days before the last bubbles stopped.

My new baby chihuahua got horribly ill after eating some wood chips in the garden. She vommited all over my comforter, carpet and the couch. I washed the comforter, scrubbed the carpet and couch. Could never get the smell out of the couch... so I bought a new one.

The worst mess I had was when the water line in the fridge came loose while we were sleeping and we had water 2 inches deep in three rooms of our house.

jar of jelly all over the kitchen. Just wiped and wiped and wiped and grumbled.

Our worst mess was the unfortunate result of trying to prevent mess. Offender was the cat, Bill. We heard the beginning of cat upchuck, made a panicked dash to prevent cat leakage, grabbed cat and spun in arc to get him outside. However, belly pressure was too much and instead of getting him to safer territory, we exploded our cat in a Jackson Pollock-esque arc of vomit across the living room. There must have been three gallons...it was awful.

Cleaning up was as expected, several rolls of papertowels and much gagging from my cat-chuck sensitive husband.

I was trying to fill a canister with sugar and somehow dropped the bag and got the sugar all over my floor. It was awful and it seemed like I would find grains of sugar in unexpected places for the longest time.

4 cats and 3 dogs.... I guess I don't need to explain more...

Printer ink leaked all over the floor and left huge black spots. I cleaned it with Shout, Resolve, and a steam cleaner. It turned all different colors as it was being cleaned, and never completely came up!

Just this past week, I was watching my nephew. His parents had switched him out of diapers to Pull-Ups without telling me. He's usually so easy to lay down, but the other day he just wouldn't lay down. I walked over to him to lay him back down, and he was soaked! He had peed everywhere. No wonder why he couldn't lay down comfortably. I used this Bissell Foam Carpet Cleaner and finally got the smell out. What a mess! Lesson to all: Let the sitter know when your kids are in training pants! :D

My biggest mess is when I made homemade applesauce and mashed the hot apples so hard bits of hot applesauce went flying onto the ceiling, walls and the curtain of the kitchen window. Then in shock because it was hot on my skin I spilled it down the front of the cupboards and onto the floor.

We're potty learning with my two year old son. Every day brings a new mess. Add a curious black lab into the mix and I've got big trouble. My biggest weapon is paper towels, baking soda, vinegar, and the Swiffer.

last week, I knocked over a bag of ground coffee from the top shelf of the fridge all the way to the floor and the coffee was in every little area in the fridge, what a mess

my biggest mess ~ how about a 3 year old getting into a can of bright red paint? He painted the carpet, some furniture and himself! Got it off the kid but strategic furniture placement had to do for awhile to cover the carpet. And he made it to adulthood (go figure!)
Now it's just a retriever/chow mix who doesn't like to be brushed. Hairballs everywhere.......

The worse mess I've made was when I was getting ready to leave for my aunt's surprise party. I was leaveing early to help when I stepped into the bathroom for one last look in the mirror. I reached for my lipgloss & pulled out my nail polish. Figuring that I wouldn't need mail polish at the party, I went to place it on one of my storage baskets on the tank of the toilet. The bottle slipped out of my hands and broke on the tiled floor. The bathroom look like a crime scene due to the dark wine color of the polish. My leg also looked like it had been through battled as polish splattered all over. I tried to clean it up as best as I could with acetone but was pressed for time. To this day you can still see some color that stained the grout.

I had just watered my indoor plant when my dogs camer running knocked it over and it went all over my white carpet. I tried everything to get it up but there is still a stain there.

My son was attempting to clean out the guinea pigs cage and dumped the whole thing on the carpet. I vacuumed it up but there's still a stain.

When I was a child, the new ketchup in non-breakable plastic bottles was introduced, replacing the standard glass bottles.

I decided to take full advantage of the new technology by balancing the bottle on my head to get it from refrigerator to table.

When it fell, it exploded. Ketchup all over the floor, cabinets, ceiling, doorway. I mopped the kitchen and wiped the counters and cabinets. My poor mother had to mop the kitchen ceiling and take down the light fixture to clean it.

Worst mess I ever made was with baby powder and baby oil when I was a kid, and I don't think I had to clean it up, my Mom did!

When my kids were younger, they got into an economy size tub of chocolate drink powder and had by the time I realized it was too quiet, they and the floor were covered in chocolate! I used the vacuum for the dry stuff and carpet cleaner mixed with a little elbow grease for the rest!

My worst mess disaster involved cooking. I wasn't paying attention and a bubbly burning sticky mess came out over the top of the pot and coated the front of the stove. It took some work and some elbow grease but I finally did it.

When my daughter was about 8 years old she wanted to fixed dinner. So I let her cook a tv dinner of chicken and dumplins. After it was cooked, she dropped it on the floor and the juice was everywhere, under the frig and island. It was the stickest mess I ever had to clean up.

Trying to push a lid down on a bowl of goopy, sticky teriyaki sauce-the bowl slipped off the front of the counter and went everywhere on a rug in my kitchen. I cleaned it up by throwing out the rug, it was too icky for me to mess with lol.

my worst mess was when my Daughters BIG Beanbag busted and little Styrofoam balls everywhere :( ! I vaccumed for an Hour and still found some 6 Month later :)

Red hair dye! I recently dyed my hair red and jumped in the shower to rinse it out, opened my eyes and it had splattered everwhere, all over the white painted walls! I got it off the shower wall but it's still on the paint, LOL, I'm gonna have to paint over it!

I'll never forget when my daughter opened a 2-liter bottle of soda but didn't twist the lid the entire way. It had been shaken earlier and soda went through the crack in the half-twisted lid like it was shot through a cannon. Soda EVERYWHERE! It took a lot of elbow grease with wet washclothes to clean up!

The absolute worst mess that was made on my carpet was when my house flooded during a hurricane. I had hundreds of earth worms that "washed" into my house and they ended up get smushed into the carpet. Who knew that earth worms are oily creatures. Ugh...what a mess. I ended up tearing up all of the carpet and putting in ceramic tile, thanks to my insurance policy. Oh, this brings back memories.
Thanks for the nice and clean giveaway.

Moving foods so we could renovate the kitchen. So many things dropped and spilled that day.

A storm knocked out the power which meant no sump pump and the basement flooded a bit in one corner. I had to run up to the local grocery at 12:30 am to rent a steam cleaner and sop up water until 2 am. Fans dried everything out with no ill effects.

I was taking my plants into the bathroom for a shower in the bathtub and ended up dropping one of the plants on my bedroom floor. What a mess trying to get potting soil out of the carpet. At least it was before the plant took the shower so the soil was dry.

The biggest mess I created was a kitchen fire - dripped buring grease all over the floor and sink.

I exploded a vacuum cleaner bag on the stairs. Then I shook up a 2 liter Coke and let it explode right on top of the mess I already had. I don't remember cleaning it up, but I guess I did.

My boyfriend brought in a rather large Shopvac to clean up a remodel project with a lot of dust, dirt and sawdust. The vacuum was not emptied and the hose fell out when it was not in use. The next time we used it to clean up in our bedroom and me not being aware that there were two different outlets, I put the hose back in but in the blow outlet instead of the suction outlet so a lot of the previous projects contents where blown all over the carpet and bedding. Now both outlets have been relabeled so this doesn't happen again.

I think the worst mess was when we had carpet in the bathroom and the toilet overflowed and soaked everything. It was a stinky vile mess. I had to get out the green machine and first soak up with the wet vacuum as much as I could and then I shampooed the rug a few times. Having carpet in the bathroom is not recommended. My husband just ripped that out of there about a month ago. We're on plywood floors now but it's better than the smell of a carpet.

I am in!

This would be a great win! Let's just say...don't use regular dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher. I had to mop up buckets of bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles! (The kitchen floor has never been cleaner!) Thanks!

i love to clean!

I really need this!!!

spilled crazy glue on the desk. scraped it off, but didnt get it all off

Baby spit-up on friend's white carpet. Wipe away as much as possible, then used damp cloth with baking sode to wipe away the rest. She thought I'd ruined here carpet but it cleaned up perfectly.

avocado throwup was the worst thing so far that i've had to clean up with a 10 month old in the house. so i could really use this or everything in the world to help me with cleaning!

the kids thought it would be cute to make "snow" out of styrofoam. for 3 days we swept and vacuumed to get that stuff out of the carpet.

I am an artist and the worst mess I have made and am still making is in my studio. I have paint on the walls and all over the floor.

Recently at my grandson's birthday party we had fruit punch for the kids. Several of them thought it would be funny to run through the living room, on my newly cleaned carpet, playing chase. Several cups of fruit punch spilled all over the room (and the walls) and it is very hard to clean up. The carpet is off-white and shows everything. I've had to clean it several times with carpet shampoo and a scrub brush.

Confetti filled eggs at Easter time, a dozen for each kid (4 kids) and they broke them in the house because it was too cold outside. I vacuumed it up with my crummy vacuum which took forever.

The worst mess I've made in my apartment was when I was making dinner and a glass bowl full of dry Au Gratin potato mix exploded sending cheese, potato, and glass to every corner of the kitchen. Ooops, I had left the bowl with the mix on the front burner, and had water in a pot ready to boil on the back burner. Unfortunately, I had turned on the wrong burner to boil the water without realizing it and what a messy disaster that was! How did I clean it up? By broom and dustpan, actually getting down on hands and knees to make sure I didn't miss a single sliver of glass. What a huge mess!

Lucky, I have not had any major accidents. The worst so far was when the washing machine overflowed. At least it was clean water and I just had to mop it up.

One time I was making dulce de leche at home, and the can exploded caramel all over the ceilings. I literally had to mop the ceiling to get it all off.

Last year, my college graduation party - the refuse was amazing. Somehow, at some point during the night, confetti was created. The next morning the whole house was filled with bits and pieces, bottles, dishes, and food. The fail-safe way to clean up in an instant is to rally up the forces (friends, roommates) to do a quick clean. Everyone gets a task and it doesn't seem so horrific in the end.

put a bag of groceries on the couch and a bottle of bleach spilled all over the cushions. there was no way to clean it so i had to buy a new couch!!

my daughter dropped the bottle of acrylic paint and I cleaned like forever with water on the carpet. Still it is not gone completely.

Everyday it seems like myself of someone in our family is making a mess. The worst, or grossest was when I dropped an entire carton of eggs on the kitchen floor and they all broke. I am sure this has happened to others before, and if it has you know it is horrible to clean up. You get the gags over and over again! I ended up cleaning it up with old rags and method floor cleaner. It worked well, and the pleasant smell of "Method" made it a little easier! But, we are constantly vaccuming in our home because we like to enjoy life and with that comes messes that we constantly make and then clean up after ourselves!

Very nice, looks light weight. My best friend needs a vacuum really bad. It would be great to be able to give it to her...

I once spilled a whole bucket of water on my carpeted floor. Took forever to get it all absorbed!!

Just spent hours investigating vacuums online. So I need one!

I was crushing pizza boxes to put them in the recycle bins and one of them *just wouldn't crush*. So I dropped it on the floor and STOMPED on it. Well, it wouldn't crush because of the garlic butter containers were still in the box. It went EVERYWHERE - carpet, cabinets, walls, chairs.... I got most of it up with paper towels, but there are still some stains on the cloth seat covers. The garlic smell faded eventually. :)

The worst ever mess I had was when the roof leaked water all over after a storm. Water dripped out of my ceiling and many spots and flooded the carpet and all my things. I used a wet vac and had to use a carpet cleaning machine after and lysol all my walls.

Sanding a desk creates A LOT of dust. I'm talking all over. A lot of vacuuming had to take place.

Too many "worst" ones for me, unfortunately. The vacuum handled dumping over a whole bag of flour. It was no help when a can of paint spilled -- that ruined carpet and floor!

My worst mess was when the bad kitty knocked several plants over one day and the dirt and kitty hair were EVERYWHERE!

The worst mess was when we watched a friends small dog. She got out of her pen, tore up a pillow, chewed holes in three cereal boxes and broke a jar of marshmallow creme on the kitchen floor.
It took a good couple of hours of scrubbing to clean it up!

stupid kid (that would be me, many years ago) dishwasher super sudsy dish soap (not the dishwasher kind) = several inches of suds spilling out of the dishwasher and over the entire kitchen floor. it was a ridiculous mess. i mopped for hours.

I am a single mom who's vaccuum died a year ago and I haven't been able to buy another one because I can hardly feed my family. I need this so so so bad. You can imagine how my apartment looks without a vaccuum for a year. Please help

My floors really need theapy/

The worst mess was re-plastering the kitchen ceiling - dust everywhere, and alot of vacuuming. Alot.

I would love to win this giveaway! As for the biggest mess I ever had??? That is too hard to answer. I live with lots of dogs so there is usually a new mess every day!

I was repotting a plant - and happened to get soil and mulch all over the floor -- swept it up first - dumped most of the soil, and then went over the floor with my vac -- the plant ended up dieing too! lol.

ok it might not be appropriate, but after a night of heavy drinking I threw up in my friend's room. She too had been drinking heavily and decided to vacuum the vomit which busted the vacuum.

the worst mess would be dropping a plant on a white carpet. the dirt gets way down in the carpet. wish i had a good sucking vacuum to clean it up. i ended up having to wash the carpet sometime later and forgot about the dirt. i had a big mud puddle then...geez

trying to take the vacuum cleaner bag off my vacuum and it ririps and all the dust etc.. flew everywhere,i had to put a new bag in and vacuum all over again

The worst I remember was having a garbage bag full of kitchen waste break open on the carpet just before Christmas, releasing a little bit of everything and a lot of buttery, sugary, and floury cookie-making leftovers. I vacuumed some of it u, but had to use a variety of carpet cleaners and club soda to get the rest up. Lordy, lordy.

Spilling a bottle of red nail polish on my cream colored carpet.
I worked for days trying to get it out of my carpet.

Has to be when the bottle of henna (hair dye) slipped out of my gloved hands and all over the bathroom sink, walls, and shower. You would NEVER think it would make such a terrific mess, that stuff stains immediately. Plus as I was trying to clean it, henna was running into my eyeballs from my dripping hair. Oh what fun. Even Clorox and scrubbing like crazy for hours on end only worked somewhat. My husband ended up getting it all up over the weekend when I was out of town, Lord knows how he did it.

Our dog ran into several plants that were all together in a row on our bay windowsill, dumping dirt, gravel, and plants all over. We scooped up what we could and then swept up the rest with the shop-vac, and then we re-potted all of the plants.

My worst mess was when I cleaned my laundry room and was cleaning dust off the water hose on the washer. I apparently didn't put the hose back the way it was supposed to be because the next day when I washed clothes water went all over the laundry room, family room, kitchen, powder room, and entry. I freaked and grabbed every towel, sheet, blanket I could find to mop it up. Won't make that mistake again!!

The worst mess would either have to be the fire in the kitchen or the broken water heater.

The stinkiest mess was the broken freezer. We discovered it after we arrived home from a 2 week vacation. I couldn't remove the smell. We ended up having to take it to the dump.

Nail polish, got it mostly on a throw away carpet and some natty clothes so no big deal. Wiped the floor with that and some cleaning cloths. Threw another rug over the stain!

great vac!

My son got a hold of my baby powder and that was quite a mess, it went everywhere in my bedroom.

I have three dogs - clean rug??? What is that??? One is 120 lbs.....I could really use this baby!

One of the biggest messes I ever made was in my first apt..
I was making (or trying) to make deviled eggs for a party. The largest pan I had was actually not a pan at all. It was glass bakeware. I filled it with water, put in the eggs, covered it & turned it on high. About 12 min. later I thought a bomb went off in my kitchen. Glass, semi-hard boiled eggs, & shells everywhere. I used the broom, vacuum, mop, towels, cleaner & not just once-but many times over to get this disaster cleaned up. I found glass for months-ahhh it was a true mess! & I am now an expert hard boiled egg maker;)

My biggest mess was either plant soil everywhere after my brother knocked over my plants on several ocassions or paper everywhere from emptying the shredder.

oh man, so many! cant just pick one

It wasn't really a mess *I* made, but we had a sudden warm spell in the middle of winter after about a foot of snow. It brought rain and a great deal of melting, and as a result, our basement flooded ... the basement we had just had carpeted a couple of months ago. It required a lot of towels, copious use of the dryer, and the eventual purchase of a dehumidifier and a shop vac.

My pet Lab was left alone for the first time when she was six months old. She destroyed the house, she actually ate a hole through the bathroom door, she ripped apart the couch, cushions and all. The poor wicker laundry baskets were ripped to shreds. I dont think any of our shoes survived. It was like a hurricane hit. We had to throw everything out, even the carpets.

I just moved so this will come in VERY handy.

well it would have to be when I ledt a towel on top of my kiln and filled the house up with smoke - unfortunately I had to hire a cleaning service to get that mess taken care of!!

The worst mess I ever made was when I dropped an entire open container of flour on the kitchen floor. The worst part was that one of my cats was at my feet and she got it on top of her, plus started tracking it all over! It took me forever to vacuum it all up and then wipe down all the other spots it hit.

The worst mess made was in my kitchen. My goofy cousin was over visiting and we sat down for supper. As we were talking about something he decided to stand up and demonstrate what he was talking about with a ketchup bottle. He went to swing the bottle and it hit me ceiling light sending glass and ketchup flying everywhere. It took lots of wet rags, soad and water to clean that mess up.

worst mess - was probably when i was emptying out my current vacuum (one of those shark stick vacs) and dropped the dust container right in front of the trash can... you can guess what happened... dust and crap everywhere floating in the air all over. in an attempt to clean it up i put the dust container back in the vac and sucked up as much as i could, but all the little floaty bits were lost in the air...

I use to keep old coffee cans to put drained grease from frying hamburger and such. I grabbed in from under the sink to pour some grease in and the can sliped out of my hands popping the top off spilling gummy grease all over the kitchen carpet! What a mess. I soaked up as much as I could with towels, wet vac and carpet cleaner. To this day, that spot keep coming back!

the worst mess, was made by my 13 yr yr olf twins when they were 1. they "painted" the walls with their poopy diapers. i cried and cried while cleaning the walls with bleach

I would have to say my worse mess was a long time ago shortly after my husband and I were married. I got really mad at him one day after sending him to the store and he had returned late. He had brought back a 5 lb bag of flour for me and I picked it up and threw it at him. He ducked the flour hit the wall and exploded. Needless to say, I learned a couple valuable lessons that day. One, never do anything in the heat of anger, especially when you're the one who has to clean up after yourself. The other, if you are going to explode a bag of flour don't do it near your air conditioner intake.

The worst mess I have made wasn't exactly huge but really hard to clean up! I cook my frozen pizzas straight on the rack. When it's done, I take a spatula and coax it out onto a flexible cutting board. Well this time the board was too flexible and my pizza started to fall...I caught 1/2 of it. The other 1/2 ended up in the crack of the oven where the door meets the oven, cheese dripping all down into the cracks and out the other end. THEN I dropped the other 1/2 flat on the floor. So...I had melted cheese all over the oven, the door, in the cracks, on the floor AND no dinner. I left it to harden then cleaned it up with good ol' antibacterial wipes.

The worst ever had to be the exploding bottle of hair dye. It actually did not explode, it was more of a spray when I shook it to mix and forgot to hold my finger over the top! My teenage car fund monies went not for the car of my dreams or even new clothes, but toward the replacement carpeting that I ruined... A hard lesson at 17!

I was being a friend and let a friend?? stay at my house ,she left and shut everything off,in the winter and didn't tell me. When I got there ,the pipe above the dinning room broke,ceiling was falling down,water all over the place. What a mess!!It was not fun cleaning up and its sure I don't talk to her anymore.

I was touching up scratches on a dresser with wood stain and spilled the can on white carpet. I had to cut a replacement piece of carpet from a closet floor.

A whip cream fight when I was younger. We just used soap and water to clean it. Thank you!

My puppy got into my rubber tree plant. She chewed off several of the leaves and dug up almost all of the soil and then tracked it all over the rug and carpet.

I cleaned it with my bare hands, a broom, vacuum cleaner and loads of carpet cleaner.

actually, my whole house is the biggest mess i've ever made, but i still haven't cleaned, i'm sure this would help greatly!

... a pair of 12 & 13 year olds pool backyard Yellow Lab = muddy paw / footprints on the kitchen floor AND on carpeting throughout the house. (Oops, the dog runs inside an open door, kids give chase, etc.)

The cleanup involved bucket & mop, a rented carpet cleaning machine, and a vacuum !!!

i spilled the dog poop I "cleaned" all over the floor,via ripped trash bag

I'm usually very careful about avoiding spills and messes, but once I was carrying a case of Pepsi up the stairs to my kitchen when the bottom fell out (it had gotten soggy from the rain when I was carrying in the groceries). Cans proceeded to fall out and before I knew it several had hit the stairs and landing, piercing them and sending sprays of soda every which way on the walls and carpet. I used a ton of spot remover and Mr. Clean to take care of that mess!

Making cream puffs can of cream exploaded all over the dining room walls, carpet, chairs, table cloth and linens that were set for Christmas dinner. What a mess 10 minutes before everyone started arriving.

My worst mess coincidentally was with a vacuum. I checked the bag to see how full it was and apparently did not put it back on all the way, so when I turned on the vacuum there was a cloud of dust, dirt, etc all over my apartment! I had to vacuum, dust and wet wash everything!!!

The worst mess I had was when my 13 foot Christmas tree fell down to the ground on Christmas day. Broken ornaments and needles were everywhere! It took hours to sweep, vacuum, and then mop up the mess. 7 months later I'm still finding pine needles!

Three weeks ago, my puppy vomited between the couch cushions. For a brief moment, I thought about throwing it out on the curb, but instead I spent days cleaning the living room-- and it's furniture with a Woollite covered toothbrush.

I spilled cooking oil on my kitchen floor, it took a lot of hot soapy water and elbow grease to get that mess up!

Worst mess ever? How about vomit at the top of the stairs on the wall-to-wall carpet that then cascaded all the way down the stairs to the first floor? I counted my blessings that the stairs are uncarpeted. What did it take to clean up? Numerous applications of carpet cleaner, several washings of the stairs with Murphy's Oil Soap. Argh.

We had just finished a $20K remodel on our kitchen. Our handicapped son wacked a full bowl of Three Bean Salad out of my hands. It went on the ceiling, new cabinets, all the appliances and floor. Using Mr Clean or Murphy's Oil soap it took 6 hours to clean up this mess.

Sheet rock dust! UGH that stuff manages to find every nook and cranny.

I have 2 sons I've had so many horrific messes to clean i can't count

I made a double-layer chocolate cake for my neighbor and placed it in a flimsy plastic carrier. When I went to pack it out the front door by its top handle, it fell out and all over my living room floor.

The worst mess has never been made by me.. it's always been my kids. There have been so many I honestly don't know which was worse. I'll just add one. A whole gallon of corn oil everywhere. It took forever to be cleaned and some things just had to be thrown away.

I recently got a "Furminator" for my long haired kitty. It's a really nifty tool to thin out the undercoat and reduce shedding. It works absolutely great. The problem was that I got a huge mound of excess fur off my cat but didn't dispose of it right away. She decided to play with it and I had more cat fur on my carpet than you can even imagine! Lesson 1 - don't leave anything out that the cat can get into.
Lesson 2 - get a better vacuum - my old one didn't do a very good job and I had to keep vacuuming over and over.

My biggest mess was during my colonoscopy prep. I needed to used a lot of stain remover and paper towels.

The worst mess I have made around here is knocking over a few large cactus pots. I used a pair of gloves and a vacuum to clean up the mess.

The worst mess I made was falling on an old (and full vacuum bag) as I was changing it and it half bursting the yuckiness everywhere. I used an old hand vac and 'bout filled it's bag up, then that bag needed changing. Vicious cycle!

Spilling cat litter through the living room after cleaning the box and dumping the stinky stuff in a big garbage bag. A garbage bag with a big HOLE in the bottom. thankfully I have wood floors rather than carpets. I swept most of it up, and vacuumed the rest.

White out in the carpet. Perfect time to change the flooring so that's what we did. ;)

The worst mess that I have ever had to clean up was caused by my husband. He knocked over a candle that had been burning for a long time and was full of hot wax. It went all over the carpet. Luckily my mom told me that putting a paper bag over the wax and ironing over the top of the bag would pick up the wax. I was so relieved when it worked. The carpet still smells like pumpkin scented candle.

the worst mess i've had to clean up wasn't on the floor, it was on the walls. do you really want to hear this? my husband and i took in a stray cat that followed us home one rainy night last winter, and he's a cute little bugger. he has respiratory problems, though, and sneezes a lot. we're getting ready to move, so we've been cleaning things up so the landlord can show our apartment (and attempting to remove all evidence of a cat, since we're not allowed to have one). that's when i noticed the weird brown stains on the white wall in the kitchen down by the floor, right above the cat's food bowl. i tried to use soap and water to take it off, but it wasn't going anywhere. then i realized what it was--dried cat snot. i tried using every "green" cleaner we have, but ultimately had to cave and buy a Magic Eraser. it worked--those things are, i believe, truly magical--but i still felt bad for introducing all those chemicals into our home.

The clean up of my worst mess did not use a vacuum cleaner, but it sure took a lot of degreaser, multi-purpose cleanser, and elbow grease. I was in the mood for a good hearty stew, but thought it would take too long to cook. I pulled out the dreaded pressure cooker (I was afraid of the darn thing), got the meat prepped and browned, got the veggies prepped and put in the pot, and added the spices and broth. To make a long story short, the thing exlploded and I ended up with stew EVERYWHERE. I was on the ceilings and lighting of the kitchen/dining area, all over the walls and cabinets/drawers, the windows and drapes got their fair share, it covered my appliances and ran down in the cracks and crevices, and covered the floor - both tile and carpet. I hope I never have a mess like that ever again!!!
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My worst mess (so far!) was the plant I over watered that sits on top of my TV cabinet. Usually I stand on a step stool but this time I decided I save time. Not so much.
A pile of towels, scrubbing the entire cabinet down, emptying all the electronics out ( thank goodness I moved fast enough to save them!) scrubbing and rewaxing the wood floor. The time spent cleaning up was hours - time saved, none, fun had;NONE AT ALL! A better vac probably would of made a huge difference.

The worst (and cutest) mess I've made was probably my daughter. Now she continues making messes about every other minute.

I dropped an entire carton of eggs on the floor. I sprinkled some salt on the mess and it cleaned up pretty easily.

I exploded a pan of hard boiled eggs. I was hard boiling 6 eggs and left my kitchen to do other things. 45 minutes later I heard a noise reminiscent of an explosion. Egg whites, shell and yolk were splattered on my walls, hood, ceiling and floor. They smelled rotten and were burnt.

I used soft scrub and a hard scrubber sponge to remove the egg from the surfaces. Clorox all purpose spray to clean the surface. And scented candles to mask the disgusting smell.

The top shelf in our pantry was set aside for wine and other beverages including a bottle of good scotch and some cherry soda. The shelf came down and everyithing broke, soaking into the carpet and infusing the fabric with glass splinters. We had to put a plank across the mess until we got new carpeting. The mess was impossible to clean up. Maybe with an Eureka........?

the worst mess i made was getting crackers for my salmon croquettes all over the kitchen floor. I called the dog in.. he ate it.. then i mopped up later lol

The worst mess i've ever made in my house was when i let my daughter do her abstract paintings in the living room, so now there's paint all over the walls, hahaha! i don't think it's going to come off.

I once had my Grandmother's 96th Birthday Party at the house and even though it was semi-catered, there was a lot of clean-up before the party with all of the preparation.

Worst was when I toppled a hot canner filled with a gallon of boiling grape juice off the edge of my stove. Had to wait for it all to cool down then seemed like it took forever to wash the sticky mess off the stove, cabinets, counter-top, and kitchen floor with sudsy ammonia water!

The worst mess I ever made was in my studio, and it was made over the course of several months by beginning projects and not cleaning up when they were finished. It was so bad you could not see the floor in the entire studio, covered with paper, metal, glass, wood, paint and other odds and ends at least a foot deep. Cleaned it up with my husband over the next week with a shopvac and an army of clear rubbermaid boxes. Sure would be nice to vacuum with one of these instead of my shopvac!

Worst mess? Well, I'd have to say that would be last week when my son threw an entire container of maple syrup all over the floor. I was on the phone in the other room and by the time I got back into the kitchen, he'd dumped it all out and was spreading it all over himself and lying in it like he was making syrup angels. Auggh!

I had no idea how to even begin cleaning it up so I just tossed some water on it to dilute it, mopped it up with about half a roll of paper towels, then mopped it with a mop at least 7 or 8 times. It's still a bit sticky 6 days later.

my worst mess is right now because my hub is remodeling our bath and its a total disaster with sawdust and all kinds of CRUD

The worst RECENT mess: I dropped a full carton of eggs in the kitchen. Clean-up? Wipe, wipe, and wipe some more.

The worst mess I made was when I walked into my living room with flip flops, noticed something out of place and made about three stops on my living room carpet. However I walked out and something smelled funny. Lucky for me my puppy had an accident in the morning where it partly dired up on the carpet, i stepped on it and smudged it all the was on the carpet and hallway. Then I kneeled down to wipe it and it was also on my knees. I was ready to throw up and cry.!

My worst mess-Husband taking pyrex pan of lasagne out of the oven and dropping the whole thing=shattered glass and tomato sauce nightmare! Weeks later I was still finding minute shards of glass and specks of dried sauce. It went everywhere. I cleaned it up the best I could with broom, mop, rags, dustpan, my bare fingers.

My daughter spilled a (partial) bottle of red nail polish on our light brown carpet. Needless to say, I FREAKED, and hurriedly scrubbed like a madwoman with nail-polish remover. Luckily, it eventually came out!

Spilled popcorn seeds on the kitchen floor and to this day we are still finding them here and there.

I was out of soap for the dishwasher. One of my kids told me that I should use regular dishwashing soap. I told her that is not a good idea. But, against my better judgement, I tried a little in the dishwasher and ended up with a huge pile of bubbles on my kitchen floor. I had to use a shovel and a mop to get rid of the bubbles, but the floor ended up squeaky clean!

the worst mess i made was spilling a plate of spaghetti all over the beige carpet in the living room. my parents were not happy.

I remember when my son got ahold of a bottle of baby powder. I thought he was taking a nap and when I peeked in on him his room was filled with a cloud of dust and he was completly white. Sure could have used a good vacuum then. Everything had to be wiped down. What a mess!!!

nice vacuum:) My biggest mess would be 5 lbs of bird seed spread all over my green living room carpet! My 3 kids had fun planting seeds! lol Needless to say we swept and vacumed for days!

I worst mess I had to clean up was after my husband decided to replace wallboard in one of our bedrooms while I was away for the day. He had no idea how to cut it so he used a saber saw which spewed plaster dust throughout the house. I used a vacuum and dust rags to clean it up.

The biggest mess I made is the current pile of clutter by my bed...not sure how I'll clean it up. :*0

Oh, clean and green, I would love it so so much.

Worst mess of so many? Learning to cook has not come easy to me. The concept of creaming, for instance, of putting the butter and sugar together and beating it so that the the resulting cookie doesn't crack your grandmother's dental work, that came too late for Grandma Rose. And I was making a double batch of cookies using a bowl really meant for a single batch. And I hadn't quite mastered the speeds on the hand mixer. And when I finally had my sugar and butter creamed, I looked up...and saw little peaks of mixture festooning the table, the cabinets, the sink, and the cat. I used a wet paper towel on everything including the cat.

my biggest mess has to Ralph - a retriever/chow mix who hates being brushed. Just imagine the hair I could get with this vac!

Biggest Most TRAUMATIC Mess

I am a new mom, and for most of you, I'm sure you know what perils we have to endure through parenthood. Well I had never imagined that my son was such the creative- with his own poop. Having the habit of waking up very early, I should had realized that it was 6am before I heard a peep out of him. Walking to the door of his bedroom, I had the theme song from "JAWS" playing in my head. Turning the corner only to find my joy covered in his own poop... but that wasn't the worst. It was on the white walls his "brown" crib and bedding. As I was getting prepared to take him into the tub and "decontaminate" him he decided to open his arms and fling you know what everywhere. But I digress, this is about MY mess right? Child clean and watching Sesame Street, I tackled the room, but I hadn't thought of what the mix of the the God aweful smell and disinfectant would do to my stomach- overwhelmed I started throwing up, yes in the same room- no warning. But cleaning still had to be done, fortunately I didn't waste any time and piled all of my son's things into plastic bags and took them (as well as the rug) out onto the front lawn, hosed them down and emptied 3 bottles of cleaner. Everyone thought I was having a yard sale!

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